Giants of Steam
Giants of Steam
1963, English. Directed by John Read.
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.
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- 0h 40m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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- 21 May 1963
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- United Kingdom
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Giants of Steam isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 21 May 1963. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Giants of Steam?
Giants of Steam (1963) was directed by John Read and stars John Slater.