Season two picks up directly from the dramatic events and the end of the season one finale, continuing to explore the growing chaos within Alexandria, the complicated interpersonal dynamics of Dr. Foster, Nurse Mary and the Mansion House staff, the increasingly precarious position of the Green family and the changing predicament of the burgeoning black population.

This fictionalized account of Haley's family follows the life of the daughter of a black slave and a white plantation owner in the late nineteenth century South.

This epic story of the Civil War as seen through the lives of two families is a controversial classic of film history.

An African-American "buffalo soldier" is accused of rape and murder, but is successfully defended by a white officer during his trial in 1881.

Recounts the events leading up to and immediately fter the Civil War. Ben Cameron, a brave yet disillusioned Confederate soldier, creates a covert group of impassioned Southerners called the Ku Klux Klan as an answer to the supposed problem of the rise and rule of blacks and carpetbaggers. Bent on revenge, Ben leads his KKK followers in a war to suppress the black threat to white society, ultimately restoring "order" to his beloved South.

Grace, a young woman who promises to protect her brother in the army, disguises herself as a man and joins in his place. She meets a widow that falls in love with her, and realizes that the love between them could cause them harm.