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The Mercy
A dramatic biopic following the travails of the now-legendary amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst. In the late 1960s, Crowhurst mortgaged his home, left his family and put his life on the line to attempt the first ever non-stop, solo ocean race around the entire world. Looking to win the race or at least gain wider renown to allow him to continue developing and selling his nautical navigation invention, Crowhurst hatches a disastrous plan to fake his progress in the race and loiter in the middle of the ocean, intending all the while to rejoin the other racers on the last leg of the race.
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Birthday wish
A Hallmark Channel original movie. A woman expecting to get engaged on her all-important 30th birthday gets a different surprise after she makes her birthday wish: a glimpse into her future, which doesn't resemble anything she's ever imagined for herself.
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On The Basis Of Sex
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a struggling attorney and new mother who faces adversity and numerous obstacles in her fight for equal rights. When Ruth takes on a groundbreaking tax case with her husband, attorney Martin Ginsburg, she knows it could change the direction of her career and the way the courts view gender discrimination.
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Possession of Hannah Grace
A shocking exorcism spirals out of control, claiming the life of a young woman. Months later, morgue worker Megan Reed takes delivery of a disfigured cadaver during the graveyard shift. Locked inside the basement corridors, Megan's horrifying visions soon lead her to believe that the body is possessed by a demonic force.
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Mary Poppins Returns
Now an adult with three children, bank teller Michael Banks learns that his house will be repossessed in five days unless he can pay back a loan. His only hope is to find a missing certificate that shows proof of valuable shares that his father left him years earlier. Just as all seems lost, Michael and his sister receive the surprise of a lifetime when Mary Poppins, the beloved nanny from their childhood arrives to save the day and take the Banks family on a magical, fun-filled adventure.
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A Fancy Piece of Homicide
After serving an extended prison sentence for the killing of a man he was hired to investigate, an ex-private eye approaches the completion of his memoirs to set the record straight. Enveloped photographs with connections to the past anonymously begin to show up at his front door, along with a mysterious man who is receiving pictures of his own.
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Henri
Henri was raised in a monastery in the Far East and now he lives in America in the Deep South where his story begins. A peaceful man, he becomes entangled in the affairs of the Chesney family. They have been a menace to the community for years, but the sheriff is reluctant to push the issue due to his own indiscretions. When his girlfriend is targeted, Henri takes the law into his own hands and delivers his own justice to the Chesney family.
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Quest for Meaning
Two childhood friends take an impromptu road trip in an attempt to uncover the causes of the current world crises and discover a way to bring about change. Through the messages of activists, biologists, philosophers, and guardians of ancient traditions, Marc and Nathanael invite viewers to join them in their questioning of the world and offer alternatives to help the world of tomorrow.
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Thai Cave Rescue
During June and July 2018, a widely publicized cave rescue successfully extricated members of a junior football team trapped in Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand.
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Studio 54
Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism--a place that not only redefined the nightclub scene, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society. Now, 39 years after the velvet rope was first slung across the club's hallowed threshold, a feature documentary tells the real story behind the greatest club of all time.
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USS Indianapolis: The Final Chapter
Follow a scientific detective story detailing the discovery of the USS Indianapolis wreck site, 18,000 feet below the Philippine Sea. The ship's sinking during World War II was the largest loss of life in U.S. Naval history.
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Einstein's Quantum Riddle
An experiment in the Canary Islands uses quasars at opposite ends of the universe to settle the debate over the physical phenomenon of quantum entanglement.
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El Angel
Carlitos is a 17-year-old angelic-faced teenager whom nobody can resist. In high school in Buenos Aires, he meets Ramón and they form a dangerously charming duo. Together they will embark on a journey of discoveries, love and crime.
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I Am Not A Witch
When nine-year-old orphan Shula is accused of witchcraft, she is exiled to a witch camp run by Mr. Banda, a corrupt and inept government official. Tied to the ground by a white ribbon, Shula is told that she will turn into a goat if she tries to escape. As the only child witch, Shula quickly becomes a local star and the adults around her exploit her supposed powers for financial gain.
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Hippocrates: Diary of a French Doctor
Directed by a former medical doctor, the film is a darkly comic portrait of a Paris hospital as seen through the eyes of a young intern, Benjamin, who begins his internship at the hospital ward run by his father. Confident and determined to be a success, Vincent soon realizes that the reality of practicing medicine is a lot grimmer than what he had imagined. Vincent finds himself overshadowed by a more talented intern Abdel who is disadvantaged by his status as an immigrant.
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Birds of Passage
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
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The Simple Heist: Series 1
When two women find themselves overlooked and underappreciated as they face their older years, they resort to drastic measures to get payback. Jenny is a teacher struggling to stay afloat during a messy divorce, while her best friend, gastroenterologist Cecilia, has financial problems from a failed stock investment. After Cecilia learns of a bank robbery plan from a dying patient, she convinces Jenny that a crime spree is just what they need to take control of their lives.
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Condor Season 1
A low-level CIA employee returns from lunch to discover that everyone in his office has been killed. On the run, he goes on to pursue the truth about who is behind the murders while continuing to dodge the hit men who are after him.
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Jamestown: Season 1 & 2
Young women who are looking for a better life arrive in the English colony of Jamestown in 1619, where they are duty bound to be married to the early Virginia settlers.
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Trust Season 1
Inspired by actual events, `Trust' delves into the trials and triumphs of one of America's wealthiest and unhappiest families, the Gettys. Equal parts family history, dynastic saga and an examination of the corrosive power of money, `Trust' explores the complexities at the heart of every family, rich or poor. Told over multiple seasons and spanning the 20th century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, an heir to the Getty oil fortune, by the Italian mafia in Rome.
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