In 1910, newspaper magnate Lord Rawnsley organises an aeroplane race between London and Paris in the hope of allowing Great Britain to claim supremacy of the skies...
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Dodger Lane, Lennie Price and Jelly Knight are doing time at Her Majesty's pleasure, but thanks to their benign Prisoner Governor, Horatio Bennett, they have not had to sacrifice their creature comforts...
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One day, Midwich, a small village in southern England, finds itself mysteriously cut off, its entire population rendered unconscious for two hours...
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Ernest Broughton is a proof reader for pulp fiction publisher. One evening, whilst absorbed in his latest penny dreadful, he is visited by a solicitor who informs him that he must attend the reading of the will of his Uncle Gabriel, who has just past away...
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Kathy, Nan and Charlie are three young children who live with their father on a remote Lancashire farm. Their mother having recently died, they are cared for by their aunt and they live an austere life...
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England in the early 1920s. Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are two sisters who live in a Midlands mining town, the former a schoolteacher, the latter an aspiring sculptor...
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London gang leader Pearly Gates is none too pleased when a rival gang, disguised as police officers, thwart his brilliantly contrived robberies and run off with the ill-gotten gains...
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In 1879, missionary Otto Witt and his daughter Margareta are attending a mass Zulu marriage ceremony in Natal when they learn that a British force of 1400 men has just been wiped out by an army of Zulu warriors...
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