Opening narration: "...contender for the presidency. Another contender — Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama — was so convinced theKlan was contrary to all principles of democracy that he wanted theConvention to denounce the Klan in no uncertain terms. His political courage would be tested during that fateful summer of nineteen-twenty-four."

• StarringSidney Blackmer asOscar W. Underwood
• andVictor Jory asCharles Carlin

"WALDORF–ASTORIA HOTEL 1924"
"BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA October, 1924"
Closing narration: "Oscar Wilder Underwood, United States Senator from Alabama, paid a high price for his act of courage — he not only lost the Democratic presidential nomination... but he also lost his renomination for the Senate. He forfeited his political career in fighting the bigotry of the Ku Klux Klan."

• W. J. Bryan. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tol Avery          Forney Johnston. .Lamont Johnson          Klan Leader. . . . . . . . . . .Paul Genge          Joe Larsen. . . . . . . . .Walter Mathews
• Georgia Delegate. .Garry Walberg          Younger Delegate . Berkeley Harris          Gov. Brandon. .Woodrow Parfrey          Owen. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Len Weyland          Ed Moore. .Arthur Peterson Jr.
• Lady Supporter. . .Betty Harford          Chairman. . . . . .Frederick Downs          Colby. . . . . . . . . . .Jason Wingreen          Homer Cummings. .Charles Irving          Pattangall. . . . . . . . .Robert Cinder          McAdoo Man. . . . . .Griffith James
• Reporter. . . . . . . . . . . .Robert Ball          Reporter. . . . . . .William Lanteau          Reporter. . . . . . . .Frank Killmond          Reporter. . . . . . . . . . .Ollie O'Toole          Servant. . . . . . . . . . .Chester Jones          andHenry Beckman asGraham MacNamee

"BROOKLYN, NEW YORK April 17, 1917"
Opening narration: "It was twelve days after America had entered World War One. The country was at once filled with patriotism in its fight for democracy and with outrage against the German aggression. Emotions were running high and, before this year was to end,Mary S. McDowell, aBrooklyn schoolteacher would test her courage against the public pressures of the nation."

• StarringRosemary Harris asMary S. McDowell

"BROOKLYN April 17, 1917"
"BROOKLYN MANUAL TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL"
"BROOKLYN MANUAL TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL May 12, 1917"
Closing narration: "The decision was upheld. Mary McDowell risked her career to express freedom of conscience at a time when few were doing so. Six years later, she was reinstated by the Board of Superintendents which admitted it... might have made a mistake. Without anger or bitterness, Mary resumed her duties as a Latin teacher."
"The use of this additional story of a courageous American was approved by President Kennedy for this series."

• Also starringAudrey Christie as Mrs. McDowell
• Albert Salmi as Schneider
• Co-starring Ralph Williams as Fred Simpson          Frances Sternhagen as Lili Koeller          Rae Allen as Miss Darvon
• Katherine Squire as Mrs. Simpson          Woodrow Parfrey as Principal Ralson          George Mitchell as Mr. Broomell
• Reporter .........Jason Wingreen          Quaker Woman ..... Mary Gregory          Mr. Wilson .............Ken Drake          Mrs. Wilson ..... Maggie McCarter          Miss Wilkes .............Jo Helton

Opening narration: "The British sentry was startled by the alarm of a fire that did not exist. Whoever had instigated this prank, confusion it caused was a prolog to other events that same night... events later to be known as theBoston Massacre."

• StarringDavid McCallum

"In the early months of seventeen-seventy, British soldiers were stationed inBoston for the first time. Their purpose — to enforce the English revenue laws in the colony. The colonials considered military occupation one of many grievances. Some colonials banded together in rebellious groups, such as theSons of Liberty. The colonials were further angered by this sign, posted on the night of March fifth, which purported to announce theRedcoats' determination to repulse any opposition. Sometimes this opposition took the form of children's pranks and sometimes it was the harassment of individuals."
"A disorderly mob was growing in the streets next. Trouble was brewing. John Adams, then a young successful lawyer and a militant foe of the English crown, was to be faced with decisions that could have ended his political career."
"JOHN ADAMS HOME March 6, 1770"
"SUPERIOR COURT, BOSTON November 27, 1770"
"SUPERIOR COURT, BOSTON December 4, 1770"
Closing narration: "John Adams risked his whole career in defending the soldiers. In spite of his unpopular stand, he was elected to theGeneral Court. He became one of the great public figures of America — one of the originalsigners of the Declaration of Independence. He became thesecond President of the United States."

