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The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czech and Slovak respective film industries, to be held at the Prague U Hybernu venue. The protagonists of the piece are comedians Oldrich Kaiser and Jirí Lábus, who are set to accept an award from Japanese television representatives at the exhibition. At the same time, five gangsters plot to seize a revolutionary invention devised by professor Suzuki - a super holograph, which enables any figure from television to be transported in the flesh into the real world, and vice-versa.

Three Men Travelling is billed as a loosely related sequel to Tri chlapi v chalupe (1963), sending our country protagonists set out from their family nests in the village of Ouplavice into the big wide world. Grandpa Potucek, (Lubomír Lipský) and his son Václav (Jan Skopecek) take part in the cooperative's excursion to spa town Karlovy Vary, a Pilsen brewery and some agricultural enterprises in western Bohemia. During the course of a series of misunderstandings and merrymaking, grandfather Potucek decides he will not let problems with sick calves unsettle him, and that he will persevere in his role as the leader of the cooperative.

Documentary about how stand-up comics use alcohol help them write and perform, including interviews with many comedians who claim alcohol enhances their acts; and with former alcoholic Owen O'Neill who talks about how took drinking to extremes.

Leopold Kohák married a rich widow a long time ago and now he has nothing to do compared to his energetic wife. He's growing old and troubled by the fact that he betrayed his first love Emca and his beloved river Sázava where he spent his childhood and youth. A visit from an old friend Lebeda brings it all back to him. After a nervous breakdown Leopold secretly visits his home instead of going to the spa. As a tramp wandering from place to place he supports himself by casual labor. Mrs Koháková sends someone to look for the missing husband. Living an active life brings the lost spark back into Leopold's life. He shaves, changes his clothes and becomes astonishingly young-looking.

After school, thirteen-year old Jitka likes to wander alone through Prague. The brisk girl also likes to sneak around the backyards surrounding the block of flats where she lives. One day, she discovers a high wall and a hospital garden behind it. It is summer and every afternoon, the nurses bring a young man bound to a wheelchair after an injury to the garden. Jitka begins to encourage the young man in his attempts to walk. The incongruous couple begins to have a friendly talk every day.

The Globus textile factories are ruled by the firm hand of the general director Alfred Merhaut, who, however, transfers receipts from the export branch to his secret account in a foreign bank. His system is simple: each clerk working in the department of balances is fired after a short time to keep them from coming across the fraud. Accountant Basek knows no one and nothing other than drudgery and eternal privation, in addition he is transferred to the feared department. In the department of balances he is witness to the firing of his oldest colleague and then the cup of bitterness overflows. Basek makes clear his disgust, and so he loses his job as well. Upon leaving, however, he overhears the director speaking about his fears of an unexpected audit. Basek makes up his mind to act: he steals compromising material and starts to blackmail Merhaut.

This romantic story turns on a stirring infatuation that takes hold of three young people under the influence of Simon, a Prague student. After the study year, 18 year-old Julio returns to his parental home, a little chateau on the Otava river. There he converges with his childhood friend Petr and the young boatman's daughter Klárka. Sharing her beguilement with Simon, who has quickly turned a tranquil summer atmosphere into a relationship drama, is Julio's cousin Rosa.

Scenes from the march to Aldermaston in 1959. Snapshots of everyday scenes from people's lives, Easter 1959, compared with elements of hydrogen bomb and the products of testing. The March to Aldermaston - marchers on the road, breaks by roadside, camping. The marchers in Kensington going past the Ideal Home Exhibition, entering Trafalgar Square on Easter Monday.

Coachman Lojza Zacpal likes to make up rascally tricks to annoy his older fellow-villagers. The frivolous young man also likes to flirt with girls without really falling in love with them. But Lojza's life is not easy. His mother is gravely ill and his father, a blacksmith, left them for good to live with his lover, widow Jerábková, after a fight with Lojza. His mother dies soon after and Lojza starts looking after the household and his younger brothers and sisters.

Grammar school teacher Bláha hurts himself in pursuit of a red lizard, and is lying unconscious in the lonely house of Santrucek family. The postman, who found Bláha's coat and hat in the water, announces to everyone in town that the professor has drowned. But, the venerable citizens are at that moment more interested in the theatre group with the beautiful guest actress Eva Gazdová. They demand a change of repertoire and manage to persuade the theatre manager to have the group play the musical comedy The Red Lizard instead of an established play.

It's early spring in 1945 and the end of the war is approaching. The partisans blow up a bridge in the Bohemian-Moravian Uplands. An SS troop settles down in a village near by and forces the village people to fix the bridge. An attack by a British plane interferes with the work and the German soldiers shoot the plane down. The pilot Karel Korán, who is of Czech origin, survives and hides in the tailor Skýva's house. Skýva's niece Jelena tries to take the pilot to the partisans that night. Enraged by the failure of the search for the pilot, the SS commander summons all the people from the village. He wants to know who supports the partisans, where the secret arms magazine is, where the pilot is hiding, and he threatens them with executions.

The history of deep submergence technology and those who risked their lives developing it. It uncovers clandestine battles fought miles beneath the water to gain deep sea supremacy and discloses that reclusive millionaire Howard Hughes was part of a covert CIA operation to salvage a Russian nuclear submarine.