The Finishing Line

[MightyQuinn2021]

Finally I found it!

[RichardPatient]

Nationwide showed this film one evening. Simultaneously, they showed it live to an audience of kids, and I remember the reaction from some of the kids was horrific.  A few of the children were physically sick.

[betholomew314159]

It's kind of sad parents today would flip their lids if schools played this. Kids don't learn consequences anymore.

[EzioA2012]

wat the FUCK is dis? basically these people are teaching children to become violent criminals they should ALL BE FUCKING SUED FOR THIS

[wtf6able]

omg...yupp i still remember this film from my childhood.yeah we shd have afew more films that scare the crap outta kids these days!

[spongebobpaul]

Watch the hole film at the end to see the kids get runned over by the train in the tunnel LOL

[St00sh13]

Nationwide showed this film one evening. I remember crying myself to sleep that night.

[simoleon88]

what amazes me about this is how slim all the kids were back then - not a single overweight child out of all of them! How times have changed!!

[Ofir84]

are you sure it's not a comedy? it's just so over the top and silly

[Penko83]

No one does twisted shit like us Brits

[rjconnolly2nd]

They might as well have shot the kids with the starting pistol, horrific

[airnza3801]

Hilarious stuff!

[JonnySpeeding]

@domprague @MrOmg606 - this was made by British Transport Films... same idea, different government department. Many people look for this film in the COI archive and wonder why its missing... and its because they didn't make it. I hope that helps?

[KrillLiberator]

Perhaps the greatest warning about the dangers of playing on the railway I've ever seen; If it's absurd that adults would ever make children do this because of the obvious implications, then why would anyone do it voluntarily? And yet modern youths (who've never seen this film*) do it nowadays.

*Well there's your problem.

[3treeroor]

Even the olympics weren't as bad and that was two thousand years ago!

[brainyoutcast]

Great googly moogly!

[Zugvogel1]

Deepest black english Humor.;o)

[MrOmg606]

k someone please answer this is this legal in those days and why r they doing this

[domprague]

@MrOmg606

It was a film made by the UK Government's Central Office of Information to discourage children from playing on the railway. It was illegal to play on railways.

[RobotwarsKing]

That kid has one fucked-up imagination.

[TheNix247]

SACK the PE teacher!!!!!!

[disjoinedchip2]

oh gosh i remember having to watch this in school.

[princess17306]

o lets play on the railway ha ha ha! idiots.

[ChrisHenniker]

When I was at Primary school, many of the girls wore leotards for PE and sports day (this was in the 1980's). It reminds me of a school sports day in some evil kid's head.

[05clenharth]

@Time71Team So so true, and even though im only 16 and am an apprentice engineer watching things like this and having a few minor incidents where you truly get to feel the force of say a flywheel of a fast moving piece of metal really shock you and have made me work alot more sensibly now! and im almost great full for them for educating me in a way.

[joetorsneyTrains]

this is like saw

[Amandamoo73]

i had never seen that uncut before and it shocked me and made me cry!i won't be crossing a railway line for a long long time!

[FunkyasFolk]

The people that made these films are sick.

[KaErKai]

this is a death game !!!!!!!!!!!

[princess17306]

@KaErKai i dont understand it either its like wtf?

[wileyk209zback]

"Last Across?" Why not just call it "Chicken on the Tracks!"

[Squab1972]

Stiil remember this from primary school it scared the crap out of me

[lipylu]

The band reminded me of Harry potter and the goblet of fire

[macragge10]

Their biggest mistake was playing on the railway line.

[kazekage330]

so is it a choice to compete in these games?

[kazekage330]

so this is why children don't plan the olympics

[wileyk209zback]

Exactly what kind of game event were they having? The Special Retard Olympics? (the retarded ones being the adults that planned the event!)

[LarryBundyJr]

Did you watch my review of this movie?

[SoSupahCereal]

@LarryBundyJr I think the point they were trying to make is that kids see it all as a game, but it's more serious than that.

[poodledreams]

I only ever saw this once as a kid but it has always stayed with me. It is an amazing film and so powerful. Thanks for posting this.

[GeorgeUKCFC]

10:15 It won't be doing 80. It's a Class 101 and isn't designed to exceed 70.

11:22 WTF's a "jellian"?

[RobotwarsKing]

@GeorgeUKCFC

A Jellian, you say? A general term for a mop-headed kid from the 70s who plans strategies for a game of Chicken =P

[markyinoz]

I still find myself thinking about this film at times, (and the one on the farm). They must have burnt a pretty strong image in my mind when I was 7 years old. No horror film I have watched as an adult has stayed with me in the same way.

[jack6251]

Silly bastards!

[alanlovedog]

most surprising thing about this is how thin the kids are - if they made it nowadays there would be a load of fatties.

[Spongebag44]

It just goes to show how powerful the message was to us as kids doesn't it, jsp3970. I think a lot of these old public info films should be compulsory viewing in schools today!

[mrnewrooster]

@Spongebag44 they are and there fucking scareing

[jamesfish05]

@Spongebag44 lol

[jsp3970]

I remember this when I was a kid in England in the 70's. I still remember this film all these years later.

[forgelodge]

Fantastic! This scared the pants off me when I was a kid. Makes the tunnel run in The Railway Children seem a bit tame!

[BaldinLeePramer]

The Brits surely have an interesting sense of humor.