10 celebs from across the NBC broadcast and cable entertainment networks come together to discuss the power of the Black vote on both a local and national level.

Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around with Tom, Earl, and Pete, three other Vietnam vets who, like Emmett, all have problems of one kind or another that relate to their war experiences. Samantha becomes obsessed with finding out about her father.

A diva of the Paris stage transforms her mousy daughter-in-law into an attractive ingenue to spite her hated son, away on military service.

An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.

The music and sounds from the tour of infamous country singer Yodluk Salakchai fills the air. Villagers stop to stare, listening to the announcement of the concert taking place tonight. Somwang still looks on until the tour vanishes out of sight but left the inspiration behind to him “You must be a country singer…You will be the next superstar”.

A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

Nastja Säde Rönkkö recites one poem with three narrators: a teardrop, a droplet of blood and a bead of sweat. Each tells love stories through biochemistry – about love, belonging and loss, and about crises lived and impending. The words are vivid but not enough, supercharged here by hyperreal images of landscapes both physical and emotional, and the fluids expressing and crystallising them.

Hosted by Downtown Julie Brown, viewers can get an inside look into the famous band, including a "backstage pass" and a chance to meet Beary Barrington, the Bears' number-one fan, who brought the Bears back together. In the special, the Country Bears also perform three of their biggest hits -- "Where Nobody Knows My Name," "Straight to the Heart of Love," and "Let it Ride."

Solving murders inside the Amish community is unlike solving any other kind of criminal case. These closed communities are pious, principled and notoriously distrustful of the outside world. Murder in Amish Country uncovers some of the most heinous crimes committed by seemingly moral subjects, and reveals that what happens in the dark.. eventually comes to light.

A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.