American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high school friends. The growing appeal of black culture among white teens fascinates documentary filmmaker Sam Donager, who sets out to chronicle it with her husband, Terry. But before Bower was a rapper, he was a gangster, and his criminal past comes back to haunt him and all those around him.

Decorated army veteran Jason Hill is on a routine visit to the local VA hospital when organized terrorists infiltrate the building and take hostages, including a decorated general, and Hill’s wife. The highly trained veteran is outnumbered and the last line of defense, taking on a building full of armed insurgents before it’s too late.

Set on a stormy night on Christmas Eve, a small town female sheriff who secretly is a serial killer gets a visit from a mysterious woman who tells four bizarre stories.

A group of teens set out to the ruins of an abandoned amusement park that burned down fifteen years earlier. The incident is known to have killed two brothers who were trapped inside, but the brothers survived and now haunt the park.

When her down-on-his luck confidential informant in a criminal investigation suddenly goes missing, a desperate young federal agent recruits his doppelgänger to play his role.

A midst a social crisis in the decaying world of Los Angeles, the city free falls into environmental ruin, chaos and a complete drug epidemic, creating a state of apathy and hate. Milles Carpis leans on the support of some new age hippie friends as they guide him away from violence when the woman he loves is murdered and Milles must face his greatest enemy.

A family moves back to a farm in the mother's hometown. One of the children is a clairvoyant and along with his sister they start to unravel secrets that have happened on the farm.

A Sister from the university is invited to stay with her white classmate’s family over a holiday. But when she enters their home, she quickly realizes that he and his mother are up to no good. A horror story rooted in the lessons of history.

A failed private investigator investigates a series of disappearances, and in order to get his way he's even willing to manipulate a grieving mother.

A family struggles with the decision to help their wanted son elude prison.

A detached orphan teen escapes to the future in suspended animation, but when he arrives at a natural utopia, he must evade a lynch mob convinced that he's the prophesied Devil's Child.

Five friends go on a weekend getaway to a cabin in Upstate New York, where time and space begins to function without reason, only to slowly turn them against each other one by one.

A promising novelist finds himself trapped in a terrifying reality as he reckons with the notion that a murderer is in his midst.

Spanning seventeen cities and five countries on four continents, ANNO 2020 is a global kaleidoscope of interconnected characters seeking redemption, forgiveness and answers amidst the chaos of Anno MMXX (Year 2020).

Blinded by rage, a man sets out on a rampage, killing everybody he blames for the death of his daughter.

A drama, set in St. Louis in 1950, concerning an American family and the first courtship and sexual awakening of the teenage son. Ben Griffin lives with his widowed mother and beautiful 22-year-old sister, Dodie. The restoration of the family's affluence seems to hinge on Dodie's romances and hoped-for-marriage to a wealthy husband. But Dodie's ambivalence toward the rich and eligible Sonny confuses and upsets Ben. He wants to trust and believe in love, but worries that he may never find a girl to understand his romantic ideals.

Tammy Wright, a young woman with a case of cabin fever, takes a job as a phone sex operator to pass the time. But a strange caller has other intentions.

An action-crime movie about two women from the margins who take down kingpins and take back their lives. Marni is a bartender, single mom, and occasional pool hustler in the grimy town of Extraction. Her son Jason gets bullied at school, her boss Daryl creeps on her, and she’s not making ends meet. One night a stranger named Steph strides into the bar and challenges Marni to a game of pool. Marni falls for Steph, wowed by her pool skill and tough-girl persona. They hatch schemes to win money, but when they get the chance, they grab the cash and run. Will they take what they need and extract themselves for good?