An immigrant couple caring for their grandchildren receives an unexpected visitor after hours, threatening to throw their lives into complete disarray.

Examines the class conflicts that exist in Israel. Relates a history of the Zionist movement, as well as a sympathetic perspective on the Palestinians.

Kashira, Hatsu, Seseri, Tan, and Kimo are the five students of the food stall circle who are trying to somehow bring back some fun in a world in turmoil. One day, a regular customer, Nagi, comes to the food stall circle. She says that she has not been able to contact her sister Kokoro for several days, and everyone in the food stall circle goes to look for her...

At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners fled, and the 10,000 blacks who lived there, almost all of whom were slaves, were freed in the first test of President Abraham Lincoln's dream of emancipation. Charlotte Forten, a 21-year-old educated black woman, helped the freed slaves to begin to build a new society. That experience forms the plot of this drama, based on Charlotte Forten's journals, which was telecast on "American Playhouse."

Freedom is a short-lived 2000 American science fiction television show on the UPN network. There were 12 episodes filmed but only 7 were aired in the US. Some episodes were further aired internationally, and the full series is still occasionally broadcast in Brazil.

In 1991, refugees wrongly accused in a high-profile assassination were jailed in Vellore Fort. Though later proven innocent, many remained imprisoned. In 1995, 43 escaped—some recaptured, others fled abroad seeking freedom.

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.

A girl juggling her dreams and social expectations, women workers denied bathroom breaks, a housewife thrown into crisis by a routine gone awry, a maid caught between the priorities of her employer couple, a sewage worker deciding to question an atrocity. Five stories about people of different classes, genders and ages - connected in their struggles for freedom and by the tears and smiles they encounter in that journey.

Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.

Trapped in Freedom, Wisconsin, a death-obsessed young woman reexamines her small-town life when she meets a writer from the big city.