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- DirectorAneta Popiel-MachnickaStarsWeronika FrodymaMoving story about crossing the boundaries of ones aspirations in order to fulfill ones dreams.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanVirginia MadsenFrancesca AnnisA Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis to free their desert world from the emperor's rule.
- DirectorRobert MarkowitzStarsLaurence FishburneAllen PayneMalcolm-Jamal WarnerThe true story of how a group of African-American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest United States fighter groups in World War II.
- CreatorTim KringStarsJill HennessyMiguel FerrerRavi KapoorBrash, stubborn and resourceful ME Jordan Cavanaugh revives her career in Boston, occasionally breaking the rules and ticking off the cops or her co-workers. On the home front, she gets crime-solving help from her retired-cop dad.
- DirectorBenjamin WagnerStarsFred RogersAn MTV producer's life is transformed when he meets the recently retired host of 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,' Fred Rogers. Friendship with the PBS icon sets the young producer on a hero's quest to find depth and simplicity amidst a shallow and complex world through conversations with Susan Stamberg (NPR), Tim Russert ('Meet The Press'), Marc Brown ('Arthur') and more.
- CreatorPeter BowkerFranny MoyleStarsSamuel BarnettSam CraneJosie FarmiloePeriod drama set in London about the rise of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
- StarsLeVar BurtonJennifer Betit YenArnold StangLevar Burton introduces young viewers to illustrated readings of children's literature and explores their related subjects.
- StarsFrancesca AnnisTom ContiRay SmithEmma Bovary is the dreamy, frustrated, unfaithful wife of a French country doctor in this National Emmy-nominated adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece.
- StarsDerek JacobiHugh EdgarAnna Olliff-Cooper21 people from the 21st century are being brought together in an Edwardian Country House. 6 of them are the Upstairs family and the 15 others are the servants. For three months, these people have only the rulebook and each other...
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsMaxine McNairWalter CronkiteChris McNairA documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.
- StarsGabrielle HamiltonFabia DrakeHelen ChristieFilled with the heartwarming humor and gentle pathos of Elizabeth Gaskell's classic novel, this original four-part BBC dramatization of Cranford is set in the early 1840s in a fictional market town in northwest England. The story centers on the town's predominantly single and widowed middle-class female inhabitants who are comfortable with their traditional way of life and adhere to a complex set of social rules. However, the impending arrival of the railway puts Cranford on the cusp of upsetting social changes and the genteel ladies of Cranford struggle to face an uncertain future with dignity and 19th Century decorum.
- DirectorGregg ChampionStarsSidney PoitierCody NewtonWendy CrewsonA man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost thirteen-year-old.
- DirectorGregg ChampionStarsSidney PoitierDianne WiestMary-Louise ParkerA 91-year-old carpenter has to fight developers who are trying to force him to sell his land.
- DirectorLloyd KramerStarsSidney PoitierLukas HaasBrittany MurphyLukas Haas portays David, a withdrawn but apparent near genius, who fears being touched. Brittney Murphy plays Lisa, a young woman seemingly suffering from split personalities who speaks only in rhymes and withdraws from anyone who doesn't speak to her likewise. Meeting in the psychiatric ward, the two's eyes lock and an obvious attraction is indicated. First each must learn to approach each other in their own sphere. Enter Sidney Poitier as a caring psychologist who helps David to come to terms with his emotional failure to deal with his father's death at an early age. Debi Mazar also appears as Lisa's case worker.
- DirectorMichael Caton-JonesStarsBruce WillisRichard GereSidney PoitierAn imprisoned I.R.A. fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.
- DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsSidney PoitierChristian PaytonDana EskelsonAfter 30 years of teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner-city school proves to be too much to resist.
- DirectorJames ClavellStarsSidney PoitierJudy GeesonChristian RobertsIdealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.
- StarsSidney PoitierBurt LancasterRichard KileyA dramatization of the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
- DirectorRalph NelsonStarsSidney PoitierMichael CaineNicol WilliamsonA black anti-Apartheid activist and a British engineer are forced to run from South African Secret Police.
- DirectorSidney PoitierStarsSidney PoitierEster AndersonYvette CurtisAn African-American doctor falls in love with the niece of an African ambassador during his vacation in London, but it turns out that she is suffering from a rare terminal illness.
- DirectorSidney PoitierJoseph SargentStarsSidney PoitierHarry BelafonteRuby DeeA wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsSidney PoitierMartin LandauBarbara McNairIn San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsSidney PoitierAbbey LincolnBeau BridgesUpon learning their maid will be leaving to earn an education, the son of the family decides to set her up with a man.
- DirectorJames B. HarrisStarsRichard WidmarkSidney PoitierJames MacArthurAn American destroyer Captain is determined to confront a Soviet submarine caught violating territorial waters. Perhaps too determined.
- DirectorHubert CornfieldStarsSidney PoitierBobby DarinPeter FalkA black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.