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- The owner of a ferry service across the Arno River in Italy decides to abandon his boat and build a bridge. But he can find no one to help him with his project.
- In Paris at the time of the French Revolution, Dr. Pinel is assigned to oversee the lunatic asylum. He is shocked at the squalor in which the patients are forced to live and sets about to reform the asylum.
- Before her final parole from a prison school, Alice Martin, a shy and reserved young girl, is given a job to see how she adjusts to the outside world. She returns to tell the other girls at the school that she is going to be married.
- A dramatization of the capture of German submarine U-505, the only German sub ever captured in World War II.
- Lou Kirn, a Navy football star in 1931 and a Squadron Commander during WW2, is faced with his biggest challenge in 1954 - a dreaded form of paralysis. During this personal battle he reaches out to save a paralyzed boy.
- A cobbler posing as a captain absconds with the treasury of a Berlin suburb in 1906. Based upon a true story.
- The commandant of a 17th century Canadian fort in Indian Territory jokingly leaves his teenage daughter in command when he travels to Montreal. The daughter takes her duties seriously, much to the resentment of the soldiers.
- Battle of wills between surgeon and lieutenant of a cavalry unit in the Mexican American War. Lieutenant wants every available man - even the sick - to help take a key position. Surgeon tries to protect the sick men.
- In 1870 Santa Fe, a local priest takes in an unruly and rebellious orphan. Despite the daily fights and dust-ups in town, the father ignores the complaints of the locals; he even stands up to his bishop who wants the troublesome child sent back to the orphanage. The priest's faith in the young man is soon proven right as the boy turns out to be a quick student of reading and math skills.
- Hugo Haas' own story of escape from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia.
- When a mailman in Cuba learns that Cuba has no entries in the 1904 Olympic Games, he vows to enter the Marathon and win.
- An champion light-heavyweight boxer batters a young challenger so severely that the youthful pugilist suffers brain damage. Remorseful, the champion decides to rig a rematch in a small gym and allow the punch drunk fighter the chance to achieve his dream of winning a boxing "title".
- The true story of Major Tyson, the captain of a military plane with engine trouble, and his fight to keep the plane in the air after reaching the point of no return.
- A French immigrant travels to California in search of gold. But his claim doesn't pay off, and he decides the soil holds more promise for wealth in orchards.
- Once upon a time in Colonial America, publishers could be jailed for libel -- even if the libel was the truth. This is the story of Andrew Hamilton and the Zenger case, which would lead to the modernization of freedom of the press.
- A boy and his old man stick up for each other.
- When Rainmaker Charlie Hatfield contracts with the city of San Diego to fill the city's reservoir, he is a little too successful in doing so.
- After the Communist takeover of Poland following the end of World War II, a Polish nationalist is sent to a Soviet prison, where he is subjected to brutal psychological torture.
- Composer Hoagy Carmichael relates the story of a song he wrote in 1938 that was inspired by an anonymous poem, "I get along without you very well."
- A dramatization of the story of Caspar Hauser, a tortured 17-year-old found lying on a street in Nuremberg in 1830.
- A famous author sets out to prove that a convicted murderer is innocent of his crimes.