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Robbie is a 13-minute-long film made by British Transport Films in 1979 and revised in 1986. Although it is not strictly a Public Information Film, it is often considered to be so by fans of the genre. The film, which was shown in schools all over Great Britain, is based around a young boy suffering a disfiguring and/or fatal accident when he ...
Great Railway Journeys, originally titled Great Railway Journeys of the World, is a recurring series of travel documentaries produced by BBC Television.The premise of each programme is that the presenter, typically a well-known figure from the arts or media, would make a journey by train, usually through a country or to a destination to which they had a personal connection.
Walt Disney Pictures. The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery. 1966. The Great Train Robbery. 1903. The Greatest Show on Earth. 1952. The Grey Fox. 1982.
Great British Railway Journeys is a 2010–present BBC documentary series presented by Michael Portillo, a former Conservative MP and Cabinet Minister who was instrumental in saving the Settle to Carlisle line from closure in 1989. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The documentary was first broadcast in 2010 on BBC Two and has returned annually for a current total of ...
In 1980 the BBC first broadcast the railway documentary Great Railway Journeys: Confessions of a Train Spotter. The programme title was premised on presenter Michael Palin’s childhood as a trainspotter. [64] Song of Experience, first aired in 1986, was a stand-alone film produced as part of the BBC’s Screen Two drama series.
For All Mankind is a 1989 documentary film made of original footage from NASA 's Apollo program, which successfully prepared and landed the first humans on the Moon from 1968 to 1972. It was directed by Al Reinert, with music by Brian Eno. [1] The film, consisting of footage from Apollo 7 through Apollo 17, was assembled to depict what seems ...
T. Documentary television series about railway transport (25 P) Categories: Documentaries about transport. Works about rail transport. Hidden category: Categories requiring diffusion.
British Transport Films was an organisation set up in 1949 to make documentary films on the general subject of British transport. Its work included internal training films, travelogues (extolling the virtues of places that could be visited via the British transport system – mostly by rail), and "industrial films" (as they were called) promoting the progress of Britain's railway network.