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- A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.
- Edward Machin, an Edwardian-era young rogue of lowly origin, decides he must do what he can to raise his living standards in order to see the world and shape his own destiny.
- Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.
- In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
- A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
- A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
- A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
- Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
- A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.
- The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver.
- A dull married couple, separated by their enlistment during World War II, reunite after three years to find that they have become very different people.
- An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.
- A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
- After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.
- The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
- Just after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. They live an ordinary life throughout the years, but everything changes when World War II breaks out.
- A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
- From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
- An aeronautical engineer predicts that a new model of plane will fail catastrophically and in a novel manner after a specific number flying hours.
- Twenty years after the murder of Alice Barlow, her house is finally occupied again. However, the husband from the couple who have moved in has a secret which he will do anything to keep hidden.
- At the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh) meets a middle-aged Julius Caesar (Claude Rains), who teaches her how to rule Egypt.
- 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.
- A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
- King Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.
- A young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.
- Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
- When King Richard the Lionheart leaves England to lead a crusade to the Holy Land, his treacherous brother conspires to bring himself to power.
- During a raid on Germany a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland and are aided by Dutch civilians.
- The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
- A British Army officer resigns, burning his last-day summons to war in the Sudan. Accusing him of cowardice, his girlfriend and three friends give him white feathers. To gain redemption, he shadows his friends to save their lives.
- Two British couples pit their vintage automobiles against each other in an exciting cross-country race.
- Professor Horatio Smith, while seeming very unassuming, rescues victims of Nazi persecution during World War II.
- Agent Simpkins and trainees chase STENCH (the Society for the Total Extinction of Non-Conforming Humans) for a stolen chemical formula, using gadgets and disguises to defeat villains The Fat Man, Dr Milchman, and Dr Crow.
- Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover.
- The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.
- Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
- A lottery winner breaks up with her fiancé and marries a fortune hunter who proves to be dangerous.
- A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
- A haunted Scottish castle is dismantled and transported to Florida, bringing the family ghost along with it.
- An ordinary man suddenly finds that anything he says comes true. Or at least, almost anything.
- Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters--and her own sleazy ex-husband.
- A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father's business. A comedy with social commentary.
- During World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.
- When the murder of a young woman happens, her next-door neighbor is under suspicion due to his previous stay in a mental hospital.
- The trials and tribulations of a group of medical students at St. Swithin's hospital in London, England.
- Aircraft designer/patriot R. J. Mitchell, alarmed at growing German militarism, works to perfect a defense against the German Messerschmidt at the cost of his health.
- During the reign of Elizabeth I, a young man's fervent devotion to the crown and to his sweetheart, a lady-in-waiting, lead him to battle for England's victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588.
- The wartime daily routine on a British bomber base in southeastern England is revealed through the eyes of newly arrived Flying Officer Peter Penrose (Sir John Mills).
- An enthusiastic young doctor happily embarks on his career, but it isn't long before he finds out what being a doctor really entails.
- The story of an 18-year-old princess who becomes Queen of England. It chronicles six decades of her reign during a period of immense change and her marriage to a prince who would become her treasured source of stability and affection.