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Films by Humphrey Jennings

This Dual Format Edition completes the BFI's acclaimed Complete Humphrey Jennings Collection, making available all the films directed by Britain's greatest filmmaker available on Blu-ray and DVD

The films of Humphrey Jennings have proved hugely influential over the last 60 years - this can be felt in the works 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 True Story of Lili Marlane (1944)
• The Eighty Days (1944)
• Myra Hess (1945)
• 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): the film Jennings was working on at his death