Richard Thomas

Traces the disparate fates of the two opposing Civil War presidents, recounting the pursuit of Confederate president Jefferson Davis after the war and the fourteen-day funeral train that took Abraham Lincoln's body home to Springfield, Illinois.

Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied most closely, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights), to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized by others as leaders....

Six made-for-TV movies chronicling the life of the Walton family from the late 1940s to the late 1960s.

The stakes have never been higher for KGB operatives Philip and Elizabeth Jennings than in this pulse pounding fourth season. Still grieving the death of her mother, Elizabeth berates Paige for telling her pastor about her parents' covert profession. A deadly bioweapon threatens Gabriel's life, and the couple shatters the lives of loved ones when Martha is told Clark's true identity and Elizabeth betrays her friend Young-Hee.

It can be anything. A fanged monster that won't stay on the movie screen. Something ominous lurking in the basement. A malevolent force in a small New England town takes the shape of a clown, but It isn't clowning around. Instead, It terrifies youngsters with their innermost fears, bringing some to their untimely doom -- until a group of wily neighborhood kids fight back. Thirty years later the evil resurfaces: meaner, angrier, deadlier. And the friends...

Follows Laura Ingalls Wilder's life as she becomes a teacher, then marries Almanzo Wilder and settles down to face the challenges of life on their own farm.

Follows the Haley family from the post-Civil War era until the more contemporary but still turbulent time of the 1960s and '70s, when Alex himself begins his research into the discovery of his roots.