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- Tolkien's novels were inspired by his mom's storytelling, falling in love with another orphan, Edith, forming a brotherhood with 3 other misfits at school, the trench war of WWI and later telling stories to his own kids.
- In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization.
- Simon "The Saint" Templar (Val Kilmer), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.
- Set in the early 20th century, class distinctions and troubled relations affect the relationship between two families and the ownership of a cherished British estate known as Howards End.
- A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to World War II.
- The turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality.
- A film about the battle between love and fear, between two stubborn men and their opposing beliefs and the outcome of the love stories of 3 couples.
- C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S.
- An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.
- A young American hustler pursues the girl of his dreams to Oxford, where he must enroll to obtain her.
- At Oxford, Austrian student Anna von Graz (Jacqueline Sassard) is dating fellow student William (Michael York), whom she plans to marry, but she ends up involved with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.
- A month after the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne begins the First World War. But this stake had been prepared decades before.
- The amour and love of an Intersex person for a family and struggle for the rights of people like her. The story of enlightenment, emotions and inspiration raising from impasse of a poor village house to a highest degree of triumph passing through rigorous and sometimes flimsy events of own life.
- Vivian Kenway (Sir Rex Harrison), a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends, and marriage for money. All this with no signs of remorse or redemption, since his life as a completely unprincipled rake is quite enjoyable, for him, at least. Then, World War II breaks out and he is given a chance to die a heroic death for flag and country. Maybe.
- Based loosely on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, the story is set in contemporary Oxford. It is the story of the summer three friends spend on the river punting and enjoying life and a girl they meet and each in turn fall for, and as each becomes the favourite of the girl the change in the relationships between the friends.
- An autobiography of Sir John Betjeman, covering the period of his life up to the time he started his first job. Betjeman visits some of the places that played an important part in his early life, and narrates a blank-verse commentary.
- A drug addled detective is hired to follow someone's girlfriend. Whilst following her he becomes obsessed with her.
- It is 500 years since the Reformation, when England broke away from the authority of the Catholic Church. This is the story of three books at the heart of the schism. Presented by Dr Janina Ramirez.
- DI Robert Lewis teams up with DS James Hathaway to look into the murder of an Oxford mathematics student.
- A respected, dying Oxford don, husband of Morse's former fiancée, apparently shoots himself, but his doctor asserts that he was not capable of firing a gun.
- After a young woman aspiring to the priesthood dies while taking her exams, possibly from poison, Morse connects the death to a weight loss company.
- A vanished baronet and the theft of some of his collection of erotic art is investigated by Morse and Lewis.
- Among the suspects in the murder of a Greek chef and his sister are a Ancient Greek scholar, a dodgy British entrepreneur, and a Greek shipping magnate.
- A young blonde hitches a late lift from a bus stop and ends up dead in a pub car park.