Giants of Steam

The epic of the earliest days of Britain's railways and the men who built them. It concentrates on the achievements of George and Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who built the first railway lines in the world in this country. Portraits, paintings, engraving and prints are used together with live shooting to evoke the atmosphere and illustrate the construction of the railways and the locomotives which ran on them.

Country:

United Kingdom

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

40 minutes

Year:

1963

Director:

John Read

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Company:

BBC,

British Transport Films

Cast:

Crew:

Director

Cinematography

Editor

Music

Director of Photography