Movies: Train

The story of a young boy so obsessed with placing pennies on the railroad tracks that it's in fact tearing his family apart. Soon he meets a hobo which changes his life forever....

More than 30 years after the dramatic ending of a train hijack five people involved meet each other on a television show. Starting point is the death of the only female hijacker: Noor. One by one the five enter the studio. Each with their own expecta...

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accurate and objective press on the home front....

Goofy visits a train station to see how it and the trains there operate....

EB Films presents a documentary on the life of the freight train in America....

Impressionistic picture of the Third Avenue Elevated Railway in Manhattan, New York City, before it was demolished. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010....

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

Commemorate the 40th anniversary of one of the largest freight carriers in the nation! Look back at the creation, evolution and current operating status of this storied railroad....

Dani is a young woman who travels by train reading a book. Marina, her wagon companion, absorbed by her purity, decides to give her something very special for her....

A couple lives in a house situated on the railway tracks. They lead a peaceful domestic life, despite the periodic interruptions of the train passing through their living room; but when the husband - a gold prospector - falls down on his luck, the tr...

The story of the independent railroad and its survival against the giants....

Ephemeral loves, days of summer freedom and the drift across Europe...

An audio-visual essay, which reflects upon & compares metro systems around the world. It is an exploration of a world inside the world as well as feelings, fascination, obsession, fear and themes - of survival, control & silence....

“This film was a gift to me. I make no claims for it, nor do I offer any apologies. It comes from work on The Thoughts That Once We Had. There was one shot we had to cut whose loss I particularly regretted. It was a shot of a train pulling into Tokyo...

Thomas and the steam trains spring into action when Porter and the diesel engines run into a series of accidents that throw their deliveries off track....

When 19-year old Esra misses her train and kills time playing a fast-paced, flashy game on her smartphone, a vintage Rubik's Cube challenges her attention....

Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland....

First transmitted in 1969, this documentary follows the construction of the world’s most advanced underground system. Macdonald Hastings narrates the story of one of the most complex tunnel engineering feats of its time. He reveals the isolation felt...

Canadian Pacific II is designed as a companion piece to Canadian Pacific I. Shot from a window two storeys higher and in the building adjacent to the artists’s studio of the previous year, one enters into a dream state… an involvement with a vocabul...

Jimmy, a young boy, idolizes famed train engineer Casey Jones and is devastated when his hero is killed in a train wreck. The boy grows up to be a railroad engineer, too, but one day the train he is piloting loses its brakes and wrecks. Jimmy tries t...