American Playhouse

The Skin of Our Teeth

The Antrobus family and their housekeeper Lilly Sabina face various global disasters, including a new ice age, a great f

Miss Lonelyhearts

A young Depression-era reporter is assigned to write his newspaper's advice column on the insistence of his mocking edit

Family Business

Isaiah Stern is a wealthy, but dying, toy manufacturer. Once more, Stern has gathered his grown sons to revise his will.

Keeping On

A low-key drama exploring the struggles of an impoverished sharecropping family in the rural South with themes of Southe

The File on Jill Hatch (1)

A decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.

The File on Jill Hatch (2)

A decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.

The File on Jill Hatch (3)

A decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.

For Us, the Living: The Medgar Evers Story

During the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi, Medgar Evers rose from insurance agent to one of the most integral acti

Verse Person Singular

Actor Richard Kiley takes on the personae of thirteen different characters as he reads his favorite poems written in the

Until She Talks

The story of a young woman imprisoned for declining to testify before a grand jury; comprised from real courtroom transc

Wings

Former aviatrix Emily Stilson suffers a stroke and is plunged into a world of disorientation and grief. Memories flood i

The Rothko Conspiracy

A dramatization of the fight over the estate of artist Mark Rothko, who killed himself in 1970.

The Ghost Writer

Aspiring writer Nathan Zuckerman visits the secluded home of his literary idol, E.I. Lonoff. While there, Zuckerman beco

Pudd'nhead Wilson

A slave switches her light-skinned baby with her master's baby. The child grows up raised by whites.

True West

Estranged brothers, screenwriter Austin and drifter Lee, clash while staying at their mother's house in suburban Souther

Nothing But a Man

Railroad laborer Duff Anderson struggles to maintain his dignity and marriage to a preacher's daughter in the racially s

Popular Neurotics

Two young urban professionals, Lynne and Murray, meet by happenstance and begin an on-again, off-again relationship in w

The Cafeteria

Esther Mirkin, a traumatized Holocaust survivor, frequents a Manhattan cafeteria where she meets Aaron, a Jewish writer,

Refuge

On a remote island off the coast of Maine, four people attempt to relax but the isolated refuge fails to protect them fr

The Gin Game

Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey reside at a nursing home, and they strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to have any

Haunted (aka Vengeance Is Mine)

A recently divorced woman returns to her dysfunctional Rhode Island family home and gets involved in drama with her neig

The Killing Floor

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he

Heartland

Miraculous occurrences happen to people throughout the world every day. God's Miracles presents personal experiences as

City News

The struggles of Tom Domino, publisher and editor of a seemingly doomed, underground newspaper in New York City's East V

Hughie

In the lobby of a small hotel in midtown New York, small-time hustler Erie Smith talks to the hotel's new night clerk Ch

Concealed Enemies, Part I: Suspicion

A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alge

Concealed Enemies, Part II: Accusation

A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alge

Concealed Enemies, Part III: Investigation

A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alge

Concealed Enemies, Part IV: Verdict

A dramatized account of the actual events that led to the 1950 conviction of former U. S. State Department official Alge

Testament

It's just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a serie

A Matter of Principle

Flag Purdy, a 'man of many principles', must learn the hard lesson of compromisation in order to keep his wife and child

Solomon Northup's Odyssey

A free Black man from New York is tricked, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the South, where he endures twelve years

Tomorrow

A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Over a single, pivotal Saturday in 1930s Harlem, 14-year-old John Grimes wrestles with his religious calling and his fra

Noon Wine

On a hot day in 1890s Texas, a stranger arrives at the small dairy farm of Royal and Ellie Thompson, seeking work. A tac

The Joy That Kills

Louise dreams of traveling the world, but her weak heart and husband Brently's overbearing concern prevent her from doin

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

Computer programmer Aram Fingal's virtual vacation in the classic film Casablanca is removed by a totalitarian governmen

The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski

Ralph Parker navigates his first serious romance with his new Polish neighbor, Josephine Cosnowski, during a Thanksgivin

Some Men Need Help

An oddball Good Samaritan parable as ex Mafioso tries to save his drunk neighbor from himself.

