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Festival Express is a 2003 British documentary film about the 1970 train tour of the same name across Canada taken by some of North America's most popular rock bands, including Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Buddy Guy, Flying Burrito Bros, Ian & Sylvia's Great Speckled Bird, Mountain and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. [2]
The series premiered at the 2023 Canneseries festival, [3] and was screened at the 2023 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, [4] in advance of its television premiere on May 2, 2023, on Vidéotron's Vrai streaming platform for documentaries.
In the 1990s, Sayle did a documentary, Last Train Across Canada, for PBS station WNET in the New York area. In 2004, Sayle returned to Australia, where he was later diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In May 2007, the University of Sydney awarded him an honorary doctorate of letters for his work as a foreign correspondent. [21]
A train and history buff, writer/director Stephen Low had wanted to tell the story of the building of the CPR through Rogers’ Pass following the success of his first 35 mm documentary, Challenger: An Industrial Romance (1980), made at Canada’s National Film Board.
Great American Railroad Journeys is a BBC travel documentary series presented by Michael Portillo and broadcast on BBC Two. [1] Using an 1879 copy of Appleton's Guidebook to the railroads of the United States and Canada, Portillo travels across the United States and Canada primarily by train, though at times using other forms of transportation where necessary.
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Edwards has been working with author and former high school history teacher Matthew A. Rozell, who wrote the book "GIs And The Holocaust: A Train Near Magdeburg" about the train liberation on ...
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.