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The elite Enlightenment Committee, faces a world-ending threat as Hiva, once believed to be an apocalyptic force, is revealed to be a person, Iris Marlow, an immortal African tightrope dancer seeking revenge after her murder by her own friends, while another Hiva emerges with a destructive agenda, marking the beginning of the Cataclysm.

Nancy Drew and her friends visit an old clipper ship in Boston harbor and help Captain Easterly uncover a mystery.

The retiring Sleepwalkers, guardians against nightmares, train three intrepid recruits to take their places, an effort that pits the young heroes against daunting dream hazards.

Inspired by the Jesuit saying, "Give me a child until he is 7 years old, and I will give you the man," in 1964 Granada Television commissioned a short documentary wherein producers profiled 14 7-year-old children, and loosely speculated on what sort of lives they might lead. It was meant and received as an indictment of the British class system, which seemed most inflexible in 1964. Almost as an afterthought, director Michael Apted--a researcher on...

A summer trip is filled with adventure for the four Penderwick sisters when their father takes them to visit the Arundel estate in the Berkshire Mountains. The mansion's owner, Mrs. Tifton, isn't very nice, but her son Jeremy makes fast friends with the girls and joins them on their escapades as they explore the manor and its grounds.