Navy pilot Robin Crusoe ditches his plane after engine trouble and becomes stranded on a tropical island with a poker-playing chimp, an abandoned sub, and a beautiful native girl named Wednesday who was exiled there for disobeying her overprotective father.

When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.

When he is shipwrecked and unable to return to Japan due to the chance of being executed, fourteen-year-old Manjiro is rescued by the captain of an American whaling ship who takes him to Massachusetts where he is torn between his second home and seeing his mother again.

In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of The Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters' IDs. The result is a rattling masterpiece, as provocative as its...

To prove that she is worthy of becoming a pilot, Amelia Erroway sets off alone on her father's prized craft until a fierce storm crashes her ship and she must use her wits to survive--and find a way home.

This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. THE TEMPEST is a dramatic romance, weaving fancy and realism into a plot that speaks to audiences today. This timeless stage is set on an enchanted island, where an...