Season 1
5 episodes · 1970
1The Andersonville Trial
Dramatization of the 1865 Andersonville trial where thirteen thousand Union prisoners died from starvation and maltreatment.
2Big Fish, Little Fish
Story of people who make it and the people who don't and how each affects the other.
3Montserrat
Set during the South American Wars and the story of the political hostages whose lives depend on a stranger's decision. The stranger -- a young Spanish officer who has become a follower of the revolutionary leader, Simon Bolivar -- can save their lives and his own by revealing the whereabouts of Bolivar to the Spanish conquerors.
4Poet Game
A portrait of a tormented Irish poet who seeks at least economic salvation from an American lecture-reading tour.
5U.S.A.
A kaleidoscopic view of the first 30 years in 20th century America.