Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) is a British family TV film you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Jack Gold from Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved novel. Rick Schroder plays young Cedric Errol; Alec Guinness plays his formidable grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt.

Cedric grows up in a modest Brooklyn home with his widowed mother, unaware that an English earldom is waiting for him across the Atlantic. When the Earl's other heirs are gone, Cedric is summoned to the ancestral estate. The old man has spent decades hardening himself against sentiment — and the boy quietly dismantles all of it, not with lectures but simply by being himself.

Made for television and all the better for it: the story breathes at its own pace, and Guinness turns a role that could have been stiff caricature into something genuinely touching. A warm, unhurried watch for families and anyone fond of classic Burnett. Stream Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) online on iFILM.