In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.
After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother and cantankerous grandfather in Nova Scotia. The boys want nothing more than a pet dog, but their grandfather refuses to get them one. Then, when the brothers find an abandoned baby, they decide to keep it – but the foundling may not have been abandoned after all.
A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their road by withholding their taxes, and spend a few days among the locals.
Em 1807 o imperturbável Capt. Hornblower da marinha britânica é enviado em uma missão secreta para desviar aliados espanhóis de Napoleão, patrocinando uma revolução centro-americana de um líder megalomaníaco. Depois de uma viagem difícil, complicações inesperadas forçam Hornblower a rever seus planos... e o transformam em anfitrião relutante para a bela irmã do Duque de Wellington. Batalhas navais, aventuras extraordinárias, e um romântico interlúdio de estrelas.
A successful artist recalls his life in the tenements of the Glasgow slums. In flashback his recalls the events and characters he shared with in a slum tenement building.
