drama

Presents three episodes of Granada Television's The adventures of Sherlock Holmes series, in which Holmes, assisted by Dr. Watson, solves crimes in 19th-century England.

Sherlock Holmes investigates the death of Charles Baskerville and rumors of a hound that haunts the moors around the family's ancestral home. Includes special features.

Each step in Macbeth's bloody ascent to the throne of Scotland brings him closer to his doom.

A stuffy professor of phonetics takes a bet that in six months time he can turn a Cockney flower seller into a lady he could pass off as a duchess.

A fact-based drama about a woman accused of witchcraft in 1692 Salem who survives imprisonment and ten years later attempts to establish both her innocence and that of her two sisters who had been hanged as witches.

Mortimer Brewster is appalled when he learns that his charming little old aunts have been poisoning their elderly gentlemen boarders in what they believe is an act of kindness, and burying them in the cellar with the help of another nephew who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt.

Upon the death of his father, Nicholas Nickleby, a young gentleman in nineteenth-century England, must overcome great obstacles to achieve happiness for himself and his family.

Spartacus, a slave trained as a gladiator, leads a slave revolt against the Roman Republic. Political figures in Rome plot to aid or hinder him for their own purposes.

Gods and generals (219 min.): "... reveals the spirited allegiances and fierce combat of earlier Civil War struggles, framing its tale with the fateful clashes of Bull Run, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville."--Container.

A moviemaking expedition to a fantastic island is filled with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. A gaint simian becomes lovestruck with the film's blonde starlet. King Kong is captured and is brought to Manhattan, where he goes on a rampage, culminating in the fateful finale atop the Empire State Building where he cradles his beloved and swats at machine-gunning airplanes.