Richard Leighton

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

A philosophical flume ride through the physical, political and moral borders that inhibit the free movement of people and ideas. Mixing commentary, computer graphics, dramatizations, and investigative journalism, Borders probes the unsettling paradoxes behind immigration, drugs, Star Wars, and other topics.

Trilogy of films about race and culture in the Deep South from the end of World War I to the civil rights protests of the 1960's. All three stories deal with fear and isolation, and the role of faith in the lives of those who venture alone into what is unknown around them.

In ancient Italy, a young servant is offered wealth and freedom... if he will but murder his kindly master.

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.