Railroad Movies

For many years the only transportation link across Canada was one railway line. This tenuous, nation-building ribbon of steel was built through high,...

Neil Oliver describes the worst ever railway accident in the UK, which happened a hundred years ago on 22 May 1915, in which three trains collided at...

After the last train at night and before the first in the morning, 800 people are hard at work behind the scenes making London's Underground fit to...

A Serbian family leaves the troubled Kosovo region after Albanians rape the daughter in front of her mother. When they leave their home after the...

This Traveltalk series short celebrates San Francisco, past and present.

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

Short film about electric railroad lines

A federal agent is sent to a small town to bust up a counterfeiting ring, which is apparently headquartered in the local railway station. The...

O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is...

A story of a group of men at a small frontier railway station who have been released from German concentration camps and are on their way home.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A multibillion-pound investment is underway to make our railways bigger, better and faster. Over three years, we go behind the scenes with...

Trying to win the Three C's railroad line for his home town of Topaz, Colorado, Nicholas "Nick" Tarvin journeys to India to secure the famed jewel...

Crime is increasing in Hungary. Commander Papp is about to catch a maffia member.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A hand-colored ride along the Bangor-Conwy-Colwyn Bay railroad filmed from an express train from the London and North Western Railway; Stations,...