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- Details the production of the TV-movie "The Echo of Thunder," including interviews with its cast, set director and director. Topics of discussion include working with the children in the cast, the problems caused by insects during filming, and the set director's creation of a cave.
- TV Movie
- Documentary portrait of Winston Churchill the artist, based on his book Painting as a Pastime.
- One night in Judea, a disabled shepherd boy-turned-beggar and his mother are visited by three strangers. They are the Three Kings, and they are on their way to Bethlehem to visit the Christ Child, who has just been born.
- The shrew Katharina meets her match in the wily Petruchio.
- The incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer king.
- A dramatization of the World War II Potsdam Conference of July 1945 with U.S. President Harry Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
- A small boy of rural Italy, befriends a Catholic priest and pleads for help to save his sick donkey. Hearing the stories of St Frances on how he loved cared, even cured animals, comes up with notion "If he could just bring his donkey to the Vatican in Rome, and ask the Pope if he could just place him in the entombed Saint's Chapel, his spiritual presence would cure him. Some how he convinces the compassionate Father to take on this pilgrimage, against all odds.
- This movie deals with the sixteenth century conflict between the Catholic Church and Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (Melvyn Douglas). After exhaustive research, Galileo concludes that the Aristotelean concept of the Universe is incorrect. It is Galileo's contention, like Copernicus before him, that the Earth is not the center of the universe, but merely another planet, revolving around the sun. This theory is considered heresy by the Church, and before long, Galileo is dragged before Cardinal Bellarmin (George Voskovec), leader of the dreaded Court of the Inquisition.
- A young woman finds herself engulfed in Cold War intrigue when her father, a Nobel Prize-winning author, vanishes while travelling near the Russian border. Entrusted by her father with an unfinished book he was working on before his trip, the young woman becomes engaged in a power struggle over the material with her estranged stepmother. Suspiciously befriended by a journalist in the midst of the crisis, the young woman ultimately learns that no one is to be trusted - as her father's work is of interest to the intelligence departments of several countries.
- Julie Harris portrays the famed Queen Victoria over a 60 year span, from the age of 18 through her romance with Prince Albert through her diamond jubilee in 1897.
- A waiter becomes a sudden overnight success as a playwright, and then begins negotiations with an Italian movie director to turn his play into a film. The results are unexpected.
- Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up - but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't interfere.
- The life of Abraham Lincoln is traced from the 1830s when he was a struggling backwoods lawyer to winning the Presidency in 1860.
- God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
- Mary Follet already has a five-year-old son and is pregnant again. Her husband dies in a car accident. How will she survive?
- Can Professor Higgins transform cockney flower girl Eliza Dolittle into a lady by teaching her to speak properly?
- Macbeth (Maurice Evans), the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his King and takes the throne for himself.
- A lot of shorts, friends, and music make Charlie Brown and friends very happy to see what happens with Charlie Brown in this fruitbowl of a show called, "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown".
- The Angel of God and an ordinary shepherd named Gideon debate obedience versus disobedience to God.
- A couple moves to a small Mexican town called Ibarra. They help open a local mine which brings new life to the town and the local ways help the two of them find peace they were missing.
- In 1925, a Tennessee science teacher is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and a mighty courtroom battle ensues.
- A man who acts upon his conscience opens a Pandora's box of racism and intolerance. Temple Rayburn (James Woods) is an attorney who lives and works in a small Southern community in the 1940s. When Rayburn and his wife Celia (Elizabeth McGovern) encounter a young man named Ben Tyler (Charles Mattocks)--a mentally-challenged African-American youth with nowhere to go--they take pity on him and let him stay in their home. However, in a time and place when black and white citizens were not allowed to use the same drinking fountain, Temple's decision raises more than a few eyebrows, and the Rayburn household soon becomes the center of a local political firestorm.
- The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in power, despite challenges to his regime by young, dissatisfied opponents, and his worries that his age and his ill health may have an effect on the election's outcome.
- The last few days in the life of Socrates, including his trial.
- George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
- In the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I (Dame Judith Anderson) is the ruler of England. Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (Charlton Heston) is her lover, best friend, and worst enemy.
- Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who lives in exile on a remote island as a sorcerer, uses his powers to shipwreck his usurper brother on the island.
- A hotshot lawyer returns to her childhood home following a death in the family.
- In this touching story, a dedicated African-American teacher in an inner-city school in the midwestern United States facing tough odds helps inner-city children to succeed. Meanwhile, she faces an adversarial colleague and a principal who disapproves of her teaching methods. To top it off, a youth regularly messes up the classroom after school to tick the teacher off.
- In the 18th century were born two siamese brothers on Corsica who paradoxically carry different feelings of hate and reconciliation in their blood.
- An American paleontologist and a British miner get in a conflict over who has the rights to dig on a site in Kenya.
- A husband, wife, and their daughter try to cope with the tragic death of their young son that the latter indirectly unintentionally caused.
- In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer. Brenda Fricker appears as Keeslar's aunt and Mark Lambert is an army deserter, who signs up for the drive.
- The story of two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.
- An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and a gangster looking for some money owed to them.
- Atticus goes to Mexico to unravel the reason behind his his son's suicide. As he tries to overcome his own feelings over his son's death, Atticus discovers it might not be a suicide at all and tries to uncover the mystery.
- The struggle between a father and son at odds over the youth's career choice.
- The story of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, focusing on his place in British life just prior to World War II.
- Remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943).
- This story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life.
- Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and the same director as its first version, but a different supporting cast.
- An emotionally powerful story written by Rod Serling, about a hostile elderly Jewish man (Peter Ustinov), as the proprietor of an upstate New York delicatessen, who becomes the reluctant foster father of a small angry inner-city black child (N'gai Dixon), sent to spend the summer with the man during the Vietnam war.
- Manhattanite Catherine O'Mara (Heche) bonds with a young man who has run away from his father. When the father returns to New York a year later to sell his Christmas trees, he and Catherine cross paths.
- Geri Riordan is adopted, half-Vietnamese, eighteen, and a piano prodigy. She also feels as if she doesn't know who she really is, and when her adopted father dies, she begins to search for her biological father. The trail leads into the redwood forest the Riordans have owned for generations, to a 'Nam vet who lives there. But he doesn't want to talk to her, and Geri must convince him to give her the answers she's looking for.