When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three children plan to steal them to keep them safe. But when they're caught, it's up to the mine owners and the miners themselves to decide what's right.

Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the ric...

A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Gri...

After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and har...

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in purs...

Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a c...

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...

Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes in...

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is ...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealt...

Mexico City, November 1901. The police raid a private home where a secret party is being held. Among...

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the s...

Northern China, 2004. When miner Zhang Baomin returns to his home, a small and isolated mining villa...

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the ...

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes f...

Granny Jantzen lives with her three granddaughters Dick, Dalli and Angela on the small pony farm Imm...