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When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...
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An actor has dinner with his friend, a theater director, at an Upper West Side restaurant. Together they discuss everything from money to death to love and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York-honed personas, the two dive in with introspective, intellectual gusto. All captured in a delicate, but artful detachment.
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There are no wars to fight. But Gunnery Sgt. Tom Highway, a dog-faced relic of past wars, still has a lot of fight in him. He is a Marine Corps lifer who started his last tour of duty before retirement, and sees the bumpy road his life has taken become more complicated, due to feisty recruits, by-the-book officers, and a salty ex-wife to whom he's still attracted.
7) Game change
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Game Change is a searing, behind-the-scenes look at John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, from the decision to select Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate to the ticket's ultimate defeat in the general election just sixty days later. Told primarily through the eyes of senior McCain strategist Steve Schmidt, who originally championed Palin and later came to regret the choice.
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An ugly woman wears a beautiful mask to win a man who never noticed her before. A wealthy and content man is told by a fortune teller that he will murder someone. A tight-rope walker is haunted by a dream of falling during his act ... and the appearance of a mystery woman.
9) Disturbia
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When he is sentenced to three months of house arrest, teenager Kale Brecht starts spying on his neighbors and becomes convinced that a serial killer lives next door.
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Maryann Lowery is a beautiful, blind cellist and music teacher at the Milford Conservatory of Music. She enjoys her quiet, comfortable life with her friend and widowed neighbor, Oliver. When Gregory Pavan, a world-famous musician, visits the Conservatory to record an upcoming album, he sees undiscovered talent in Maryann. Gregory promises fame and convinces her to undergo a risky eye operation. As the two fall for each other, it will take a life-changing...
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Filled with adventure and romance, these three miniseries chronicle the saga of the Kent family in early America. This Revolution-era romp follows the fortunes of a young Frenchman (Andrew Stevens) as he immigrates to America and crosses paths with historical heavyweights, including Paul Revere, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and Samuel Adams.
12) Frankenstein
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An unforgettable masterpiece, the original Frankenstein stars Boris Karloff as the screens most tragic and iconic monster in what many consider to be the greatest horror film ever made. Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life. The mad scientists dreams are shattered by his creations violent rage as the monster awakens to a world in which he is unwelcome. Featuring...
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Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.
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In An American Tail, a Russian mouse lands in New York in the 1880s, only to be separated from his family. The courageous little mouse braves the strange new world in a thrilling adventure to find his family.
In Fievel Goes West, the fun continues when Fievel joins forces with famed lawdog Wylie Burp to thwart a plot to transform unsuspecting settlers into mouseburgers.
15) Bright leaf
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Brant Royle buys and sells tobacco, building a cigarette manufacturing empire, but his empire is starting to crumble. He is romantically drawn to the daughter of the tycoon who had earlier brought ruin to his family, and she may have an agenda of her own.
16) Brother Future
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A slick inner-city youth is knocked unconscious and wakes up to find he has been transported back through time to 1822 Charleston, S.C., where he is taken captive as a slave.
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Pillow talk: A romantic comedy in which a carefree bachelor and carefree career girl share a telephone party line. Mutual hostility develops without their ever having met. When they finally become acquainted attitudes begin to change.
Lover come back: An adman and adwomen battle over a fake account and wind up in bed together.
Send me no flowers: When he overhears a doctor discussing the imminent death of a patient, hypocondriac George bealieves...
18) Chuck: Season 3
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No more Mr. Nice Spy! Chuck is back and he's the Chuck you know: the hapless Nerd Herder hopelessly devoted to sexy superspy Sarah. And he's the Chuck you don't know: a master martial artist whose brain is locked and loaded with the new Intersect 2.0. How the two Chucks clash, bash, and (sometimes) cooperate makes Season Three total action-packed fun.
19) Glen or Glenda?
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Glen is in love with Barbara. Beautiful, kind, loving and sophisticated, Barbara is everything a man could want or need in a woman. But what if that manʼs wants and needs ran to the extreme? Glen has a terrible secret which threatens to destroy all of his hopes for a happily-ever-after with his lady, for how can she handle the idea of another woman in Glenʼs life? And what will she do when she finds out that Glen himself is the other woman? Giving...
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