Alex Levy's career is shaken after her co-anchor's scandal. As rising reporter Bradley Jackson challenges the status quo, both navigate fierce rivalries, shifting loyalties, and power struggles amid a turbulent newsroom and evolving media landscape.
Filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the most controversial women of the 20th century. Her films Triumph of the Will and Olympia are defined by their fascist aesthetics, perfectly staged body worship, and the celebration of all that is "superior" and victorious, simultaneously projecting contempt for the imperfect and weak. But Riefenstahl who first broke into the German film industry as an actress spent decades after the war denying her association with Nazi ideology and claiming ignorance of the Holocaust. How did she become the Reich's preeminent filmmaker if she was just a hired hand? Riefenstahl examines this question using never-before-seen documents from Leni Riefenstahl's estate, including private films, photos, recordings and letters, uncovering fragments of her biography and placing them in an extended historical context. During her long life after the fall of Nazism, she remained unapologetic, managing to control and shape her legacy; in personal documents, she mourns her "murdered ideals." Meanwhile, her work would experience a renaissance, gaining esteem for its masterful technical skill. Today, Riefenstahl's aesthetics are more present than ever. Is that also true for their message? In an era where fascism is on the rise again, fake news is prevalent, and the meaning of political imagery is constantly dissected and debated, Andres Veiel's mesmerizing new film shows that Leni Riefenstahl is more relevant than ever.
The American Revolution was at once a war for independence, a war of conquest, a civil war, and a world war, fought by neighbors on American farms and between global powers an ocean or more away. It impacted millions from Vermont's Green Mountains to the swamps of South Carolina, from Indian Country to the Iberian Peninsula. In defeating the British Empire and giving birth to a new nation, the American Revolution turned the world upside-down. Thirteen colonies on the Atlantic Coast united in rebellion, won their independence, and established a republic that still endures.The American Revolution, our six-part, twelve-hour series on America's founding struggle, will present the story of the men and women of the Revolutionary generation, their humanity in victory and defeat, and the crisis that they lived through. By weaving together accounts of American political leaders and their British counterparts with the perspectives of the so-called ordinary people who waged and witnessed war, The American Revolution will be an expansive, evenhanded look at the virtues and the contradictions in the fight for independence and the birth of the United States.
Historian Dan Jones explores the millennium of history behind six of Great Britain's most famous castles: Warwick, Dover, Caernarfon, the Tower of London, Carrickfergus, and Stirling.
Edmond Dantes, a sailor falsely accused of treason, is imprisoned in the ChatĚeau d'If off Marseille. After escaping, and adopting the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo, he plans revenge against those who wrongly accused him.
As a CODA (child of deaf adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her home. When she discovers a passion for singing, Ruby must choose between family obligations and her dreams. Winner of 3 Oscars : Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor (Troy Kotsur).
In the off-beat Belgian mystery series Chantal, Inspector Chantal Vantomme has just been assigned to take charge of the local police station in the small rural town of Loveringem, starting a new life there as a single mother with her ten-year-old daughter Emma. People in this Belgian 'Wild West' are used to taking matters into their own hands, but the apparent tranquility of this distant corner of Flanders shouldn't deceive anyone. Under the surface of the town's smiling faces lurk seedy secrets and plenty of unexpected mystery. Additionally, Chantal immediately gets off on the wrong foot with Inspector Cloedt, her chauvinistic second-in-command and the self-described 'Sheriff of Loveringem'. But Chantal can hold her own against any man and she has big plans: to take the Chief Commissioner's entrance exam and move to back to the big city as soon as possible. But life, as is often the case, has plans of its own... To Chantal's surprise, she grows to love this remote village with its old-fashioned customs, its old-fashioned inhabitants and exciting and bizarre crimes to solve. Season one.
The filmmaker explores the dynamic that exists between her mother, grandmother, and herself resulting from the sexual abuse of her mother in her native Sri Lanka by her mother's stepfather.
From Emmy Award-winning executive producer and creator Dick Wolf comes Season 26 of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," the longest-running live-action primetime series in American television history. The legendary series follows an elite squad of detectives in the Special Victims Unit of the New York City Police Department as they seek justice for victims of the most heinous crimes. Capt. Olivia Benson leads the unit, which includes Benson's second-in-command, Sgt. Odafin "Fin" Tutuola, Detective Joe Velasco and Detective Terry Bruno. Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Dominick "Sonny" Carisi fights for closure for the victims while dealing with the politics of the DA's office. This season, the squad adds a new detective to their ranks.
