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Friday Night Lights: Season 3
2008 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn the third season of this critically acclaimed series, former star running back Brian "Smash" Williams works to recover from a serious knee injury, while coach Eric Taylor tries his best to hold the squad together and grab gridiron glory.
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Friday Night Lights: Season 4
2009 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsBig dreams mean big pressure for football coach Eric Taylor and his Panthers in a town that lives and breathes by the team's record. On top of that, Taylor must also help his players through personal dramas and manage his own life off the field.
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Friday Night Lights: Season 5
2010 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn Season 5 of this critically acclaimed drama, star quarterback Vince tries to steer clear of trouble, Luke considers transferring to a prestigious private school and Coach Taylor struggles to balance his job with his responsibilities at home.
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Friends
1971 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsWhen an orphaned French girl (Anicée Alvina) living with Parisian relatives meets a rich English lad (Sean Bury) who's run away from home, they become instant chums and decide to create a life apart from the unhappy adult world they inhabit. Escaping to a seaside locale, the two set up house and become lovers. A baby follows, as do grown-up responsibilities -- neither of which the youngsters bargained for in this intimate coming-of-age tale.
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Fringe: Season 5
2012 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsFollowing the menacing Observers' chilling power play for control of the universe, the Fringe team pulls together everything they've learned and experienced in a massive effort to save the world.
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Get Shorty
1995 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhen Miami loan shark Chili Palmer travels to Los Angeles to get money from a "client," he ends up getting involved in the film business. His foot in the door is washed-up producer Harry Zimm, who owes the mob megabucks.
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Goering's Last Secret
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThis intriguing film reveals the amazing and relatively untold story of Albert Goering, the brother of Nazi Herman Goering. Despite his connections to the highest echelons of the Nazi Party, Albert was determinedly anti-Nazi. He saved 34 people from Nazi atrocities by audaciously using his brother's forged signature and exalted position. Australian backpacker William Hastings Burke - who recently stumbled on new evidence to support the story - has travelled thousands of miles, interviewed relatives and talked to survivors, including some who owe their lives to Albert's interventions. His film shows just how Albert's true legacy was overshadowed by his brother's savage crimes.
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Good Burger
1997 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsTwo L.A. teens with summer jobs at Good Burger try to save their small restaurant when a corporate giant burger franchise moves in across the street. Will their special secret sauce save Good Burger and their jobs?
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Hannie Caulder
1971 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen a trio of thugs shows up at her door, kills her husband and burns down her house, Hannie Caulder is raped and left for dead. But the resilient Wild West widow rallies to plot a fitting revenge against her attackers.
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Heroes: Season 1
2006 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsA group of everyday people awake to discover they have super powers -- from stopping time to reading people's thoughts. The newly minted heroes join forces to defeat their mutual foe, who's plotting to steal their super-DNA and destroy the world.
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Heroes: Season 2
2007 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsAfter a riveting first-season cliffhanger, round two of this top-rated superhero drama finds Hiro transported to 17th-century Japan and surrounded by samurai warriors -- just in time for a solar eclipse. Can he fight his way back to the 21st century.
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Heroes: Season 3
2008 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsIn the third season of this hit science-fiction series, the forces of evil rise up as a rejuvenated Sylar joins them in their attempt to destroy Earth once and for all. Meanwhile, Nathan and Peter try to pull their mother back from the dark side.
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Heroes: Season 4
2009 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsThe saga ends with the fourth and final season of this popular series as Hiro, Peter, Claire and the other heroes continue to come to grips with their supernatural abilities and the dark forces that are aligned against them.
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Hiroshima: BBC History of World War II
2005 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThis fascinating documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. Covering a three-week period from the New Mexico test blast to dropping the bomb on Hiroshima, the program chronicles America's political gamble and the planning for the momentous event. Archival film, dramatizations and special effects take viewers aboard the &NFi;Enola Gay&NFi_; and inside the exploding bomb.
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Horrible Histories: Season 2
2010 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsRattus Rattus guides you on a journey through the ages from the Savage Stone Age right up to World War II, via Rotten Romans, Terrible Tudors, Vile Victorians and the all-new Incredible Incas and Awesome USA.
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I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful
2011 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsJonathan Demme's documentary began as a film about Hurricane Katrina but became a portrait of one of the disaster's most colorful survivors: Carolyn Parker, a woman determined to rebuild her life -- even if it takes everything she has.
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Ken Burns: Baseball
1994 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsAward-winning documentarian Ken Burns takes a swing at a unique and much-loved aspect of life in the United States: baseball. Burns chronicles the sport's signature people, places and events as well as a deep-rooted relationship to American culture.
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Ken Burns: Prohibition
2011 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsKen Burns's fascinating multipart documentary examines the history of alcohol in America, including the events leading up to the passage of the 18th Amendment, the social and legal effects of prohibiting alcohol, and the repeal of Prohibition.
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Ken Burns: The Civil War
1990 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsThis documentary masterpiece from Ken Burns depicts the strategies and action of famous Civil War battles, and relates the stories of generals, field soldiers, politicians, heroes and a beleaguered president.
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Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl
2012 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsThis TV miniseries chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains -- followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s -- nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation.
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Ken Burns: The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsNarrated by actor Peter Coyote, this Emmy-winning miniseries chronicles the history of America's national parks system, recounting how visionary conservationists such as John Muir fought to preserve nature for all people.
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Ken Burns: The War
2007 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsDocumentarians Ken Burns and Lynn Novick bring the harrowing history of World War II to life through the personal accounts of a handful of participants from four "typical" American towns -- proving nothing was typical during this terrible time.
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Ken Burns: The West
1996 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsHistorian and Oscar nominee Ken Burns and his talented team mine vintage photographs, music, maps, letters, newspapers and more to bring to life the struggles and challenges Americans faced in the 19th century as they embarked on westward expansion.
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Koala Kid
2012 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsTired of being teased for his color, a white koala joins a traveling carnival with a Tasmanian devil and a photographer monkey as talent agents. Their adventures take an unexpected turn when their trailer crashes, leaving them stranded in the desert.
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Leonardo: Season 1
2011 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsThis vivid biographical drama pictures a teenage Leonardo da Vinci, working for the inventor Verrocchio but already brimming with his own ideas. Among Leonardo's colleagues is the young Lisa, destined to sit for the master's most famous painting.
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