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- An engaged girl disagrees with her parents about the kind of wedding ceremony she should have. She wants an elaborate church wedding; her parents insist on a simple home ceremony.
- A Polish seaman seeks US citizenship.
- A California high school athlete with an incurable disease is determined to set the world's record for the shot-put.
- Otis, a Boston lawyer serving as advocate-general to the British crown just prior to the Revolution, resigns his post in protest against illegal invasion of American homes.
- A historical drama portraying the misunderstanding between Sam Houston and his wife, Eliza, which resulted in Houston's resignation of the governorship of Tennessee.
- A biographical account of Dr. Mary Walker, who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for her courageous work as a civilian surgeon among Federal troops during the Civil War.
- An account of the heroic mission of Lt. Andrew Rowan, who braved the Cuban jungles and risked capture and execution by Spanish troops in order to obtain information to aid the United States in the Spanish-American War.
- Young Nathaniel Hawthorne is prodded to greater literary efforts by an ambitious woman.
- The Nancy Merki story tells of how she prevailed over polio to become an Olympic swimmer.
- An historical drama about the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803
- The Revolutionary War story of Lydia Darragh, American patriot and Philadelphia widow, who by her cleverness gained information instrumental in an American victory.
- Widow living with daughter in the suburbs longs for her old life in the city. On one of her frequent visits to the old neighborhood, she finds 3 orphan boys living in her old flat. She wants to adopt them, but CPS won't allow it.
- A docudrama about life in a German prison camp. In 1944, when GIs pool their resources in order to hold a Christmas Mass, the prison commandant not only permits the service but, with the guards, joins the prisoners in their worship.
- During the Revolutionary War, messengers vital to the cause of the Colonies are hidden by Nancy Hart beneath the floor of her cabin in Georgia. When the safety of one messenger is threatened, she uses cunning and force to protect him.
- Kotaro Suto, a Japanese immigrant, goes to work for Carl Fisher, father of Miami Beach, as his gardener. Together, they become legends in Miami Beach.
- A Chicago fire investigator attempts to apprehend the arsonist who has set a series of blazes in run-down buildings near the river. He suspects that the perpetrator might be part of the throng of on-lookers that gawk at the firefighters battling the blazes. When a deaf woman is seriously injured in one of the torched buildings, the inspector redoubles his efforts to arrest the firebug before one of his blazes results in death.
- The struggles for liberty and human dignity in pre-Revolutionary America.
- A dramatization of Theodore Judah's attempts to unify the country with a transcontinental railroad system.
- In Paris Benjamin Franklin must negotiate a treaty.
- Mountain man is liked by the forest ranger but not so much by the townsmen. So when a forest fire breaks out, the town is eager to blame the mountain man. It will up to the ranger to prove his friend's innocence.
- Man and woman meet in Philadelphia and share a love for early American History. Everything is going well until one day when the man doesn't show up for their date.
- The story of John Marshall, first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and his influence on the American judicial system.
- A scrawny, bespectacled college student exerts himself too much and he dies. Another student, the school's star athlete, is advised the boy's grieving mother has been led to believe, by his letters home, the boy was his best friend, though they never met.