• Also starringAndrew Prine asJosiah Quincy
• Co-starringTorin Thatcher asJonathan Sewall          Gene Lyons asSam Adams
• Phyllis Love asAbigail Adams          Russell Collins asDr. Joseph Warren
• Master Appleton.......Scott Lane          Montgomery..........John McLiam          Samuel Quincy..........Paul Comi          Governor Hutchinson...Ben Wright          Killroy...............Jeff Cooper          Bridgham............Whit Bissell          James Forrest..Hedley Mattingly          Langford.........Brendan Dillon          Clerk of Court..Barry Macollum          Dr. Jeffries...........Tom Palmer
• Jared..............Les Brown, Jr.          Crosswell..........Julian Burton          Mr. Davis, Jr......Barton Heyman          Hinkling.........Russell Horton          Hemmingway....Robert Sorrells          Thayer...............Joe Di Reda          Strong.............James Wixted          Samuel Gray......Jason Wingreen          Foreman...........Ashley Cowan

Uncredited:Percy Helton as Mr. Wilson, witness testifying at trial

Opening narration: "Not all men were joyful, however... not all were capable of celebration.... nor had remaining to them the capacity for joy. Those who survived the charnel pit that was Nazi Germany, survived a new kind of war — a war of enslavement, murder, extermination, genocide... and the victims of that war fell on this battlefield — death from controlled gas warfare... in numbers beyond the ability of the mind to grasp. But who can truly imagine six million dead? The brain becomes useless and it remains to the heart and the soul to contend with such a truth. And what of the men responsible forthe Holocaust? Were they men, like you and me? Perhaps... Not supermen... ordinary men... ordinary, but in whose hands there had been power... that it required little more than a single year to compile and catalog and broadcast to the world from this courtroom inNuremberg, Germany, the full terrible truth of the system that these men had dreamed of... in a nightmare dream to be theThousand-Year Reich and that was ended in twelve. The fire of madness that burned in these men's souls and consumed them and they stood now on the edge of judgment. While in America in that September of nineteen-forty-six, the people were preparing for a far different kind of judgment — in the first peacetime elections in eight years. There was a man then in Washington who was directly involved in the one judgment that would hopefully result in the political dominance of his party in the United States Congress... and who felt a responsibility for the nature of the other judgment that would in all likelihood result in the deaths of the men in the Nuremberg dock. Shy, reticent, solitary man, with few intimate friends, but with many followers. A man who had reached a place of power in the United States Senate... the acknowledged leader of his party. In the few years since his arrival in Washington in nineteen-thirty-nine as senator from his native state ofOhio... called Mister Republican... the son of thetwenty-seventh President of the United States and with the dream that was almost a conviction... that he himself would one day have the honor of holding that office. But he was soon to risk the loss of his place of eminence in American domestic politics. And, he was to risk, too, the condemnation of the American people. Both, because he was a man who refused to make any slightest compromise with what he believed to be the truth."
"WASHINGTON May 1946"

• StarringLee Tracy as SenatorRobert A. Taft

Closing narration: "The storm raised by Senator Taft's speech eventually died down. It did not, after all the uproar, appear to affect the Republican sweep in nineteen-forty-six nor was it, at least openly, an issue in Taft's drive for the presidential nomination in nineteen-forty-eight. Taft's action was characteristic of the man who was labeled a reactionary and who was proud to be a conservative and who showed unhesitating courage in standing against the flow of public opinion for a cause that he believed to be right."

• Also starringDavid Opatoshu as Max Goldman
• Co-StarringLou Frizzell as Howard Jensen          George Furth as Stanley          Sue Randall as Joan Owens
• Featuring Martha Taft ......Louise Lorimer          Tom Smith ...........Steve Ihnat          Senator Wilks ......Eugene Roche          Editor ...........Jason Wingreen          Reporter .........Tommy Farrell          Reporter .............. Lee Millar          Reporter .......... Robert Casper          Reporter ......... Frank Behrens
• andLoring Smith as Roger Marsden

"NEW BEDFORD MASSACHUSETTS 1838"
Opening narration: "This is Frederick Douglass, age twenty-one, newly arrived fromBaltimore. Certain things are second nature, even in a strange town — such as stepping down to let a white man pass... perhaps such deference is unnecessary, but Douglass is unsure of Northern ways."
"This man, Frederick Douglass, on his way home with a bundle of wood, will soon bring distinction to a name not his own. He would find himself with greater opportunities than he had ever imagined, but first he would have to face great risks, public and personal, as well as the greatest risk — doing damage to the cause he serves.

• StarringRobert Hooks asFrederick Douglass

"NEW BEDFORD MASSACHUSETTS 1841"
Closing narration: "Frederick Douglass had to flee to England to escape recapture as a fugitive slave. There, he made speeches for his cause and, eventually, friends in England bought Douglass from his master, Captain Auld of Baltimore. As a freed man, he returned to the United States and served his country in many ways. He recruited Negro soldiers for the Union Army. He was an advisor to President Lincoln and, in eighteen-eighty-nine, he was appointed the United States minister to Haiti."

