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- Young man fights off attempts to marry him off to a series of available girls. Intersting glimpses of London in 1930.
- Chronicling the life of Arthur Wellesley the first duke of Wellington, who faced down Napoleon's armies at Waterloo, and served as prime minister.
- A year with the men and the machines of the RAF's flying memorial to the aircrew who fought and died for their country in the Second World War. With onboard cameras; candid interviews and unprecented access; it's a unique record of a season with The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight as it celebrates its fiftieth birthday. There's a gruelling schedule of hundreds of flypasts and displays. They're all volunteers; though; and it's a job that gets under the skin of the select few chosen to fly some national treasures - the Spitfires; the Hurricanes and Europe's only airworthy Lancaster.Based in part on the 30 minute BBC Documentary THE FLIGHT with never before seen footage and extensive bonus features - including The Groundcrew; The Veterans; The Music of the Merlins & The Duxford Flypast.
- A singer is hired by a wealthy aristocrat to be his son's governess.
- A Fleet Street barber recounts the story of Sweeney Todd, a notorious barber who in the last century murdered many customers for their money.
- A whimsical spectacle of a little boy's adventures with a gang of bandits who are terrorizing a small southern European town.
- Two prospectors find a map to a diamond mine, partner with aviators for financing. In Africa, they face interference from villains also seeking the diamonds. One partner is killed, raising stakes in the race to claim the mine.
- Erna Fielder (Marta Labarr), a female German spy during World Ward Two, falls in love with Paul Benoit (Charles Oliver), the French spy she had been detailed to trap and expose. Love wins out but not without some tense moments and complications.
- Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
- A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured.
- John Fenton, a British secret-service agent in China, is given the assignment of learning how smugglers go undetected while delivering guns into the interior for General Ling, a ruthless war lord. It is revealed early on that General Ling is actually Mr. Wong, a rich Hong Kong merchant.
- James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Martin is hunted for the crime, knowing the solicitor was alive when he left him. Carol refuses to speak to him, and he escapes on a ship to South Africa. There, he is the victim of an accident that disfigures his face, and he returns to England to clear his name, believing he won't be recognized. Other than by everybody who knew him, it turns out.
- A nurse in the first world war falls in love with a blinded soldier suspected of spying.
- A group of street buskers form an academy of protection to warn when police are around.
- A newly-married couple runs into difficulty when the wife refuses to obey her husband.
- In a small coal-mining village, Bob Fenwick leads a strike over safety standards at the local colliery. Meanwhile, his son David goes off to university with the hope one day to return to help the miners with their working conditions.
- The love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language cramming school in the south of France. Diana, the sister of one of the boys, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates.
- A young couple become engaged, but enjoy several comedic adventures before their wedding day.
- The fortunes of an upper-class British family are followed through three wars and four generations.
- A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.
- A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.
- In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, and his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
- In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
- Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
- As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.
- A rich woman in Victorian England marries a poor artist from the wrong side of the track, and finds herself the victim of a blackmailing plot.
- Rob returns to Dolwyn, a village, from which he was ousted for thievery, to buy the land so that his master can flood the village to build a dam. He faces opposition from an old woman and her son.
- What happens to the saints and sinners of a small Irish village on the day the world is supposed to end.
- Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
- A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
- Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to reconcile with her against all odds. But he falls in love with a charming new lodger Milly Southern instead.
- In the nineteenth century, a young Austrian woman marries into a wealthy family and witnesses the country change through the course of four decades.
- A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.
- In post-WW2 Europe, when the dictator of a small police state dies during surgery, the operating surgeon, who's a visiting American doctor, is held captive in order to preserve the terrible state secret.
- True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany.
- A business tycoon spoils his young daughter, but his relationship with his wife leaves much to be desired.
- When a scientist threatens to detonate a powerful bomb in the heart of London, Scotland Yard has just seven days to find him before it is too late.
- A disinherited 13th Century Saxon nobleman leaves Norman England with an archer friend to seek his fortune in the Far East.
- A beautiful, superstitious, animal-loving Gypsy is hotly desired by a fox-hunting squire even after she marries a clergyman.
- A seductive woman falls in love with a mysterious ship's captain.
- A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.
- An unsophisticated and impressionable young girl finds herself in trouble after winning a beauty pageant.
- In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Msimangu (Sidney Poitier) is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.