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From the acclaimed director of Mindhunter and writer of Borgen, this brooding drama covers the six-month investigation into how and why Swedish journalist Kim Wall was murdered on a submarine where she was interviewing the eccentric inventor who had built it.

Cutting edge forensic techniques are used and dogged policing sees the case finally brought to justice, but only after much obfuscation from the killer and seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the gathering of evidence. In what is to become his final investigation, determined detective Jens Møller never gives up, and forms close ties with the victim's family spurring him to seek justice at any cost.

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The Lost Detective

DC Dangerous Davies is asked to investigate a local boy made very bad; James Ramscar. This enquiry leads him to the case of The death of teenager Celia Norris in 1980. With the help of his gloomy young friend Mod he slowly unravels the mystery and discovers the Truth is closer to home than he thought.
Dangerous by Moonlight
A new investigation rakes Davies tripping the light fantastic at a local ballroom, as he unravels the mystery of a missing husband.
Tricia
A simple burglary inquiry rakes a sinister twist for Davies when the victim begins to stalk him.
Lofty
The death of an old tramp, whose bizarre hobby is collecting waste paper, leads Davies into a complex cose of mistaken identity.

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Following the closure of a gypsum mine in the Nevada town she calls home, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road in this "exquisite film" (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal).

Exploring an unconventional life as a modern-day nomad, Fern discovers a resilience and resourcefulness unlike any she's known before long the way, she meets other nomads who become mentors in the vast landscape of the American West.

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A body buried in Dundee 18 years ago. A daughter left behind. A murder unsolved. Until now - because Emma Hedges (Molly Windsor) needs to find out what happened to her mum. With help from colleagues at the Scottish Institute of Forensic Science and Anatomy, she follows the trail of evidence.

It leads her to new love, old friends, and plunges her into a police investigation. This is a world of clanger and deceit Will Emma have the nerve to follow the evidence no matter where it takes her?

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When Bill Hixon (Rob Lowe) lands in Boston, Lincolnshire, with his 14-year-old daughter Kelsey (Aloreia Spencer) in tow, he's hoping they can flee their painful recent past. Whip-smart, acerbic and unstoppable, Bill is very good at what he does.

America's Top Metropolitan Police Chief three years running is the ideal candidate to make his mark on the Force as its new Chief Constable. From the outset, Bill isn't about making friends. He's here to get the job done and get the hell out as quick as his spin-class-toned legs will carry him. Bill soon discovers that the people of this unfamiliar community are just as smart-mouthed, cynical and dificult to impress as he is. They don't suffer fools, authority or algorithms gladly. And as Bill, a man who's spent his life keeping the messiness of human intimacy at arm's length, is reluctantly propelled into front-line policing, the result will be as funny as it is dangerous.

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Newly arrived in Bath, highly ambitious Londoner DCI McDonald (Tala Gouveia) intends to lake the city's police force by storm.

But when she's partnered with veteran Sergeant Dodds (Jason Watkins), the unlikely pair must find a way to work together as their different approaches to policing - and to life - come to the fore, Together, in two new feature length episodes, they investigate intriguing crimes, set against the backdrop of the contemporary changing face of Britain's most traditional city. From the secret lives of the rich and entitled, to the undercover world of addiction treatment clinics, McDonald and Dodds come to realise not all is at it seems in the seemingly sleepy city of Bath.

"The Post" tells the incredible true story of the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post's Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) as they strive to expose a massive cover-up of devastating government secrets, risking their careers and very freedom in a fight for the truth.

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Discover secrets you were never supposed to know! Travel to places you were never supposed to see! Three Reader's Digest investigations take us into; Britain's subterranean caves, rivers, tunnels and bunkers from ancient times to the modern era; plus the shelters, secret weapons sites and hidden

command centres of WW2; and the bunkers, citadels, and hidden nuclear command centres of Cold War Britain.

