The famous American whale hunter, Sam Mulford, goes to England in 1712 and takes his complaint about the English tax on whales off the Long Island coast to the royal court.
During the Revolutionary War, romance-seeking British General Prescott arranges to meet Dorothea Meadows in an unprotected house in Rhode Island. He is captured by Miss Meadows' co-conspirator, Colonel Barton.
During the Revolutionary War, messengers vital to the cause of the Colonies are hidden by Nancy Hart beneath the floor of her cabin in Georgia. When the safety of one messenger is threatened, she uses cunning and force to protect him.
A dramatization of the 1865 meeting of General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, and the surrender of Lee's army to Grant's army, ending the four years of war between the Union and the Confederacy.
Daniel Webster, tormented by memories of selfish deeds near the end of his life, is comforted by friends who point out that his constructive acts will be remembered.
Painter Charles Wilson Peale risks his career and possessions to excavate and reconstruct a fossilized mastodon, the greatest skeleton ever seen in his day.
The captain of an American ship, anchored in the Turkish port of Smyrna, risks a battle with three Austrian ships when he demands the release of an Austrian-born prisoner, who has applied for American citizenship.
Dramatizes the life of Henry William Stiegel, who came to America from Germany and rose from a worker in an iron foundry to be head of a large glass factory.
A historical drama about Francis Huger, an American medical student, and Erich Bollman, a young German physician, who attempt to rescue Lafayette from an Austrian prison in 1794.
A dramatization of the efforts of Wyatt Earp to free the West of dangerous armed gunmen, in particular in Dodge City, Kansas; Deadwood, South Dakota; and Tombstone, Arizona.
Dramatizes the life of William Penn in the 17th century, from his early interest in the Society of Friends, to his ultimate success in founding a New World colony where religious freedom became a reality.
In 1911, Cora Wilson Stewart, a county superintendent and a teacher in a one-room school succeeds in establishing a night class for adults in a backward section of Kentucky.