This Dual Format Edition completes the BFIs acclaimed Complete Humphrey Jennings collection making available all the films directed by Britains greatest filmmakers available on Blu-ray & 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...) & more recent filmmakers such as Kevin Mac Donald (Touching the Void Marley). Jennings was also a major influence for Frank Cottrel Boyce & Danny Boyle whose 2012 Olympics ceremony used Jennings book Pandæmonium as its inspiration. Films Comprise: 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) Special
Features: V.1 (1944): a shorter cut of The Eighty Days made for overseas distribution The Good Life (1951): Jennings final film