Railroad Movies

A short documentary about the work of railwaymen and life on the railway.

The Unreserved is an inquiry into the lives of passengers who use the Unreserved Compartment, the cheapest way to travel across India on the Indian...

The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the...

Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the...

Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version...

Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad.

Jan Horak is a middle-aged railroad dispatcher stationed at a forsaken spot in the desert, within driving distance of the nearest town. A widower, he...

Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress over...

A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends. Later the...

Statistics show that during his professional career every railroad engineer working for railways, unintentionally kills 15 to 20 people. This is a...

After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.

Tom Martin wants to buy the Jed Warren ranch as he knows the railroad wants it for the right-of-way, but Jed refuses to sell...

An American diplomat risks his life to save an Indian prince from an assassination plot designed to ignite a war.

A railroad investigator discovers that there's more than meets the eye to a series of reported Indian attacks against the railroad.

Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the railroad agent killed and replaces him with his...

David Moore is in East Africa to get to his employer's railway construction site. He's accompanied by the owner's son Brian and they've lined up Jack...

Pioneers of the West is a 1940 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie[1] directed by Lester Orlebeck.

After beginning their train trip to California, a famous film actress and her daughter discover their compartment has also been assigned to a...

A film about winter railroading in the Canadian Rockies and the men who keep the lines clear. The stretch between Revelstoke and Field, British...

In this short, a camera pointed towards a window films the landscape as a train moves along the track.