Edgar Anstey Movies

After the last train at night and before the first in the morning, 800 people are hard at work behind the scenes making London's Underground fit to...

A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.

Coach passengers give their reasons for preferring that type of transport. A group of ramblers visit the Welsh mountains; an angler and his family...

Impressions of a great city from daybreak to dusk. A roving camera and smooth theme music say more than words. London's traditional sights -...

Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.

The work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.

This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours...

Building a new harbour at Port Talbot - it’s a man’s world in which the only females are a dredger and two seafaring vessels.

A cheerful and very colourful pastiche of live action with combined graphics set to the music of Muir Mathieson. This film typifies the image British...

A documentary examining the modernization of Britain’s railways through large-scale engineering and infrastructure renewal.

The operation of the London Transport central Lost Property Office at Baker Street. Collected in BFI's "London on the Move."

Underlines the importance of waterways as mans of modern transport. Details the way in which the network of waterways covers britain.

Avant-garde appeal on behalf of and made by the adventurous leftist London cinema, The Other Cinema, using the facilities provided by the BBC...

A poet's eulogy to his beloved mode of transport.

Scottish Television's film on the 40th Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1986, starring Robbie Coltrane (a former EIFF chauffeur) and...

The Peak District waits invitingly within a sixty-mile reach of half the population of England. To this green centre of a great industrial area, the...

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

Film showcasing the tourist attractions, culture and natural beauty of Ireland.

A film looking at the first 100 years of the Underground Railway in London from 1863 to 1963. A range of well known people and senior managers speak...

This short, evocative account of the poet's life is set among contemporary scenes of the people of south-west Scotland as they grow from children to...