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During a winter retreat, a resourceful French lieutenant risks his mission to carry a freezing young woman through enemy-held country.
During the Prussian occupation, a young Frenchwoman is drawn into an officers’ supper where humiliation sharpens into resistance.
A forester’s fearless daughter faces six lost Prussian soldiers alone in a snowbound forest house.
A hard Norman farmer faces a Prussian court-martial and calmly explains why enemy scouts have been vanishing.
A boastful Norman farmer turns the Prussian soldier billeted with him into a local joke, until humiliation becomes dangerous.
A terrified Prussian straggler searches occupied Normandy for the safest possible enemy: someone willing to take him prisoner.
An exhausted French detachment facing a deadly winter march finds unexpected resolve after taking two civilians under its protection.
The timid inventor of a working flying machine becomes a public hero—and discovers that everyone expects him to risk the first flight.
An inventor descends five miles beneath the ocean in a steel sphere and finds that the abyss is neither empty nor lifeless.
A mild schoolmaster tests his courage with a harmless mock burglary and stumbles into a real criminal escape.
A colonial patrol trapped on a cliff must escape enemy fire, thirst, and a drop that seems impossible to survive.
A confident skeptic spends the night in a notorious room, armed with candles and reason against its dark reputation.
A seaside walker discovers that unfamiliar deep-sea creatures have reached the English coast—and have developed a taste for human prey.
Three horsemen pursuing a fleeing woman enter a silent valley where the wind carries vast webs alive with spiders.
Confined to a couch, an invalid watches a distant manhunt as entertainment until the chase crosses the river and comes to his window.
A woman who has feared crossing the bayou since childhood must help a boy hurt on her side of it.
Two snowbound prospectors educate themselves with very different books, then put their new knowledge to work in a small Montana town.
A ranch foreman tries to impress a fearless cattle king's daughter when a dangerous lion interrupts their evening in the prairie.
Sippy cannot refuse his old headmaster or tell a poet he loves her, so Bertie tries to cure both problems with a bag of flour.
Stranded on an asteroid with minutes of oxygen left, a patrolman and his camera-obsessed partner confront monsters that may exist only in the mind.
