John Grierson Movies

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.

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

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

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

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

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey

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

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

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

Legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock pays tribute to the "father of the documentary", John Grierson, exploring what made his work so...

The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

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

Highlights of the life of John Grierson, documentary film-maker

Marionette parody of Cherry Kearton.

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

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

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