Andrew Neiman is a young and ambitious jazz drummer. Marked by the failure of his father's literary career, he is obsessed with reaching the top of the elite East Coast music conservatory where he studies.
Oskar Schindler is a presumptuous and ambitious German businessman who uses his good relations with the Nazi gyrfalcons to get rich selling equipment to the army during World War II. But when Schindler becomes aware of what is happening to the Jews, he changes his attitude and does everything possible to save as many lives as possible.
Balian, the illegitimate son of a knight, will become the most heroic and honorable of knights in Jerusalem and will have to protect his people from the oppressive forces during one of the crusades.
An insane general who believes that the Communists plan to take over the world orders the Soviet Union to be bombed, starting a nuclear war. At the same time, the president and his Pentagon advisers are trying to stop the process.
Robert Neville, a brilliant scientist, is the sole survivor of a man-made plague that transforms humans into bloodthirsty mutants. He wanders New York alone, searching for possible survivors, and works to find a cure for the plague using his own immune blood. Neville knows the chances are slim, and everyone expects him to make a mistake so that he falls into their hands.
George Bailey is a modest citizen who runs a small family bank, despite attempts by a powerful banker to ruin it. Overwhelmed by the disappearance of a large sum of money, he decides to commit suicide, but an angel appears.