Transportation Movies

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...

America's desire for freedom and the open road resulted in the construction of thousands of highways during the Eisenhower administration. Through...

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...

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Two kids talk about the social changes required in their country to take advantage of new technology for bettering the environment.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

A man stuck in traffic learns about the benefits of adopting different methods of transportation.

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

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...

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

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...