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In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth

In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down

In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria

A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.

Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.

An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.

After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.

When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy

Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.

James Grout and Bert Parnaby are rival chairmen of a northern football club in the run-up to an important cup match. As tempers fray, retiring president Charles Lamb provides a calming voice of sanity.