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

Charlotte Forten is a young Black woman who became an integral part of President Lincoln's 'Great Experiment'. During th

Breakfast with Les and Bess

An eccentric couple broadcast their morning radio talk show from their New York apartment in the 1960s.

Nightsongs

A Chinese refugee from Vietnam emigrates to America, where she prepares to meet several relatives for the first time.

Under the Biltmore Clock

In 1915 Chicago, 21-year-old Myra Harper sets her sights on the wealthy and reserved Knowleton Whitney. All goes well, b

Displaced Person

A young Black boy comes of age in an all-white German orphanage run by white nuns. Townspeople tease him that his father

The Europeans

The Countess Eugenia and her brother Robert, expatriate Americans who have grown up in Europe, return to prosperous rela

El Norte

Indigenous Guatemalan siblings Rosa and Enrique flee their village after a government massacre and undertake a perilous

Three Sovereigns for Sarah (1)

In 1703 Salem, accused witch Sarah Cloyce, seeking justice for her sisters, recounts the events leading up to the trials

Three Sovereigns for Sarah (2)

In 1703 Salem, accused witch Sarah Cloyce, seeking justice for her sisters, recounts the events leading up to the trials

Three Sovereigns for Sarah (3)

In 1703 Salem, accused witch Sarah Cloyce, seeking justice for her sisters, recounts the events leading up to the trials

Paper Angels

Chinese immigrants are detained on Angel Island in 1915 during the Chinese Exclusion era. The new arrivals express their

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real fee

The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket

A young boy is ridiculed by his schoolmates for his eccentric behavior and assertions that he can fly. Little do they kn

The Roommate

In 1952, two polar opposites at Northwestern University are assigned to the same dorm room.

Valentine's Revenge

A convict serving five years writes stories under the name 'O. Henry'. He encounters a convicted safecracker and is insp

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1)

Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and h

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (2)

Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and h

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (3)

Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and h

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (4)

Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and h

Tell Me a Riddle

Aging couple David and Eva have lost the spark that once infused their marriage. After nearly four decades together, the

The Little Sister

A Boston probation officer tries to help a troubled teenager from a rich Boston family.

The House of Ramon Iglesia

Ramón Iglesias plans to retire from his janitorial job, sell his house in a Long Island suburb and return to Puerto Ric

A Flash of Green

Jimmy Wing is a Florida journalist and long-time friend of Elmo Bliss, a local businessman and politician involved in re

Damien

Father Damien de Vuester, a 19th-century Roman Catholic priest who worked with lepers confined to the island of Molokai,

Rocket to the Moon

In 1938 New York, a dentist finds his business failing and his marriage on the rocks. Turning 40, he's a henpecked husba

A Case of Libel

A former World War II reporter gets a lawyer and takes a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist to court.

Painting Churches

Gardner and Fanny Church prepare to move out of their Beacon Hill home to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. Once a famou

Roanoak (1)

In 1584, a small band of Englishmen reached Roanoak Island off the coast of North Carolina, set up camp, and make contac

Roanoak (2)

In 1584, a small band of Englishmen reached Roanoak Island off the coast of North Carolina, set up camp, and make contac

Roanoak (3)

In 1584, a small band of Englishmen reached Roanoak Island off the coast of North Carolina, set up camp, and make contac

Sunday in the Park with George

The days leading up to the completion of his most famous painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,

All My Sons

Two families, related by friendship and love, face up to the consequences of greed and avarice in the post-war years. Lo

The Prodigious Hickey

In 1905, at the prestigious Lawrenceville School, chief prankster William 'Hickey' Hicks comes up with a scheme to make

The Wide Net

William Wallace searches for his pregnant wife, Hazel, who has withdrawn from him, using a net in the Pearl River during

Smooth Talk

Bored with family life, 15-year-old Connie spends her summer at the mall and with friends, but her carefree attitude is

A Mistaken Charity

Two elderly, impoverished women are forced from the family farm by well-meaning neighbors. Ensconced and miserable at a

Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart

A widowed mother, convinced by a fortune teller she will die soon, pressures her youngest daughter to marry, while the d

Eleanor: In Her Own Words

A one-woman show featuring Lee Remick as former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who gives forth with her views — many co

The Innocents Abroad

Reporter Mark Twain tours Europe and the Holy Land for a San Francisco newspaper in 1867.

