Train Movies

The story of two lost souls who find one another in the most unlikely place. This chance meeting holds the opportunity to see life from a different...

During the World Ski Championships, hundreds of thousands of people were in Holmenkollen. A great many of them used the Holmenkollbanen to get out...

Wastrel son of a railroad magnate, Jack's father becomes frustrated with his son's wild ways. To prove himself, Jack goes to work in the railroad...

A travelogue, this film provides a guided tour of pre-World War II Utah and of course does not pretend to cinematic greatness. Recommended viewing...

Canadian Pacific II is designed as a companion piece to Canadian Pacific I. Shot from a window two storeys higher and in the building adjacent to...

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accurate and objective press on the home front.

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...

This short documentary shows the reactions of European immigrants as they land in Halifax at the beginning of the 1960s. From the port, we follow...

A BFA Educational media production on western expansion via railroads and the role they played in the foundation of the Americas

London to Brighton in Four Minutes is a short film produced by the BBC Film Unit. The camera was manually undercranked to produce a 'fast-motion'...

Canadian Pacific I is made up of a series of slowly dissolved shots done from the same framing over several months. The camera frames a window with a...

The story of the independent railroad and its survival against the giants.

Film on the movement of material from the Chicago and Northwestern System.

A film aimed at showing young people the range of careers open to them if they joined British Rail as an apprentice. It shows the support and...

Silent romantic comedy set on a train.

Les Jarret provides excellent narration to teaching the alphabet using words in and about trains. Each letter of the alphabet has several words...

A short documentary profiling the restoration and anniversary exhibition of the titular 4-4-0 steam locomotive, undertaken in honor of the Centennial...

Thomas and the steam trains spring into action when Porter and the diesel engines run into a series of accidents that throw their deliveries off...

Special effects film with a train double exposed on the negative, creating a ghostly image.