After disobeying orders from Col. John Hardesty (Bob Gunton), Sgt. John Libbey (Don Johnson) is sent to an Army base in the American Southwest and, along with Lt. Marshall Buxton (Craig Sheffer), given the horrifying task of sending 500 horses to their deaths. Though Gen. Douglas MacArthur (James Sikking) believes that the invention of motorized tanks has made the animals obsolete, Libbey and Buxton decide to try to transport the horses all the way to the Canadian border, where they'll be safe.

In this teen-oriented drama, Rick (Jeremy London) is a young man who has fallen into trouble with the law. Given a choice between going to a juvenile home and volunteering to work at a camp for the blind, Rick chooses the latter, but without any particular enthusiasm for the job. However, Rick's attitudes begin to change when he becomes friends with a blind gymnast. Rick helps guide her in her new ambition to compete in equestrian show jumping, and together they learn important lessons in friendship, teamwork and self-respect.

Like the Anna Sewell novel that inspired it, this film adaptation is told from the perspective of a majestic stallion named Black Beauty (Alan Cumming). As a colt, Black Beauty has a relaxed life in the English countryside, owned by the kindly farmer Grey (Sean Bean). However, later in life, he is forced to work as a taxi horse in London. As an aged horse, Black Beauty finds himself in the care of loving owners again, but only after a series of thrilling hardships and triumphs.

A widower (Matt McCoy) takes his injured daughter (Raeanin Simpson) to a doctor (Mel Harris) who uses a horse as part of the physical therapy.

Impoverished in Dublin, youngsters Ossie (Ciaran Fitzgerald) and Tito (Ruaidhri Conroy) live with their widowed father (Gabriel Byrne), who drowns his grief in drink. Their grim existence is uplifted by the arrival of their itinerant grandfather (David Kelly), who has brought with him a magical horse from legend -- Tir na nOg. But when crooked cops discover the prized animal, they commandeer it, intending to sell it as a racing horse. Furious, the boys resolve to rescue the mythical creature.