Edgar Anstey Movies

This short, evocative account of the poet's life is set among contemporary scenes of the people of south-west Scotland as they grow from children to...

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 short documentary.

Three short films from the Fifties, offering an insight into day to day life amongst the beautiful scenery of the Scottish Highlands. 'Heart Is...

A BAFTA award winning documentary focussing on how drivers are trained to drive new electric trains in the UK.

Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along...

The challenge of what to feed her family weighs on the mind of hard-pressed Mrs Bond in this surreal wartime film made for the Ministry of Food.

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

A look at the transport system in the South Wales Valleys and how it effects peoples livelihoods and everyday lives.

Light verse and gay music make their own comment on the holidaymakers of the Yorkshire coastline. Between Tees and Humber thousands each year enjoy...

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...

Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from...

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

Journey into Spring is a 1958 British short documentary film directed by Ralph Keene, and made by British Transport Films. The film -- partly a...

A group of workers from a Leicester shoe-making company travel down south for a day in the Smoke.

The story of a journey from the Yorkshire Dales to Switzerland via Dover and France, made by a party of schoolgirls showing how British rail...

Two keen hostelling youths, Ken Moody and Brian Cotton, convert a boat in their native Selby into a youth hostel, and get the chance to air their...

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

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

A look at life in the Fenlands (a coastal, marshy plain in eastern England) in 1940's.