The Documentary Film Movement is the name given to the group of British filmmakers, led by John Grierson, who were influential in British film culture in the 1930s and 1940s.

Britain Through A Lens: The Documentary Film Mob The unlikely story of how, between 1929 and 1945, a group of tweed-wearing radicals and pin-striped bureaucrats created the most influential movement in the history of British film. They were the British Documentary Movement and they gave Britons a taste for watching films about real life.