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- A look at the Earl Marshal of England and the College of Arms in London.
- A look at the duties and life of a Hunting-Clan air hostess on a flight to Rome and Benghazi.
- A look at the hats manufactured in Britain every year with a glance at the intriguing facts and figures about the millions of hats made.
- A look at the importance of the helicopter and its uses, both civil and military, but also its failure to become a passenger carrier.
- Michael Ingrams goes behind the scenes on the set of Hell Drivers at Pinewood Studios and on location.
- Compilation of the five episodes which comprised Season Four of the TV series "Best Of British", originally shown on BBC 1 in 1990.
- Experience the American Journey through our country's visual heritage in this historical recording provided by the National Archives of the United States.PRESENTS THE CONCEPT AND MECHANICS OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY SYSTEM, WITH THE EMPHASIS ON THE GENERAL EVOLUTION AND OPERATION OF THE PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY PROCESS ITSELF.
- A short documentary going behind the scenes at Pinewood Studios.
- This Technicolor short, with Sir Malcolm Sargent conducting the Royal Symphony Orchestra, was produced by Castleton Knight, to be shown as a companion piece to "A Queen's World Tour." It covers the highlights of Queen Elizabeth's Coronation Year, climaxing in her departure by plane on the first lap of the tour shown in the 84 minute feature documantary that followed. Shown are the Trooping of the Colours ceremony, the Royal Air Force Review, a pageant on the Thames River in the Queen's honor and other Coronation events, all accompanied by a musical score played by the orchestra.
- Follows inspector Paul Duval as he tracks his targets and risks his life in a global race against time.
- A look at the historic part the Royal Navy played in winning World War II.
- A body is found in the back of a car in London. Duval becomes intrigued when a suspect is so easily found. As he begins to investigate his doubt grows and the situation becomes more complex
- How Do You Sell: Optus The Pitch: Compulsory Micro Chips Target Market: Violence Against Women.
- Sir William Magnus lives in an old drafty castle with his daughter and his two grandchildren, Peter and Judy. Few visitors call and when there are guests they do not stay long, freezing cold as the place is. One day, in the company of their playmate Bobby, the castle's only servant's nephew, Peter and Judy discover a sick baby - dragon. Far from being terrified, the three kids immediately understand that the little monster will be their savior.
- Documentary about the making of the film "They're a Weird Mob" about an Italian adjusting to life in Australia.
- Paul Verhoeven, a Dutch filmmaker for whom sex, violence and religion are "the three most important elements on Earth", likes to press where it hurts. Born in 1938, he grew up in The Hague under the German occupation, in the fury of bombings and summary executions. Inspired by comics and the New Wave, atheist but passionate about the historical figure of Jesus, Paul Verhoeven lets his darker side and his complexity shine through his characters, and pushes them to transgression. In Hollywood, he is pampered and has had a string of successes ("Robocop", "Total Recall", "Basic Instinct") without giving up his obsessions. Michael Douglas and Isabelle Huppert, the heroine of his latest feature film, "Elle", confide in us.
- Documentary about the making of A Night to Remember (1958).
- After the senseless death of his twin brother, a teen drug pusher decides to seek revenge against all who have wronged him in the neighborhood.
- Account of the royal tour of New Zealand taken by teh newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. Includes film of various visits and ceremonies attended during the state visit.
- Acker Bilk leads a prison jazz band. They are released and perform concerts, but soon return to crime and go back to prison, pleasing the jazz-loving governor who wanted their music to continue.
- Hubie (Martin Short) must present his special pebble to Marina (Annie Golden) before the pebble festival is over, or lose his chance forever.
- This exceptional theatrical version of Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic features a combination of live characters and stop-motion animation.
- Richard Logan, a safe maker, wakes up with amnesia after being found unconscious. A detective hired by his wife was murdered. A safe his firm installed was robbed. Logan teams up with his wife to uncover the truth behind these events.
- Filmed tour of the Royal Palaces in Great Britain.
- The animosity between two rival undertakers is amplified when drug traffickers attempt to use coffins and hearses to smuggle their wares.
