British Transport Films Movies

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 BAFTA nominated documentary on the canals of England illustrated by a journey from London to Birmingham.

Report No. 8 in a series of 13 topical films, produced since the far reaching plan for the modernisation and re-equipment of British Railways in 1955...

A film giving instruction in the normal maintenance tasks which have to be performed by a permanent-way gang of four men. It shows how all types of fa...

On the shortest journey you pass a church or two. Out of the 20,000 churches in Britain, the artist, John Piper, whose work contributes to the glory o...

Examines Britian's industrial heritage, concentrating on the period between 1708 and 1850, and showing many examples of surviving relics of the period...

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

Documentary from British Transport Films

The final episode of five reports on the construction of the Victoria Line in London. This one is edited highlights from the first four with very litt...

Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshi...

Five and a half minutes from Paddington to Birmingham Snow Hill, in the driver's cab of the Blue Pullman to the accompianiment of Johann Strauss's "Pe...

Report No. 11 in a series of 13 topical films. Because 1970 was European Conservation Year, this issue of the Rail Report Series was devoted to exampl...

Two visitors enjoying Scotland, an enthusiastic but inexperienced golfer improving on the world's greatest courses; his wife exploring spectacular pla...

Part of BFI collection "London on the Move."

Part of BFI collection "London on the Move". Informational film about the London Underground’s ticket machines and automatic barriers.

Electrification, and the raiIway men of Rugby adopt new methods and use new machines. In this film they tell in their own words of the great technolog...

Short documentary hymning the wonders of 'modernisation' on the railways.

Documentary from British Transport Films

Documentary from British Transport Films

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.