The serial is based on the true story of the writer Jack Ronder's own Jewish family after his grandfather fled Lithuania from the persecution of Tsarist Russia in 1885. Believing themselves heading for New York the immigrants were put ashore near Dundee by an unscrupulous sea captain, and left to fend for themselves with little money and even less language. The drama follows his fortunes over a period of 70 years.
The serial is based on the true story of the writer Jack Ronder's own Jewish family after his grandfather fled Lithuania from the persecution of Tsarist Russia in 1885. Believing themselves heading for New York the immigrants were put ashore near Dundee by an unscrupulous sea captain, and left to fend for themselves with little money and even less language. The drama follows his fortunes over a period of 70 years.
Based on the best-selling 1969 novel by Irwin Shaw, the series follows the divergent career courses of the impoverished German American Jordache brothers.
A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890s, who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly woman and her aging brother. Over time, 13-year-old Anne will transform their lives and eventually the small town in which they live with her unique spirit, fierce intellect and brilliant imagination.
The true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite.
Family man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three children as they experience day-to-day changes.
Michael Kyle is a loving husband and modern-day patriarch who rules his household with a unique and distinct parenting style. As he teaches his three children some of life's lessons, he does so with his own brand of humor.
This sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive.
Right out of high school, Sean Finnerty got his girlfriend Claudia pregnant. Now she’s his wife, and at just 32, he’s somehow found himself with 14-year-old daughter Lily, two little boys, and a constant struggle between his need to be responsible and his desperate desire to be irresponsible. His judgmental father Walt and devil-may-care brother Eddie are no help at all. When they all get together, stories always start to fly. Of course, Sean’s family will never let him finish a story; they interrupt, they debate, they derail, they defend themselves; just like any good family would.
A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.
The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.
James "Jimmy" Chance is a clueless 24-year-old who impregnates a serial killer during a one-night-stand. Earning custody of his daughter after the mother is sentenced to death, Jimmy relies on his oddball but well-intentioned family for support in raising the child.