"An amalgam of trance and transit, Images from the Berlin S-Bahn conveys a tactile and concrete feeling for the history of a place. It might be described as an eccentric detective film, an investigation into the secrets and mysteries tucked away in foresaken train platforms, ticket halls, and underground corridors... There is not a single image or sound in the film which intervenes with Behrens' presentation of 'a self-evident-everyday understanding of history.'.... The Stadtbahn was built in an undivided Berlin; operating it in a city with a wall between sectors has posed extreme problems. Behrens' film seeks to rescue...and restore it. He sees in the Stadtbahn a remarkable historical museum, a space where time has stood still in a city often so eager to tear down or to bury over its past.... Behrens believes in the integrity of locations, what he calls 'die Moral der Motive.' His definition of space is an architectural one rather than a psychological one.... We could not be further from the permeation of mind into physical objects characteristic of German Expressionism. If anything, Berliner Stadtbahnbilder is a minimalistic urban Heimatfilm, an exploration of modernity and its roots in the former capital of an empire." Eric Rentschler