Glover, Danny

Presents three short dramas about love, betrayal, risk, courage, and prejudice in the lives of African-Americans, based on short stories by Richard Wright, John Henrik Clarke, and Maya Angelou.

Presented are stories to help celebrate the American heritage. Stories include Giving Thanks; Hiawatha; Pilgrims of Plimoth; and Lincoln & Douglass: An American Friendship.

Explains where pumpkins come from and showing how they grow through time-lapse photography and animation.

The California Angels are a struggling baseball team praying to win a pennant. Their luck changes as their biggest fan, 11-year-old Roger, begins giving the coach tips from a real live angel. The team not only climbs back into the pennant race, but learns to believe in themselves.

Celie, a poor African-American woman from the South, is befriended by two women who help her overcome the brutality she has experienced at the hands of her father and husband.

Former slaves and other African-Americans who comprise the 9th and 10th U.S. Cavalry Regiments fight Apaches and prejudice as they defend the Western frontier towns.

A $10,000 insurance benefit creates conflict within a Chicago ghetto family when the family matriarch wants to use the money to buy a home in a currently all-white neighborhood.

Civil War documentary focusing on the personal accounts of the participants using diaries, archival photos, and re-enactments.

Episodes on the wartime photographer Alexander Gardner and John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry (50 min. each).

When mean old Boss Lion threatens the peaceful folk of Brer Village, Brer Rabbit is forced to teach the carnivorous troublemaker a lesson he'll never forget,.