One of the great classics of early cinema is 1903’s The Great Train Robbery. A short ten-minute silent film helped bring together many traditions of early cinema, codifying them in ways that ...

Mail trains have been running since 1830 and one was famously robbed in 1963 during the Great Train Robbery when £2.5 million was stolen.

Harry A. Hillman, 30, escaped convict and train robber, was captured at 5:45 a.m. after he leaped from the Twentieth Century ...