When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.

The Franklin kids come home for Christmas to find that their childhood home and the family business is in jeopardy. While trying to save their home and Toy store, they re-discover the core values of love, family, and the Christmas spirit.

The Defenders are a crack team of lawyers dedicated to one principle - the accused is innocent untill proven guilty. This time, they defend a man wrongly convicted of murder.

During the Japanese occupation during 1937 to 1945, China is in chaos and almost separated, only one man can save China, his name is Wu, but his journey will not be easy. When he return to Beijing he finds out China is in control by different nations. Tibet in the North, Japanese in the west and south, and the Americans in the east. Can he unite the country as one ?

During the Japanese occupation during 1937 to 1945, China is in chaos and almost separated, only one man can save China, his name is Wu, but his journey will not be easy. When he return to Beijing he finds out China is in control by different nations. Tibet in the North, Japanese in the west and south, and the Americans in the east. Can he unite the country as one ?

A young woman agonizes over whether or not to have an abortion and learns that her mother did the same 20 years prior.

Maggie is in her final days of pregnancy, when she and her husband Sean are attacked in their isolated home by two people who decide to wait with them until Monday to empty the family's bank accounts.

For the Franklin family, Christmas will never be the same without their father, Oscar. As their mother hesitates to let love in again, the children struggle to see beyond their own career and relationship problems.

On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal family's escape and King Haakon's difficult choice after Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway.

Frontline examines the candidates in the 2000 presidential election.