8.1

Great Expectations

1945, UK

• Actors: John Mills, Tony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles, Francis L. Sullivan, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness, Ivor Barnard, Freda Jackson, Eileen Erskine, George Hayes, Hay Petrie, John Forrest, Torin Thatcher, O.B. Clarence, John Burch, Richard George, Grace Denbigh Russell, Everley Gregg, Anne Holland, Frank Atkinson, Gordon Begg, Edie Martin, Walford Hyden, Roy Arthur, Howard Lang, Ernie Pratt
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): David Lean
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys under -probably unnecessary- threat of a horrible death to bring the criminals food he must steal at peril of more caning from the battle-ax. Just when Pip fears to get it really good while they have guests, a soldier comes for Joe who takes Pip along as assistant to work on the chains of escaped galley-convicts, who are soon caught. The better-natured one takes the blame for the stolen food. Later Pip is invited to became the playmate of Estelle, the equally arrogant adoptive daughter of gloomy, filthy rich Miss Havisham at her estate, who actually has 'permission' to break the kind kid's heart; being the only pretty girl he ever saw, she wins his heart forever, even after a mysterious benefactor pays trough a lawyer for his education and a rich allowance, so he can become a snob in London, by now 'ashamed' of simple Joe. Only after years in idle wealth, Pip learns Havisham is not his benefactor as he assumed, and both her story and those of his real sponsor and Estelle...

  7.7

Mrs. Miniver

1942, USA

• Actors: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Henry Travers, Richard Ney, Henry Wilcoxon, Christopher Severn, Brenda Forbes, Clare Sandars, Marie De Becker, Helmut Dantine, John Abbott, Connie Leon, Rhys Williams, Harry Allen, Frank Atkinson, Sybil Bacon, Frank Baker, Virginia Bassett, Louise Bates, Guy Bellis, Charles Bennett, Florence Benson, Art Berry Sr., Billy Bevan, Ted Billings, John Burton, Gene Byram
• Genre: Drama, Romance, War
• Director(s): William Wyler
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The Minivers, an English "middle-class" family experience life in the first months of World War II. While dodging bombs, the Miniver's son courts Lady Beldon's granddaughter. A rose is named after Mrs. Miniver and entered in the competition against Lady Beldon's rose.

  6.8

Where's That Fire?

1940, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Peter Gawthorne, Eric Clavering, Hugh McDermott, Charles Hawtrey, Dave O'Toole, Frank Atkinson, George Carney, Wilson Coleman, David Keir, Sebastian Smith, Charles Victor
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Marcel Varnel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A hapless fire crew are given the ultimatum: put out a fire successfully or else be sacked. They fail miserably, and their ancient fire engine is stolen by criminals attempting to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London.

  7.4

Oh, Mr. Porter!

1937, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Sebastian Smith, Agnes Lauchlan, Percy Walsh, Dennis Wyndham, Dave O'Toole, Frank Atkinson, Bryan Herbert, Betty Jardine, Frederick Lloyd, Frederick Piper, Charles Rolfe, Beatrice Varley
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Marcel Varnel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Through the influence of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster the sleepy Irish station of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang of gun runners.

  6.4

Cavalcade

1933, USA

• Actors: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Beryl Mercer, Irene Browne, Tempe Pigott, Merle Tottenham, Frank Lawton, Ursula Jeans, Margaret Lindsay, John Warburton, Billy Bevan, Desmond Roberts, Dickie Henderson, Douglas Scott, Sheila MacGill, Bonita Granville, Harry Allen, Frank Atkinson, Lionel Belmore, Ted Billings, Adele Crane, Howard Davies, Mary Forbes, Betty Grable, Dannie Mac Grant, Lawrence Grant, Stuart Hall, Winter Hall
• Genre: Drama, Romance, War
• Director(s): Frank Lloyd
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic and the Great War.