This Dual Format Edition completes the BFI’s acclaimed Complete Humphrey Jennings collection, making available all the films directed by Britain’s greatest filmmakers available on Blu-ray and DVD.

The films of Humphrey Jennings have proved hugely influential over the last 60 years – his influence can be felt in the work of Lindsay Anderson (If….) and more recent filmmakers, such as Kevin MacDonald (Touching the Void, Marley). Jennings was also a major influence for Frank Cottrel Boyce and Danny Boyle, whose 2012 Olympics ceremony used Jennings’ book, Pandæmonium, as its inspiration.

Volume three includes the following films:

• The Eighty Days (1944)
• A Diary for Timothy (1945)
• A Defeated People (1946)
• The Cumberland Story (1947)
• The Dim Little Island (1949)
• Family Portrait (1950)

Extras

• V.1 (1944): a shorter cut of The Eighty Days, made for overseas distribution
• The Good Life (1951): Jennings’ final film

Cast and Crew:

Directed by Humphrey Jennings - one of Britain’s greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time

Awards and Reviews:

Volume two got the Best DVD Award of 2012 at Cineteca di Bologna’s Il Cinema Ritrovato Awards

‘The only real poet that British cinema has yet produced.’ Lindsay Anderson

‘There'll be no better, more essential disc this year.’ Philip French (Observer) on the BFI’s Jennings Volume Two release