Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.

Kina, 1926. Jake Holman bliver tildelt posten som maskiningeniør på en amerikansk kanonbåd, der patruljerer på Yangtze-floden. Jake blander sig ikke i politik og har ikke nogen mening om amerikanernes tilstedeværelse i det uroplagede land.

Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.

Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman. She soon learns that May-December romances with older women are frowned upon in society.

Mankind attains longevity through gene manipulation, but finds itself on the road to extinction when the species loses the ability to reproduce. Their clones who rebelled 1,600 years ago are now known as Marigans and rule the bottomless underworld. Some of them seem to have become fertile and the government takes this as a ray of hope and decides to send civilians in to carry out an ecological study. Selected for the mission, Parton sets off on an adventure through a subterranean labyrinth crawling with monsters in order to secure humanity’s future.

Unge Jim Hawkins bliver givet et skattekort af en gammel pirat, og rejser med det gode skib Hispaniola ud for at finde Kaptajn Flint's begravede skat. Hvad ingen ved er at besætningen er Flint's gamle mænd, og kokken Long John Silver er deres leder, og de mener at skatten er retmæssigt deres og de skyr ingen midler for at få fingrene i den.

When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.

Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cass and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.

As young dancers, they were best friends and fierce rivals. Deedee left the stage for marriage and motherhood, while Emma would become an international ballet icon. But when Deedee's teenage daughter is invited to join Emma's dance company and begins an affair with a young Russian star, the two women are forced to confront the choices they've made, the resentments they've hidden and the emotional truths they must face at the turning point.

At the dawn of history, the ancient Egyptians showed the world how to build the impossible... In an age before machines, when copper was the strongest metal yet discovered, great pharaohs like Khufu and Ramses II demonstrated how boundless ambition and vast quantities of human labour could transform rock and stone into some of the most incredible monuments ever created from carving out spectacular tombs in the Valley Of The Kings to the building of the iconic Great Pyramid. In this fascinating documentary special we uncover the secrets of Ancient Egypt Pharaoh, engineers and architects and bring to life great buildings and the ancient Egyptians saw them - towering over their great civilisation in the history of Africa, and perhaps the World....

Mens Spanien giver afkald på sine sidste kolonier, involveres en kamptræt forpost i en lang, brutal og indimellem bizar kamp med filippinske oprørere.

På samme dag på det berlinske Grand Hotel, attrår juveltyven baron Felix von Geigern både ballerinaen Grusinskayas juveler og den smukke Flaemmchen, elskerinde for Preysing, chefen for den uhelbredeligt syge Otto Kringelein. Blot 24 timer vil forandre disse menneskers liv for evigt i denne Hollywood-klassiker.

James McKay ankommer til det vilde vesten fra østkysten for at gifte sig med Henry Terrils forkælede datter, Pat. Henry ligger i bitter strid om vand med sin nabo Rufus. McKay kan ikke undgå at tage stilling i striden, men hans måde at løse konflikter på falder ikke i god jord hos hverken Henry, forvalteren Steve eller Pat. Kun Pats veninde, Julia, forstår, at McKays manglende lyst til nævekamp ikke nødvendigvis betyder, at han er en kujon.

A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.

Engang var Calvero en stor varietéstjerne, en komiker af guds nåde og førende indenfor sit felt. I dag er han en skygge af sig selv; alkoholiseret og glemt af sit engang så store publikum. Tiden er 1914, stedet er London. Calvero lugter gas fra en nabolejlighed og bryder døren op. Indenfor finder han en ung kvinde, der har forsøgt at begå selvmord. Den unge kvinde, Thereza, viser sig at være en ung ballerina, der har mistet troen på livet. I stedet for at melde det til politiet og dermed udsætte hende for et retsligt efterspil, vælger Calvero at tage sig af Thereza og få hende bragt til hægterne. Samtidig finder også han en ny mening med tilværelsen og den show-business, han for så længe siden havde mistet troen på.

A wealthy and sheltered young woman elopes with a charming playboy and soon learns of his bad traits, including his extreme dishonesty and lust for money. Gradually, she begins to suspect that he intends to kill her to collect her life insurance.

Paris, 1942. Midt om natten går det franske politi fra hus til hus for at anholde jøder. Også tiårige Sarah og hendes forældre anholdes, men forinden lykkes det Sarah at skjule sin lillebror i et skab. 67 år senere kommer journalisten Julia på sporet af Sarahs historie. Hendes research afslører en række hemmeligheder, der forbinder hende selv til Sarah.

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.

Da en fremmed uden navn rider ind i den lille mineby, er han svaret på borgernes bønner. De behøver en professionel til at forsvare sig mod tre banditter, som er på vej fra fængslet tilbage til byen for at få hævn.

Gelsominas fattige mor sælger hende til den brutale og dominerende gøgler og stærkmand, Zampanò. Hun skal arbejde for ham som klovn, og de slår sig sammen med et omrejsende cirkus, hvor Zampanò møder sin gamle rival, klovnen Matto, og et trekantsdrama udvikler sig. Gelsomina og Matto udvikler følelser for hinanden, og han foreslår at de stikker af sammen, men det nægter Gelsomina. Som et trofast kæledyr vil hun ikke forlade Zampanòs side. Til sidst eksploderer Zampanòs voldsomme temperament en gang for meget, hvilket får tragiske konsekvenser. Giulietta Masina var gift med Federico Fellini, og her instruerer han hende som Gelsomina i La Strada, filmen der gav dem begge international berømmelse. Den anerkendte, italienske filmskaber, Federico Fellini, trak på sine egne erfaringer fra sin cirkusbaggrund i denne klassiker fra 1954. Fellini har siden stået bag beundrede værker som La Dolce Vita og 8½.