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Kay Mander kept training and social issues to the fore in the 1940s with her innovative documentaries. Mander, now living in Kirkcudbrightshire, recalls her life and work, with clips from many of her films.
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General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. However, now speculates that his death was actually a murder carefully prepared by his staff to cover a large theft of gold.
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The daughter of a British prison governor returns from an American finishing school, and chases after the inmates of her Dad's prison.
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"A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more radical methods by the older, experienced leftist organizer Despard, "A" unwittingly becomes party to a labor strike that turns violent. Ultimately held responsible by the authorities for the fracas, "A" allies himself with terrorist Leonard, who intends to avenge those jailed in the protest.
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Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination of a defecting Soviet scientist. In the course of the dangerous mission, he discovers a mole has infiltrated British intelligence.
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活字の存在しない未来の管理社会を描いたレイ・ブラッドベリの小説を映画化。主人公モンターグは禁止されている書物の捜索と焼却にあたる有能な消防士だったが、クラリスという女性と知り合った事から本について興味を持ち始める。やがて読書の虜となった彼の前には妻の裏切りと同僚の追跡が待っていた……。
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ナチスによってノルウェーに建設された、原爆製造のための重水工場。レジスタンスの指導者ストラウドは、工場爆破のために、物理学者ロルフの協力を得て特殊部隊を送り込む。だが作戦は失敗に終わり、ロルフは捕らえられてしまう。充分な量となった重水は、ドイツに運ばれていくが……。原爆の完成を阻止したレジスタンスの活躍を描く。
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ソビエト連邦情報機関の最高幹部会議は、西側の情報機関に打撃を与えるため、スメルシュの手によってイギリス秘密情報部の情報部員ジェームズ・ボンドをはずかしめて殺すことに決定した。チェスのモスクワ選手権タイトル保持者でスメルシュ企画課長のクロンスティーンが立てた計画に基づき、第2課長ローザ・クレッブ大佐は、タチアナ・ロマノーヴァ伍長を囮に仕立てた。 ボンドに夢中になったソ連職員タチアナが、暗号解読器「スペクター」を手土産に亡命を望んでいるという連絡が入り、ボンドはイスタンブルへ派遣された。首尾よくタチアナと解読器を確保したボンドは、夫婦を装いオリエント急行に乗り込んで国外脱出を図るが、そこにはスメルシュの放った刺客グラントが待っていた。
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A doctor in 1890 England, in order to cure his wife's "sick mind," injects her with snake venom. She later gives birth to a daughter whom the villagers call "The Devil's Baby" and in a fit of fear they end up burning the family's house down. Years later a Scotland Yard detective is sent to the village to investigate a rash of deaths that are caused by snakebite.
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Travel agent Emrys Jones and tourist Patricia Dainton fall in love in sunny Italy. Jones has led Dainton to believe that he's fabulously wealthy, and she has likewise deceived him. When the truth inevitably outs, it hardly matters, since hero and heroine now love each other for themselves rather than their bank accounts.
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England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.
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A Canadian boy visits cousins in Scotland; his attitude first causes antagonism with Scottish youngsters, but disappears when the lad proves himself by riding a horse over dangerous country to bring aid to an injured shepherd.
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Story of a little Javanese boy who adopts a monkey.
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Documentary on town planning in which an architect looks at the history of Dunfermline, Scotland and its possible future development.
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Documentary on town planning in which an architect looks at the history of Dunfermline, Scotland and its possible future development.
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Directed by innovative British filmmaker Kay Mander, this is a curiosity for devotees of public information films. School children act out new ideas for post-war education and investigate hidden histories near home, exploring industries, farms and Roman ruins around Bishop Auckland, then present an exhibition for local folk. Actuality footage of Wilsons Forge (closed in 1997) serves today as an elegy for one of the lost traditional industries in North East England.
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A documentary on the housing problems of Great Britain following WWII
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British documentary on the use of Penicillin.
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Documentary on the young builders who'll rebuild Britain after the war.
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Commissioned to make a film about a pilot health scheme in the Highlands and Islands, Mander decided against a straightforward documentary approach, recording doctors and nurses going about their work, and instead wrote her own storyline about a medical emergency and recruited actors to play it out.
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A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.
