Trains: Two Centuries of Innovation (2017)
Nearly 200 years ago, the train revolutionized our lives. It redrew the maps of states and nations, and changed concepts of distance and time like no other invention before. What visionaries imagined the development of the railroad? How did we get from the first chugging locomotives to the smooth giants of speed we see today? How does France's extensive rail network keep running smoothly, 24/7?
- Released
- 2017-02-23
- Genres
- Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Sigrid Clément, Cyrille Massey
Cast
- Cédric Allard as Narrator (voice)
- Clive Lamming as Self - Railway historian
- Philippe Hérissé as Self - Engineer, train transportation expert
- Christophe Keseljevic as Self - Railway expert
- Michèle Merger as Self - Researcher and historian
- Philippe Mirville as Self - President of the French national railway museum
- Laurent Quessette as Self - Jurist, railway expert
- Jean-Marie Duthilleul as Self - Architect, train station expert
- Jean-Claude Lustyk as Self - TGV driver
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