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- Four friends whose lives changed forever with the arrival of a ton of cocaine.
- It tells the story of Yann Kermadec whose dreams suddenly come true when he has to replace the DCNS star skipper at the last minute before the start of the Vendée Globe (a round-the-world non-stop single-handed yacht race). After several days of racing, Yann, who is in the lead, has to stop to repair a damaged rudder. This will disrupt his round-the-world journey...
- After witnessing a large aerial battle over 1940's Scotland, a young boy finds himself in a life changing situation when he comes face to face with a downed German pilot.
- The arrival in a Yorkshire fishing village of the Lunns with a modern fishing boat is deeply resented by the Fosdycks. Eventually hostilities are overcome and the families join forces to get a modern deep sea fishing boat.
- A tiny seaside resort, out of season. Thomas returns after being away for quite some time. Adèle is an estate agent, who has a tendency to fall asleep. The tide turns towards the beach and the dunes, scooping up jellyfish, sheep and ghosts in its ebb and flow. The tide turns, just like Thomas towards Adèle and Adèle towards Thomas.
- BBC correspondent Charles Wheeler, himself a veteran of the D-Day landings, visits the area and talks to other people involved in D-Day. Particularly to Maj John Howard and others of the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry who landed by glider and took the Pegasus Bridge near Caen. Also to Lt Col T.B.H. Otway and members of 9th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, who parachuted in and disabled the Merville Battery which overlooked the invasion beaches. Wheeler also meets some of the Germans who tried to defend the region and to French and British civilians caught up in the action.
- Over 8 years, a small fisherman puts himself, as 'David against Goliath', in the heart of the new reform of the Common Fisheries in Brussels, to try to understand and change the system that took everything from him.
- A struggling actor develops an awareness of how the "Hollywood Dream" has deluded his reality.
- Cape Cod is in environmental decline. Water quality is decreasing and indigenous species are moving North. Ed and Costa run a sustainable aquaculture oyster-farming project that is improving water quality and inspiring hope.
- Racing with the best Supercross riders in the world for the first time, is just the easy part. This documentary short film displays Garrett Marchbanks and his journey to the premiere class at Daytona Supercross. This is what he always dreamt of but has to overcome obstacles in life to reach the top of the racing world.
- A black privateer finds a way to smuggle slave children out of the confederate south, while avoiding capture himself.
- William Rockwell, a young married man, whose wife and only child are his idols, is doing fairly well, when consumption attacks him, and fighting as he will, he suddenly finds himself face to face with poverty. The doctor advises him that he must needs go to Arizona, or expect sudden death. There is no money for such a trip. Grace, his wife, is in despair, and at this juncture the landlord enters and demands the rent. He secretly admires the wife, and in his dark soul now sees the light of a chance to take advantage of her. He offers to advance the money for the husband's trip. Grace is delighted, and at once signs a note for the amount. Then, having dispatched her husband to Arizona, she starts out "typing" to support herself and her little daughter. Discouraged by the meagerness of the income, she starts to writing photoplays. She sends them out with hope and regularity, but one by one they come hopelessly drifting back. In the interim, Orin, the landlord, has been harassing her with his attentions, and finally demands that she either accept his admiration or vacate his property in lieu of the rent long overdue. About this time, little Lillian loses her pet rabbit, and is greatly distressed, so that she goes to her mother's typewriter, picks out a few words descriptive of her loss, and posts it to the scenario editor of one of the moving picture companies. Observing that the envelope is thin, and the ones dispatched by her mother are bulky, in order to make hers look like something, she picks up odds and ends from the table. Among these is a tintype of herself, and a pathetic letter from the sick husband to his little family. Now, the scenario editor is touched by the combined contents of the envelope and confers with the manager. As a result, Lillian gets a fine position as a child actress, and Grace, her mother, is taken on for minor parts. Money is sent to the father; he rallies and is restored to health and reunited to his family, all brought about through the busy brain of Lillian.
- In the Northern Territory of Australia, an extended Aboriginal family attempts to track down a missing family member so as not to lose their government housing.
- Tom Walters pays court to Nell, the old fisherman's daughter. Though Tom is honest and of their own people, Nell's father objects to him as a son-in-law; he hopes to canceling a note to his old friend Clem Masters by marrying his daughter off to him. However, he keeps the fact of his debt to Masters a secret. One day Tom learns of his sweetheart's father's financial embarrassment. He offers the old man his own savings, but is refused and ordered away. Tom places the matter before Nell. She finally consents to allow him to take the note from its hiding place under the seat of an old chair and pay it off. By this unselfish act on Tom's part, she hopes to gain her father's consent. After paying the note Tom returns to find no one home; he places the note, receipted, back in its place, planning to tell her about it later. As he leaves the house, however, the father observes him and asks questions, but Tom refuses to explain his presence there. In a rage the old man draws a gun on him and fires. Tom is wounded in the head and loses his memory; he cannot even remember the note's hiding place. About this time a man and his daughter arrive from the city. The girl takes a fancy to the boy and plays with his affections. Tom, having forgotten his first sweetheart, believes the butterfly loves him. She encourages this belief, and when she leaves Tom follows her to the city. Once in the city Tom learns the truth, that it was only a pass time for the girl, that he was only her plaything. All this time the little fishermaid remains true to his memory. Tom turns to business. He works with a might and becomes successful. Then comes the desire to return, to see again the old place by the sea. On the day of his return there is a terrific storm at sea. The "girl" is out in it; her boat is overturned. The town people look on, afraid to venture out to the rescue. Tom comes on the scene just in the nick of time. He effects a rescue and carries the "girl" in his arms to her father's house. He places her in the old armchair. The bottom drops out, disclosing the hiding place of the forgotten note, receipted. The discovery causes a return of memory. Tom recognizes the "girl." The old home is saved and the father, realizing what he has done, forgives.
