When the Whales Came (1989)

A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.

• 1910s
• based on children's book
• beach
• cornwall
• england
• hermit
• island
• puffin
• whale