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During a raid on Germany a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland and are aided by Dutch civilians.

A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.

From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.

A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.

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.

A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.

A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.

After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.

A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.

The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver.

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.

Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.

An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.

Twenty years after the murder of Alice Barlow, her house is finally occupied again. However, the husband from the couple who has moved in has a secret that he will do anything to keep hidden.

When King Richard the Lionheart leaves England to lead a crusade to the Holy Land, his treacherous brother conspires to bring himself to power.

Just after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. They live an ordinary life throughout the years, but everything changes when World War II breaks out.

The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson, and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.