- Quarrelsome Jack gets into a brawl with some ruffians in a saloon; he knocks one down and, thinking he has killed him, rushes off to his hoarding house, packs his grip and goes to another town. Arriving there he is walking along the dock when he sees a simple fisher girl waiting in the porch of a hut for her father. Old Joe, a fisherman, passes and nods to Jack. Old Joe is on his boat in the docks and finds his man, Jim, asleep. He is tired of his lazy ways, awakes him and discharges him. Jack overhears the conversation and applies for the job which Joe gives him. Jim is angry and tries to prevent Jack from entering the boat, but Jack knocks him down and leaves him on the sand threatening vengeance. Jack and Joe return and Joe points out a boarding house where Jack can stay, he engages a room and starts to go upstairs, but is tripped up by a drunken sailor. A fight commences while Jim, who has planned it, looks on. Jack has fallen in love with Peggy, but she does not approve of his quarrelsome ways, although she likes him. One day he is walking along the cliffs and falls over; he is seriously hurt and is carried to the cottage where Peggy and her father live, where she nurses him back to health, and gradually gets to care for him. Peggy's father is an invalid and dies suddenly leaving Peggy all alone. Jack, returning from his work, learns of her father's death and is told that Peggy is on the cliff: he goes to find her and, holding out his arms, she goes to him.
- TV Series
- Felix the Cat becomes a soldier when the rats declare war on the cats.
- Dispatch is joined by 8 lucky fans as they tour the US, helping a community in need each stop along the way.
- When Jake moves to a small beach town, only a mysterious little girl in a yellow raincoat can transform his lonely landscape into a world of imagination and wonder.
- A woman's husband is jealous of her former suitor, Mai Blevins, and a few days later her husband is brought to her dead, and the woman marries Mai. Years later, the woman, is surprised to see a new man in town resembling her first husband.
- Disagreeable Brown, who also has a disagreeable family, receives word that old Uncle Pete is coming for a prolonged stay. Uncle Pete, a sunny-tempered old fellow, is poor and is shifted about from pillar to post among his ungracious relatives. The Brown family makes the old man's life so miserable that he loses all his buoyancy and grows sad and feeble. He has one staunch friend, however, the pretty Widow Allen, a neighbor of the Brown's. This lady is comfortably off, but in case she remarries, she loses her income. Uncle Pete puts up with conditions until ill-treatment and ridicule breaks him all up. At last, he creeps to his room in the garret, packs his grip and walks to the poorhouse. He sends the kind little widow a pathetic note, thanking her for her past kindnesses. The widow, upon getting the note, is very angry at the selfish relatives, and full of grief for the desolate old gentleman. After thinking matters over, she decides to take the old man to her home and defy "the speech of people." Her life has been exemplary, and she feels that the God she loves and trusts will understand. She writes the old uncle that she is coming for him. The old man deeply moved and his heart bursting with thanksgiving, goes with the old lady, and they take up their life under the same roof. But just at the critical moment a notice comes to old Pete, informing him that he is heir to a small fortune. Reading the news in the local paper, Brown and his wife change their tactics and go to bring dear old Uncle Pete back home. They get all they bargain for from the toe of Uncle Pete's boot. Pete marries the widow and the sunny-hearted old couple spend their remaining days in peace and tranquility.
- Through the lives of 5 individuals, this production explores how the legalization of Euthanasia would affect society, in particular those who are most vulnerable: the disabled, the elderly and those who are chronically ill. Done in association with the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, this powerful documentary looks at the concepts of compassion, dignity, quality of life, personal autonomy and choice, and explores how the law works in shaping a society. The documentary includes Canadian disability rights activist, Catherine Frazee and Palliative Care Nurse Consultant, Jean Echlin, as well as Wesley Smith, attorney for the International Task Force Against Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide and Terri Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler.
- Out of work, and unable to buy proper food for his sick wife, Mordaunt is desperate when the landlord calls a second time for the rent. "I'll get the money," he declares, and goes to his old college friend, whom he has been reluctant to ask for help. Circumstances make it necessary that the friend should send him to his office, where he helps himself, by permission, to the money he needs. As the landlord, satisfied, is' leaving the premises, he is halted by a policeman who arrests Mordaunt for murder. His friend's father has been found dead in the office. Suddenly a door opens and a man enters, the doctor, who has come to visit the sick woman. And outside he hears the honking of an automobile; his friend has come with good news. It is all a dream, born of anxious thoughts.
- Seeking to recapture the past, estranged brothers Benno and Gill take off on a long promised surfing weekend, where life and career choices expose feelings of betrayal, jealousy and spite.
- With hundreds of thousands of lives lost and miles of coastline destroyed, the Tsunami of 2004 is one of the greatest natural disasters in memory. Americans along with the rest of the world pledged billions of dollars to help. But thousands of volunteers have donated more-their time and themselves-to physically travel to the affected region and lend a helping hand to the millions in need of relief. In Turning the Tide: Tsunami Volunteers, we meet and travel with three unique American volunteers to Thailand and Sri Lanka as they give of themselves and get back more than they ever imagined.
- October 1942 - July 1943. The inherent strength of the Allies begins to be felt. Canadian munitions factories operate at peak capacity. The R.C.A.F. joins in air strikes against Germany.