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.

Na prisão sulista de Wakefield, Henry Brubaker, o novo diretor, chega disfarçado de prisioneiro e assim convive com os detentos, podendo apurar livremente todos os tipos de corrupções e ilegalidades que imperam na instituição. Quando ele se revela encontra uma oposição velada, pois suas idéias reformistas contrariam vários interesses políticos e financeiros.

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.

Um locutor de noticiário de uma rede de televisão estadunidense é demitido em razão da baixa audiência do programa. Ele então anuncia que irá cometer suicídio no ar. Por esta razão, os índices de audiência do programa voltam a crescer, ele passa a ser conhecido como o Profeta Louco, e é readmitdo. Mas seu comportamento insano faz com que os responsáveis pela sua ascensão decidam detê-lo.

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.

Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. Meanwhile, Warren buys a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and to earn money as a prize-fighter.

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.

Uma família de madeireiros do Oregon, ferozmente independentes, luta para manter os negócios da família em meio a tantas mudanças. Hank Stamper e seu pai, Henry Stamper, possuem e operam os negócios da família cortando e enviando toras no Oregon. A cidade fica furiosa quando eles continuam trabalhando apesar da cidade ter falido e os outros madeireiros entrarem em greve ordenando que os Stampers parem, no entanto Hank continua a empurrar sua família para cortar mais árvores. A esposa de Hank deseja que ele pare e espera que eles possam passar mais tempo juntos. Quando Leland, o problemático meio irmão de Hank, vem trabalhar para eles, mais problemas surgem. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

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 é uma professora novata na Calvin Coolidge High, no centro da cidade de Nova York: suas aulas estão superlotadas, uma janela está quebrada, não há giz, os livros chegam atrasados. A administração se preocupa principalmente com formas e regras (há uma escada para subir e outra para descer); os sinos tocam na hora errada. Mesmo assim, ela tenta. Como ela lida com o caos e seu desespero em seu primeiro semestre compõe o filme: um aluno promissor desiste, outro dorme durante a aula, uma garota apaixonada por um professor se torna suicida e um aluno brilhante, mas problemático, entende mal a tentativa de Sylvia. . Uma discussão sobre Dickens, a noite dos pais e um julgamento simulado destacam sua experiência. Será que ela consegue? (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)

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.