British Transport Films Movies

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...

The British Railways modernisation programme of the 1960s radically changed the rail network, and the British Transport Films unit and the TV news wer...

Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from t...

Britain operates the most experienced diesel and electric railway in tne world. A century and a half ago she invented the steam engine and introduced...

When a schoolboy's day-dream of a fantasy sports day includes events where acts of vandalism and trespass are required, dire consequences ensue. Origi...

Young Robbie, a keen footballer and a railway enthusiast, is persuaded by his big brother to go through a hole in a railway fence on to the track for...

A look at British involvement in the construction of the new double-track railway from Kowloon, on Hong Kong's harbour, to the Chinese border.

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 f...

The electrification of the London Midland Region main line between London, Manchester and Liverpool at 25KV AC, using overhead wires and drawing suppl...

As a training exercise for their apprentice camera operators, British Transport Films used surplus roll end length of film to record the daily lives o...

Thirty Million Letters is a 1963 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie and made by British Transport Films. It was nominated for an Academy...

Snowploughs are readied to rescue a snowbound train - in one of the most popular of all British Transport Films.

Intended for training railway permanent way men, capturing how men working on the track react as a train approaches.

Donald Houston plays a Welshman who tells the story of what it's like to live in small town Wales and how the train service helps.

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

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 a...

A film about one of the most responsible and professional jobs on British Railways. Practical work in shop and signal box, on gantry and trackside, co...

The Channel Islands have had a varied and exciting history. Jersey and Guernsey are ideal places for holidays. Jersey offers a wide variety of attract...

The Nine Road is the busman's name for one of London's oldest and most used bus routes, running between Mortlake and Liverpool Street. The film takes...

Between the Tides is a 1958 short documentary directed by Ralph Keene for British Transport Films.It is a study of the animal and plant life of Britai...