At the age of five, little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Everyone in the village is afraid of him, but Heidi is fascinated by his long beard and bushy gray eyebrows. She loves her life in the mountains, playing in the sunshine and growing up among the goats and birds. But one terrible day, Heidi is collected by her aunt and is made to live with a new family in town. Heidi can't bear to be away from her grandfather;...

Twelve-year-old Jesse runs away from home and tries to survive on his own in the nearby mountains.

Reminiscences of the pleasures of life in the mountains as a child.

An adaptation of the 1967 novel chronicling the experiences of a young woman after she arrives to teach school in a small town in the Great Smoky Mountains in 1912.

Mountain man Washburn insists on looking on the bright side of things, even as disaster after disaster befalls him.

Twelve children from different countries come to Uncle Max's house in the Swiss mountains for a winter holiday.

While doing research for a school essay about a reclusive old mountain man, two boys fall into an abandoned mine shaft from which only the old man can rescue them.

A new boy in a small mountain village tries to discredit the old peddler who sells magic jars of sundrops, moonbows, and the like; but though he drives the old man away, something remarkable does happen in the sky.

Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.

Heidi spends her childhood with her grandfather on the alpine pastures of Switzerland. Against her will, she is taken to a wealthy family in Frankfurt to be the playmate of the disabled daughter, Klara. Although Heidi and Klara soon becomes friends, she is drawn back to her homeland. When Klara is finally able to visit Heidi in the alpine surroundings, she gains strength and courage to overcome her childhood paralysis.