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- Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
- A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
- 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.
- Guests invited to a weekend in the country share their supernatural stories, beginning with Walter Craig, who senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality.
- 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.
- A noblewoman begins to lead a dangerous double life in order to alleviate her boredom.
- The story of three sisters and the men they marry. One is happily married but childless; the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage; the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted by a domineering husband.
- 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).
- 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.
- A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
- An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
- Dock worker Tom Masterick is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to show that his alleged victim is still alive.
- A respectable, convent-raised woman is haunted by the memory of being raped as a teenager. But when her grown daughter returns from school, her life begins to unravel in monumentally surprising ways.
- British propaganda film from WWII stressing the importance of the navigator on RAF's bomber crews.
- In 1943 England, an American Army Air Force gunner falls in love with a corporal in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force who has long been expected to marry a British paratrooper Major, prompting him to go back to combat duty.
- A drama set during World War II. A tale of adultery and desertion.
- A drunken, abusive tavern-keeper's adulterous wife uses the backward son of a rigid, puritanical pharmacist who makes his entire family miserable.
- A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.
- Vivian Kenway (Sir Rex Harrison), a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends, and marriage for money. All this with no signs of remorse or redemption, since his life as a completely unprincipled rake is quite enjoyable, for him, at least. Then, World War II breaks out and he is given a chance to die a heroic death for flag and country. Maybe.
- Re-enactment of incidents during the German occupation of the Channel Islands.
- An impending Eleanor Roosevelt visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
- A group of young people are having a good time, when their parents return home unexpectedly from holiday.
- Drama following the lives of two families living on the colourfully painted canal boats of Britain.
- The police are investigating the suspicious death of a mine owner when they stumble upon a strange Nazi plot to invade England.
- This brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration explains to "Timothy" what his family, his neighbors, and his fellow citizens are going through as the war nears its end, and what problems may remain for new Englishmen like Timothy to solve.
- A seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
- Famous detective and his trusty side-kick Tinker are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
- Aspiring entertainer George Trotter (George Formby) comes down to London in search of fame and fortune, but soon must try to clear his name after being accused of a murder at his lodgings.
- Joan's (Patricia Medina) mother wants her to marry her pompous boss although she loves a soldier (Jimmy Handley).
- Odd job man George Gribble (George Formby) causes problems for the local council he works for when he inadvertently helps two newspapermen expose corruption amongst the council leaders.
- A socialist inherits the ownership of a major firm and begins wrestling with his beliefs.
- Lesley and Wesley solve a crime involving a stolen brooch. Interspersed with Music Hall turns.
- A story of war, mystery, love and adventure following a group of members of the International Brigade and their artist captain fighting in the Spanish Civil War who undergo internment in a French camp, forced work in the Sahara, carrying vital information to England and fighting a Nazi espionage web which will eventually take the captain back to Morocco, while searching for his loved one.
- There exists an age-old rivalry between the Cornish and Breton fisherfolk, but harbormaster Nat Pomeroy holds a particular grudge - not just for the Bretons' incessant poaching, but for the harbor dues he loses in the process.
- An American girl takes charge of her scottish grandfather.
- Frank's wife has quads, his lodger is in love with her boss's son. She runs away to be a nightclub singer. Frank and his friends rescue her from the clutches of the lounge lizard nightclub owner.
- The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
- A documentary on a real life event in which 100 santas raced each other across Canada with the goal of raising money for countries devastated in World War II.
- A pilot loses his memory after a plane crash. A good friend helps him to remember his past by talking about a transport plane they built together.
- Shows in the blast furnaces, forges, rolling mills and machine shops work numbers of highly skilled craftsmen who for generations have devoted their lives to serve the tradition of British Steel.
- Old Vienna, at a time when the waltz was considered an immoral dance. Maria promises her dying father, the Emperor, that she will follow the wishes of the Council of Ministers when she assumes the reign. Empress Maria wishes to marry the dashing Count Franz von Hofer, but the old fashioned Council advises against it due to his philandering reputation. The Prime Minister's daughter, Cenci Prohaska, asks Maria to help her marry her beloved Lieutenant Stefan Ravenne, because her father has plans for her to marry the rich, but boring, Ferdinand Hohenlohe. Cenci tells her that she wore a mask to waltz at the Golden Lantern and that von Hofer flirted with her there. So Maria hatches a plan to also visit the Golden Lantern in disguise.
- An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
- Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.
- Dora is a young journalist given the job of writing a history of tobacco for her newspaper.
- Mother Riley tries to convince her daughter that her current boyfriend is up to no good.
- Piano virtuosa Myra Hess performs Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, known as the "Appassionata", on stage in a concert hall. Hess performs only the first movement of the sonata.
- Camerawoman, civilian socialite Miss Rosie Newman, had unprecedented access to the Armed Forces and shot remarkable footage of aspects of life on Britain's home front. 'Britain At War' offers a unique and personal record of the country at war in stunning colour.
- A flagrant plug for the trusty safety razor disguised as a comic history of shaving, this witty treat was made by EVH Emmett, whose sardonic tones graced many an educational film in the 1930s and 40s. Jumping from the Bronze Age to Ancient Egypt to the dicey barbers of Victorian England (cue Tod Slaughter hamming it up in "Britain's most fruity drama", Sweeney Todd), the film follows the development and mass production of King Camp Gillette's 1890s invention.
- Life and industry in a Lincolnshire town.