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The Story of Film: An Odyssey Season 1 Episode 5
Mark Cousins explores how the trauma of war led to more daring creations for cinema, focusing on the darkening of American film and the drama of the McCarthy years. Screenwriters Paul Schrader and Robert Towne discuss the era and Stanley Donen – director of Singin’ in the Rain – talks about his career.
Utopia
The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode.
Chicago P.D.
A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department’s District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District…
Ballers
Looking at the lives of former and current football players, the show follows former superstar Spencer Strasmore as he gets his life on track in retirement while mentoring other current…
Last Resort
When the crew of the U.S. ballistic missile submarine Colorado refuse to fire nuclear weapons at Pakistan without confirmation of the orders, they are fired upon and declared rogue enemies…
The Good Place
Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn’t been a very good person. With the…
Wonders of the Universe
Professor Brian Cox reveals how the fundamental scientific principles and laws explain not only the story of the universe but also answer mankind’s greatest questions.
Loki
After stealing the Tesseract during the events of “Avengers: Endgame,” an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority, a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of…
Scavengers Reign
When a deep space freighter is damaged by a solar flare its surviving crew are stranded on a beautiful and unforgiving planet. They begin to learn the true nature of…
Shameless
Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be… perhaps better off. When Frank’s not at the bar spending what…
Mr. Robot
A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them….
The Artful Dodger
In 1850s Australia, in the lively colony of Port Victory, Jack Dawkins aka The Artful Dodger, has transferred his fast fingers as a pickpocket to the nimble skilled fingers of…
Vice Principals
After North Jackson High’s long-time principal steps down to tend to his ailing wife, Neal Gamby and Lee Russell, the school’s vice principals, are forced to put their mutual disdain…
GLOW
In 1980s LA, a crew of misfits reinvent themselves as the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
Shadow and Bone
In a world cleaved in two by a massive barrier of perpetual darkness, a young soldier uncovers a power that might finally unite her country. But as she struggles to…
A Series of Unfortunate Events
The orphaned Baudelaire children face trials, tribulations and the evil Count Olaf, all in their quest to uncover the secret of their parents’ death.
Borgia
The name Borgia stands for betrayal, intrigue and corruption in the Vatican, which was the center of the world during the Renaissance.
Hostages
The night before a high profile operation on the PM, the surgeon due to perform the procedure is surprised at her family home by four masked men. The gang quickly…
Growing Up Fisher
It’s not every family that’s brought closer together by divorce, but then again, the Fishers are anything but typical.
In the Flesh
Thousands of dead people have risen from their graves and nearly destroyed Britain. A cure has been found – but can the treated zombies be rehabilitated back into living society?
The Book of Boba Fett
Legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand must navigate the galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once…
Amsterdam
Just when long-time couple Nadia and Martín begin to consider separating, an adorable stray dog finds his way into their home, and the two attempt to care for the animal…
Awake
Michael lives in two separate realities after a car accident. In one reality, his wife Hannah survives the accident; in the other reality, his son Rex survives. Michael does not…
Westworld
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world…