Lännenelokuvien kliseitä vääntelevässä ja ravistelevassa legendaarisessa sekoilukomediaklassikossa mätä poliitikko yrittää tuhota syrjäisen kylän ja varastaa alueen maat rautatien rakentamisen vuoksi nimittämällä paikkaan mustaihoisen sheriffin. Konna saa kuitenkin ansionsa mukaan, kun sheriffistä kuoriutuukin pesunkestävä sankari.
Tarkoin vartioidut junat (Ostře sledované vlaky) on vuonna 1966 valmistunut tšekkoslovakialainen draamakomedia, jonka ohjasi Jiří Menzel. Elokuva kuvattiin Barrandov Studiolla, Prahassa.Elokuva perustuu Bohumil Hrabalin tarinaan, jossa seurataan pojan vaiheita ja työskentelyä juna-asemalla saksalaisten miehittämässä Tšekkoslovakiassa toisen maailmansodan aikana.Elokuva voitti Oscar-palkinnon parhaana vieraskielisenä elokuvana vuonna 1967.
Vuonna 1941, toisen maailmansodan aikana Japanin miehittämässä Kiinassa kärsitään nälänhädästä. Shandongin maakunnan rautatieverkko on keskeinen liikenneyhteys Japanin armeijalle, joka kuljettaa raiteita pitkin ruokaa ja tarvikkeita. Pieni sissisotureiden joukko, "Railroad Tigers", päättää auttaa maansa köyhiä ryöstämällä junia. He ovat aseettomia siviilejä, mutta ryhmän johtaja Ma Yuan uskoo miehiinsä. Heillä on yksityiskohtaista tietoa sekä junista, että paikallisesta maantieteestä. Huolimatta alkeellisista – ja usein koomisista – menetelmistään he onnistuvat nöyryyttämään Japanin armeijaa, joka ei kykene puolustamaan toimituksiaan.
Railway-related documentary covering modern railway systems, museum railways and their facilities as well as items on model railway layouts. Politics and criticism is not left out; the series reports on closures, controversial model ideas, delays to reconstruction plans or smart commuter transport concepts.
The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.
Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.
Series about striking railways in the world. Each episode travels along a number of special locations, where the train serves as a guide and there is also attention for the landscape and culture.
Discover the secrets of Japan's railways, from the newest technologies and systems in use, to travel tips and must-see places.
Criss-cross Japan by rail. Enjoy an amazing diversity of nature and scenery across the four seasons, exploring both well-known and hidden Japan.
Michael Portillo crosses the Atlantic to ride the railroads of America, armed with Appleton's General Guide to the United States, published in 1879.
With visitor numbers approaching 70 million every year, Paddington is one of the UK's busiest transport hubs.
Michael Portillo travels on the great train routes of Europe, as he retraces the journeys featured in George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.
Covering thousands of miles, Sir Tony Robinson takes a whirlwind journey around the globe by train.
Following an elite crew of workers-- brakemen, engineers, construction crews, mechanics and train drivers – Railroad Alaska illustrates the battle against ferocious weather and treacherous terrain to keep the State of Alaska’s critical 500-mile long railroad rolling to deliver life sustaining supplies. From controlled avalanches to prevent catastrophe, to fascinating characters, like Jim James, the one-handed handy man, learn what it takes to keep this train on track.
A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely punitive Soviet concentration camp system, remains largely unknown.
Great Railway Journeys, originally titled Great Railway Journeys of the World, is a recurring series of travel documentaries produced by BBC Television. The premise of each programme is that the presenter, typically a well-known figure from the arts or media, would make a journey by train, usually through a country or to a destination to which they had a personal connection. There were four series broadcast on BBC Two between 1980 and 1999, with the shorter series title being used for all but the first. In 2010 a similar series also aired on BBC Two, Great British Railway Journeys.
Michael Portillo is in Southeast Asia, armed with his 1913 Bradshaw's Handbook. It will lead him on a spectacular 2,500-mile railway adventure across six countries. He explores towering megacities and magnificent mosques.
