22 one-hour programs giving a truly balanced and entertaining perspective of the most exciting, topical and human interest events of 1970 to 1991. There's something for everybody! The politics, fashions, music, stars, personalities, conflicts and the disasters which touched all our lives.
1. 1970
Troops shoot students at Kent State. First 'Jumbo' lands at Heathrow. Edward Heath...
You can change your job, your city, your identity, but some things you can never escape. And they could cost Troy Quigg and his family their lives in the uniquely gripping, family drama series, HIDING.
After a botched drug deal, Troy (James Stewart) must take his family into Witness Protection in exchange for giving evidence against his former employer, vicious crime boss Nils ...
A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in Los Angeles toward prevention of juvenile delinquency. William Bendix, as a neighborhood policeman, visits the Foundation and discovers the juveniles who used to give him trouble now engaged in sports and activities, furnished them gratis, under self-supervision. Abbott and Costel...
A 25-minute documentary to caution us on the perils of reckless driving, narrated by James Stewart. We meet five ordinary people who drive off to their morning destination. Set in LA, we watch our five folks navigate through their day, all with apparent poor driving habits which could contribute to their demise by auto accident. The warning sign here, however, is that only four...
Tom Bosley hosts a documentary the looks into the story behind how one of cinema's greatest films It's A Wonderful Life was made.
From his traumatic childhood to Broadway stardom, 1950s blacklisting, losing the Tonight Show to Johnny Carson, abandoning America for Australia, to 70s free love, this series reveals the obscure life of 20th Century Zelig, Orson Bean.
Performer Ken Murray first arrived in Hollywood in 1927 a relative unknown from his then hometown of Kingston, New York. Instead of sending postcards of Hollywood back to his family, he instead purchased a 16mm camera, filmed Hollywood stars - many he didn't even know at the time - and sent the resulting film back to his family. This movie is a compilation of much of that foota...
Winning Your Wings is a 1942 Allied propaganda film of World War II produced by Warner Bros. Studios for the US Army Air Forces, starring Jimmy Stewart. It was aimed at young men who were thinking about joining the Air Force. Members of the production crew would later form the core of the First Motion Picture Unit.
1935 年，独眼杀人犯玛蒂·阿普尔亚德（Mattie Appleyard 饰）、银行劫匪李·科特里尔（Strother Martin 饰）以及名叫约翰尼·耶苏斯（Kurt Russell 饰）的年轻囚犯于同一天从西弗吉尼亚州立监狱获释。 阿普尔亚德因在监狱工作 40 年而获得了 25,452.32 美元的支票，这在大萧条时期是一笔巨款。
三名获释罪犯希望通过这笔钱开一家合法企业，但他们不知道的是，狡猾的典狱长"Doc"（George Kennedy 饰）早就勾结了当地的银行家，准备实行一场追杀行动……
