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Publisher
Hbo
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Based on Philip Roth’s acclaimed novel, this limited series brilliantly imagines an alternate American history during WWII. Told through the eyes of the Levins, a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, the six-part limited series charts the political rise of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, a xenophobic populist who captures the presidency in 1940 and turns the nation toward fascism.
Publisher
TBN Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The Abraham Accords is a docu-series about the groundbreaking peace agreements between Israel and several Arab countries. The four-part series features sit-down interviews with former President Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and many other world leaders and experts.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It's 1939 and Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Indian Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in southern England. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. As each member of the party starts to die one by one, the survivors realize that one of them is a killer and start to turn on each other.
7) Little women
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Follow the sisters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, on their journey from childhood to adulthood. Under the guidance of their mother Marmee, they navigate what it means to be a young woman: from gender roles to sibling rivalry, first love, loss, and marriage. Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, this story is as relevant and engaging today as it was on its original publication in 1868.
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Twelve years afte the events in Frank Herbert's Dune, Maud'Dib--Arrakis emperor Paul Atreides--has become the unintended figurehead of a violent dictatorship, and his enemies are multiplying. Vanishing into the desert, he waits as destiny shapes his twin heirs Leto II and Ghanima, who must contend with their scheming aunt Alia while Princess Wensicia, of the enemy House Corrino, plots her own attack on Maud'Dib's familial empire. Exiled Atreides matriarch...
10) The promise
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A love story that spans the ages, shifting between the experiences of British teen Erin in present day Israel and those of her military grandfather Len who was part of the British peacekeeping force in Palestine at the end of WWII.
11) Injustice
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After suffering a nervous breakdown, London lawyer William Travers moves his practice and family to the countryside and becomes caught in the middle of a conspiracy when he is called upon to defend an old friend; includes all five episodes.
12) Olive Kitteridge
Publisher
Home Box Office, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The four-part drama that tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
This satire of Victorian society shows the trials and tribulations of young love, the pettiness of upper class life, the raw energy and excitement of the most powerful city the world had ever seen, and the greed and corruption that lay just below its glittering surface.
14) Station eleven
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A post-apocalyptic saga spanning multiple timelines, this limited drama series tells the stories of survivors of the devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what's been lost.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. While at Oxford, Charles Ryder meets boyish, flamboyant Sebastian Flyte, who introduces Charles to a charmed and glamorous way of life that continues until Sebastian's health deteriorates.
16) London spy
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
What begins as a chance romance between two people from opposite walks of life - one an antisocial investment banker, the other a slacker romantic - quickly unravels when the reclusive banker disappears under suspicious circumstances, exposing his real identity as a spy and forcing his lover down a dark path to reveal the truth.
17) The 10th kingdom
Publisher
Sonar Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Beyond the mortal world lies Nine Kingdoms where the fantastic land of fairy tales and magic exist. This is the tale of Prince Wendell and the evil queen who has doomed him to spend the rest of his life as a dog. In order to recapture the throne Prince Wendell travels through the portal to the 'kingdom' of Manhattan and finds two ordinary mortals Virginia and Tony. Together they battle the evils of the parallel universe, and defend themselves from...
19) Big little lies
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The apparently perfect lives of three mothers of first graders unravel to the point of murder.
20) Top of the lake
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A detective investigates the disappearance of a pregnant twelve-year-old girl in an isolated mountain town.
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