Movies
- 1963
Snow
Snow6.21963HD
Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from...
- 1955
Snowdrift at Bleath Gill
Snowdrift at Bleath Gill6.51955HD
Snowploughs are readied to rescue a snowbound train - in one of the most popular of all British Transport Films.
- 1934
Granton Trawler
Granton Trawler4.9471934HD
Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".
- 1961
Terminus
Terminus71961HD
This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours...
- 1965
Wild Wings
Wild Wings5.81965HD
Exploration of the Slimbridge Wild Fowl Trust in Gloucestershire, England, which boasts the largest collection of living wild fowl in the world.
- 1931
Industrial Britain
Industrial Britain5.31931HD
Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a...
- 1940
What's For Dinner
What's For Dinner51940HD
The challenge of what to feed her family weighs on the mind of hard-pressed Mrs Bond in this surreal wartime film made for the Ministry of Food.
- 1963
Thirty Million Letters
Thirty Million Letters5.81963HD
Thirty Million Letters is a 1963 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie and made by British Transport Films. It was nominated for an...
- 1963
A Hundred Years Underground
A Hundred Years Underground71963HD
A film looking at the first 100 years of the Underground Railway in London from 1863 to 1963. A range of well known people and senior managers speak...
- 1958
Between the Tides
Between the Tides6.31958HD
Between the Tides is a 1958 short documentary directed by Ralph Keene for British Transport Films.It is a study of the animal and plant life of...
- 1952
Dodging the Column
Dodging the Column01952HD
The transporting of a distillation colurm, 137 feet long, 500 miles by road from Greenwich to Grangemouth in Scotland. The commentary, spoken by the...
- 1973
The Scene from Melbury House
The Scene from Melbury House01973HD
As a training exercise for their apprentice camera operators, British Transport Films used surplus roll end length of film to record the daily lives...
- 1958
Journey Into Spring
Journey Into Spring5.71958HD
Journey into Spring is a 1958 British short documentary film directed by Ralph Keene, and made by British Transport Films. The film -- partly a...
- 1943
Debris Tunnelling
Debris Tunnelling01943HD
A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.
- 1972
Journey Inter-City
Journey Inter-City21972HD
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...
- 1935
Housing Problems
Housing Problems5.81935HD
The problem of slum dwellings in the 1930s.
- 1977
Before Hindsight
Before Hindsight01977HD
Newsreels from the '30s constitute the bulk of this fascinating documentary, clearly illustrating that the public was fed an extremely biased view of...
- 1934
6.30 Collection
6.30 Collection21934HD
Short documentary showing the workings of a large London sorting office.
- 1966
The Driving Force
The Driving Force91966HD
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...
- 1942
Dustbin Parade
Dustbin Parade01942HD
The film is designed to encourage recycling - which was a key part of the war effort.