- On Splendid's wedding night, she won't allow her husband to consummate the marriage. Meanwhile, her armed cousin is looking for the hooker, who slept with her husband.
- Lucy Church, the sole witness to a fatal robbery, is struck by a passing bus and her life lies in the balance as the thieves wait for a chance to finish her off.
- A lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953.
- Two inmates working to shore up a dike during a severe flood are swept away in the current along with their guard. The three of them wind up in an isolated house whose flooded interior contains a frightened woman.
- Alan and Mary are pretty miserable together and split up. As an very presentable Glaswegian photographer Alan soon has chances to find consolation elsewhere, but more and more thinks of Mary. She however seems a lot less keen to try again.
- This is a documentary covering Queen Elizabeth II's World Tour or, at least, the portion through the Fiji Islands, the Friendly Islands and New Zealand. The Queen attends some festivals in her honor in Fiji and in the Friendly Islands, where she is entertained by Queen Salotte and in New Zealand where she attends some Maori rituals.
- As a young child Jack the Ripper's daughter witnesses him kill her mother. As a young woman she carries on the murderous reign of her father. A psychiatrist tries to cure her with tragic consequences.
- A British road repairman gets into a feud with the army, gets drafted, and is mistakenly parachuted into German-occupied France where his physical resemblance to the local German commandant triggers a hilarious chain reaction.
- This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
- Documentary about the Royal Ballet. Includes selections from "Les Sylphides" and "The Sleeping Beauty".
- Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve, he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of his ways.
- A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
- After killing a few Italian cops during a burglary, a thief hired by a British car racing company must flee to Switzerland disguised as a race car driver during a rally.
- Norman works in a high-class jewellers and dreams of buying an expensive necklace for a shop girl who works across the street. His chance comes when he places a £1 accumulator on the horse races at Goodwood.
- Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have all been given the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles: now he must find a way of changing the notes so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.
- Cyd Morse is an actress, but her biggest role so far is as a recurrent guest on '"Miami Vice"'. She earns her living with underwater dancing at the bar of the Eden Rock Hotel in Miami Beach. There she's approached by ex-jockey Woody; they start dating and kind-of fall in love. However it's a short luck: one evening he's brutally beaten to death in his hotel room. Cyd's a witness and gets hold of a key Woody had around his neck. She's got to flee from the murderer. Due to an accident she meets golfer Jack Connett. He can't resist her charme and helps her on the search for the lock to the key and the flight from the murderer.
- Kezban, a beautiful rural girl, comes to Istanbul to live with a wealthy acquaintance. She is looked down upon by the people in high society. She decides to set off to a journey to transform herself. A My Fair Lady story from Turkey.
- A religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of innocent victims. Young Frieda, Gustav's niece, will involve herself in a devilish cult, and become an instrument of Justice in the region.
- As the plague sweeps the countryside, a quarantined village is visited by a mysterious traveling circus. Soon, young children begin to disappear, and the locals suspect the circus troupe might be hiding a horrifying secret.
- A gang of thieves plans to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital. They assume disguises and infiltrate the hospital, but everything doesn't go according to plan.
- Neighborhood tensions arise when rambunctious Baines family moves next door to reclusive Abbots, clashing over home distillery and unruly teens while matriarch tries mediating the feud.
- After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternative reality that bears some similarities to our own, but also has some striking differences. In this other reality, World War II had never occurred, mankind had not yet travelled into space, and Mt. Everest had not yet been conquered, just to name a few things. Also in this other reality, he is no longer a scientist, but rather a well-known author. He also finds that he is married to a beautiful woman with whom he instantly falls in love, but for whom his alternate self never cared. He has some difficulty convincing anyone that he is not actually who they think he is. With the help of a physics professor who believes his story, he finally manages to convince his "wife" that he is not the man she knew before. After a personal tragedy in this alternative world, he finds himself back in his own world and desperately trying to locate the woman with whom he fell in love in the other world. Little does she know, however, that her life depends on him finding her.
- In this spoof on crime films, four would-be criminals manage to botch every job they plan. When they try to rob wealthy Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) they fail again. But the gang decides to kidnap his daughter.