Three conspirators plan the death of a South American head of state.

Three different viewpoints of the same story - a kidnapping and its aftermath.

A group of people gathered at a wealthy man's country home on a summer weekend engage in an exploration of their varied romantic entanglements.

A journalist out to expose political corruption finds his family is in danger.

In Australia, a landowner is arrested for murder - but where's the body?

In the Civil War, a tunnel is dug under Confederate lines, and filled with explosives.

The old people's home is a pretty miserable place - until the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Erwenter.

The story of abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.

A State Department official is required to leak a confidential document - which may have terrible repercussions.

In Paris, a former soldier is alarmed when the girl he has fallen in love with demonstrates a rather naïve and romanticized attitude to war.

A French army officer arrives at a remote fort in Algeria and discovers that atrocities against the local population are commonplace

Slow witted, and tired, Fentry leads a lonely life of grinding poverty in his sharecropper's shack until a sick, pregnant woman escaping her abusive husband comes there. He takes her in and cares for her, eventually falling in love with her.

Americans try to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe.

Patients at a mental hospital meet for a group therapy session.

Determined to pay off his debts, Mark Twain sets off on a lecture tour.

In the Warsaw ghetto, a Jewish man seeks revenge for the rape of his sister by a German soldier.