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The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.

A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.

A widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a black man against a false rape charge while teaching his young children about the sad reality of prejudice.

A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.

An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.

A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.

A former vaudeville child star torments her paraplegic sister, who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.

An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.

Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.

During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.

A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind, deaf and mute child Helen Keller how to understand and communicate.

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti, but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by first officer Fletcher Christian.

After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos before the arrival of a female wildlife photographer threatens to change their ways.

Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' band leader to raise money before he can skip town.

A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.

A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.

The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.

Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.

Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.