Valentine, en ung modell och student, möter en äldre pensionerad domare, av ren tillfällighet när hon kör på hans hund med sin bil. När hon kommer på att han avlyssnar sina grannars telefonsamtal börjar han berätta sitt livs historia, och hennes avsky vänds till fascination och medlidande. Hennes möte med den ensamme domaren som gått vilse i livets labyrint gör att båda kommer till insikt om ett av fundamenten i vårt sociala liv; engagemanget för vår nästa, den sanna innebörden i ordet broderskap.
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is an English agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt finds this out, he returns to France to rescue the woman who's true purpose has been discovered by the French.
The story of the record-making swimmer's successful 1926 crossing of the English Channel, offering insight into the significance of her accomplishment, the personal price she paid for her achievement, and her abrupt subsequent departure from the public eye.
Comical adventures of two pairs of friends during their stay in Deauville, Normandy.
The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English Channel. Sponsored by "Liquapep" and coached by Windy, the family arrive in Europe. There it is decided that daughter Katie is the only one strong enough to enter the contest. But while she should be focused on the difficult and risky task ahead, Katie is pursed by dashing Frenchman, André Lanet... This comedic musical is well remembered for the scene when Katie dreams she is swimming with cartoon characters Tom & Jerry!
Vad gör man om man får sparken från det arbete som man varit trogen i 40 år? Man syr ihop en desperat plan, som kan ge meningen och självtilliten tillbaka. Det gör 55-åriga Frank (Peter Mullan), som börjar ladda för att simma över den 35 kilometer långa Engelska Kanalen - en nästan omöjlig uppgift. Men med goda kamrater i ryggen kan man göra allt! Nästan i alla fall... "Anything is possible" är en typisk brittisk feel good-film i samma anda som "Allt eller inget" och "Billy Elliott". En film om att tackla vardagens små och stora problem med humöret i behåll, fylld till bredden med goda skratt och briljanta skådespelare - med den där speciella brittiska glimten i ögat.
A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.
Intrigue and smuggling in the English Channel.
Julius and Pete have a contest to swim across the English Channel, with Alice as the referee.
The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but what did it take to build the longest undersea tunnel ever constructed? We hear from the men and women, who built this engineering marvel. Massive tunnel boring machines gnawed their way through rock and chalk, digging not one tunnel but three; two rail tunnels and a service tunnel. This was a project that would be privately financed; not a penny of public money would be spent on the tunnel. Business would have to put up all the money and take all the risks. This was also a project that was blighted by flood, fire, tragic loss of life and financial bust ups. Today, it stands as an engineering triumph and a testament to what can be achieved when two nations, Britain and France put aside their historic differences and work together.
An epidemic of appliance madness unrelated to discount sales strikes an island off the coast of France: the islanders are being murderously attacked by ovens and refrigerators acquired in the same department store. Enter the young Dr. Gabrielle Martin (Anny Duperey), who arrives here to escape her own personal tragedy and instead lands in the middle of the kitchen mania. She tracks down the cause of the rapidly spreading epidemic to another doctor on the island — quite as insane as any of the kitchen appliances (if the comparison could be made) — and finds that the villainous doctor and the appliances have a most unusual link. Graphic scenes of mutilation by an oven, as one example, leave nothing much to the imagination in this film, but the interpretations of actors Anny Duperey and Jean-Claude Brialy as the good and evil doctors are excellent.
A Macedonian girl is trying to swim the British Channel. During the ordeal, she remembers her troubled past.
The "Herzogin Cecilie" flew before the wind; she was considered the fastest windjammer of her day. Launched by Rickmers boatyard in 1902, the four-masted training barquentine carried saltpeter from Chile and wheat from Australia to Europe. She won the "great grain race" between Down Under and Europe a total of eight times for her Finnish owner Gustaf Erikson. In 1936, she completed the voyage between Wallaroo in South Australia and the English port of Falmouth in just 86 days. But she was never to make it back to her home port. Leaving Falmouth in rough seas and a dense fog, she ran into cliffs and started taking on water. The barque's last trip was also the honeymoon of captain Sven Erikson and his new bride, journalist and writer Pamela Bourne. Under the watchful eye of the international press, they undertook incredible efforts to save the ship.
Nikki is no professional athlete. Still, she swims the English channel to raise money for a good cause.