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A delinquent Muslim man struggles to get by in prison until he is taken under the wing of a powerful mob boss, but his gradual rise through the organization's ranks brings him in conflict with his mentor.

A medieval knight and his servant ask a familiar wizard to move them back in time to prevent father-in-law's accidentally killing. Instead, they fly away to the 20th century.

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

A documentary on kids who attend a summer camp hoping to become the next Billy Graham.

Biography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.

The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Kyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield to clear the streets of underage girls working in prostitution. Pretty, young runaway Hailey Atkins has been turned out. Down deep she wants to go straight, but has had great difficultly escaping her pimp, and doesn't even have a place to go. York and Garfield go out on a limb to try and help.

A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.

In the household of Lee Gyeong-jin, a high-ranking official of Joseon Kingdom, three sons die from an unidentified horror. A woman pregnant with a child of the third son soon learns of the evil spirit that haunts the house.

New Zealand's most extreme religious cult, Gloriavale, and the true stories of people attempting to break free, including current and former members that have never gone on record before.

An investigate reporter arrives in the suburb of Stepford to dig up a news story about its low crime and divorce rates and discovers the horrific secret behind the women's docile and submissive nature.

Documentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's personal secretaries during WWII.

Two people live in a dark technological utopia/dystopia - "the Machine". Kuno and Vashti, have differing opinions about the world which they live in and their interaction and conflict as their society comes to a sudden collapse. The story raises themes of man's role in the midst of a technology-dependent built environment that are seemingly more relevant today than when the original short story was published in 1909.

Avalanche is a study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and his attraction to his cousin.

Two young women pursue the same man with opposite strategies - one learns subservience, the other domination.

The story of 19th century intellectual revolutionary Georg Buechner and his 1834 pamphlet Der Hessische Landbot (The Hessian Courier) that called for a land revolution with the rallying cry: "'Peace to the Cottages, War on the Palaces." Facing political imprisonment, Buechner fled the country, but his revolutionary friend, Pastor Friedich Ludwig Weidig, was caught, imprisoned, tortured, and, reportedly, murdered in prison. An informer betrayed the hoped-for uprising, and a bloody response resulted in the peasants remaining subservient to the lords of the manor-estates in Hessen.

"The remarkable story of two women who became the subjects of experiments by men. Dr James Barry was born a girl but lived most of her life disguised as a man. And Hannah Cullwick, a working class woman turned into a high-class lady". (Radio Times, 21/5-27/5/1994).

Set in early 17th-century Japan, shipwrecked English navigator John Blackthorne finds intrigue and culture shock in a feudal society that puts a premium on honor. A rival Lord sentences Blackthorne to death.