Henry Carter Hull

"From Nobel laureate William Golding's (Lord of the flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government."--Container.

Set in 1950s rural Ireland, this is the searingly truthful story of embittered ex-IRA soldier Michael Moran, a brutal, domineering patriarch. Widowed and desperate to keep his family together, he succeeds only in driving his children from him.

Jane takes a job at an old English estate with a moody master and a strange third-floor tenant.

A young divorcee, Mildred Pierce, rises up out of poverty to become a successful business woman in spite of hardships and her selfish daughter.

While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers--General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of the most moving love stories in American history.

Follows a new current affairs show, The hour, being launched by the BBC in 1956.

Urquhart's manipulative mastery of greed and corruption have finally brought him to the pinnacle of power as the leader of his party. But at his moment of villainous triumph, the succession of a King opposed to his policies challenges Urquhart's authority--and compels him to take up one final challenge to his absolute political socereignty.

In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.

Dramatizes the life and work Dr. Martin Luther King focusing on his role as a leader in the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s.

A group of young people living in San Francisco in the 1970s learn lessons about life, love and themselves.