Edgar Anstey Movies

A school journey through the city of London as seen through the eyes of the children and their teacher.

A look at the transport system in the South Wales Valleys and how it effects peoples livelihoods and everyday lives.

Information on the different groups and organizations that are there to help the population during wartime.

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

Examines Britian's industrial heritage, concentrating on the period between 1708 and 1850, and showing many examples of surviving relics of the...

When Joe Miller breaks his ankle on the shop floor, he is sent with some trepidation to the British Railways rehab centre, a cross between a modern...

The challenge of what to feed her family weighs on the mind of hard-pressed Mrs Bond in this surreal wartime film made for the Ministry of Food.

The flora and fauna of the Scottish highlands, including footage of ospreys, and stags in Argyle.

Twenty-four hours in the story of the British Railways Channel ferryboats, the 'link spans' directly joining the roads and railways of Britain with...

Newsreels from the '30s constitute the bulk of this fascinating documentary, clearly illustrating that the public was fed an extremely biased view of...

A look at life in the Fenlands (a coastal, marshy plain in eastern England) in 1940's.

‘St Christopher’s - for the children of Railway Servants’. About a hundred children are cared for at this Derby railway orphanage...

A documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.

The film version of Dr. Richard Beeching's plan for the re-shaping of British Railways, showing some of the problems involved, the research...

The final episode of five reports on the construction of the Victoria Line in London. This one is edited highlights from the first four with very...

Thirty Million Letters is a 1963 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie and made by British Transport Films. It was nominated for an...

How the London Transport Board, with the aid of modern technology, is tackling the problems brought about by an ever increasing volume of traffic....

The work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.

A journalist chats on the unusual excursions possible from nodal stations on Europe's train networks. Douglas Browne, journalist and traveller, takes...

A BAFTA award winning documentary focussing on how drivers are trained to drive new electric trains in the UK.