Trains

An Amtrak train pulls out of Penn Station in New York City on a cold, sunny February morning. The train moves forward as the landscape...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Connecting city and country, south and north, summer and winter, peasant women and worker women /...

Georgetown, 1901. A silver-mining town at 8,500 feet near the crest of the Rockies. Hooked somehow to the rear of a four-car passenger train is a...

Stations of the Elevated exposes viewers to an underground art scene- that is, one found exclusively on the sides of subways and train cars. A moving...

“This is a new negative showing the entire trip from Brooklyn to New York, in which the immense towers stand out clear and distinct against the...

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

Peleshian transforms footage from a train ride into a metaphor for the shape of a life. Early images of faces on the train give way to landscape, a...

The Ashtabula train disaster and bridge collapse was the worst train disaster of the 19th century, claiming the lives of 97 people. The engineering...

This documentary short offers a nostalgic look at the steam locomotive as it passes from reality to history. In its heyday, the big smoke-belching...

Trains travel through the night without stopping. The clatter of the carriages quickly disappears, along with the wail of the locomotive. The people...

A history of the nation's first transcontinental railway accompanies a steam-train ride through the Canadian Rockies.

This short documentary shows the reactions of European immigrants as they land in Halifax at the beginning of the 1960s. From the port, we follow...