British Transport Films Movies

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...

Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along the...

Exploration of the Slimbridge Wild Fowl Trust in Gloucestershire, England, which boasts the largest collection of living wild fowl in the world.

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

An express freight train links manufacturers with their customers at the other end of Britain.

Journey into Spring is a 1958 British short documentary film directed by Ralph Keene, and made by British Transport Films. The film -- partly a tribut...

Southampton, a deep-water port with four tides a day, is an ocean terminal for the world's largest liners. Their coming and going, and the people who...

In the cities of Britain we can travel in time as well as space. This film chooses the England of Hogarth, Gainsborough, Robert Adam and Captain Cook....

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

Documentary from British Transport Films

An historical account looking at how Britain's canals were used, and declining, in 1951.

The people of the Scottish Highlands live in small communities set in landscapes of unsurpassed beauty.

Part of BFI collection "London on the Move."

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...

In the Hull Docks, the steamer S.S. Bravo arrives from Gothenburg with cargo.

The film version of Dr. Richard Beeching's plan for the re-shaping of British Railways, showing some of the problems involved, the research necessary,...

Kay Mander kept training and social issues to the fore in the 1940s with her innovative documentaries. Mander, now living in Kirkcudbrightshire, recal...

First transmitted in 1969, this documentary follows the construction of the world’s most advanced underground system. Macdonald Hastings narrates the...

Documentary from British Transport Films