John Grierson Movies

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

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey

Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still...

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

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

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

Short documentary about British education in the late 1930s.

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...

Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a...

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

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

Marionette parody of Tom Mix.

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

Humphrey Jennings' first film as a director, a brief overview of the British postal service.

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

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

Marionette parody of Buster Keaton.

Marionette parody of Cherry Kearton.

Short documentary about weather forecasting, emphasising the importance of the GPO's telecommunications systems.