Roy Poole

Three episodes based on O. Henry's texts. The first deals with the friendship between a painter and two young women. The second, a young man who receives an insignificant amount of his uncle, as an inheritance. The third concerns two people who make it all possible when they give themselves love as Christmas presents.

Nasty old Mr. Killup uses Halloween to taunt kids. This year, he's in for a surprise, from which even his long-suffering son Michael cannot save him.

In the turn of the century South, a woman feels unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood and has an affair with a younger man. Later, the woman leaves her family and tries to start a new life alone.

A flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate's accountant (actually a Justice Department agent who has infiltrated the mob) accused of murdering a local TV newscaster.

웨이크 필드 교도소에 새로 부임하는 헨리 브루베이커는 교도소의 실정을 알기위해 스스로 죄수처럼 가장하고 잠입한다. 죄수로 생활하면서 어느 정도 사정을 알게 된 브루베이커는 교도소 개선을 위해 힘껏 일하지만 교도소 밖 사람들의 따가운 눈총을 받게 되고 전통적으로 교도소 죄수들을 노동력으로 이용하던 사람들에게 협조도 하지 않자 그들은 모두 브루베이커를 싫어한다. 하지만 꿋꿋하게 자기 일에 최선을 다해 가던 중, 웨이크 필드 교도소에서 거의 반평생을 보낸 아브라함이란 죄수에게서 사체 유기 사실을 듣게 된다. 아브라함은 그 사실을 누설한 것 때문에 부패한 모범수들중 대장격인 휴이에게 죽음을 당하고 이에 분개한 브루베이커는 사체 발굴에 들어간다. 이에 주지사나 상원의원은 문제가 야기될까 봐 두려워하며 브루베이커에게 일을 중단하도록 압력을 넣는다. 하지만 브루베이커는 드디어 사체발굴에 성공하고 언론에 알려서 세인의 관심을 집중시키게 된다. 그 일로 브루베이커는 해임을 당하게 되고 신임 소장이 다시 부임하게 되지만 웨이크필드의 죄수들 마음엔 브루베이커가 정의의 횃불로 남게 된다.

A conservative, Midwestern farmer rallies his neighbors against a power company planning to erect huge towers across their land, and a political activist schoolteacher helps them organize into an effective bloc.

A liberal-minded, divorced newswriter is the victim of a brutal mugging. Robbed of her confidence, she finds her life cloaked in fear and paranoia, causing her to reevaluate her lifelong beliefs.

The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organization, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of her case.

1978 movie starring Morgan Freeman. This movie is the shortened version that was released from the original 3 part mini series back in 1978.

USB 방송국의 뉴스 앵커 하워드 빌은 과장된 풍자와 독설로 한때 높은 시청률로 인기를 누렸던 인물이다. 그러나 점차 시청률이 떨어지게 되자 방송국의 사장은 빌을 해고하려고 한다. 빌은 그의 직속 상사와 함께 술을 마시는 자리에서 방송 중 자살에 대한 농담을 나누고는 고별 방송에서 시청률 저하 때문에 자살하겠다고 한다. 빌은 방송에서 교체되었지만 가까스로 고별방송을 할 수 있도록 허락받고는 시청자들에게 자신의 처지를 솔직히 털어놓는다. 그의 솔직함에 시청자들이 반응을 보이기 시작하며 시청률이 급등하자 프로그램 기획자인 다이아나는 빌의 상품성을 꿰뚫고는 사장에게 빌을 해고해서는 안된다고 설득한다. 빌은 다시 방송을 하게 되지만 직업적 스트레스로 인한 정신병이 점점 심해져간다.

Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor Stephen Turner leads students to believe that they are applying increasingly painful electric shocks to other subjects when they fail to perform a task correctly, and is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be convinced to inflict "in the name of science."

Chronicles the experiences of four immigrant families as they experience the Lower East Side of New York during the early twentieth century.

워렌은 흑인을 경멸하는 매우 악질인 농장주이지만 그의 아들 '해몬드'는 그나마 흑인들에게 관대한 편이다. 혼기가 찬 해몬드는 백인 블랑슈와 결혼을 하게 되고 첫날밤 그녀가 처녀가 아니었다는 사실을 알고 실망하여 부부라는 관계만 유지하는 결혼생활을 하게 된다. 그리고 아내인 블랑슈 대신 자신에게 처녀성을 받친 흑인 노예 엘렌과의 관계를 더 중요시하고 그녀와의 성관계를 통해서만 만족을 얻는다. 남편에게 사랑받지 못한다는 질투심과 절망감에 블랑슈는 해몬드에게 언제나 충성을 받치는 만딩고족 미드를 침실로 불러 강제로 성관계를 맺는다. 그렇게 블랑슈는 임신을 하게 되고...

The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to a barn to protect his family should he go mad. He orders his son not to come near him no matter how persuasive or rational his appearance or argument. However, the creek dries up, indicating an upstream blockage and an imminent flood. Several trips upstream by the son have failed to locate the blockage and now Dad wants to be released...

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.

The film focuses on the representatives of the Thirteen original colonies who participated in the Second Continental Congress. 1776 depicts the three months of deliberation (and, oftentimes, acrimonious debate) that led up to the signing of one of the most important documents in the History of the United States, the Declaration of Independence.

A bizarre series of events focused on young women in the village of Salem causes paranoia in the late 1600s. It ends with the lynching of the accused and subsequent releases from jail. Dark and gritty, but not frightening.

오레곤 주에서 벌목 사업을 하는 스탬퍼 일가는 권위적인 아버지 헨리(헨리 폰다)와 큰 아들 행크(폴 뉴먼), 아내 비브(리 레믹), 의붓동생 리(마이클 사라진) 등이다. 헨리는 벌목한 나무를 공장까지 운반하기로 계약하고 어떤 어려움이 있더라도 고집스럽게 그 약속을 지키려 한다. 이에 파업 중인 마을 사람들의 적대감은 점점 높아져 가고 노조활동에 반대하는 헨리에게 등을 돌린다. 결국 사람들은 스탬퍼 일가의 장비를 부수는 등 폭력적인 대결로까지 발전하지만 헨리는 절대 물러서지 않는데..

A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she soon changes her mind, and with the help of the local police, tries to find the killer before he fulfills his part of the bargain.

After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben, who thinks she runs a boardinghouse, Lil gets him a job with Francis Sullivan at the local newspaper. As Ben is exposed to the workings of the big city, he realizes the extent of government corruption and sets out on the daunting task of reforming Chicago politics, finding several allies along the way.

A student radical, accused of murdering a cop during a campus revolt, welcomes a court confrontation and then refuses to take the stand, despite the urging of the three high-priced lawyers he has hired to represent him in this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series.

Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules (there's an up and a down staircase); bells ring at the wrong time. Nevertheless, she tries. How she handles the chaos and her despair in her first semester makes up the film: a promising student drops out, another sleeps through class, a girl with a crush on a male teacher gets suicidal, and a bright but troublesome student misunderstands Sylvia's reaching out. A discussion of Dickens, parents' night, and a mock trial highlight the term. Can she make it?

The life of Abraham Lincoln is traced from the 1830s when he was a struggling backwoods lawyer to winning the Presidency in 1860.

A man with an asthmatic voice telephones and assaults clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.