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- Scenes of the elimination trials on the Isle of Man for the Gordon-Bennett Cup Race.
- Pete Quilliam, a fisherman on the Isle of Man, and his best friend, a lawyer named Philip Christian, are each in love with Kate Cregeen, an innkeeper's daughter. Pete is rejected by the girl's father and leaves for South Africa to seek his fortune. When Pete is reported dead, Kate is saddened yet relieved, for she really loves Philip. But Pete returns with enough wealth to overcome the father's objections. Obedient to her father, Kate weds Pete, hoping for the best.
- A fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl.
- George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think. During the trials, the brakes go on George's bike, 'The Shuttleworth Snap', which he made himself. As a result, he breaks the TT lap record, becoming an instant motor-cycling star. As the big race approaches, George soon realises that other jealous riders will stop at nothing to make sure he does not take part in the race. An early George Formby film and probably his best.
- A young Irish woman hates England so much she becomes a spy for Germany.
- The Rogers family head off by car to Blackpool where, after a musical interlude and fun on the prom, they have an adventure in a haunted house.
- Set in a future when the world is dominated and run by television, where language has become almost redundant and all "tensions" - love, war, hate, loyalty - have been removed. Overpopulation is a problem, so there are gluttony programmes to put people off food and pornography programmes to put them off sex. There is artsex and sportsex, and now this - the year of the Sex Olympics. Audience attention begins to wane, however, until TV executive Ugo Priest works on a new concept - a reality-based programme in which a couple is stranded on a bleak island, without the aid of any modern technology, and their efforts to survive filmed twenty-four hours a day. A concept which may sound familiar in the age of reality TV...
- Three irresponsible teenagers 'borrow' the 'seawitch' - a yacht belonging to the local seascouts and run out of fuel off the notoriously dangerous Bradda Head. In an endeavor to stop themselves from drifting on to the rocks they try to set the sails but they lose the mainsail overboard and it becomes entangled with a floating mine. The tide turns and the yacht drifts back towards the harbour towing the mine with it. Realising that the mine might hit a tanker anchored in the harbour the teenagers, aided by the scouts, make desperate attempts to alter the course of the mine until help arrives.
- A wealthy visitor to a small town befriends a midget and gets involved with two women as his behaviour becoming ever stranger.
- On her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable R.M.S. Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- A shy, introverted young girl takes a summer job at a seaside resort in Wales. She finds the staff, the owners and patrons unlike anyone she has ever met before.
- Anna Tellwright lives in the Pottery District in Staffordshire with her young stepsister Agnes and father Ephraim, who is a wealthy man, but a miser. Anna has a longing for freedom. At 21, she becomes a wealthy young woman.
- While reviewing articles from an estate sale of an eccentric engineer, Lovejoy uncovers clues that lead him to an ancient Roman grave.
- During the Second World War, a group of women are interned as "enemy aliens" on the Isle of Man.
- Dramatisation of R.F. Delderfield's novel about a young bank clerk in North Wales who gets involved in complicated relationships and criminal activities.
- An intensive look at the spirit of motorcycling: from Sturgis to the Salt Flats, le Mans to the Isle of Man, Laguna Seca to the gangs of New York. Motorcycle culture lives large among businessmen, women, racers, cruisers and outlaws alike. LMZ first aired on the Discovery Channel in July 1994 and became one of the highest rated programs of that year.
- An experimental short film from the Cremaster series which alludes to the position of the reproductive organs during the embryonic development process.
- Paul and Barry are in Scotland, on their way to the Loch Aye Highland Games,where they intend to represent the Clan McChuckle and win the Ancient Haggis Mallet of the Young Pretender. They meet up with ferry captain Lachlan McSlachlan who is determined to stop them from reaching their destination when they set foot on his ferry.
- An alien travels to Earth on a meteorite and mates with humans to preserve its species and destroy humanity.
- Spoofs Merchant-Ivory films: Aunt Agnes (Prunella Scales) tries to force Emily (Georgina Cates) to marry boring Cedric Trilling (Robert Portal) by taking her to Italy and India in hopes will forget about handsome George (Sean Pertwee).
- The series is set aboard the corporate space station Unity and is a character driven drama about the station's crew.
- A teen orphan spends the summer on Isle of Man with estranged grandpa. Despite loving dogs, they want summer to end. Boy befriends neighbor girl, but her father has history with grandpa. Locals suspect neighbor's dog kills sheep at night.