To mark the 70th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation, Dan Snow tells the story of the 'little ships' which made the perilous cross-channel voyage, as 50 of them return to France.

Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".

A woman, hospitalized for a relatively long period, observes what surrounds her. She has time to dream, to revisit certain moments of her life. These memories, like small bubbles begin with her birth in Marseille in 1949 and bring us to Antwerp, Paris, New York, England… to end in Flanders in 2015, after she gets out of the hospital. There Was A Little Ship is a filmic-biographical essay, sincere and poetic.

A film made for television, based on the book of the same name by Libera Carlier. A Flemish family decides to spend the summer holidays on de Schelde. Father Janssen buys a second-hand boat and together with his wife and two sons he sets sail. What follows is a sequence of pleasant moments and disappointments, watched by the sceptical mother Janssen.

Children grow up and move on to adulthood. But what they cherished in their childhood will linger with them forever.

The tale of a little toy ship, Aurora, that defies entire fleets of evil Capitalist warmongers.

The Little Red Paper Ship has a dream to discover new land. Despite the fact, that he is just a small ship made from a piece of paper, he has also courage in his heart to believe that everything is possible. One day he decides to start a journey, which would lead him to accomplish his dream. The journey turns out to be a great adventure... that will change him forever.