Story of a Marriage: Courtship

In the early 1900s, a young couple in love struggle with their deeply divided families. Elizabeth Vaughn hails from a we

Story of a Marriage: On Valentine's Day

When Elizabeth and Horace elope, the resulting familial estrangement establish independent life, build a marriage, and n

Story of a Marriage: 1918

During the height of World War I, Horace faces immense pressure to enlist, all while the deadly Spanish Influenza outbre

Charley's Aunt

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Luc

Gal Young 'Un

In 1930s rural Florida, a middle-aged widow marries a younger, charming bootlegger who uses her for her money and proper

The House of Blue Leaves

Zoo attendant Artie Shaughnessy dreams of being a successful songwriter. What his mistress, Bunny Flingus, who lives dow

Blue Window

In an affluent area of downtown New York City, a Sunday evening dinner party is hosted by Libby, an insecure thirty-some

Dottie

Middle-aged recluse Dottie McCann, suffering from agoraphobia, is forced to confront her illness when she must make the

Waiting for the Moon

A fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples, Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas. During a 1930s su

Strange Interlude, Part I

Spanning decades, Nina Leeds, deeply traumatized by the death of her fiancé during World War I, is unable to move past

Strange Interlude, Part II

Spanning decades, Nina Leeds, deeply traumatized by the death of her fiancé during World War I, is unable to move past

Strange Interlude, Part III

Spanning decades, Nina Leeds, deeply traumatized by the death of her fiancé during World War I, is unable to move past

The Lawrenceville Stories, Part 2: The Return of Hickey

The mischievous Hickey returns to school to find himself against a worthy rival. Scheming to outdo each other for the lo

Lemon Sky

17-year-old Alan strives to build a relationship with his preoccupied father, only to confront his father's emotional di

The Revolt of Mother

In 1890s New Englans, Father is going to build a new barn. However, Mother wants the new house she's been promised.

Pigeon Feathers

A young boy suffers a crisis of faith when he begins to question whether or not the soul exists and if there is life aft

Billy Galvin

Boston ironworker Jack Galvin wants his son to become an architect, but Billy wants to be a steelworker like his dad, le

Journey Into Genius

A historical recreation of actual events in the life of playwright Eugene O'Neill, drawing on his troubled youth as he a

Suspicion

A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting

The Trial of Bernhard Goetz

A presentation of uncensored portions of the highly emotional December 1984 videotape confession of Bernhard Goetz, know

The Land of Little Rain

Early feminist and nature writer Mary Austin struggles to write and publish in the male-dominated California of the earl

I Never Sang for My Father

A man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it difficult as he stil

Native Son

In 1940s Chicago, a young Black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when

The Big Knife

Charles Castle is a successful Hollywood actor who has opted for screen success over art. He must make critical decision

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A Raisin in the Sun

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sist

Ask Me Again

Rebellious young literary editor Elizabeth Leopold clashes with her wealthy, snobbish mother over her life choices, incl

Stacking

After her father is injured, a teenager and an alcoholic employee struggle to save their financially troubled farm in 19

My American Cousin

Sandy Wilcox is a pre-teen girl in rural 1950s British Columbia whose longing to be treated as an adult is roused even f

Love and Other Sorrows

In St. Louis, circa 1950, Ben Griffin lives with his widowed mother and beautiful older sister, Dodie. The restoration o

Stand and Deliver

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a poor Hispanic neighborhood. Convinced that his students have p

The Silence at Bethany

A young man, seeking meaning and focus in his life, returns to the Mennonite farm community where he was born.

