Americans try to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe.

In the Warsaw ghetto, a Jewish man seeks revenge for the rape of his sister by a German soldier.

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.

Synopsis 1: Violence and brutality greet a French Army captain when he arrives in Algeria to assume command of a remote outpost. He is appalled by the savage massacre of an Algerian family by the Rebels. When the French take a prisoner who knows the names of Rebel leaders, the captain is told that torture is the only way to make him talk. Then the captain meets the prisoner - a handsome, intelligent teenage boy. Synopsis 2: A French officer in the Algerian civil war faces a dilemma of conscience when it seems he must order the torture of a handsome, intelligent teenage boy in order to obtain information about the rebels who slaughtered an Algerian family.

Determined to pay off his debts, Mark Twain sets off on a lecture tour.

The story of abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.

Three conspirators plan the death of a South American head of state.

Three different viewpoints of the same story - a kidnapping and its aftermath.

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.

A journalist out to expose political corruption finds his family is in danger.

In Australia, a landowner is arrested for murder - but where's the body?

In the Civil War, a tunnel is dug under Confederate lines, and filled with explosives.

The old people's home is a pretty miserable place - until the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Erwenter.

A State Department official is required to leak a confidential document - which may have terrible repercussions.

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.

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.

Patients at a mental hospital meet for a group therapy session.