British Transport Films Populær film

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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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...

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Cast: John Rowdon

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

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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...

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Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

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...

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Cast: Gary Watson

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

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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....

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Cast: Antony Carrick

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

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Cast: Robert Shaw

The transporting of a distillation colurm, 137 feet long, 500 miles by road from Greenwich to Grangemouth in Scotland. The commentary, spoken by the...

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Cast: Leslie Dwyer

Blue Pullman is a 1960 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie, which follows the development, preparation and a journey from Manchester to...

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

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Cast: MacDonald Hobley

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

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

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Cast: Alan Wheatley

A tour of East Anglia, with its waterways and low-lying country.

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Cast: Frank Duncan

This is the story of a lorry's solitary journey with a new propeller for a trawler laid up in a port on the rugged sea-coast of Wales. For the...

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Howard Marion-Crawford

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

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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...

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Cast: Robert Shaw

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

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A school journey through the city of London as seen through the eyes of the children and their teacher.

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Cast: Frank Duncan

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...

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Cast: Stephen Murray