In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow officers John Durrance, Peter Burroughs and Tom Willoughby brand him a coward and present him with the white feathers of cowardice. His fiancée, Mary, adds a fourth feather and breaks off their engagement. However, former Lieutenant Faversham decides to regain his honor by fighting in the Sudan incognito. Re-used a great deal of stock footage from The Four Feathers (1939), including the entire final battle sequence.
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.
A man is permanently crippled in a horseback riding accident and then learns that he will soon die. He spends his last few days taking care of his family and trying to get his wife to find another man.
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
평범한 중산층 가정의 평범한 주부인 로라 제슨과 또한 한 가정의 가장인 의사 알렉 하비는 기차역에서 우연히 만난다. 그리고 알렉이 로라의 눈에 들어간 먼지를 빼내 준 일을 계기로 역 부근의 찻집에서 이야기를 나누게 된다. 이야기를 나누면서 둘은 서로 많은 공통점을 갖고 있음을 알게 되고, 매주 목요일역 부근의 찻집에서 만나기로 약속한다. 각자의 가정에 대한 책임감에 번민하지만 어쩔 수 없이 서로에게 이끌리는 두 사람은 매주 목요일의 만남을 가지면서 더욱더 가까워지고 결국 사랑에 빠지게 된다. 하지만 자신들의 관계가 더 이상 발전하면 안 된다는 것을 깨달은 로라와 알렉은 더 이상 만나지 않기로 하고 각자 반대 방향의 기차를 타고 떠나면서 작별을 말하는데...
Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It stars Patricia Roc, Eric Portman, Megs Jenkins, and Anne Crawford, was written by Sidney Gilliat, and directed by Gilliat and Frank Launder. It was filmed at Gainsborough Studios. When Celia Crowson (Roc) is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life, and begins a relationship with a young airman.
