Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.
Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imag...
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his ...
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedl...
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all serge...
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become...
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher w...
A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close wat...
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...
The extraordinary story of comedian Bob Monkhouse's life and career, told through the vast private a...
Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacita...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assi...
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return...
A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agri...