1962 - Top of the Pops

A widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a black man against a false rape charge while teaching his young children about the sad reality of prejudice.

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.

A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.

An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.

A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.

A former vaudeville child star torments her paraplegic sister, who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.

The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.

During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.

A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.

When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.

The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.

A couple pick up a hitchhiker on the way to their yacht. The husband invites the young man to come along for their day's sailing. As the voyage progresses, the antagonism between the two men grows. A violent confrontation is inevitable.

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind, deaf and mute child Helen Keller how to understand and communicate.

A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.

A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.

Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' band leader to raise money before he can skip town.

Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.

An alcoholic marries a young woman and systematically addicts her to booze so that they can share his "passion" together.

A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos before the arrival of a female wildlife photographer threatens to change their ways.