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- Mission to bring out a scientist from Hungary.
- A single, pregnant woman moves into a London boarding house where she meets a group of fellow misfits.
- A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.
- The murder of a young woman in London exposes deep racial tensions and prejudices inherent in the area.
- Bruce Pritchard is paralyzed in a soccer game, rejected by his family, and placed in a nursing home. Angry and depressed, he finds hope with a nurse. Can Bruce find a life outside the home?
- Sleazy talent agent Johnny Jackson discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house. Despite Bert's protestation that he really is only interested in playing bongos, Johnny starts him on the road to stardom. The deal they cut, however, is highly exploitative of the young singer, and their relationship begins to go bad.
- In post-war London, a small boy who blames himself for the accidental death of a friend, falls under the bad influence of a street criminal.
- A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble.
- A sinister character boards the Rome Express on the trail of a valuable Van Dyck painting, recently stolen from a Paris gallery. Much to his annoyance he finds the train populated with a motley assortment of passengers, including adulterous lovers, a very annoying golf fanatic, a French police chief and an American silent film star any one of whom could have the painting he desperately seeks.
- Two children in wartime England find a German fighter pilot.
- Whilst building a rabbit hutch, a group of children break Dad's saw. Needing to replace it, the children do odd jobs all across London.
- Ann Williams (Miriam Hopkins), secretary to eccentric drama critic T.H. Skeates (A.E. Matthews), is persuaded to alter a ruinous review of Shakespearean actor Edmond Davey (Sebastian Shaw) by Davey's wife Barbara (Gertrude Lawrence). Davey's "Othello" becomes a hit and Ann, even though fired by Skeates, becomes a fan of Davey and starts to fall for him, much to the jealousy of her boyfriend Tommy (Sir Rex Harrison). At the prospect of involvement in an adulterous triangle, Ann recoils. But despite her resolution, the characters' love lives become ever more tangled and a real-life tragedy of Othello looms.
- Two English kids meet their friend Anoop Singh and his baby elephant Ranee. The nasty circus owner wants the elephant for his circus and the children decide that they must prevent this.
- Set during some East Anglian floods, the story revolves around how eight children trapped in a farmhouse manage to cope by themselves until rescued.
- A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.
- A bumbling teacher turns out to be the double of a German general. He is flown into Germany to impersonate the general and cause chaos and hilarity in a Hitler Youth college.
- A young boy runs away from an approved school to meet up with his father in the hope that he can persuade his dad to allow him to travel to Canada with him. He also meets up with two local children and discovers that his father is instead planning a bank heist.
- Outpatient Gary determines to get a tree for the children who will be in hospital for Christmas. He enlists the aid of brother and sister and they set out to find one.
- A group of schoolchildren come upon an alien from Venus, and help him against a gang of criminals who are trying to kidnap him.
- Young Amelia is feeling distressed and guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. She notices an angel and follows it into a dark building. Upstairs in the attic, bathed in heavenly light, is an artist's model: The Angel. The painter ascends a ladder until he is out of shot, supposedly climbing to heaven, because when he reappears he restores Amelia's joy with a pair of wings.
- A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
- A white South African is shocked on a weekly visit to her sister's farm.
- Things go terribly wrong for four youths, ejected from a London nightclub for rowdiness, after they decide to break into a Magic shop, where they tie up and terrorize the owner. They find to their cost that he deals in more than illusions...
- A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.
- A little old lady's paranoid habit of always locking her door is of not much use to her when dealing with the paranormal.
- A Martian is sentenced to visit Earth to cure a selfish man.
- David Shields decides to become a ship designer instead of following the family tradition and entering farming.
- A young lad attempts to climb Eagle Rock by himself and learns the hard way that sometimes teamwork is the best way to do things.
- A story of a soldier coming home and other typical city-dwellers, is inter-cut with documentary footage of the rebuilding of Coventry.
- On holiday in Cornwall, Sheila and Tony get trapped in an old, disused tin mine. Luckily, rascally sheepdog Rover - though considered useless by their uncle, a farmer - is on hand to go to their rescue.
- Algernon Blackwood recounts a tale of gambling and sky-writing.
- Documental account of trains, railway workers, passengers and landscapes in the winter of 1963 in the UK (The Big Freeze).
- A broad cross-section of life in Edinburgh on a typical day - the Edinburgh of the railway fireman, coal-man, student, sailor, office worker and businessman.
- 1950s summer holidays along the Lancashire coast, with a jazz accompaniment.
- A short film from the British Postal Service which reminds users of the deadline for parcels for the upcoming holidays.
- Recruiting film for nurses during the war.
- The diary of a typical non-stop working day of a wartime district nurse.
- The villain steals a poodle but is caught after a chase.
- When two school children step in to try and help their sick mother with the housework, family dog Juno is enlisted too.
- A recipe for a wartime vegetable pie.