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- The story of the 1914-1916 Antarctic exploration mission of Sir Ernest Shackleton. The ship sails south, breaking the ice, and ultimately getting trapped by the fast-changing weather. The ship breaks up in the ice, and while 22 men and 70 dogs wait on Elephant Island, Shackleton and a crew of five take a 20-foot lifeboat 800 miles to South Georgia Island to mount a rescue mission. We also get a good look at the exotic animals of the region, particularly the penguins.
- The inventor of a space sphere flies to the moon and is marooned by a crooked financier.
- A pacifist enlists and is blinded while his friend weds a shopgirl who was seduced by a German spy.
- A doctor makes a drunkard's death look like murder so he may marry his widow.
- The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
- A rich man diverts a widow's millstream to make a pond.
- A beetle is possessed by the soul of an ancient Egyptian princess, who is determined to get her revenge on a member of the British Parliament.
- A magnate's wife elopes with a poet but returns to run the business when he falls ill.
- A mother raises two sons in a seaside community. Son Jack stays in the village, marries a local girl, and presents his mother with a grandchild. But son Bob leaves his mother to pursue a business career in the wicked city of London.
- A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
- An innkeeper's daughter is won by a hangman, who falls off a cliff after she is rescued by a highwayman's mistress.
- A secretary persuades a man to pose as her fiancé.
- A boatman smuggles gold for a mining expert but reforms when his child falls ill.
- An amnesiac skipper returns from a shipwreck to find his sweetheart wed to a sailor.
- A sailor saves his fiancée from a Spanish don and is blinded whilst fighting the Armada.
- A girl helps the King's messenger regain secret plans from the spy who is her father.
- A clerk wins a fortune, feigns bankruptcy to test a socialite, and weds a fishergirl.
- A bart's son uses forged fingerprints to frame his sister's fiancé.
- A man takes the blame for a girl's crooked brother and weds her when her hand is amputated.
- A widow and her daughters join the Women's Service Training Bureau and become a nurse, a journalist and a landscape gardener.
- A poor artist weds a socialist's daughter and becomes a sandwich-board man to provide for their baby.
- A French orphan girl is adopted by a wealthy British nobleman. The family lives happily, unaware that a plot is afoot to kidnap the girl and make away with the nobleman's fortune.
- A Lord and a discharged worker's niece are tricked into marriage and later fall in love without recognising each other.
- A young man takes his girl to the park hoping to find a nice private place where they can make out, but he just can't seem to find an empty bench. Frustrated, he takes up an enterprising young man on his offer to rent a mechanical woman so he can reserve space on an empty bench. Complications ensue.
- A rich half-caste is abandoned after a mock marriage, has a stillborn baby, and weds the man who helps her.
- A financier's secret wife saves a dancer from bigamy.
- A Chinese merchant kills his daughter, kidnaps her seducer, and demands that the young man's mother choose either death for her son or her own daughter as payment for the disgrace to his family.
- Cowboys save a kidnapped child from a gang seeking hidden jewels.
- A young woman weds a rich and handsome opera singer, only to find out afterwards that he is already married to someone else.
- A Lady introduces a wounded cobbler to the Mnister of Pensions, who makes him a gift from the King's Fund.
- A detective poses as an opium fiend to save an addicted knight and his daughter from abduction by a jeweller.
- An iron founder's adopted child loves his rival's manager who is really the founder's son, sworn to avenge his dead mother.
- In Palestine, an atheist millionaire forces a professor to destroy Christianity by discovering a fake sepulchre.
- A sportsman prevents a Lord from killing his favourite with a tsetse fly.
- A Belgian refugee weds an aircraft manufacturer and is blackmailed by the German who raped her.
- A flirt has troubles with a dancer's necklace and his suspicious wife.
- A doctor's daughter has amnesia after poisoning her mad friend, and recovers on meeting her ex-lover who saved her brother's sight.
- In Corsica, a wife becomes an opera star when her husband leaves her to succour his sick mother.
- A squire's adopted daughter rides her beloved's horse when her mother bribes his jockey to lose.
- A mayor's son inherits if he lives a month without help.
- A lieutenant loves a nurse in Greece but returns to his wife and becomes a Labour MP.
- A Lord's wife lends money to an ex-lover, who is framed for killing her husband, but it is all a dream.
- An agent causes an actress's death by inducing her to take opium.
- An artist helps a lady posing as a maid to steal her letters from her blackmailing cousin.
- A poor author feigns marriage to please his dying father.