Nadat haar echtgenoot na de Tweede Wereldoorlog niet terugkeerde van het front, woont Grace in een afgesloten landhuis samen met haar zoon en dochter. De twee kinderen zijn overgevoelig voor zonlicht en ze leven volgens strikte regels: de gordijnen moeten gesloten blijven en er mag geen deur geopend worden voordat de vorige gesloten is. Als het vaste personeel van de ene op de andere dag verdwijnt en Grace drie nieuwe bediendes aanneemt, beginnen er onverklaarbare dingen te gebeuren. Ze ontdekt dat de werelden van de levenden en de doden in hun huis door elkaar heen lopen, maar de hele waarheid is nog veel huiveringwekkender dan dat.
In de nasleep van de Tweede Wereldoorlog besluit de vrijgevochten journaliste Juliet Ashton een boek te schrijven over de Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, een boekenclub die tijdens de oorlog werd opgericht op het Kanaaleiland Guernsey. De band die Juliet krijgt met de leden van de excentrieke club verandert haar leven.
Adèle Hugo, daughter of renowned French writer Victor Hugo, falls in love with British soldier Albert Pinson while living in exile off the coast of England. Though he spurns her affections, she follows him to Nova Scotia and takes on the alias of Adèle Lewly. Albert continues to reject her, but she remains obsessive in her quest to win him over.
De Britse actrice Julia Lambert is al jaren getrouwd met haar impresario. Niemand merkt op dat ze zich grote zorgen maakt over haar tanende uiterlijk en haar losbandige echtgenoot. Wanneer ze kennis maakt met Tom Fennell, begint ze een hartstochtelijke affaire met hem.
Mr. Pye is a missionary whose mission to spread God's love on the tiny English Channel island of Sark faces supernatural setbacks in this comic fantasy from the author of Gormenghast.
A film about the island of Jersey in the 1960s
As soon as Hitler's forces occupied the Channel Islands in 1940 he ordered a series of fortifications to defend the only British territory he ever conquered. The problem was he never stopped - pouring men, concrete and weapons into the islands. By 1944 his officers talked of the Fuehrer's inselwahn - his 'island madness' and the Channel Islands had become the most fortified place on earth.
In 1940 the Channel Islands became the only part of Britain to fall under Nazi rule. Now in this film Islanders speak from the heart about one of the most extraordinary periods in our history. Reliving in their own words the horror of the first air raids, the shock of occupation and the islands' gradual five year long decent into privation and starvation before experiencing the capitulation of the German forces and the joy of liberation.
The Channel Islands have had a varied and exciting history. Jersey and Guernsey are ideal places for holidays. Jersey offers a wide variety of attractive bays for sport and relaxation; Guernsey still preserves something of an eighteenth-century atmosphere, and is a place for quieter enjoyment. It is an ideal centre for exploring the other smaller islands, and the film ends with a journey by boat to Herm.
During World War 2 the Channels Islands were occupied by German forces, and only saved from starvation through the intervention of the Red Cross, who sent supplies on the SS Vega.
Short documentary giving a brief insight into the life of popular Guernsey politician John Gollop who lives with Asperger's syndrome. Filmed during 2009 in Guernsey and Alderney in the Channel Islands.
In 1940, carried on a wave of rumour and panic, thirty thousand Channel Islanders fled their homes, their livelihoods and the islands for five long years in exile. Arriving in England with just one small case and only twenty pounds in cash, they were sent by rail across the country from Oldham to Glasgow. Children separated from parents, all cast adrift in an alien culture. Homeless and jobless, the adventures that befell them helped forge friendships the length and breadth of Great Britain which survive to this day. This is their story.
In 1941 Hitler deported over 2000 British men, women and children from the Channel Islands to the heart of Nazi Germany. It was a terrifying journey into the unknown and some killed themselves rather than go. Others had just hours to pack one bag, destroy their pets and leave. However, the initial horror of the camps and the struggle to survive in the primitive conditions was replaced with a determination not just to survive, but to thrive, as Hitler's crime created one of the most bizarre episodes of the war.