Browse 406 movies from Children's Film Foundation (CFF)
A young lad attempts to climb Eagle Rock by himself and learns the hard way that sometimes teamwork is the best way to do things.
Jan 1964
Three children are locked in a store by accident. They help catch a gang who break into the store the same day in order to get to the bank next door.
Dec 1964
An adventure story for children in eight parts, filmed on location in New Zealand. In the second episode, the children who live around Marlborough Sound rescue a sheep stranded on a cliff ledge. Meanwhile, two escaped criminals steal food and make their plans.
Jan 1972
A group of young railway enthusiasts attempt to stop the closure of the local railway by trying to raise money to buy it and the steam engine "Matilda." They get help from a pair of men claiming to be enthusiasts but who turn out to be robbers who plan to hold up the mail train
Jan 1965
Eight youngsters are cut off by the East Anglian floods in a farmhouse with no grown-ups to help them. The story tells how they deal with the situation until they are rescued.
Jan 1963
Story about a group of young cyclist track riders and their effort to retain their track against long odds.
Feb 1953
Putting on a pantomime, the kids find they must share the Church hall with a rock group. They decide to present a rock panto.
Jan 1978
The kids decide to earn money by making jam from damaged apples, but disaster occurs.
Whizz and Peewee would like to join the club, but first they must spend an hour in a haunted house.
Feb 1968
Josh and his friends visit an airfield to see the gliders and become involved with two lads determined to sabotage the gliders. Alice the Chimp lends a hand to a series of hair raising incidents.
Jan 1976
Children on lonely farm outwit escaped Dartmoor prisoners.
Jan 1975
When a child nearly drowns his friends decide to start a local lifesaving and surf rescue club.
Dec 1961
The Man from Nowhere is a beautifully told Victorian gothic thriller from acclaimed director James Hill. Young orphan Alice has been invited by her rich uncle to live in his country mansion but she soon finds herself persecuted by the apparent visitations of an unsettling stranger. Who is this man from nowhere and just why is he tying to scare her away?
The children load up shopping trolleys and help their neighbours.
A group of schoolchildren come upon an alien from Venus, and help him against a gang of criminals who are trying to kidnap him.
Mar 1956
Children's film serial in 6 parts. Jane witnesses a bullion robbery but does not realise at first that one of the robbers is an old friend of hers whom she likes and trusts. 1. Highway robbery. 2. Mystery at the forge. 3. Night prowler. 4. Mysterious stranger. 5. All at sea. 6. Catch as catch can.
Comedy of the theft of a poodle by a villain and the chase after him.
Jan 1952
An adventure story for children set in New Zealand and told in eight sequential episodes
In the 19th century a group of children is mixed up in local smuggling thinking it is just an exciting game. But they find out how serious it is and help to round up the villains.
Jan 1962
An adventure story for children in eight parts, filmed on location in New Zealand. In the fourth episode, the escaped criminals travel on a ferry to Wellington in order to retrieve money from a bank robbery, with the children in pursuit.