British Transport Films Filmes

A short documentary about the transportation of goods and livestock by train around the UK.

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

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...

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

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

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...

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

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...

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

The advantages and pleasures of crossing the channel by Hovercraft. In this film a sales executive, with his car and engineering samples, travels to...

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...

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

Documentary from British Transport Films

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...

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

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...

Intended as a sales tool for manufacturers, this short film details the production installation and maintenance for long welded track in use on...

Documentary from British Transport Films

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...

Documentary from British Transport Films