Most Viewed From British Transport Films

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sam Heydon

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

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

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Cast: Deryck Guyler

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

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Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from...

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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...

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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Rowdon

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.

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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Murray

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Antony Carrick

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Goodliffe

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: MacDonald Hobley

A compilation film about the complex railway systems of Great Britain, demonstrating the work and individual responsibilities of many departments.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gary Watson

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Shaw

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...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Peter Purves

A look at the transport system in the South Wales Valleys and how it effects peoples livelihoods and everyday lives.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Donald Houston

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Piper

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

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

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The flora and fauna of the Scottish highlands, including footage of ospreys, and stags in Argyle.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Murray