Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987, TV Movie)

Starring:

• Avery Brooks
• Kate Burton
• Bruce Dern
• Paula Kelly
• Phylicia Rashad
• Kathryn Walker
• Edward Woodward
• George Coe
• Frank Converse
• Albert Hall
• Jenny Lewis
• Troy Byer
• Shirley Jo Finney
• Samuel L. Jackson
• Endyia Kinney
• Carla Sutton

Storyline
This adaptation of the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel follows the adventures of a group of slaves in the 19th-century American South. When Eliza (Phylicia Rashad) hears that she and her son will be separated despite a promise to the contrary, she flees the plantation on which she's a slave, leaving behind her friend Tom (Avery Brooks). The story splits, following Tom as he clings to faith in the face of immense cruelty, while Eliza and her son try to survive and remain together despite the odds.

The Principal (1987)

Starring:

• Jim Belushi
• Louis Gossett Jr.
• Rae Dawn Chong
• Michael Wright
• J.J. Cohen
• Esai Morales
• Troy Winbush
• Jacob Vargas
• Thomas Ryan
• Reggie Johnson
• Kelly Jo Minter
• Ruth Beckford

Storyline

Burglary. Drugs Assualt. The students at Brandel High are more than the new principal Rick Latimer (James Belushi) bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives — even guns — when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security (Louis Gossett, Jr.) try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance or Latimer to save his career... and his life.