Journey Inter-City

First transmitted in 1969, this documentary follows the construction of the world’s most advanced underground system. Macdonald Hastings...

In hand-built, double-hulled canoes sixty feet long, the ancestors of today's Polynesians sailed vast distances using only the waves, the stars, and...

This short documentary shows how a city's water supply is purified at a filtration plant. The complex system of the underground mains that supply all...

Nearly 200 years ago, the train revolutionized our lives. It redrew the maps of states and nations, and changed concepts of distance and time like no...

The Ashtabula train disaster and bridge collapse was the worst train disaster of the 19th century, claiming the lives of 97 people. The engineering...

It was one of the greatest heists in British history. £3 million – worth over £40 million today – stolen from a moving train...

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

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...

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 day in the life of a train station.