Oscar winner Cillian Murphy delivers a stunning performance as devoted father Bill Furlong in this film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan. While working as a coal merchant to support his family, he discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
A dark-hearted neonoir comes to a boil under the bright Los Angeles sun, in British director Stephen Frears's rousing adaptation of the novel by dime-store bard Jim Thompson, a film that raises pulp to the realm of existential tragedy. A possessive mother, her cynical son, and his scheming, seductive girlfriend are career swindlers circling one another in an elaborate emotional confidence game that grows increasingly perverse as love and trust turn to betrayal and Oedipal undercurrents rise to the surface. In Frears's first film made in Hollywood, the ever-assured director and his trifecta of magnetic actors conjure a moody, unstuck-in-time vision of toxic Americana.
"Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh."--Container.
Noir doesn't get any more hard-boiled than this scorching tale of vice and retribution, a film that finds director Fritz Lang working at the peak of his Hollywood style stripped to the bone, simmering with outrage, and fatalistic to the core. A tightly wound Glenn Ford stars as a homicide detective whose investigation into a sprawling crime syndicate becomes a shockingly personal, hate-fueled quest for revenge. Costarring an iconic Gloria Grahame as the mink-coated gangster's moll with her own axe to grind, and featuring a supporting cast led by a sensationally sleazy Lee Marvin, The Big Heat hits with raw, unstoppable force.
For ten years, comedian Connor Ratliff (creator of podcast series Dead eyes) has performed as filmmaker George Lucas in his cult comedy act The George Lucas Talk Show. Co-hosted by actor Griffin Newman (The Tick) and featuring A-list guests booked by producer Patrick Cotnoir (including Saturday Night Live's Heidi Gardner and Severance's Zach Cherry), the show allows Connor to both exalt and poke fun at the vast world of Lucas, including Star Wars. However, Connor begins to question if the show should continue due to its ongoing stress with little financial and career gain. I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story explores the mysteries of Connor's inner self in this portrait of an artist, and his own feelings on his history, value, and legacy are revealed.
Rick and Morty is back for Season 8! Life has meaning again! Anything is possible! Look out for adventures with Summer, Jerry, Beth, and the other Beth. Maybe Butter Bot will get a new task? Whatever happens, you can't keep Rick and Morty down for long. People have tried!
"The heroes lose a powerful ally from the West and find a traitor in their midst. Worse yet, a strategy to separate the villains goes awry when Deku gets pulled to the wrong location. Every effort must count as the battle reaches new heights." --
In 1924, filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (King Kong) linked up with journalist and part- time spy Marguerite Harrison to film adventure, danger and unparalleled drama in the treacherous migration of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia. Grass: A Nation's Battle For Life features unforgettable tableaus of courage and determination as the Bakhtiari brave the raging Karun River. This new 4K restoration will astonish audiences with its beautiful photography and heart-stopping adventure. GRASS is a timeless tale of survival from a legendary filmmaking trio. Features original music composed by Patrick Holcomb and performed by Malcolm Dalglish and students at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Cooper and Schoedsack teamed up again in 1927 for Chang: A Drama Of The Wilderness, a magical story of a Thai family's struggle to survive the forces of nature. Shot entirely in Siam, the film is about a farmer and his family who live at the edge of a massive jungle. Living in the wilderness, the family's very survival is threatened by their jungle neighbors - including bears, lizards, tigers, and even a catastrophic elephant stampede. Featuring one of the most terrific sequences shot with real animals put to film, this 2K restoration of CHANG will astonish and delight. With a traditional Thai score composed and conducted by Bruce Gaston and performed by Fong Naam.
Chief Inspector Maigret and his team of maverick but loyal detectives, Les Maigrets, solve a series of complex crimes in Paris. Maigret's unconventional methods and unique sense of justice put him at odds with his superiors and the judicial system he is supposed to represent. Maigret must outwit some of Paris's most cunning and violent criminals, while dealing with his own troubled past.
When a prominent politician and a beautiful young woman vanish inside a London subway station, Scotland Yard's Inspector Calhoun investigates and makes a horrifying discovery. Not only did a group of 19th century tunnel workers survive a cave-in, but they lived for years in a secret underground enclave by consuming the flesh of their own dead. Now the lone descendant of this grisly tribe has surfaced, prowling the streets for fresh victims ... and a new mate.
"In this action-packed dark comedy, Honey O'Donahue is a small-town private investigator who delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church."--Container.
A transplanted Southerner helps other women living in a tenement on a dead-end street.
The beloved Czech cult comedy, horror, and mystery about a handsome but bumbling detective and a man-eating plant.