Originally broadcast by ITV in 1999.

Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

Special features: Printable materials for educators; access to the ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre web site.

Michael Kitchen, Julie Walters, Keira Knightley, Sam Smith, Robert Lindsay.

Oliver is a penniless orphan at the Parish Workhouse. After he is forced by the other boys to ask for more food, he is sold as an apprentice to a miserly undertaker. He runs away and is taken in by Fagin, a thief who is in league with a murderous pair determined to see that Oliver never inherits the fortune he deserves.

Not rated.

DVD, region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital.

Closed-captioned; described video for the visually impaired.