British Transport Films Movies

A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.

As a training exercise for their apprentice camera operators, British Transport Films used surplus roll end length of film to record the daily lives...

Everyday except Christmas London Transport run coach tours of London. The tours start from Victoria and from Piccadilly Circus; there is no booking...

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

‘St Christopher’s - for the children of Railway Servants’. About a hundred children are cared for at this Derby railway orphanage...

The final episode of five reports on the construction of the Victoria Line in London. This one is edited highlights from the first four with very...

A fond farewell to London's trams - whose peculiarly endearing qualities were discovered only at the threat of their disappearance.

The Cotswolds are the largest areas of Britain, stretching over a hundred miles from Chipping Camden to the city of Bath.

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

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

Underlines the importance of waterways as mans of modern transport. Details the way in which the network of waterways covers britain.

Based on the sequence of events which led to the deaths of two young trackmen, concluding with an enquiry into the reasons why they were killed....

Promotional tourist film, presenting a history of Britain concentrating on landscape and Inter-City travel.

A day in the life of London and the Home Counties in 1962, seen from the perspective of the use of London Transport facilities from buses and tubes...

A documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.

Short documentary hymning the wonders of 'modernisation' on the railways.

A look at British involvement in the construction of the new double-track railway from Kowloon, on Hong Kong's harbour, to the Chinese border.

An historical account looking at how Britain's canals were used, and declining, in 1951.

“Promotes trade with Britain among other countries in the European Community after the UK's entry on 1st January 1973. Kelloggs is given as an...

The Nine Road is the busman's name for one of London's oldest and most used bus routes, running between Mortlake and Liverpool Street. The film takes...