A Segunda Guerra Mundial acabou, mas o marido de Grace não voltou. Sozinha num enorme casarão vitoriano, numa ilha isolada, educa os seus filhos segundo rígidas normas religiosas. Como as crianças têm uma estranha doença e não podem ser expostas directamente à luz do dia, também os criados têm de se submeter a várias regras vitais. A casa está sempre na penumbra e nunca se pode abrir uma porta sem fechar a anterior. Quando os criados desaparecem sem qualquer explicação e são contratados novos empregados, várias situações bizarras começam a acontecer...
Juliet Ashton (Lily James) é uma jovem escritora, com falta de inspiração, que logo após a Segunda Guerra Mundial recebe uma carta de um membro da misteriosa Sociedade Literária de Guernsey, uma organização formada durante o período de ocupação nazi. Curiosa, Juliet decide ir até às ilhas de Guernsey e encontra-se com os excêntricos membros da Sociedade Literária da Tarte de Casca de Batata, entre os quais se encontra Dawsey (Michiel Huisman), o charmoso e intrigante agricultor que esteve na origem da carta. As suas confidências, a sua ligação à ilha e aos seus habitantes e a crescente afeição que nutre por Dawsey irão para sempre mudar o curso da vida de Juliet.
É a história do amor obsessivo e não correspondido que a jovem Adèle Hugo, filha do grande escritor francês Victor Hugo, nutriu por um oficial inglês, o tenente Pinson.
O sucesso e a fama de Julia Lambert cresce a olhos vistos, transformando-a na mais conceituada actriz dos palcos ingleses. Porém, a vida pessoal da diva é muito mais complicada: presa a um casamento de circunstância e sem amor, ela encontra o amor nos braços de diversos amantes até se apaixonar pelo americano Tom. Todavia, tudo acaba quando ela descobre que ele a estava a enganar para facilitar a ascensão da sua verdadeira paixão, a actriz rival Avice Crichton, que também se tornara, entretanto, amante do marido de Julia. Sem ceder à humilhação, ela decide então usar o palco para se vingar.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.