John Grierson Movies

Filmed in Uganda, Man of Africa was assembled by legendary documentary producer John Grierson. The film depicts the mass migration of the Bakija and...

Norman McLaren was a cinematic genius who made films without cameras, and music without instruments. He produced sixty films in a stunning range of...

The history of Scotland and the factors that have shaped the character of its people.

The building and launch of a new long-wave radio transmitter - just as the TV age is about to be born.

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

Trade Tattoo went even further than Rainbow Dance in its manipulation of the Gasparcolor process. The original black and white footage consisted of...

In this parody of Sherlock Holmes, the Great Detective goes to an opium den of inequity in the dangerous London district of London and challenges...

The story of the North Sea herring fleets from Yarmouth and Lowestoft to Shetland.

A film made by the British General Post Office (GPO) in 1933, promoting the automation of telephone exchanges.

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

Developed from John Grierson's opportunistic recruitment of the well-known director and anthropologist Robert Flaherty, Industrial Britain provides a...

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

A look at the work of Glasgow's Medical Officer of Health.

An overview of the shepherd's life during the lambing season.

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

A record of an educational experiment in the small town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire.

Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.

A short GPO documentary showing how undersea telephone cables are repaired.