The Andersonville Trial -- originally presented as part of PBS's
Hollywood Television Theatre program, this adaptation of the famous Saul Levitt Broadway play is based on the trial of Henry Wirz, commander of the infamous Andersonville prison, where thousands of Union prisoners died of malnutrition, exposure and disease. Directed by George C. Scott, and counting William Shatner and Buddy Ebsen among the cast, this production won several Emmys and a Peabody award.
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The Bedford Incident -- starring Richard Widmark as the captain of a USS destroyer and Sidney Poitier as a reporter who, assigned to write a story on a routine patrol in the north Atlantic, instead becomes witness to a tense and deadly game of cat-and-mouse when the destroyer comes upon a Soviet submarine.
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The Desperate Hours -- a trio of escaped convicts invade a suburban home and hold four members of a family hostage. This 1955 movie, starring Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March, was the first b&w film using Paramount's new "Vistavision" widescreen process.
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