American Playhouse

1. The Shady Hill Kidnapping

John Cheever's comedy of a supposedly kidnapped 5-year-old boy. At first the ...

2. King of America

Hot-tempered Greek immigrant Andreas arrives in America in 1915. He finds wor...

3. Seguin

Seguin was not at the Alamo. All defender at the Alamo were killed. Seguin li...

4. Who Am I This Time?

From a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. Christopher Walken is a shy hardware sto...

5. Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine

The arrival in a small town of a stranger who calls himself 'Charles Dickens'...

6. Come Along with Me

Mabel Lederer is a recently widowed woman who sells all her belongings and le...

7. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf

A unique award-winning tale of the African-American woman's journey in America.

8. Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences

"Perry Miller Adato's first attempt to combine documentary techniques with dr...

9. Fifth of July

Ken Talley is 32, strong, goodlooking and a Vietnam vet with both legs shot o...

10. The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters

Matt Dillon plays a young Jean Shepherd (author and narrator of A Christmas S...

11. Pilgrim, Farewell

A woman suffering from terminal cancer determines to resolve several relation...

12. Northern Lights

On a North Dakota wheat farm at the turn of the 20th century, Ray Sorenson bu...

13. Medal of Honor Rag

A Medal of Honor-winning Vietnam veteran has difficulty readjusting to civili...

14. Working

A musical adaptation of Studs Terkel's book celebrating the lives of everyday...

15. Weekend

Weekend is a TV episode of American Playhouse directed by Paul Bogart.

16. Private Contentment

A young soldier goes home to attend his mother's funeral just before being sh...

17. My Palikari

A middle-aged Greek immigrant visits his native village, with his American-bo...

18. Oppenheimer: Part I

19. Oppenheimer: Part II

20. Oppenheimer: Part III

22. Oppenheimer: Part V

23. Oppenheimer: Part VI

24. Oppenheimer: Part VII

25. The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

The retelling of an incident in Gonzales, Texas in 1901 revolving around a st...