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- Impressions of resistance and revolution in America, as shot on both coasts by visiting director Godard in the pivotal year of 1968, but not completed and not shown, after being taken over by local director Pennebaker, until three years later.
- December 1926, Agatha Christie's husband asks for a divorce. She leaves her car and goes missing 11 days. She books into a hotel as Mrs. Neele. Fiction: A US reporter looks for her and investigates.
- Charts the early years of HandMade Films, seen through the eyes of the filmmakers, key personnel, and the man who started it all: former Beatle George Harrison.
- Two English kids meet their friend Anoop Singh and his baby elephant Ranee. The nasty circus owner wants the elephant for his circus and the children decide that they must prevent this.
- Berlin, the present. A Turkish family is subjected to a violent attack by a gang of baseball-wielding neo-Nazis. When the father tries to stop them he is beaten unconscious. One of the attackers is Morris, recently arrived from Britain to conclude an arms deal. Morris's Berlin contact is annoyed by the attack on the Turkish family because he fears it will bring attention from the police.
- 2 young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.
- Miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Sid James) makes the life of his clerk, Bob Cratchit (Bernard Bresslaw) a misery. A visit from the spirit of Christmas Past (Charles Hawtrey) warns him that he will be shown the error of his ways by visits from the Spirits of Christmas present (Barbara Windsor) and future (Bernard Bresslaw) Becoming generous and helpful Scrooge finances Dr Frank N Stein ( Terry Scott) for his experiments. Scrooge is then thrown into the world of pantomime and meets poor Cinderella (Barbara Windsor) at the beck and call of her ugly sisters(Peter Butterworth and Terry Scott) With some camp help from Buttons (Charles Hawtrey) and the Fairy Godmother (Frankie Howerd) Scrooge resolves to embrace the spirit of Christmas. Unfortunately he lavishes affection on a passer-by (Hattie Jacques) and is arrested by a policeman ( Bernard Bresslaw) .
- Phil visits one of the most celebrated stately homes in Britain: Castle Howard in Yorkshire. It's the setting for TV's Brideshead Revisited and Phil is given an extensive guided tour.
- Life on board HMS Victorious, Britain's most modern aircraft carrier.
- This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
- The international documentary is presenting - besides a lot of funny clips from the best Laurel and Hardy movies
- Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
- A young and pretty Polish woman arrives in Newcastle to marry a British doctor she met in Poland, only to find that he's changed his mind. Not wanting to return to Poland and in need of Indefinite Leave to Remain Citizenship, she proposes marriage to the astonished patient who happens to be in the doctors office at the time. Since he desperately needs cash to pay a mob debt, he later accepts.
- Alexander Korda brought Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger together for the film The Spy in Black up to then Powell had been directing low budget films in Britain and Pressburger working as a scriptwriter in Europe. They stayed together for 20 years and 20 films first a series of inventive contributions to the war effort including 49th Parallel a A Canterbury Tale then a variety of imaginative attempts to produce post war films of international appeal and sophistication from a strong British base, which led to successes such as A Matter of Life and Death and The Red Shoes but foundered in the 1950's, After the partnership dissolved Powell directed Peeping Tom which when rediscovered by a a younger generation caused a renewed appreciation Powell and Pressburger, In 1943 they formed The Archers as an independent production company under which all their later productions were made.
- Treasure Island in this instance is Tin Pan Alley where pop songs are launched on their brief and hopeful successful careers, First the creators play their song to a publisher. If he likes it he sends it to a recording manager who gives it to a singer, The record made it goes to disc jockeys , band leaders and singers but the final verdict - hit or miss- is with the public.
- A huge chemical company pays illegal dumpers for disposal of chemical waste dangerous to the environment.
- Three young chldren set about rescuing unwanted pit ponies that are due to be sent to a slaughter house.
- A cursed princess is awakened by a prince's kiss.
- Documentary feature about the great days of variety.
- At a rail crossing, a small fender-bender incident turns into a major tit-for-tat retaliatory war among various motorists.