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An inspiring tale through London by pictures narrated by Paul Scofield.

Robinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified "problem of England." The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, around the country. They mainly concentrate on ports, power stations, prisons, and manufacturing plants, but they also bring in various literary connections, as well as a few conventional landscapes.

A tour around England featuring images of nature and various industrialized and militarized settings.

A researcher is recalled to Britain from the Arctic, where she has spent twenty years working with people who build their houses from snow, and given the task of investigating 'the predicament of the house' in advanced economies.

Over a series of industrial and rural images of Britain, a narrator tells the story of his conception and birth, weaving in a mythic history of the formation of the world and its early inhabitants.

Filmed in two parts, the narrator describes the events that led to his impulsive decision to rob his former employer. In the second part, he recounts his panic following the crime, while the walking camera reconstructs his escape route.

A film that explores the idea of a pedestrian's journey. The last stand of its narrator - a poor creature burdened by neoclassical conceits - against the disgust and nostalgia that have crippled his existence.

A story told from thirty years hence, in the last moments of its narrator, who awoke one day in 1987 with the knowledge that they had been duplicated during the night and that they were now an inferior replica of their self.

A tribute to one of Britain's most acclaimed actors.