Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s.

Of the many anthology series, this is considered the most ambitious with outstanding talent in front of the camera. Attracting top ranked directors and scripts, it was often filmed live including the entire first season.

Live psychological and murder mystery dramas, and one of the first U.S. television dramas to make effective use of background music.

An inspiring exploration of one family's resilience and fortitude shot using innovative and groundbreaking filming techniques.

A decaying New England town is the backdrop for its unique citizens, led by unassuming restaurant manager Miles Roby.

Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives. Using metatheatrical devices, Wilder sets the play in a 1930s theater. He uses the actions of the Stage Manager to create the town of Grover's Corners for the audience. Scenes from its history between the years of 1901 and 1913 play out. Originally broadcast on the Showtime Network, then as part of the PBS series "Masterpiece Theatre" (season 33, episode 1).

A mob enforcer's son witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge.

Old bank robber Henry, paralyzed from a stroke, is moved from a prison hospital to a retirement home, where Carol is a nurse. She doesn't believe he's paralyzed and sees him as a way out of her boring life.

A woman discovers a tragic love letter in a bottle on a beach, and is determined to track down its author.

A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.

A stubborn man past his prime reflects on his life of strict independence and seeks more from himself.

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.

A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.

Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.

Harry Keach has been widowed for two years and works as a demolition crane operator on a demolition crew.

A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.

In New York City, South Bronx's main police precinct is nicknamed Fort Apache by its employees who feel like troopers surrounded by hostiles in a wild west isolated outpost.

When a prosecutor leaks a false story that a liquor warehouse owner is involved in the murder of a union head, the man's life begins to unravel.

An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.

During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.

A failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery.

A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.

A cynical Buffalo Bill hires Sitting Bull to exploit him and add his credibility to the distorted view of history presented in his Wild West Show.

Harper's a big-city PI, who travels to Louisiana to help an old girlfriend who's worried her husband will find out she's been cheating on him.

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.

Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.

In Vinegaroon, Texas, former outlaw Roy Bean appoints himself the judge for the region and dispenses his brand of justice as he sees fit.

A family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggle to keep the family business alive amidst changing times.

A radio station in the Deep South becomes the focal point of a right-wing conspiracy.

Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one - the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing his wife Elora to his rival, Luther Erding, and strains the relationship with his stepson.

Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution - escape to Bolivia.

In 1943, a group of captured Allied military can't agree on an escape plan, The allies headquarters develop a plan and send in a man who they hope is captured, to coordinate the captives' escape.

John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.

A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.

An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.

Lew Harper, a cool private investigator, is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.

Lady L is an elegant, elderly lady who recalls the past loves and lusty adventures she has lived through.

A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.

Travelers in the 1870s Southwest discuss a recent murder trial in which all the principals told differing stories about the events.

As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.

The fashion industry and Paris provide the setting for a comedy surrounding the mistaken impression that Samantha Blake is a high-priced call girl. Steve Sherman is the journalist interviewing her for insights on her profession.

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.

A drifter and a faded film star, both traumatized by Hollywood, arrive to the guy's hometown, where the old bitter memories revive again.

An immature young man from Middle America grows to manhood after a cross-country journey and his military service in World War I.

During the 1960s, two American expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls.

An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.

An ambitious young executive chooses a loveless marriage and an unfulfilling personal life in exchange for a successful Wall Street career.

The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.

A promising lawyer tries to handle his social and professional problems while climbing the ranks in Philadelphia.

All about the citizens of Putnam's Landing and their reactions to an Army missile base in their backyard.

Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick (Paul Newman) arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

After his employer is murdered by rival cattlemen, a troubled and uneducated young cowboy vows revenge on the murderers.

Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

During WW2, husband-less New Zealand women meet and marry American soldiers who are fighting in the Pacific theater.

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.

Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.

A decorated Korean War hero inexplicably collaborates with the enemy while interred in a POW camp and is court-martialed.

Paul Newman - in his screen debut - plays a 1st-century Greek sculptor who is sold into slavery.