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Giants of Steam

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Documentary

Overview

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.

Details

Status: Released
Release date: May 21, 1963
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: BBC,British Transport Films
Cast: John Slater
Director: John Read
Cinematography: Ronald Craigen
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt1737169