Railroad Movies

A story of a group of men at a small frontier railway station who have been released from German concentration camps and are on their way home.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

At the Armour & Co. Chicago yard. Two railroad tracks dominate the center and right half of the frame as we look down about 40 meters where an...

Three prisoners, Combe from Rijeka, Menso from Bosnia, and Bogart from Belgrade, escape from prison. Their final destination is the city of their...

From the Ganges to the Himalayas is the sort of a journey that no one ever forgets. The good ship "Burton Holmes" will take your patrons on an...

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

Documentation on the Berlin S-Bahn, which threatened to fall into oblivion as a result of the division of the city.

The Second World War is a black page in the history of the Belgian national railways. The company was taken over by the German occupiers and 'trains...

Model husbands prove that size isn't everything as they get steamed up over Lilliput locomotives.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

In the 1870s Victorian politicians debated the virtues of constructing a 20km-long railway through Melbourne's east, simply to circumvent a...

The engineer Manuel Iglesias is commissioned to supervise the expansion of the ChihuahuaPacífico railway; for this he wants his adopted son...

Black sleeping-car porters who worked on Canada's railways from the early 1900s through the 1960s were proud men and well-respected by their...

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

Short documentary about the new ICE. On March 19, 1985, the ICE was officially handed over to the Bundesbahn at Krupp in Essen during a rollout...

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...

Milan leaves his home and joins the "youth brigade", a group of young people who worked on a railway track. Tragedy strikes when Milan is injured...