Production
In 1914, Ernest Shackleton chooses to lead a team on their famous journey aboard the Endurance. When the ship is trapped and crushed by pack-ice, Shackleton and five of his men embark on a desperate 800-mile journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia.
John Pitman reports on the increasing popularity of naturist holidays and the changing attitudes towards them. He traces the growth of the naturist movement, from its small-time beginnings in a park in north Germany, to the multi-million-pound business it is today - especially for France and Yugoslavia.
An unhappy male takes a classroom of children and their teacher (Patsy Kensit) hostage with a set of explosives strapped to his body.
Based upon the true story that inpired the Christmas carol about a young king's care for his people.
Consenting Adults A Study of Homosexuality is a 39-minute 16mm film, edited from two 30-minutes reports made for British television. Though made in the days when being gay was synonymous with depravity and vice, it tries for sympathy and understanding as two TV reports hold lengthy interviews with a couple of the Queen's queer subjects who casually discuss their secret dark existence.
The story of how 60-year-old abstract impressionist painter Harold Shapinsky was discovered the previous year by Akumal Ramachander, an Indian professor of English.