British Transport Films Box Set DVD, 1950s-80s

£89.99

RRP: £99.99
You save £10 (10%)

Availability
In Stock - should be despatched within 24 hours. Despatched from the UK. Delivery timesNormally take 1-2 days to reach UK customers. European destinations usually take two days longer, and International destinations up to a further two weeks.

Delivery
Free to UK customers!
Costs to other countriesWestern Europe: £71.00
Rest of the world: £106.50

Returns Policy
If you are unhappy with your purchase, you can return it to us within 14 days. More details

MovieMail's Review

By any measure, this box set, gathering together all nine volumes of the BFI’s astoundingly popular series of British Transport Films, is a wonderfully diverse collection that shows off the fruits of the British Transport Films Unit, formed in 1949 to support and promote the newly nationalised transport industries, but whose films extended far beyond this initial remit. Any collection that can boast Oscar-nominated nature films, a Stanley Holloway monologue, John Betjeman’s verse, Chris Barber’s music, Dr. Beeching, and a film narrated by a hungry litter basket (among other things), and which takes in ocean terminals, London stations, Gilbert White’s Selborne and the Ardnamurchan Peninsula (among other places) makes a positive virtue of such diversity. And there is no better collection to reveal, in details both large and small, the changes in the social history of the nation from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Graeme Hobbs on 1st November 2008
View all 252 of Graeme Hobbs's reviews

Film Information

Director - Various (Documentary)

Produced - 1950s-80s

Main Language - English

Countries & Regions - British Film

DVD Details

Certificate:	E	Publisher:	BFI	Region:	2
Length:	0 mins	Aspect:	1.33:1	Cat No:	BFIVD806
Format:	DVD Colour

DVD Extras

18 discs
Slimline cases
Fully illustrated booklet.

Film Description

This amazing box contains all nine sets of the BFI's British Transport Films. It totals 2250 minutes of classic British documentary. That's 37 ½ hours of content – a full working week of BTF!

All nine double-disc volumes of the BFI's fabulous British Transport Films archive, which forms an important and enduring record of Britain's transport heritage, are here. The films have a much wider appeal than transport and provide a unique insight into the changing social history of Britain from the 1950s to the 1980s.

With 125 films, The British Transport Films Collection covers it all. From the very first BTF film Berth 24, to rare gems such as E for Experimental, The Travolators and Old Sam the Signalman, through travelogues revealing a changing Britain like This Year London and Letter for Wales to much-loved classics like Blue Pullman, Elizabethan Express, Terminus and John Betjeman Goes by Train, there really is something here for everyone!