Train Movies

Most movie fans know that the first filmmakers liked to shoot trains entering stations. This example by Sussex film pioneer George Albert Smith...

A side-by-side analysis of Buster Keaton's Our Hospitality and S.S. Rajamouli's Maryada Ramanna.

Between one carriage and another, passengers tell their stories over a train journey.

Host Harry Rose mixes a "cocktail" of musical acts.

Peleshian transforms footage from a train ride into a metaphor for the shape of a life. Early images of faces on the train give way to landscape, a...

A man ventures out into the streets of a pandemic-ridden London.

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accurate and objective press on the home front.

A light and somewhat satirical look at the problems and pleasures of Continental holiday travel. A passenger on the Hook Continental Express from...

What can an old apple tree tell us? What mysteries are hidden in his roots, gnarled over time? Does he remember the serpent and the lost Paradise?...

A train conductor goes about his duty. All the characters are animals in human form. Hippo ladies in dresses try to jam into cars and other...

This short film details the history of the 'Friendship Train', created, following the end of World War II, to travel across the United States to...

Something strange appears outside the window. Months later, a pregnant woman and her boyfriend are visited by a mysterious figure who has many...

Bernard, Sleeper Coach conductor and automobile inventor, is confused to be the racing car company president, and falls in love with a countess, who...

A day in the life of a train station.

This short documentary shows the reactions of European immigrants as they land in Halifax at the beginning of the 1960s. From the port, we follow...

A production of the association of American Railroads outlining the wonders of America's rail system.

Akira, a Japanese exchange student, walks through the center of Belo Horizonte with a mysterious box, in a short film filmed in authentic VHS format.