Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain (2025)
Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950.
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Cast
James Purefoy
as Narrator
James Brian Mark Purefoy (born 3 June 1964) is an English actor. He played Mark Antony in the HBO series Rome, Nick Jenkins in A Dance to the Music of Time, college professor turned serial killer Joe...
Richard Attenborough
as Self
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, Kt, CBE (August 29, 1923 – August 24, 2014) was an English actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and politician. He was the President of the Royal Academy of...
Christopher Frayling
as Self
Mike Leigh
as Self
Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE (born 20 February 1943) is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell S...
Humphrey Jennings
as Self (archive footage)
Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings (19 August 1907 – 24 September 1950) was an English documentary filmmaker, celebrated for his poetic and visually striking portrayals of British life during World War I...
Fred Griffiths
as Self (archive footage)
Fred Griffiths was born on March 8, 1912 in Ludlow, Shropshire, England as Frederick David Griffiths. He was an actor, known for To Sir, with Love (1967), Steptoe and Son(1972) and The Cruel Sea (1953...
Director
Kevin Macdonald