Railroad Movies

A mother is waiting or her son, a railroad engineer, to return home. The night becomes stormy and she discovers that a broken railroad trestle lies at...

For the past ten years, Jürgen Henn has filmed over-height trucks crashing into the 11foot8 train bridge affectionately nicknamed the "Can Opener." In...

A film that excavates layers of myth and memory, on an ancient Eritrean steam railway, to learn the elusive truth about Eritrea, its war-ridden histor...

First part of a two-part documentary about the now largely defunct network of local railways in the areas around Erlangen and Forchheim, Germany.

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 ceremo...

E. Nesbit's classic children's book "The Railway Children" follows Roberta (Bobbie),Phyllis and Peter, three sheltered siblings who suffer a huge uph...

Documentary about how the arrival of the railway industry impacted Puerto Rican culture economically, socially, and humanistically during the first ha...

Production for the Seaboard Railroad company outlining their railroad activities in the 1940s and heading into the 1950s

After the last train at night and before the first in the morning, 800 people are hard at work behind the scenes making London's Underground fit to tr...

A tale of cheating in both love and business.

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

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

Documentary filmmakers offer a fascinating look at one of the most spectacular engineering feats of the 19th Century as the story of the Transcontinen...

May 27th, 1971 was a rainy day. In the small town Radevormwald, the world seems to be still in order. But on this day, 46 people die in a train crash...

Documentary on the evolution and introduction of modern coal burning locomotives on the Norfolk and Western Railway line.

The Unreserved is an inquiry into the lives of passengers who use the Unreserved Compartment, the cheapest way to travel across India on the Indian Ra...

This Traveltalk series short celebrates San Francisco, past and present.