Most Viewed From British Transport Films

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

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

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

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

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

Genre: Documentary

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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

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Murray

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

Genre: Documentary

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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

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

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

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

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

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James McKechnie

"Rail" captures British Railways at a major turning-point in its history. In certain respects, this was a period of considerable upheaval and loss....

Genre: Documentary

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The Cotswolds are the largest areas of Britain, stretching over a hundred miles from Chipping Camden to the city of Bath.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Murray

A fond farewell to London's trams - whose peculiarly endearing qualities were discovered only at the threat of their disappearance.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Brewster Mason

A group of workers from a Leicester shoe-making company travel down south for a day in the Smoke.

Genre: Documentary

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A short documentary.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bernard Braden