Transportation Movies

Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are...

In the mid 1800s, New York City was one of the most crowded places on earth. The congested streets and pokey transportation system were a source of...

A cheerful and very colourful pastiche of live action with combined graphics set to the music of Muir Mathieson. This film typifies the image British...

An experimental animation by Kazimierz Urbański about transportation. Combines various techniques: traditional cartoon film, cut-out,...

A film critic is tasked with documenting an old cinema before its permanent closure.

On 24th March 1968 an Aer Lingus plane carrying 61 passengers and crew crashed into the sea just off the Tuskar Rock lighthouse off the Wexford...

The documentary, Bob Gurr: Turning Dreams into Reality, tells the story of one of Walt Disney's earliest 1954 Imagineering Legends, Bob Gurr. His...

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

800 million units circulate around the globe. It is the largest contributor to air pollution worldwide and accounts for 8,300 deaths every day. And...

The operation of the London Transport central Lost Property Office at Baker Street. Collected in BFI's "London on the Move."

"The End of the Line - Rochester's Subway" tells the little-known story of the rail line that operated in a former section of the Erie Canal from...

The pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the most important religious journeys for millions of people around the world. But how to get there? This...

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The electrification of the London Midland Region main line between London, Manchester and Liverpool at 25KV AC, using overhead wires and drawing...

A multibillion-pound investment is underway to make our railways bigger, better and faster. Over three years, we go behind the scenes with...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

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...

How the London Transport Board, with the aid of modern technology, is tackling the problems brought about by an ever increasing volume of traffic....