Five brothers, each possessing an amazing physical gift, conspire to outwit the cruel Emperor, who forced thousands into slavery to build the Great Wall of China. Each of the older brothers' talents is put to the test in order to save the people: great strength, tremendous height, sharp senses, and resistance to fire. Just when it appears that the Emperor will triumph, it is the sensitive youngest brother whose talent is the most useful of all.
Looks at the United States as it becomes an increasingly diverse nation. Tracing the history of significant changes in the Immigration and Nationality Act beginning in 1965, this program introduces a dramatic vision of a multi-cultural America where people of color are the new majority.
Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company when she prefers solitude, his treating her work as less important than his, his casual and cruel dismissal of her opinions, her boss assigning her an incompetent editor, bartenders ignoring her, her passage into middle age.
A group of professional commandos have to rescue a young female hostage from the drug cartel. Once in the jungle, they're being killed one by one by a fearful enemy.