Eddy, Tom, Soap og Bacon er fire engelske arbejdere med hver deres fidus. I et spil kort bliver Eddy snydt af storgangsteren "Hatchet Harry" og kommer ud i en gæld på £500.000. Én uge får Eddy til at skaffe pengene, ellers mister han og vennerne en finger hver dag. Heldigvis er naboen i gang med et større kup. De fire venner får en idé. Ved et tilfælde kommer de i besiddelse af to gamle, slidte geværer. Snart er kliken klar til at tage kampen op med Hatchet Harry på deres helt egen facon.
High school-enspænderen Bird Fitcher har ingen idé om, hvilke mørke hemmeligheder der gemmer sig bag det antikke polaroidkamera, hun falder over. Der går dog ikke lang tid, før hun opdager, at dem, der bliver fanget på et billede, går en tragisk slutning i møde.
Computerspilsdesigner Scott, er borgerkrigsfan, og køber et antikt skrivebord fra den æra. Mens han pudser det, opdager han et hemmeligt rum med et usendt brev, skrevet for 100 års siden af en ung digter ved navn Lizzie.
Berørt af hendes længsel efter lidenskab, skriver han et svar til hende. På magisk vis når hans brev Lizzie, og de begynder en korrespondance.
Farerne ved Lizzies krigshærgede situation, der strækker sig over borgerkrigen til i dag, truer hendes sikre passage ind i fremtiden. Vil deres kærlighed udholde tidens prøve?
Steffen Vogt, aged around 25, is helping out at a German archeological excavation in Israel when he finds a 2,000-year-old skeleton holding the instructions for a video camera dating from the year 2003. The bones also show traces of the present day. His theory of a time-traveler who made a video of Jesus is laughed at by everyone, however, including Sharon, an attractive Israeli woman he adores. Although no one appears to believe him, his find certainly seems to have generated interest: Steffen is attacked shortly afterwards in his hotel room by strange men; then he discovers that the German embassy and the secret service are after him; and when his friend Dan is murdered, he goes into hiding.
Cynthia og Mary møder op for at hente Cynthia's arv efter hendes afdøde bedstefar. Men, det eneste hun arver er et antikt sværd, som hendes bedstefar var overbevist om beviste at Sydstaterne vandt den amerikanske borgerkrig.
A priceless tablet of Gilgamesh, the oldest and most important work of literature is stolen from a museum. A security guard vows to do whatever it takes to get it back from a group of smugglers. Along the way, he faces his own inner demons.
A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by a spirit in an antique mirror. The man's fiance discovers that the mirror is able to bring back her former boyfriend, who had been killed in a car accident, from the dead.
Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old men and women they begin the set-up, but then Nick falls for the owner of a neighboring antique store and things get a little complicated.
It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine, dine and see the sights though out the city. He wishes to marry, but his family is against plain Jennifer. When she tries to leave, he catches her at the train station and they are married. To be self sufficient, they modernize the family farm with tractors and increase production, but then Germany starts the war.
Stephen Smith explores the extraordinary life and work of the virtuoso jeweller Carl Faberge. He talks to HRH Prince Michael of Kent about Faberge items in the Royal Collection and to Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, who spent $100 million acquiring nine exquisite Faberge eggs. The bejewelled trinkets Faberge made for the last tsars of Russia in the twilight of their rule have become some of the most sought-after treasures in the world, sometimes worth millions. Smith follows in Faberge's footsteps, from the legendary Green Vaults in Dresden to the palaces of the tsars and the corridors of the Kremlin museum, as he discovers how this fin de siecle genius transformed his father's modest business into the world's most famous supplier of luxury items.
5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three millennia. They created marvelous works in architecture and craftsmanship. These works of art depict the lifestyle, thoughts, and beliefs of the Elamites.
Sandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had met Sandy and fallen for her during the voyage, suspects something odd about the cabinet. His suspicions are confirmed when people who have touched the cabinet mysteriously die. Jim and Sandy set out to solve the mystery before anyone else can become a victim.
Oscar Winning documentary short about antique mechanical toys.