A woman seeks atonement from the people she meets on her walk across the city.
Locked in a deserted old English toy shop, Katherine and her stuffy cousin Matthew meet some very special friends. Their fantasy world becomes a nightmare when Master Jack, the evil jack-in-the-box casts a spell and shrinks Katherine to the size of a doll.
Not even the heaviest tasks or the cruelest punishments can take away the young girl's hope. To her new friends, she tells magical stories about a little princess separated from her dear father. However, when her father is presumed dead, a real adventure begins. Orphaned and penniless, she has her noble heart and strong spirit as her only weapon. Sarah embarks on an epic journey in search of her father who might not be dead! Magic, mystery and songs will envelop everyone in an incredible adventure.
A story of friendship between a lonely little boy who braves Alaskan blizzards in search of gold and his loyal companion Buck, the courageous and faithful German Shepherd. (Animation)
Mysterious Island is a Canadian television series based on Jules Verne's novel L'Île mystérieuse. It ran for one season in 1995. The beginning of the series is much as in the novel. A group of refugees attempting to escape the American Civil War in a balloon wind up stranded on a remote Pacific island, where they are able to improvise a comfortable living for themselves while they wait for a passing ship. As time passes, they become suspicious that some unseen force is watching and directing their movements. The main difference between the protagonists of the series and those of the novel is the addition of a female character, the wife of Pencroft. The unseen watcher, Captain Nemo, is more active and less benevolent than in the novel. Able to monitor the island through steampunk-style closed-circuit television and other advanced devices, he treats the castaways as human laboratory specimens, influencing their environment to test their behaviour under stressful conditions. As the series progresses, his tests become more extreme as their continued co-operation threatens his preferred thesis that all humans are, at base, selfish and untrustworthy. In the series finale, Nemo apparently succeeds in breaking up the group; this proves to be a ruse by the protagonists, who are now certain of Nemo's existence. After they penetrate his hideaway, Nemo admits that the 'experiment' is ruined, and offers to return the castaways to civilisation in his submarine. In a final twist, he puts out to sea without them, apparently leaving them alone on the island, without his influence for good or ill.
A short biography on the love life of writer and critic John Ruskin
A U.S. soldier sees the Berlin Wall go up in 1961 and helps a group of East Germans escape to the West.
A village cricket team plays its last match before most of its players go off to fight in World War I, confident that "it will all be over by Christmas".
TOM COURTENAY and Nichola McAuliffe star in Ken Taylor's adaptation of the Noel Coward short story, "Me and the Girls", one of a series called "Noel Coward's The Master's Collection" co-produced by the BBC and Quintet, in association with the Arts and Entertainment Network. Tom Courtenay plays George Banks, a homosexual dancer, who looks back over his life as he lies dying in a Swiss sanatorium. The cast also includes Catherine Rabett and Robert Glenister. The play is directed by Jack Gold, the series producer is Alan Shallcross, and Victor Glynn is the executive producer.
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