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A loose adaptation and parody of the Lewis Carroll tale by Hanna-Barbera Productions. A modern-day teenager doing a book report on Alice is accidentally sucked into her television set and ends up in a wacky version of Wonderland.
A student who missed his final exam because of illness arrives at his professor's house to beg to be allowed to take it.
An estate agent arranges to meet a couple for a viewing at a flat.
Tycoon husband Harry Fender, who has built up the supermarket business from the time he was a delivery boy in his teens - is now over forty and obsessed with developing the exotic plants in his hothouse.
Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.
In Collecting Courage, the second of six parts of his drama cycle Dialogues, screenwriter Ivo Stivicic dealt with the relationship of a young, unambitious and timid factory worker to the people around him, from girlfriends and work colleagues to hooligans from the cafe environment.
Strange things are happening in the evening at the mansion: glass things break without any apparent reason. Professor Calculus, somewhat apathetic to the whole series of events, leaves the following day to attend a conference on nuclear physics in Geneva. Foreign powers get wind of his work and send their agents to investigate.
This promotional film was aired on American television on 26 November 1965, one month before the release of Thunderball (1965). Narrated by Alexander Scourby, the 48 minute documentary aired as a one hour special. It included footage of the filming at Silverstone Racetrack, Northamptonshire and of the fight aboard the Disco Volante at Pinewood Studios; media coverage of Martine Beswick, Luciana Paluzzi and Claudine Auger; and archive footage of Ian Fleming at 'Goldeneye', Jamaica.
A television dramatization based on the life and work of Florence Nightingale. The story, set in 1856, relates the incidents in her life following the war in the Crimea, where she had gained such fame that her name was virtually a household word.
The woman Winnie sinks deeper and deeper into a large pile of manure while talking to her husband and spouting an endless stream of trivialities. This is the simple plot of Samuel Beckett's world-famous classic of the theater of the absurd.
Eliot Ness and his team work to prevent the attempted assassination of President Elect FDR in Miami Beach in 1933.
Based on the short story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.
A story about CHeKa operation against a foreign spies during the early years of Soviet Russia.
Announcer Aza Likhitchenko interviews the heroes of this season's premiere performances.
During the Battle of the Bulge, word goes out to watch for German soldiers dressed as GIs. That's when black sergeant Chris Christiansen begins wondering if the GI who befriended him is really a friend--or the enemy.
Attorney Michael Cannon leaves his Boston law firm to become director of the Neighborhood Law Office, where he guides three law students on a case involving two visiting musicians accused of robbing and beating up a cab driver. TV-pilot that was an ABC Movie of the Week in October of 1969 and then became a TV-series as part of the 1970-71 season.
TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession of the famed repeating rifle.
Stella escapes an unhappy relationship to live in a bedsit. She meets another man which forces her to make decisions about her life.
In the fictional Black Forest village of Sankt Christoph, everyone in town shuns Bärbele. According to the gossips, her father is said to have set fire to the “Blauer Ochse” years ago. Dressed in the most beautiful traditional costume, she wants to attend the dance festival on St. Cecilia’s Day. The venerable, no-longer-young cathedral music director Blasius Römer, who secretly loves Bärbele—who helps out as a housekeeper for her aunt at his home—lends her the showpiece of his collection.
Hopelessly in love, young aristocrat Octave seeks the help of a magician to exchange bodies with his beloved's husband. But his inability to speak her native language soon estranges him from 'his' wife, while the real husband, stuck in Octave's body, is out for revenge. Based on a story by Théophile Gautier.
TV Movie based on Private Hargrove
Moneypenny and Q discuss the rumors that James Bond is getting married. Promotional clip show to coincide with the release of the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice (1967) featuring clips from the earlier 007 movies.
Goofy wants to go out to play golf, but his wife keeps him busy with the spring cleaning, much to his chagrin. As he toils, Peter Pan Goofy, the Spirit of Imagination, appears and continuously gets Goofy to daydream about a more adventurous life to make his labors more fun, all set to footage of some of his cartoons
About a friendly class and their new teacher, Dina Borisovna, who breaks the rules of teaching, making it much more interesting for the children to learn...
A TV film about how the hard days of the siege of Leningrad united the residents of a communal apartment. 1941. Teenager Petya is taken in by a neighboring family after the death of his mother. The boy goes to work at the factory, and when his younger brother Vovka is found, Petya strives to replace his father.
Tommy Kirk leads his fellow Martians to Earth on an interplanetary quest for females. Kirk proves that Martians have impeccable taste when one of his first conquests turns out to be sexy scientist Yvonne Craig.
Jack Manningham tries to drive his wife Bella out of her mind with cunning heartlessness. He hides things he previously gave her for safekeeping, makes household items disappear only to find them in the most unlikely places, and puts words in Bella's mouth that she never said. All to convince her that, like her deceased mother, she is suffering from a split consciousness and delusions of persecution.Jack Manningham has his reasons. He doesn't want Bella to realize that he returns via mysterious paths over the rooftops to spend hours searching for treasure in the carefully locked upper floor. Fate has linked Jack to the old house since the day he committed a murder in it. The gas light, whose glow diminishes when a lamp is lit in the house and brightens when it is extinguished, puts Bella on the trail of the strange connections for the first time.
