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1) Black work
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Jo Gillespie is a policewoman whose detective husband is killed in the line of duty while working undercover on a case. Her coworkers expect her to stay out of the investigation, but when alarming information about her husband comes to light, Jo loses faith in her police family and sets out to find the killer herself. Along the way she learns of the many dark secrets surrounding her husband, his colleagues, and the criminals they were investigating....
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This Christmas, the Doctor comes face to face with, the Doctor! The first and current Doctors contemplate mortality in the Arctic as the join forces against a common enemy, revisit another last-of-its-kind being, and are ultimately responsible for the life of a WWI soldier."
3) Saw II
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Jigsaw is back and this time he has locked some very unlucky people in a booby trapped shelter. They must find a way out before they inhale too much of a lethal nerve gas and die. But this brilliant, but disturbed mastermind has left plenty of the traps in the shelter that lead to death also. Now the unlucky are in for a round of horrifying life-or-death games.
4) Robocop
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a near future. Detroit has slowly become the center of criminal activity when a gang who likes to kill cops goes on the rise. Omni Consumer Products eventually seizes control of local law enforcement. Just assigned to the Metro West Precinct is Officer Alex Murphy. Alex is massacred by the gang, as his partner Anne Lewis is barely able to do nothing. At the same time, a young visionary executive, Bob Morton, seizes his chance when the ED-209 law...
5) Narc
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Suspended from the force following a drug bust gone wrong, undercover narcotics officer Nick Tellis is reluctantly goaded back into active duty when a fellow officer is slain. Promised reinstatement in exchange for his efforts, Tellis is paired with the victim's volatile ex-partner Henry and soon begins to actively seek the killer in an increasingly complex case. Tellis struggles with his conscience as he navigates a twisting road of half-realized...
Publisher
The Nature Conservancy
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Worcester, MA could be almost anywhere in America. But when a foreign invasive pest -- the Asian longhorned beetle -- was discovered to be killing Worcester's maple trees, the city took decisive action to halt the spread of the beetle, protecting trees across New England from certain death.
Publisher
First Run/Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Afghanistan today has the second highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world. Filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi reveals the extent of this tragedy by documenting the 2003 return to Afghanistan of her father, Dr. Qudrat Mojadidi (an OB/GYN who emigrated to the U.S. in 1972) as he attempts to rehabilitate Kabul's Rabia Balkhi Hospital with the promised support of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. The film focuses on Dr. Mojadidi's emergency...
Series
Criterion collection ; 618
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
One of the great raconteurs of stage and screen comes together with one of cinema's boldest image makers, Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh for Gray's Anatomy, a spellbinding adaptation of Gray's 1993 monologue of the same name in which he chronicles his journey from diagnosis to treatment of a rare ocular condition.
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