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'1837-1901. Main events during Queen Victoria's reign.' (British Film Catalogue)
An ex-convict tries to kill the detective who once posed as a member of an American hooded clan.
A group of party goers have trouble getting their boat ashore on a small island. The inhabitants of the island try to help, often with the help of an old sailor, and the results are absurd and hilarious.
The film focuses on the naval warfare around the Battle of Coronel and Battle of the Falkland Islands during the First World War. It was the last in a successful series of documentary reconstructions of First World War battles by British Instructional Films made between 1921 and 1927.
Family saga about several generations of shipbuilders. Believed to be a lost film.
An aristocratic woman, Lady Isabel, leaves her husband and children when she suspects him of adultery, a notion which had been suggested to her by the scheming and murderous Captain Levison. Life on the continent with Levison does not work out as she had envisaged so, eight years later, she returns to England and finds her husband has remarried. She cannot bear to be away from her family and so dons a disguise, gaining employment with them as a governess. When her young son, Willie, dies she is unable to comfort him as she would like, and she too dies.
Sherlock Holmes solves a murder rooted in the Mormon trek of 1850.
A man trailing burglars is saved by a dog in this British short film.