The Lawrenceville Stories, Part 3: The Beginning of the Firm

Hickey and Tennessee Shad combine their mischievous talents to make life miserable for an insufferable freshman while st

Life Under Water

Feeling alienated from the world and his mother, Kip enters a complicated relationship with two girls he meets on the be

A Great Wall

When computer programmer Leo Fang is passed up for promotion, he feels it is because he is Chinese, and quits. He takes

The Diaries of Adam and Eve

Explores the humorous conflicts and eventual partnership between the sexes, with Adam portrayed as a reclusive creature

The Meeting

In 1965, at a hotel in Harlem, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X enga

A Walk in the Woods

A true story about one US and one USSR delegate who, during 1982 talks in Geneva between USA and USSR on limiting medium

Big Time

In the fast-paced materialistic world of the late 1980s, three morally ambiguous players navigate an unfulfilling corpor

The Thin Blue Line

An unorthodox investigation into the wrongful conviction of Randall Dale Adams for the 1976 murder of Dallas police offi

Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss

Follows Ralphie's first summer job, his family's chaotic road trip to the 'Haven of Bliss', and the misadventures that e

Imagining America

An anthology consisting of four shorts with the central theme of life in the United States, including a surreal narrativ

Belizaire the Cajun

Belizaire Breaux, a charismatic herb doctor, becomes entangled in a struggle for his people's survival against prejudice

Rachel River

A divorced radio personality in a small Minnesota town returns to her roots and investigates the life of a reclusive, re

Thousand Pieces of Gold

In 1880s China, Lalu is sold into marriage by her impoverished father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up in an

Sensibility and Sense

Three friends, once bonded over their radical beliefs in the 1930s, reunite after becoming estranged over a book one of

Women and Wallace

After his mother's suicide, Wallace Kirkman struggles in his relationships with the women in his life.

The Wizard of Loneliness

After his mother dies and father goes to fight in World War II, young Wendall Oler moves in with his aunt and uncle in t

Zora Is My Name!

A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th-century and grew to be an importan

In a Shallow Grave

Disfigured WWII veteran Garnet Montrose returns from Guadacanal and enlists a drifter to court his former sweetheart thr

Andre's Mother

Katherine Gerard has lost her son Andre to AIDS. At his memorial service, we follow Katherine confronting the death of h

The Wash

Nobu Matsumoto is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife Masi gradually encounters a widower, a kind, g

Triple Play

A trio of short films by Chanticleer Films and Columbia Pictures: Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall (an older widower a

Break of Dawn

In 1930s Los Angeles, Mexican immigrant Pedro J. González becomes a pioneering Spanish-language radio star before being

Prisoners of Inertia

Indecisive newlyweds get into a series of misadventures while on a day trip from Manhattan to Hoboken, New Jersey.

Eat a Bowl of Tea

An American-Chinese man brings over his wife from China to America, but the challenges of making a living and adjusting

All God's Dangers

Ned Shaw recounts his life as an illiterate Black tenant farmer born into a society of former slaves and slaveholders. T

Sidewalk Stories

A New York City street artist rescues a baby girl after her father is murdered. He then sets off to find the mother, but

Bloodhounds of Broadway

On New Year's Eve 1928, in the New York underworld, a gambler sells his body to science, a gangster needs a transfusion,

Where the Spirit Lives

In 1937, a young First Nations girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as par

An Enemy of the People

When a scientist learns that his town's lucrative springs present a serious health threat, the community refuses to list

Separation

When neurologically ill American actress Sarah calls emotionally crippled English playwright Joe, they begin a very spec

Hyde in Hollywood

In 1939, closeted director/actor Julian Hyde finds himself targeted by vicious and unscrupulous attacks by a gossip colu

Into the Woods

In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by the

The Grapes of Wrath

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He ca

Three Hotels

An American couple, Kenneth and Barbara Hoyle, reflect on their lives as players in international business, set in hotel

The Sunset Gang

Three stories about the Jewish elderly in Florida: in 'Yiddish', a man and a woman, both married to others, form a bond

Signs of Life

The closing of a small shipbuilder in New England places stresses on the people involved.

The End of a Sentence

Sentenced to community service in a prison, an English professor teaches creative writing to an inmate.

O Pioneers!

