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A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.

Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

An examination of the problems of world food distribution following World War II, outlining steps underway to deal with the problems.

A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.

Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.

In Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.

Factory worker Bill Fox (Sir Dirk Bogarde) is fired from a reliable job and becomes a successful motorbike racer, until his wife threatens to leave him unless he comes to his senses.

A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.

The story of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's 1912 expedition and his quest to be the first to reach the South Pole.

A husband and wife stop to help two men in a car crash only to find they are criminals on the run.

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?

A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....

St. Vincent de Paul struggles to bring about peace and harmony among peasants and nobles in the midst of the Black Death in Europe, carrying on his charitable work in the face of all obstacles.

A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.

American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.

The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.

One year in the life of a French peasant family, whose existence is closely tied with the changing of the seasons.

To answer the title question, eighty-two of every 100 Americans were in 1947, according to the C.E.Hooper survey (the forerunner of the Neilsens)...listening to network radio, that is. Performers, and their radio programs, such as Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Fred Allen, 'Fibber McGee and Molly'(Jim and Marian Jordan)are shown while on the air, plus network news commentators, quiz programs, soap operas and the musical programs of the day are shown and discussed. When the narrator closed this one with his usual "Time Marches On" pronouncement, most involved here were not looking at television as any threat to Radio just a few short years down the road time was marching on.

Looks at role played by coalfields in Ruhr valley in assisting industry and militarisation of Germany during both World Wars, and discusses approach taken by Allies to their reconstruction after damage caused to dams during WW2.

Slum kids set things straight by banding together to solve a crime.

Because of the bright tail, the bear becomes an easy prey for hunters. A hand-drawn fairy tale about the friendship of forest animals.

Tom Cat is a concert pianist who plays beautifully until he is interrupted by Jerry Mouse.

A ten-minute study of wild animal life in a Swedish forest; stoat, fox, hare, and owl, who stalk and savage one another, are photographed with extraordinary vividness and intimacy. It is perhaps the most striking of Sucksdorff's animal studies, in spite of an abrupt introduction and ending.