Schienen zum Nachbarn - Teil 1

Impressionistic picture of the Third Avenue Elevated Railway in Manhattan, New York City, before it was demolished. Preserved by the Academy Film Arc...

Somewhere in the world right now--much closer than you think--people are playing with trains. You might not see them at first, but they're there. In b...

At any given moment hundreds of people are soaring above us in a 747. From the moment the very first jumbo jet took off in 1969, it has been the aircr...

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 a...

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...

A day-to-day record of the construction of the Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to the mainland, Abegweit reveals some of the innovat...

Der Fährmann places us as passengers on an eerie railroad trip around Europe, from the darkness of night until dawn. A feeling of ethereality pervades...

Class 31s in Kent, Last 31s on Bedford to Bletchley line, Scottish 117 DMUs, Last 37s on China Clay in West Country, Freightliner 66s, Class 92s on We...

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

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 t...

A close-up of a snow-bound city, and the men, money and machinery it takes to dig it out.

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