Three million strangers, one unwritten rulebook, zero eye contact—welcome to the tube.
Documentary about the tube, the world's oldest underground system, with its own unwritten rules of behaviour and protocol, and used by three million passengers every day.
Acting
Andy Serkis's velvet narration elevates lost umbrellas to Shakespeare.
Direction
Percival finds humanity in the mechanical, the mundane, the mouse.
Director
Zimena Percival
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Annie Mole's 'Going Underground' blog documented tube eccentricities for years; this film borrows her observational eye.
The documentary's 'mouse incident' became a minor cult moment in British film circles for its genuine, unscripted emotional weight.
GB