• Also StarringClaudia McNeil as Mrs. Haines          Harry Townes as Will Coffin
• Alfred Ryder asWilliam Lloyd Garrison          Hari Rhodes asNathan Johnson
• And Also starringFrederick O'Neal as Mr. Haines          Richard Rust asWendell Phillips
• Co-StarringJames Edwards asRuggles          Mittie Lawrence as Anna Douglass
• Featuring Mrs. Everett .........Lillian Bronson          Mrs. Johnson .............. Isabelle Cooley          Dock Boss ..........Ray Teal          Willie .........Joel Fluellen          Billings ..............Jack Doner          Storekeeper ..........Arthur Peterson

"LONG ISLAND 1849"
Opening narration: "The contemporary called Daniel Webster a living lie — because no man on Earth could be so great as he looked. Certainly, his striking appearance was half the secret of his power — he convinced all who looked upon his face that he was one born to rule men. There can be no mistaking he was a great man — he looked like one, he talked like one and he insisted he was one. Ever since his first speech in Congress, attacking theWar of 1812, Webster riveted the House of Representatives as no freshman had ever held it before. He was the outstanding orator of all time — whether at a picnic, as an advocate before the Supreme Court or... in the Senate. Webster first was elected to the Senate in eighteen-twenty-seven. He soon became a strong voice against the institution of slavery, characterizing it as... one of the greatest evils, both moral and political. He presented petitions for the abolition of theslave trade in the District of Columbia, he served as Secretary of State and returned to his seat in the Senate to face the crisis of impending Civil War. When the moment came to test his greatness, Daniel Webster had to risk everything that he held dear."
"WASHINGTON, D.C. 1850"

• StarringMartin Gabel

Closing narration: "Daniel Webster suffered many abuses for his stand for the Union and his own political ambitions were thwarted. But, the fact thatSecession did not occur until ten years later, is due in great part to him. He helped the country understand and acceptHenry Clay's Compromise."

• Also starringMartine Bartlett as Caroline Webster          Sandy Kenyon asFletcher Webster
• Co-starringRobert F. Simon asHenry Clay          Malcolm Atterbury as Timothy Felson          Carl Benton Reid asJohn C. Calhoun
• Slave Dealer ....Woodrow Parfrey          Emerson ..........Booth Colman          Senator Seward ....Morris Ankrum          Garrison .............G. B. Atwater
• Klinger .............John Holland          John Greenleaf Whittier ..Ken Drake          Rev. Theodore Parker ... David Bond          Senator Walker .......Tyler McVey          Millard Fillmore ..........Jim Boles          Slave ............ Robert Murphy

"January 4, 1916"
Opening narration: "During nineteen-fifteen, Europe was at war. GermanU-boats were sinking British passenger ships.TheLusitania was sunk with two thousand people aboard, including one hundred and twenty four American citizens. The United States was neutral and enjoying a prosperous peacetime. In December of nineteen-fifteen, President Woodrow Wilson marriedEdith Galt. On his return to the White House, he not only had to face the problems of the foreign crisis, but he was to create a domestic crisis that was to last for months."
"Woodrow Wilson — former economist, former president ofPrinceton University and, for the preceding three years, President of the United States — must fill a vacancy in the Supreme Court. His choice would indeed produce a shockwave throughout the nation."
"The White House kitchen"

• StarringWhit Bissell asWoodrow Wilson

"THE DETROIT FREE PRESS on the appointment of Louis Brandeis January 29, 1916..."
"..THE BOSTON TRANSCRIPT.."
"..HARVARD UNIVERSITY PresidentA. Lawrence Lowell.."
"BOSTON, May 1916"
"On May twentieth, nineteen sixteen, President Wilson was aboard a train forCharlotte, North Carolina. On the same train was Wilson's friendJosephus Daniels, assigned to talk toLee Overman, a crucial member of the Senate committee voting on the Brandeis appointment."
"Shortly after Wilson's return from Charlotte, the second crucial member of the Senate committee,Senator James O'Gorman paid a surprise call to the White House office."
"One man held the deciding vote in the Senate committee —Senator Shields of Tennessee."
"May 24, 1916"
"On June first, the Senate voted on the committee's recommendation to confirm the nomination by a vote of forty-seven to twenty-two.
Closing narration: "On Monday, June fifth, nineteen-sixteen,Louis Dembitz Brandeis appeared for the first time on the bench of the United States Supreme Court as an associate justice. The record of his service in that court is public and distinguished, bearing on every hope that his friends expressed throughout the long fight to confirm his appointment. The hero of Justice Brandeis' elevation to that bench was the twenty-eighth President of the United States Woodrow Wilson who had risked his career, his administration and his re-election — first to summon forward a great jurist and then to support him when every force — friendly and hostile — was bent on making Wilson retreat. Woodrow Wilson's refusal to retreat was an act for which every American — every person who loves justice — may be proud."

• Also StarringJohn McMartin asTumulty
• William Daniels asAttorney General Gregory
• Special Guest AppearancePaul Stewart asLouis D. Brandeis
• Co-StarringPhilip Ober asGeorge Anderson          John Hoyt asSenator Henry Cabot Lodge          Oliver McGowan asSenator Overman
• Featuring Irish Cook ....... Keith McConnell          French Cook .....Maurice Marsac          Swedish Cook ......Robert Easton          Mrs. Jaffray .............Reta Shaw          Waiter ..............Nick Stewart
• Sen.Hoke Smith ...Donald Foster          Senator Shields .........Ken Drake          Josephus Daniels ...... Duke Farley          Governor Stuart ...Robert Carson          Senator Culberson ....... John Rust          Reporter ...........William Phipps          Stock Exchange Executive .Vic Perrin          Clerk of Court .......Don Dillaway
• AndPeter Whitney asSenator O'Gorman