Transportation Movies

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 busiest corner in Chicago. Cable cars and street traffic of all descriptions. Hundreds of shoppers. Fine perspective view looking north toward...

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

Meet the crew of the Union Pacific Challenger No. 3985, the largest and most powerful steam engine in the world. This colorful documentary is a...

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...

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

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

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...

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

First part of a two-part documentary about the now largely defunct network of local railways in the areas around Erlangen and Forchheim, Germany.

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

An amusing view of the machine that has taken the country by winter storm: the snowmobile, revving, raring, ready to go. What the motorboat was to...

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

This short documentary shows how a city's water supply is purified at a filtration plant. The complex system of the underground mains that supply all...

A technical documentary on the development of improved railway brake materials to increase performance and durability.

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

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