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  • 2010
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    London's Railways in the 1960s
    London's Railways in the 1960s

    1 2010 HD

    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

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  • 1961
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    Terminus
    Terminus

    7.00 1961 HD

    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

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  • 1963
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    Snow
    Snow

    6.20 1963 HD

    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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  • 1976
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    The Nine Road
    The Nine Road

    1 1976 HD

    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...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 1977
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    The Finishing Line
    The Finishing Line

    5.60 1977 HD

    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

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  • 1982
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    A New Approach to Hong Kong
    A New Approach to Hong Kong

    1 1982 HD

    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.

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 1973
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    The Scene from Melbury House
    The Scene from Melbury House

    1 1973 HD

    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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  • 1966
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    The Driving Force
    The Driving Force

    9.00 1966 HD

    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

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  • 1958
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    Between the Tides
    Between the Tides

    6.30 1958 HD

    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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Stephen Murray

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  • 1963
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    Thirty Million Letters
    Thirty Million Letters

    5.80 1963 HD

    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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  • 1963
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    Reshaping British Railways
    Reshaping British Railways

    1 1963 HD

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

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: John Stockbridge

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  • 1954
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    The Peak District
    The Peak District

    1 1954 HD

    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

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  • 1955
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    Snowdrift at Bleath Gill
    Snowdrift at Bleath Gill

    6.40 1955 HD

    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

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  • 1965
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    Under the Wires
    Under the Wires

    1 1965 HD

    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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  • 1970
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    London on the Move
    London on the Move

    1 1970 HD

    How the London Transport Board, with the aid of modern technology, is tackling the problems brought about by an ever increasing volume of traffic....

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Tim Matthews

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  • 1966
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    Forward to First Principles
    Forward to First Principles

    1 1966 HD

    There have been railways in this country for over three hundred years. In the nineteenth century, railways spread across Britain and changed the...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: John Rowdon

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  • 1957
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    The England of Elizabeth
    The England of Elizabeth

    1 1957 HD

    A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Alec Clunes

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  • 1956
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    A Day of One's Own
    A Day of One's Own

    6.00 1956 HD

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

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: MacDonald Hobley

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  • 1954
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    Elizabethan Express
    Elizabethan Express

    6.00 1954 HD

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

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Alan Wheatley

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  • 1974
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    Points and Aspects
    Points and Aspects

    1 1974 HD

    The re-signalling of 1000 track miles from the River Weaver to the Clyde brings the whole line from London to Glasgow under one system of push-button...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Gary Watson

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