A woman seeks shelter from the rain in a park conservatory but is forced into conversation with a man who wants to know what else she is sheltering from.
In the second "Ironside" movie, the Chief has his spine jolted during a hospital encounter with a narcotics pusher, not only raising the possibility for an operation that might cure his paralysis but also putting him in jeopardy because he can identify the man who had just shot a guard.
Based on the dramatic poem of the same name by Henrik Ibsen. Music by Edvard Grieg. The poem takes place in the first half of the 19th century and is set in Norway, on the Moroccan coast of the Mediterranean, in the Sahara Desert, and in a madhouse in Cairo. The main character is Peer Gynt, the son of Jon Gynt, who was once wealthy and respected, but later became an alcoholic and lost all his money.
The story of the Churchills in the court of Queen Anne.
The impetuous Queen Marguerite of Burgundy and her two sisters, Jeanne and Blanche, indulge in sumptuous orgies at night in the chambers of the Tour de Nesle. At dawn, their partners are murdered by men. Blackmail, murder, and intrigue lend a frenetic pace to this adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's eponymous novel.
An adopted child's world falls apart when his mother decides to walk out on her marriage.
The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Colosseum.
Set in 1860s Holland along the famed Zeider Zee — young Hans Brinker finds himself responsible for supporting his family after his father becomes injured in an accident. He and his sister, Gretel, travel to Amsterdam in search of funds to help pay for their father's operation. Their only hope lies in the city's annual ice skating race in which Hans must face off against his arch-rival, Ludwig Schimmel, in hopes of winning the prize money.
White abolitionist John Brown and twenty of his men attempt to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Based on true events.
On the shores of Aulis, the Greeks prepare to attack Troy. But their ships are unable to set sail because the gods are holding back the winds necessary for departure. Agamemnon consults the oracle. The solution is tragic. To appease the goddess Artemis, whom he had offended, he must sacrifice his own daughter.
Dutch television adaptation of the English theatre musical 'Love from Judy' by Eric Maschwitz and Hugh Martin, based on the novel 'Daddy-Long-Legs' by Jean Webster. Jerusha Abbott, a girl growing up in the orphanage, is called to the headmistress where she hears that one of the orphanage's wealthiest regents has taken notice of her fate and wants her to study to be a writer. One condition is that Jerusha has to write him a short letter once a month, stating what progress she is making.
A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union leader responsible but finds he isn't the only one after his money.
On March 7, 1967, 40 million Americans tuned in to watch CBS Reports: The Homosexuals, network television’s first documentary on homosexuality. Near the top of the program, host and interviewer Mike Wallace calls homosexuals “the most despised minority in the United States.” The hour that follows is filled with salacious location footage, sermonizing therapists, and shadowed interviews with distraught homosexuals.
Elizabeth Cane arrives in Mexico and starts to take an interest in a bull fighter, but he can find only contempt for this refined American woman and what she represents.
Based on the play by Mikhail Bulgakov about the last days of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin's life.
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.
An aged, wealthy trader plots with his servant to recreate a maritime tall tale, using a local woman and an unknown sailor as actors.
Hamilton Cade is an alcoholic teacher striving to put his life back together. He accepts a job tutoring an "exceptional child" only to find that young Freddie is mentally retarded. A black man who works for Freddie's father also becomes interested in teaching the child and becomes a second role model for him.
About how faith in a person makes them more courageous, determined, and talented.
In 1968 Harry Belafonte and Petula Clark sang together her song On the Path Of Glory for this special on NBC. Not such a remarkable event in itself, but Petula touched Harry's forearm during the duet and made TV history. It was the first time a white woman had touched a black man on US television. The sponsor insisted the touch be cut from the programme, the programme makers refused. In the decade’s “year of revolt”, Clark found herself at the centre of a media controversy involving race, censorship and endemic bigotry in a newly desegregated yet depressingly divided US.
A delightful retelling of the classic fairytale by Hanna-Barbera, using live action and animation.
In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carried, according to Herzen, “something terrifying”, “he could not name it otherwise; not the revisionists - dead souls, but all these Nozdryovs. Manilovs and all those like them are dead souls, and we meet them at every step..."
Faversham's Arden, the first tragedy to be about ordinary people, is both a realistic, social painting of 16th-century England and a psychological portrait. Alice and her lover Mosbie, with whom she has a complex and passionate relationship, decide to murder her husband Thomas Arden, but their plan repeatedly fails.
An historical film that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king that united all ancient Greek tribes and led them against the vast Persian Empire. Alexander conquered most of the then-known world and created a Greek empire that spanned all the way from the Balkans to India.
Called to court on obscenity charges, a theatre troupe are forced to expose their neuroses and inner psychological torments.
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
