Transportation Movies

A film looking at the first 100 years of the Underground Railway in London from 1863 to 1963. A range of well known people and senior managers speak...

Two kids talk about the social changes required in their country to take advantage of new technology for bettering the environment.

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

A close-up of a snow-bound city, and the men, money and machinery it takes to dig it out.

The documentary, Bob Gurr: Turning Dreams into Reality, tells the story of one of Walt Disney's earliest 1954 Imagineering Legends, Bob Gurr. His...

"The End of the Line - Rochester's Subway" tells the little-known story of the rail line that operated in a former section of the Erie Canal from...

Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are...

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

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

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

The world-famous Greyhound bus is almost as old as the Wild West. It is a symbol of North America, of progress, and of nostalgia. Reporter Studs...

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

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...

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...

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

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