Episode 1
Three conspirators plan the death of a South American head of state.
Episode 2
Three different viewpoints of the same story - a kidnapping and its aftermath.
Episode 3
A group of people gathered at a wealthy man's country home on a summer weekend engage in an exploration of their varied romantic entanglements.
Episode 4
A journalist out to expose political corruption finds his family is in danger.
Episode 5
In Australia, a landowner is arrested for murder - but where's the body?
Episode 6
In the Civil War, a tunnel is dug under Confederate lines, and filled with explosives.
Episode 7
The old people's home is a pretty miserable place - until the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Erwenter.
Episode 8
The story of abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.
Episode 9
A State Department official is required to leak a confidential document - which may have terrible repercussions.
Episode 10
In Paris, a former soldier is alarmed when the girl he has fallen in love with demonstrates a rather naïve and romanticized attitude to war.
Episode 11
A French army officer arrives at a remote fort in Algeria and discovers that atrocities against the local population are commonplace
Episode 12
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.
Episode 13
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.
Episode 14
Americans try to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe.
Episode 15
Patients at a mental hospital meet for a group therapy session.
Episode 16
Determined to pay off his debts, Mark Twain sets off on a lecture tour.
Episode 17
In the Warsaw ghetto, a Jewish man seeks revenge for the rape of his sister by a German soldier.
