Movies

The film is designed to encourage recycling - which was a key part of the war effort.

A short documentary.

Report No. 8 in a series of 13 topical films, produced since the far reaching plan for the modernisation and re-equipment of British Railways in 1955...

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

Thirty Million Letters is a 1963 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie and made by British Transport Films. It was nominated for an...

‘St Christopher’s - for the children of Railway Servants’. About a hundred children are cared for at this Derby railway orphanage...

A documentary looking at a day at Croydon Airport south of London.

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

On the shortest journey you pass a church or two. Out of the 20,000 churches in Britain, the artist, John Piper, whose work contributes to the glory...

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

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

Replacing a century-old rail tunnel at Woodhead, co-ordinated road haulage services in Argyllshire, Whitemoor freight marshalling yeard, Bristol bus...

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

Time lapse photography shows the swarm of commuters at London Waterloo station racing about at top speed.

A compilation film about the complex railway systems of Great Britain, demonstrating the work and individual responsibilities of many departments.

Packaged holidays for the elderly: a party of 'senior citizens' (60-plus) on a holiday which includes a special train from Newcastle to the Isle of...

In the cities of Britain we can travel in time as well as space. This film chooses the England of Hogarth, Gainsborough, Robert Adam and Captain...

The story of a journey from the Yorkshire Dales to Switzerland via Dover and France, made by a party of schoolgirls showing how British rail...

Captures the consumption of gas by various large kitchens in London, during a particular dinner hour.

Electrification, and the raiIway men of Rugby adopt new methods and use new machines. In this film they tell in their own words of the great...