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The Story of Jacob & Joseph

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The made-for-television movie The Story of Jacob and Joseph tells the Biblical tale of Jacob (Keith Michell) and Esau (Julian Glover), who spend 20 years fighting over their birthright. They eventually reconcile and sell their younger brother, Joseph (Tony Lo Bianco) into slavery. Joseph is taken to Egypt, where he becomes the Pharoah's chief advisor, yet he still resents his family for selling him into slavery.

The Wronged Man

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Based on the true story of Calvin Willis, a man who served over 20 years in prison after being falsely accused of raping a 10-year-old girl. Legal secretary Janet Gregory works tirelessly over the years to prove her client's innocence.

Never Say Never: The Deidre Hall Story

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Days of Our Lives star Deidre Hall realized that there was something missing from her life, a family. After endless months of trying, Deidre discovered that she was unable to conceive, and out of desperation, decided to try in vitro fertilization. Despite more failed attempts, the collapse of her marriage and a strained career, Deidre wanted a child more than ever. With the support of her new fiancee, Steve Sohmer (Daniel Hugh Kelly), she decided to try the controversial option of using a surrogate mother.

Living Proof

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Top-rated Lifetime movie! Dr. Dennis Slamon has reached a breakthrough in his career. He has helped to develop a new experimental drug called Herceptin, which he hopes will become a revolutionary treatment in the fight against breast cancer. However, when funding for his project is cut, Slamon must turn to philanthropists Lilly Tartikoff and Ron Perelman to help make his life's most important work a reality. With the backing of his new supporters, Slamon continues to perfect his treatment, but his new drug proves that while it has the ability to give life, it does not work for everyone. This gut-wrenching true story explores one doctor's difficult struggle to find a cancer treatment that can save thousands of lives while giving meaning to his own life.

Lafayette Escadrille

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The brave Americans who flew for France before the U.S. entered World War I are saluted in Lafayette Escadrille, a rousing and flavorful adventure filled with flyboy camaraderie. '50s screen idol Tab Hunter stars as Thad Walker, a troubled youth who signs up with the elite corps. Love, however, throws a stumbling block in his path. He deserts to be with his sweetheart – but ultimately returns to dogfight glory. Besides a compelling look at the pilots' training, Lafayette Escadrille offers the fun of seeing actors whose careers had yet to soar to their full heights: movie superstar Clint Eastwood, Tom Laughlin (Billy Jack), David Janssen (The Fugitive) and Will Hutchins (Sugarfoot). Real-life Escadrille combat hero William A. Wellman (The Public Enemy, Battleground) provides the film's story and directs. It's a story close to Wellman's heart…and the last of the nearly 80 films in his renowned career.

Coriolanus

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Although renowned as a fearless military leader, Caius Martius is unpopular among the plebeians, the common people of Rome, who resent his arrogance and equate him with the patrician elite whom they believe to be responsible for the current food shortage. Martius in turn despises the plebeians as cowardly, fickle and untrustworthy. For his extraordinary heroism in defeating the Volsces, enemies of Rome, and capturing the Volscian city of Corioles, Martius is honoured with the name of Coriolanus; he is also prevailed upon by his friends, and by his strong-willed mother, to run for consul, Rome’s highest public office. But the warrior is no politician – and he faces unaccustomed enemies in the form of two tribunes of the people, Sicinius Velutus and Junius Brutus, who fan the flames of populism against him, with catastrophic results.

Showstopper: The Theatrical Life of Garth Drabinsky

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Showstopper is an honest, well-balanced and hard-hitting biography of one of the world’s most flamboyant show-business moguls. It is an emotionally powerful film illustrating the rise and fall of a man who modeled himself after Hollywood ubermoguls Adolf Zukor, Lew Wasserman and the Greek tragic hero, Icarus. Punctuated with key interviews, including those that despised Drabinsky’s draconian style, journalists and financial analysts who predicted his demise, industry insiders and the elite of the theatre community that mourn his passing, this film charts Drabinsky’s career, the art that inspired him, and the ten-year battle to bring him to eventually convict him.

Bad Boy Street

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Filmmaker Todd Verow abandons his home base New York City for the City of Light, Paris, in this sexy drama of two very different men thrown together by fate. The story begins one evening when Claude (Yann de Monterno) happens upon a young man passed out on a side alley. With no ID, he decides to take him to his apartment to safely sleep it off. This begins the unconventional relationship between forty-something Claude and twenty-something Brad, an American actor. An accomplished, serious gay romance featuring an especially touching performance by de Monterno as a man whose stable life is upended by the presence of either the love of his life or just a sex-filled mistake.

Ballet Beautiful: Swan Arms Cardio

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Join professional ballerina and celebrity fitness trainer Mary Helen Bowers for a full body workout that gets your heart rate up as you sculpt and tone! Low-impact cardio mixed with focused toning to shape lean ballet muscles in all the right places. Tighten and elongate the thighs, waist, arms, and butt while you blast calories and finish with a gentle and restorative stretch. No equipment is needed for this fun and graceful ballet-inspired workout for all levels. Includes 30 minutes of cardio, 20 minutes of targeted toning, and a final 10 minute stretch.

