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- 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.
- 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.
- A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
- 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.
- Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
- The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver.
- A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
- A mother struggles to maintain normalcy at home as D-Day nears. With lodgers, absent children in the Navy, and no war job, she questions her choice to remain a housewife when her son's ship is damaged.
- 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.
- Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.
- Professor Horatio Smith, while seeming very unassuming, rescues victims of Nazi persecution during World War II.
- From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
- A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
- In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
- 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.
- A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
- 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.
- An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- An aeronautical engineer predicts that a new model of plane will fail catastrophically and in a novel manner after a specific number flying hours.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- King Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover.
- Two British couples pit their vintage automobiles against each other in an exciting cross-country race.
- 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.
- During World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.
- Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
- 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 girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing.
- 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.
- The trials and tribulations of a group of medical students at St. Swithin's hospital in London, England.
- World War II drama that follows a group of British draftees, starting with their rigorous basic training, and ending with their deployment in North Africa.
- 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).
- 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.
- A haunted Scottish castle is dismantled and transported to Florida, bringing the family ghost along with it.
- 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 respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.
- Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. After Olivia opens a lodging house, Mark becomes her lodger then her lover. Olivia falls so completely under amoral Mark's spell that he's able to overcome her scruples, and soon she's his willing tool in an ambitious scheme of theft and blackmail...maybe too ambitious.
- A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
- 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.