A group of suburbanites form a syndicate to buy a racehorse.
The life of William Friese-Greene, a British cinema pioneer who died in poverty.
Jewel thieves take refuge in a Cambridge college.
A Roman commander under Nero falls in love with a Christian girl and jealous Poppaea has them thrown to the lions.
Adventures of three roistering British officers on the North-West frontier.
Nora, the play’s protagonist, leaves her husband in search of the wider world after realising that he is not the noble creature she has supposed him to be.
A fairground wall of death rider turns to crime.
A shiftless trader finds a secret Far Eastern trading port where he can be happy – but even here he becomes an outcast.
An eccentric leaves in his will a fortune for each of his relations providing they will perform certain embarrassing or criminal acts.
During World War II, a pedigree cow is rescued from the German-occupied Channel Islands.
A novelist returns from the supposed dead to find that a glamorous woman is posing as his widow and issuing best-sellers under his name.
In 1902, two Boers and a cashiered English officer set out to recover stolen diamonds.
Adventures of an East African game warden.
When a schoolteacher’s wife is found dead, the police have three suspects.
A miser reforms after ghosts haunt him on Christmas Eve.
A chorus girl is murdered and her married lover is accused.
In 1915, a gin-drinking river trader and a prim missionary make odd companions for a boat trip down a dangerous river, culminating in an attack on a German gunboat.
Rommel returns, disillusioned, to Hitler’s Germany after his North African defeat, and is involved in the July plot.
A professional killer is trapped into admitting to a murder he didn’t do.
Tribute to the late British comedian, Sid Field.
Shaw’s play in which a Victorian dialect expert bets that he can teach a lower-class girl to speak proper English and thus be taken for a lady.
A proprietress of a country inn becomes involved with smugglers.
Three generations of a family suffer from the effects of heredity.
The life of Florence Nightingale and her work in reforming the nursing service in 19th-century England.