Railroad Movies

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

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells...

1906, produced by Charles Urban, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The Second World War is a black page in the history of the Belgian national railways. The company was taken over by the German occupiers and 'trains...

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.

Take a breathtaking train a ride through Nothern Quebec and Labrador on Canada’s first First Nations-owned railway. Come for the celebration of...

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...

The Flying Scotsman is a 1929 black and white film set on the Flying Scotsman train from London to Edinburgh. Engine driver Bob is due to retire...

1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

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...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

A railroad employee finds out the identity of "The Wrecker", a criminal who is deliberately causing trains to crash. However, before he can disclose...

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

Witnesses discuss the Ascq massacre by the Waffen-SS during the Second World War 80 years later.

A mother is waiting or her son, a railroad engineer, to return home. The night becomes stormy and she discovers that a broken railroad trestle lies...