A young woman inherits her father's farm after he dies. Over the years, she overcomes challenges and turns it into a suc

Triple Play II

Three more short films: in 'Peacemaker', a 1950s father helps his 11-year-old son overcome his fear of the A-bomb; in 'T

Hot Summer Winds

A look at the domestic tension between an illiterate Japanese immigrant farmer and his educated wife in 1930s California

The Plot Against Harry

Deadpan, small-time Kosher Nostra mobster Harry Plotnick goes meshugga when he gets into the catering biz with his ex-br

Darrow

American lawyer Clarence Darrow evolves from a corporate attorney to a champion of the underdog, defending labor leaders

The Hollow Boy

A lonely German boy, whose bigoted parents want him to constantly work in their bakery, finds solace in a close-knit, mu

Misplaced

The story of strong-minded Polish mother Halina Nowak, who desperately wants her talented son Jacek to have a life in th

A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz

Explores the complex, passionate, and often tumultuous relationship between the iconic artist and her mentor/husband, a

Longtime Companion

During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What star

Metropolitan

A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gatheri

Surviving Desire

A literature professor falls for a student, leading to a relationship that is both intellectually stimulating and emotio

The Feud

In 1950s upstate New York, what begins as a trivial hardware store argument over a lit cigar and a non-smoking policy sp

Fool's Fire

A crippled dwarf is forced to become jester under a tyrannical king, but when the king abuses a beautiful dwarf with who

Mrs. Cage

Feeling insignificant, a housewife witnesses a murder in a parking lot, shoots the killer, and then turns herself in, le

Daughters of the Dust

In 1902, a Gullah family on the Sea Islands off South Carolina decide whether to migrate to the mainland, risking their

Tales from Hollywood

Young playwright Ödön von Horváth joins a colony of German artists who fled the Nazis in Los Angeles, observing their

Strangers in Good Company

A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect o

84 Charlie Mopic

An Army cameraman is embedded with a reconnaissance patrol and charts their mission across territory controlled by the N

Tru

Isolated in his apartment, Truman Capote deals with the crisis of his friends turning on him following the publication o

Thank You and Good Night

Blending humor and tragedy, filmmaker Jan Oxenberg goes on a personal journey to process the aging and death of her gran

Straight Out of Brooklyn

Larry, a troubled teen living in the rough Red Hook section of Brooklyn, decides he wants out and turns to crime to fund

Fires in the Mirror

Actress/playwright Anna Deavere Smith performs a series of 29 different roles related to the Crown Heights riot in 1991.

In the Wings: Angels in America on Broadway

Includes production meetings, rehearsals and performances, as well as interviews with New York cast members prior to the

La carpa

Along the US–Mexico border, a young, shy laborer, after witnessing the tragic slaying of his best friend, is transform

Porgy and Bess

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a Black fishing co

The Quarrel

In 1948 Montreal, on Rosh Hashanah, writer Chaim Kovler is forced to reflect on his religion when asked to be the tenth

Hallelujah

As Christmas at the Messiah Church in Washington D.C. approaches, a young preacher and, later in the day, a mysterious p

Tales of the City

Mary Ann Singleton, a naïve young secretary from the mid-west, tumbles head first into the colorful world of San Franci

Simple Men

Diametrically opposite brothers Bill and Dennis McCabe set off on a journey to reunite with their estranged father but w

Brother's Keeper

A look at the life of Delbert Ward, a member of a family of four elderly brothers, working as semi-literate farmers and

Long Shadows

Explores the life of Haru Matsukata Reischauer, the Japanese-born author who married U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Edwin O.

Ethan Frome

Married couple Ethan and Zeena Frome are in need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and cons

Golden Gate

Brash young FBI agent Kevin David Walker trumps up charges of Communist-spying against a Chinese laundryman. Ten years l

Angels and Insects

In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, William Adamson, into hi

Blown Sideways Through Life

Claudia Shear's off-Broadway, one-woman show weaves her true misadventures through 64 different jobs and searches for an

Drawn from Memory

Paul Fierlinger concentrates his considerable talents as an animator to recount through fragmented memories, vivid recol

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each ot

Passion

In 19th-century Italy, Giorgio, a young soldier, is in love with Clara. But they're separated when Giorgio is posted far

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