British Transport Films Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

The Channel Islands have had a varied and exciting history. Jersey and Guernsey are ideal places for holidays. Jersey offers a wide variety of...

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...

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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