Hidden History
Be amazed by tales of Britain's hidden caves, forgotten catacombs and mysterious tunnels. Unearth the tale of Edinburgh's secret underground city and uncover the mysteries of the Hell Fire Caves. Travel beneath the City of Liverpool; Journey to Brighton's hidden network of Victorian sewers; and discover Britain's smuggling secrets scattered around our coves and coasts.
Wartime Secrets
From Liverpool to Dover, Westminster to Woolwich, there are hidden secrets beneath our feet. Underground hideouts that would hide a secret army - ready to attack if Germany landed troops during WW2; The wartime bunker Churchill refused to use in North-West London; London's secret tunnels and secret stations; walkways beneath the Thames and many other bunkers and tunnels that exist under our towns and cities.
Modern Mysteries
Lift the lid on Britain's Cold War bunkers. Journey deep underground to Veryan, one of the few remaining Royal Observer Corps posts; Kelvden Hatch in Essex; Corsham ammo depot and underground aircraft factory; the mysterious Pear Tree House hiding in a regular housing estate; right to the present day with a visit to a secret seed store designed to protect our crops from ecological or biological attack!

In 1934, four brilliant, but seemingly conventional young men at Cambridge University are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union. Fuelled by youthful idealism, a passion for communism, a talent for lying and a hatred of Hitler and fascism, they began a 20-year career of deceit and treachery.

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It is 1941 and the terrors of war-torn Europe seem a long way away for the small expatriate community living in Singapore. Dosed on real life experiences this is the powerful story of women whose lives are changed forever.

It is 1942 and the women are finding camp life worse than they could have imagined. Morion Jefferson, the spokeswoman is interrogated by the secret police leaving her mentally drained. Work on the sick bay continues and malaria is rife.

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The BAFTA-winning hit returns, as Cassie (Nicola Walker) and Sunny (Sanjeev Bhaskar) investigate a cold case with alarming links to the police force. A corpse is discovered in a scrap yard, his features frozen in time. Four suspects emerge.

All four have links to the law and attended the same police training course back in 1989. Since then their lives have gone in very different directions. The volatile chief superintendent with a point to prove and a past to forget. A seemingly successful businessman with a criminal past. A Cambridge-educated high-flying cop in a toxic relationship with her mother. And the daughter of a policing family, pushed into a career she cannot stand. All now in their late forties, the police investigation has the potential to shatter their reputations, family relationships and the lives they've built over the last 30 years.

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When human remains are found on the central reservation of a motorway near London, Cassie and Sunny are called to the scene. Dogged work leads the team to Hayley Reid, a 16-year-old girl who went missing on the eve of the millennium.

The police's failure to find out what happened to Hayley wrecked her family's life. Cassie's compassion makes her determined to correct the mistakes made by the original investigation team - whatever the cost to herself. A close-knit group of old school friends hold the key to what happened. Doctor Tim Finch, television presenter James Hollis, failing salesman Pete Carr, and artist Chris Lowe. As the four suspects find themselves under the spotlight, their tight bond is put to the test. They all have secrets in their past - events that have pulled their lives apart. None of them are quite who they first seem to be, but is one of them capable of murder?

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"Manhunt II: The Night Stalker", a four-part drama, is the real-life story of the police pursuit of a notorious serial rapist whose 17-year reign of terror left thousands of elderly people in south east London living in fear.

It is based on the diaries of Colin Sutton (Martin Clunes) and is an important case that he became involved in just before his retirement from the Force. This inquiry has a very different emphasis to the Levi Bellfield case explored in Manhunt; the victims were elderly, and the crimes were unsolved for many years. The drama explores how Colin came late to the inquiry and helped solve it in a matter of weeks, taking an incredibly dangerous serial rapist off the streets.

Oflag IVC, situated in the supposedly 'escape proof' Colditz Castle, was where the Nazis incarcerated their most recalcitrant prisoners-of-war. For these Allied officers, many with an impressive record of attempting escape from POW camps; 'Colditz' was the ultimate challenge...

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Raffles is young, handsome, popular with the ladies and moves in the best social circles in turn-of-the-century England. He's in constant demand as a house guest at some of the grandest country estates and the darling of the cricketing fraternity.

But little do his social friends realise, he's also an accomplished burglar and safe-cracker. Anthony Valentine and Christopher Strauli star in this adaptation of E. W .Hornung's celebrated stories.