Hollywood Television Theatre Season 1, Episode 5: U.S.A.

The Andersonville Trial

Dramatization of the 1865 Andersonville trial where thirteen thousand Union prisoners died from starvation and maltreatment.

150 min

Big Fish, Little Fish

Story of people who make it and the people who don't and how each affects the other.

120 min

Montserrat

Set during the South American Wars and the story of the political hostages whose lives depend on a stranger's decision. The stranger -- a young Spanish officer who has become a follower of the revolutionary leader, Simon Bolivar -- can save their lives and his own by revealing the whereabouts of Bolivar to the Spanish conquerors.

Poet Game

A portrait of a tormented Irish poet who seeks at least economic salvation from an American lecture-reading tour.