Britain's Railways Then & Now: British Railways

When the first railroads were built some two hundred years ago, they brought about a revolutionary change for mankind, linking cities and...

In this travelogue, actor David Suchet journeys across Europe aboard the world famous Orient Express train, as he prepares to play Poirot in an...

First transmitted in 1979, this programme looks at the Rainhill Locomotive Trials in Rainhill, Lancashire (now Merseyside) in 1829, a competition to...

This superb programme looks at the GWR God s Wonderful Railway as it was in the 1950s and 1960s and more recently. Archive scenes capture the true...

This fascinating program visits the LMS, the largest railway company in the British Isles that served the heartlands of industry of the Midlands, the...

Follows a group of navvies as they work on completing the last great railway through the Swedish wilderness.

Documentary follows Gabriel Yorke, the actor turned Berkeley professor, who, after 25 years of silence, is finally willing to speak about his...

This feature-length documentary traces the journey of the Haisla people to reclaim the G'psgolox totem pole that went missing from their British...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production...

Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form....

Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form....

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as...