Episode list

The story of abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.

A State Department official is required to leak a confidential document - which may have terrible repercussions.

In Paris, a former soldier is alarmed when the girl he has fallen in love with demonstrates a rather naive and romanticized attitude to war.

A French army officer arrives at a remote fort in Algeria and discovers that atrocities against the local population are commonplace.

Slow witted, and tired, Fentry leads a lonely life of grinding poverty in his sharecropper's shack until a sick, pregnant woman escaping her abusive husband comes there. He takes her in and cares for her, eventually falling in love with her.

In the last days of World War II, two English airmen are captured by an ordinary German citizen, who, instead of handing them over to the authorities, keeps them prisoner in his cellar, neglecting to tell them when the war ends.

Americans try to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe.

Patients at a mental hospital meet for a group therapy session.

Determined to pay off his debts, Mark Twain sets off on a lecture tour.

In the Warsaw ghetto, a Jewish man seeks revenge for the rape of his sister by a German soldier.