Cradle of a Nation

A light and somewhat satirical look at the problems and pleasures of Continental holiday travel. A passenger on the Hook Continental Express from...

Coach passengers give their reasons for preferring that type of transport. A group of ramblers visit the Welsh mountains; an angler and his family...

An American couple tour Britain with a teenage girl, visiting London, Canterbury, Cambridge, the West Country, Caernarvon, etc.

When Tomoko finds some messages for a 'Mr Smith' on a lost mobile phone, she finds herself on an 'Alice in Wonderland' journey through Tokyo's...

A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan,...

Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. The film documents American surfers Mike Hynson...

Blissful scenes of tourists arriving by boat and then sea bathing on a beach in the Venetian lagoon.

Early film of a crowded street scene in an unidentified Indian city.

The reception ebbs and flows as the unfamiliar landscape whirls by the window of a plane or train or car. Communication is delayed, fragmented,...

Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.

An essay film that interweaves meditations on travels with stories of journeys in China across a century: A student expedition into the heart of...

Travel films have an established format with their own conventions, history and baggage. It is a medium that has all too often sought to control,...