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- Impressions of resistance and revolution in America, as shot on both coasts by visiting director Godard in the pivotal year of 1968, but not completed and not shown, after being taken over by local director Pennebaker, until three years later.
- At Kennedy Airport two frazzled New Yorkers are separately boarding a plane to Temecula, California. Comedian Bobby Stein, who's trailing his ex-lover and Sally Shelton, a very pregnant travel writer on her way to interview a renowned playboy and owner of a vast vineyard. Their paths all cross at Ruth's Inn where owner Ruth Oakley has taken naturalism to unnatural extremes. Budd Bailey and Susan and Michael Kaye join them at the Inn, where the guests discover that when you follow your heart it can lead to delight and unexpected places.
- In December 1926, Agatha Christie's husband asks for a divorce. She leaves her car and goes missing for 11 days. She books into a hotel as Mrs. Neele. A US reporter looks for her and investigates.
- Charts the early years of HandMade Films, seen through the eyes of the filmmakers, key personnel, and the man who started it all: former Beatle George Harrison.
- Two English kids meet their friend Anoop Singh and his baby elephant Ranee. The nasty circus owner wants the elephant for his circus and the children decide that they must prevent this.
- Berlin, the present. A Turkish family is subjected to a violent attack by a gang of baseball-wielding neo-Nazis. When the father tries to stop them he is beaten unconscious. One of the attackers is Morris, recently arrived from Britain to conclude an arms deal. Morris's Berlin contact is annoyed by the attack on the Turkish family because he fears it will bring attention from the police.
- 2 young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.
- Miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Sid James) makes the life of his clerk, Bob Cratchit (Bernard Bresslaw) a misery. A visit from the spirit of Christmas Past (Charles Hawtrey) warns him that he will be shown the error of his ways by visits from the Spirits of Christmas present (Barbara Windsor) and future (Bernard Bresslaw) Becoming generous and helpful Scrooge finances Dr Frank N Stein ( Terry Scott) for his experiments. Scrooge is then thrown into the world of pantomime and meets poor Cinderella (Barbara Windsor) at the beck and call of her ugly sisters(Peter Butterworth and Terry Scott) With some camp help from Buttons (Charles Hawtrey) and the Fairy Godmother (Frankie Howerd) Scrooge resolves to embrace the spirit of Christmas. Unfortunately he lavishes affection on a passer-by (Hattie Jacques) and is arrested by a policeman ( Bernard Bresslaw) .
- Phil visits one of the most celebrated stately homes in Britain: Castle Howard in Yorkshire. It's the setting for TV's Brideshead Revisited and Phil is given an extensive guided tour.
- Three irresponsible teenagers 'borrow' the 'seawitch' - a yacht belonging to the local seascouts and run out of fuel off the notoriously dangerous Bradda Head. In an endeavor to stop themselves from drifting on to the rocks they try to set the sails but they lose the mainsail overboard and it becomes entangled with a floating mine. The tide turns and the yacht drifts back towards the harbour towing the mine with it. Realising that the mine might hit a tanker anchored in the harbour the teenagers, aided by the scouts, make desperate attempts to alter the course of the mine until help arrives.
- A group of children on holiday in Malta join an aqua-lung diving class. One of them discovers a wreck, and disobeying instructions decides to investigate on his own, with near serious consequences.
- Three children enter a big store and steal a battery. The three had intended to replace the battery but forget when they realize that they've been locked in. Eventually they get out through a skylight.
- Life on board HMS Victorious, Britain's most modern aircraft carrier.
- This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
- The international documentary is presenting - besides a lot of funny clips from the best Laurel and Hardy movies
- Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
- A young and pretty Polish woman arrives in Newcastle to marry a British doctor she met in Poland, only to find that he's changed his mind. Not wanting to return to Poland and in need of Indefinite Leave to Remain Citizenship, she proposes marriage to the astonished patient who happens to be in the doctors office at the time. Since he desperately needs cash to pay a mob debt, he later accepts.
- Alexander Korda brought Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger together for the film The Spy in Black up to then Powell had been directing low budget films in Britain and Pressburger working as a scriptwriter in Europe. They stayed together for 20 years and 20 films first a series of inventive contributions to the war effort including 49th Parallel a A Canterbury Tale then a variety of imaginative attempts to produce post war films of international appeal and sophistication from a strong British base, which led to successes such as A Matter of Life and Death and The Red Shoes but foundered in the 1950's, After the partnership dissolved Powell directed Peeping Tom which when rediscovered by a a younger generation caused a renewed appreciation Powell and Pressburger, In 1943 they formed The Archers as an independent production company under which all their later productions were made.
- Treasure Island in this instance is Tin Pan Alley where pop songs are launched on their brief and hopeful successful careers, First the creators play their song to a publisher. If he likes it he sends it to a recording manager who gives it to a singer, The record made it goes to disc jockeys , band leaders and singers but the final verdict - hit or miss- is with the public.
- A huge chemical company pays illegal dumpers for disposal of chemical waste dangerous to the environment.
- Three young chldren set about rescuing unwanted pit ponies that are due to be sent to a slaughter house.
- Billy the Kid tries to live in peace, under a new name and in a frontier town, but is approached by a preacher who asks for his help in freeing the town from a ruthless man and his gunman.
- During the siege of Leningrad, Marat goes to the partly wrecked house of his parents, and finds Lika, a sixteen-year-old girl, who has sought shelter. They become friendly and fall in love, but are later joined by Leonidik, who is starving. They care for him, and shortly afterwards, Marak joins the Army, promising Lika that he will return. At the end of the war, Lika hasn't heard from Marat, except for a telegram on her birthday, and she now believes that he's dead, but he turns up suddenly. The situation becomes somewhat impossible, and Marat leaves. Leonidik and Lika marry, and thirteen years later, Marat again calls on them. Following a dramatic confrontation, Leonidik realizes that Loka's real love is Marat, and he gallantly walks out of their lives.
- A cursed princess is awakened by a prince's kiss.
- A railroad man from the city befriends a mountain girl in a Kentucky family feud.
- Documentary feature about the great days of variety.
- At a rail crossing, a small fender-bender incident turns into a major tit-for-tat retaliatory war among various motorists.