Operation Fast Freight
Documentary produced by the Norfolk and Western Railway on getting deliveries to their destination quickly view the railroad
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Documentary produced by the Norfolk and Western Railway on getting deliveries to their destination quickly view the railroad
When a business tycoon allows himself to be 'snared' into seeing some films in a railway traffic manager's office, there must be a reason for it. In this case, it's a particularly giant-sized transport problem. But befor
Sabine Heitmann, the young boss for the shipping company Heitmann, has become friends with Michael, the First Officer and Helmsman of the ship, the "Sabine Heitmann". He only knows Sabine by her first name and doesn't kn
The City of Sheffield is renewing itself, but until recently Sheffield's railway network exemplified the confusion and inefficiency created by competitive railway expansion in Victorian times. Now British Railways has sw
A series of outtakes, location hunting, and tests for a feature film that was never made becomes a page from the film diary of my first winter in the Lagoon. As always, filming is just a pretext to play with the camera
Film on the movement of material from the Chicago and Northwestern System.
EB Films presents a documentary on the life of the freight train in America.
When telegraph operator Dan Boynton is dismissed shortly after his marriage, he and his new bride Alice decide they will take their honeymoon at the road's expense, and in one of its own cars. The train crew, learning of
This documentary details the investigations into the disappearances and murders of several young boys throughout the Midwest in the 1970s. Detectives conducted a nine-day, twenty-four-hour surveillance of a suspect for s
Helen receives a cypher message about a jewel robbery and trails the yeggmen to their lair. Discovered, Helen is bound and gagged and thrown into a box car, but gets loose, and leaps to the ground from the speeding train
Freight Train was born Charles Stevenson, a son of a single mother trying to make ends meet. While Charles may have struggled during his childhood, as an adult he has become one of the most beloved figures in the world o
Five versions of an everyman who travels through time in different incarnations, including a 19th-century minstrel, a faith healer, an FBI informant, a struggling actor and an out-of-work mortgage broker. In each life, A
Five friends set out on a journey to hop trains from New York to Los Angeles in one month.
This film is about the delightful moments, big freedom and huge loneliness, about the travel by freight trains across the United States of America and amusing encounters during the route.
Two tramps hold up small-town Ferndale's railway station night operator Helen, lock her in a closet, and escape. Later, standing on a bridge over the freight yards, Helen sees the two bandits aboard an outgoing freight a
To the delight of his legions of fans, English acoustic guitar virtuoso Martin Simpson strums a 70-minute solo concert at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, California. Born in Lincolnshire in Northern England, Simps
From humble beginnings in Takaka, New Zealand, the Sollys story is one of hard work, resilience, family, and a deep connection to the community. Through decades of change, challenges, and growth, Sollys has become part o
In an audacious investigation, Freightened will reveal the mechanics and perils of freight shipment; an all-but-visible industry that holds the key to our economy, our environment and the very model of our civilisation.
A mariner survives an attack from the dreaded pirates of the Black Freighter, but his struggle to return home to warn it has a horrific cost.
Two childhood friends head out from San Francisco one summer to see how far they can go hitching rides by freight train. Together they embark on a dizzying, back road journey through the Southwest, armed with only camcor