Train Movies

A couple lives in a house situated on the railway tracks. They lead a peaceful domestic life, despite the periodic interruptions of the train passing...

Silent romantic comedy set on a train.

Six families in different compartments of a train, moving through a rainy night. In a single, 145-minute take, the film depicts the families and how...

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

Volume Two features trackside SEPTA electric action at Pennsylvania locations including Glenside, Elkins Park, Melrose Park, Fern Rock, Daylesford,...

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...

Canadian Pacific II is designed as a companion piece to Canadian Pacific I. Shot from a window two storeys higher and in the building adjacent to...

Les Jarret provides excellent narration to teaching the alphabet using words in and about trains. Each letter of the alphabet has several words...

A travelogue, this film provides a guided tour of pre-World War II Utah and of course does not pretend to cinematic greatness. Recommended viewing...

Film on the movement of material from the Chicago and Northwestern System.

The re-signalling of 1000 track miles from the River Weaver to the Clyde brings the whole line from London to Glasgow under one system of push-button...

A short documentary profiling the restoration and anniversary exhibition of the titular 4-4-0 steam locomotive, undertaken in honor of the Centennial...

A BFA Educational media production on western expansion via railroads and the role they played in the foundation of the Americas

The story of the independent railroad and its survival against the giants.

Canadian Pacific I is made up of a series of slowly dissolved shots done from the same framing over several months. The camera frames a window with a...

Special effects film with a train double exposed on the negative, creating a ghostly image.