Movies: Subway

First transmitted in 1969, this documentary follows the construction of the world’s most advanced underground system. Macdonald Hastings narrates the story of one of the most complex tunnel engineering feats of its time. He reveals the isolation felt...

The Market Street 6 chronicles the final hours of six people who become stranded when the subway they are riding supposedly breaks down. Forced to depart the train the passengers band together to locate the nearest emergency exit......

A poetic short about the Montreal subway system...

The camera platform was on the front of a New York subway train following another train on the same track. Lighting is provided by a specially constructed work car on a parallel track. At the time of filming, the subway was only seven months old, hav...

Ignaz Wuzel and Gerhard Jeschko are regulars at the espresso in the Südtiroler Platz underground station. Warden Leopold Prinz knows the problems of the children from Karlsplatz. In 1993, Elizabeth T. Spira filmed people on the Vienna subway network....

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A short story of two strangers who let their feelings impel them, without being attached to an outcome....

Profiles the culture, lifestyles, and rituals within the New York City subways....

In 2019, this short film documentaries the daily of severals subway artists in the stations of Rio de Janeiro...

Tribute to the workers responsible for maintaining and repairing the tracks, stations, terminals, and tunnels of the metro....

Numerous people are on subway trains running up and down the city center endlessly. There are people who run this decent space “underground”. Under the noisy world today, we approach them to see what life is like underground....

Based on an article by journalist Rose-Aimée Automne T. Morin who questions our attitude on public transport in 2022, the film is an adaptation, in the form of a short film, of this social experiment. HI ! allows you to get inside the journalist's he...

A song cycle about love, death, and whiskey. A camera breaks and four friends drink in an interwoven tale spanning seven centuries, with a murderous sister, a treehouse astronomer, a bear, a subway, and the ghost of Thelonious Monk....

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A woman reflects on her lifelong commitment to ride the subway....

a subway crossing the earth. inside you there is a man with a look...

A filmic letter to New York City, the subway, and self....

An incredible historic document showcasing the roots of Old School Hip Hop movement with all its disciplines involved: Djing, Mcing, Breakdancing, and Graffiti. Featured in the "NYC: Urban Image" show at MoMA PS1 1983....

From the New York Transit Museum archives, a 1981 documentary about the workers who make "A" train service possible. A production of the New York State Museum....