Children's Island

You can buy or rent Children's Island (1984) on DVD or VHS at this site. This site has lots of rare films so good luck!

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"In England during World War II, two brothers, Stanley and Tommy, roughly fourteen and nine, grow a bit tired of being bombed, write a letter to the American president requesting that they and other British children be sheltered in the U.S.A. Thanks to the President's grandson, twelve year old William (J.D. Roth), the idea is accepted, but Stanley and Tommy's boat is attacked by a German submarine before it can ever reach shore. The lads plus nine other children then find themselves alone on a deserted island, and they there slowly establish a small society with their combined talents. In the meantime, William is determined to find the missing kids, even though all the adults around him consider them dead. Primarily meant for a younger crowd, but a very rare epic which might best be defined as an "optimistic Lord of The Flies." Based on Mira Lobe's book Insupu."