British Transport Films Popular Movie

Britain operates the most experienced diesel and electric railway in tne world. A century and a half ago she invented the steam engine and introduced...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Murray

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Antony Carrick

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Shaw

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

Genre: Documentary

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A record of a winter journey, when a farmer decides to move his whole stock by rail from Yorkshire to Sussex.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: A.G. Street

A film about one of the most responsible and professional jobs on British Railways. Practical work in shop and signal box, on gantry and trackside,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Stockbridge

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

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Documentary

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British Transport film.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Purves

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leslie Dwyer

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gary Watson

Kay Mander kept training and social issues to the fore in the 1940s with her innovative documentaries. Mander, now living in Kirkcudbrightshire,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kay Mander

A short documentary.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bernard Braden

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

Genre: Documentary

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A review of innovation and development within BR and its businesses, including: modernisation of freight facilities and service to new companies;...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Hawkins

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Howard Marion-Crawford

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alec Clunes

The holiday attractions of the Lancashire coast, including a beauty contest in Morecambe, Southport flower show and Blackpool Fun Fair.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hubert Gregg

The Cotswolds are the largest areas of Britain, stretching over a hundred miles from Chipping Camden to the city of Bath.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Murray

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anthony Marsh