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Ambitious 11-part docudrama of the life, teaching, and work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. This series was produced by East-German television. The series shows important points in the life and political development of these immense figures, from Marx's birth in 1818 until Engel's death in 1895.
Eugène de Rastignac comes to Paris and finds lodging in the same boarding house as a former pasta maker, Père Goriot. While the other lodgers abuse Goriot, Eugène is sympathetic to the meek and mild Goriot.
The series follows Yu Rim, a Korean expatriate in the United Kingdom working as a journalist, who is ordered by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea to proceed to Seoul and gather intelligence on the United States Forces Korea.
In 1951 Milly Purdoe, wife of a member of a British mission, arrives with her family to live for the first time in a country behind the Iron Curtain.
Captain Wolcott is a widower with seven children. He marries again and his new wife takes on all the trials of bringing up seven spirited children. They have many adventures, especially one daughter Helen, commonly known as Judy.
Six-episode series of filmed adaptations of fiction by nine American authors, from Ambrose Bierce to John Updike. The stories deal with recurring themes in life. Produced by Learning in Focus.
A man must marry his adoptive sister to claim his inheritance, only to discover she has grown into a completely different person than he remembers.
Story about everyone being in the same boat, irrespective of life’s circumstances.
England attacked south of Iran on the pretext of the siege, by Ahmed Ristini, the Syrian, and, with the exception of the titular, the strong prince of the lye, in defence of Persia and the British are cut down to defend the people of England, who attack from land and water to the south, Ali de la Chevreuse, and who robbed the poor and the poor.
Four plays about the four daughters of a comfortable middle-class household in Hampshire.
Adapted from the novel Wuthering Heights
The Runaway Barge is the pilot for an unsold TV series. Bo Hopkins, Tim Matheson and Jim Davis star as three owners of a Mississippi river tugboat who find themselves neck deep in a kidnapping and hijacking plot.
Nakamura Umenosuke plays Denshichi of Kuromon-cho, Edo's most trusted courtier. Denshichi of Kuromon-cho is the most trusted official in Edo, who has received "Shibo no Jute" from Kita-machi Magistrate Saemon Lieutenant Toyama. This is an orthodox, yet catchy story that makes the most of Umenosuke's personality and weaves in the humanity of the common people of Edo. The two-finger hand clasp after the case is solved and Denshichi's call of "Congratulations" became the talk of the town.
Long Voyage Out of War is a critically acclaimed 1971 British television trilogy created by writer Ian Curteis. Directed by Robert Knights, this BBC dramatisation follows the intertwined stories of merchant seamen and their families during the turbulent early years of World War II
The old Lord Adam Weir of the Hermiston estate on the Scots borders is a gruff, boozy, hanging judge - the terror of Edinburgh law courts. His wife is a tremulous and pious Christian. Weir spends his time putting his wife down, even in the company of her only son, Archie. His mother dead of depression and stress, Archie grow to hate his father, but then goes into law studies, though his more modern and tolerant values clash with those of his father. Attending the hanging of yet another of his father's victims, Archie can no longer stand it and denounces his father publicly. As punishment he is rusticated to manage the family estate, Hermiston.
The daily existence of Tushi shepherds based on documented material, is poetically interpreted in the film and shows the moral harmony, spiritual purity, and fortitude of the characters of the film. The characters, with the exception of the main character, are local residents.
Adventure Family: Here is Planet 0 is a 1977 family tokusatsu produced by Toei.
A historical play in three parts. In 1176, Sverre Sigurdsson arrives from the Faroe Islands and becomes leader of the Birkebeiner. The series shows how he became king of Norway.
