John Grierson

On the Fishing Banks of Skye

John Grierson

John Grierson

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

Night Mail

Harry Watt, Basil Wright

Arthur Clark, John Grierson

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the overnight run from Euston, London to Glasgow.

Drifters

John Grierson

A silent film by John Grierson. It tells the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery.

The Face of Scotland

Basil Wright

John Laurie, John Grierson

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

John Grierson

Hazel Wilkinson

John Grierson

A BFI-produced documentary about documentary filmmaker John Grierson speaking about documentary.

Granton Trawler

Edgar Anstey, John Grierson

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

The Limejuice Mystery or, Who Spat in Grandfather's Porridge?

Jack Harrison, J. Elder Wills

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 Tong assassins in order to rescue a woman.