Train Movies

The story of the most famous train in the world

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'...

Ephemeral loves, days of summer freedom and the drift across Europe

A documentary outlining the railroad's roll in expanding the nation.

This is a documentary about the Diesel Electric Preservation Group, a group of volunteers from the West Somerset

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...

Norfolk Southern, one of the nation’s major freight railroads, has been a long-time favorite among fans and those in the railroad industry....

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

Commemorate the 40th anniversary of one of the largest freight carriers in the nation! Look back at the creation, evolution and current operating...

The story of a young boy so obsessed with placing pennies on the railroad tracks that it's in fact tearing his family apart. Soon he meets a hobo...

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...

A one-month-journey of twin sisters from London back to their home, Bangkok, by train. They traveled via the famous trans-Siberian route through many...

Passing Moments is the story of a chance encounter between two people on a train and the moment in time that they experience.

Trains travel through the night without stopping. The clatter of the carriages quickly disappears, along with the wail of the locomotive. The people...

A Santa Fe Railroad educational film on the steam locomotive in their role in industry and passenger travel.

The history of the Argentine railways, from 1857 until the crisis of the current transport system. The closing of branches of the railway lines...

One of six films which examine in depth the work involved in this great engineering project. As they are of a technical nature, they were only...

“This film was a gift to me. I make no claims for it, nor do I offer any apologies. It comes from work on The Thoughts That Once We Had. There...

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...