Big Money Agenda: Democracy on the Brink

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‘Big Money Agenda: Democracy on the Brink’ explores why, Americans are sicker than they should be, poorer than they ought to be, and less safe than they deserve to be. This documentary explores the effects of money in politics, dark money, Citizens United, the revolving door as well as common sense solutions that will get our democracy back on track.

Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World

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In our post-9/11 world, a greater understanding across cultures is more important than ever before, yet the purpose of this program is not simply to provide political or historical context. Rather it is to explore and celebrate the great richness of Islamic art and architecture throughout the world to peer into extraordinary palaces and mosques, decorated with exquisite gardens, ceramics and paintings, to watch the play of light and space, and to sense the sheen of delicate textiles, of gold and silver work, and of rock crystal and precious gems.

Beautiful & Twisted

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In July, 2009, Ben Novack—heir to the Fontainebleu hotel chain fortune—was brutally murdered in a suburban New York hotel suite. The gruesome murder drew media attention almost immediately for its sensational and sadistic details. It has been described as a diabolical plan by a woman who was intent on eliminating her husband and taking his family fortune for her own.

Gospel of Mark

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According to The Gospel of Mark, Jesus is a heroic man of action, an exorcist, healer, and miracle worker — the Son of God who keeps his identity secret. This critically acclaimed, epic production—five years in the making — is based on the latest theological, historical, and archaeological research, and offers an unforgettable, highly authentic telling of the Jesus story — ending with the empty tomb, a promise to meet again in Galilee, and Jesus’s instructions to spread the good news of the resurrection.

Amadeus

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From the vantage point of an insane asylum, aged composer Salieri recalls the events of three decades earlier, when the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first gains favor in the court of Austria's Emperor Joseph II. Salieri rues the fact that his own music never rises above mediocrity, and he remains permanently incensed that God would bless so vulgar and obnoxious a young whippersnapper as Mozart with divine genius. Why is Salieri--so disciplined, so devoted to his art, and so willing to toady to his superiors--not touched by God? Unable to match Mozart's talent, Salieri uses his influence in court to sabotage the young upstart's career. Disguising himself as a mysterious benefactor, Salieri commissions the grueling "Requiem," which eventually costs Mozart his health, wealth, and life.

Double Tap

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Bobby Giovanni is a distraught police detective and father over the edge. Plagued by his past and mourning the death of his wife he compensates by taking Vicodin and other prescription drugs. Upon discovering who murdered his wife he seeks revenge as social services takes his children away!

The Gospel of Luke

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Luke’s Gospel, more than any other, fits the category of ancient biography. Luke acts as a ‘narrator’ of events rather than the conventional author, painting a picture of Jesus as a very human character, full of compassion for all the suffering in the world. Luke sees Jesus as the ‘Saviour’ of all people irrespective of their beliefs, always on the side of the needy and the deprived against the rich and the powerful. He constantly challenges those in power for their self-righteousness. This full-length feature film about the life of Jesus takes the actual Gospel text as its script, word for word, unedited. Five years in the making, this epic production has been critically acclaimed by leading religious scholars as a unique and highly authentic telling of the Jesus story. Narrated in the NIV by leading British actor Richard E. Grant (‘Downton Abbey’, ‘Gosford Park’) and the KJV by Sir Derek Jacobi (‘Gladiator’, ‘The Kings Speech’, ‘I, Claudius’) it is based on the latest theological, historical and archaeological research. With specially constructed sets and the extraordinarily authentic villages and countryside of rural Morocco, it immerses the viewer in the world of first century Palestine.

The Craigslist Killer

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Seemingly flawless medical student Philip Markoff leads a double life and starts to descend into a twisted world of gambling, crime, battery and eventually murder, all while meeting his victims through Craigslist.

The Gospel of Matthew

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Four writers. Four narratives. One life. For the first time in film history the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John have been reconstructed in four feature length, documentary-style films. Narrated word for word by some of the world's leading voice talent, the Gospels are coming to life like never before.

The Boy with Green Hair

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In a typical small town, to a seemingly ordinary young boy, a most extraordinary thing occurs for a profoundly important reason when Peter Frye becomes The Boy With Green Hair. Peter (Dean Stockwell) has been living with his grandfather (Pat O'Brien), but while studying war orphans at his school, he discovers that his own parents were killed in World War II. The next morning, Peter's hair has changed color to green out of shock. Although ridiculed by his classmates and by the local townspeople, and encouraged by his grandfather to keep his green hair secret, Peter realizes there is a reason for the change: He will use his difference to speak up for all the children of the world orphaned by war and speak out against fighting any more wars.

Ballet Beautiful: Backstage Workout

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Sculpt long, lean muscles with this ballet-inspired full body workout! Targeted power toning and elongating stretches build strong, sleek ballet muscles and increase flexibility. Tighten and tone the abs, butt, legs, arms, and upper body and feel that full body burn!

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