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Atlantic City, February 1924: Picking up 8 months after the events of Season 3, Nucky Thompson is laying low at the end of the Boardwalk after barely surviving an overthrow by gangster Gyp Rosetti.

But the calm will be short-lived, as Nucky faces new challenges, including a clash with a violent Harlem powder broker, a battle with his brother Eli over Eli's college-age son, and the irresistible lure of lucrative - and perilous - opportunities in Florida.

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It began like the common cold. Then came fever, baseball-sized black swellings on the neck, and coughing up blood. Few infected lived more than two days. It was history's worst biological disaster and almost half of Europe's population died within three years.

Visit the plague ships' rat-infested holds, witness the terror that swept through towns, and walk with religious flagellants. Follow a princess as she travels into the centre of the plague, a doctor who struggles to understand what is happening and a Jewish merchant caught up in violent attacks. Hear the actual words of the victims, taken from diaries and journals. From the Pope's palace to the humble huts of medieval peasants, watch as people live and die in the unforgiving grip of fear and death and wonder how we would act if such a terrible event happened today.

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During a period when Britain was divided, unstable and violent, one of the world's first secret services was born. Run by William and Robert Cecil, this father and son team had the duty of protecting the Queen and the Country.

This series asks leading historians to each study the period from a different key player's point of view, dissecting the minds and motivations of the protagonists, to reveal a covert spy network - and present a picture of the Elizabethan Court as it really was. This series takes us through the biggest events of the period, from the entrapment and execution of Mary Queen of Scots to the death of Queen Elizabeth I, the capture and escape of Catholic fugitive John Gerard and the most infamous terrorist conspiracy in British history - the Gunpowder Plot.

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Atlantic City, 1922: The Roaring '20s are about to begin in earnest and despite a booming economy, alcohol is scarce and gangster violence is heating up.

Amidst this backdrop, Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi), whose marriage to Margaret has become a sham after she signed away his highway windfall to the church, faces the challenge of mending old relationships. Nucky also encounters new competition from a hair-trigger gangster who builds a strategic bulkhead between New York and Atlantic City in an effort to siphon off Nucky's alcohol business. The conflict brings out die best and worst in Nucky as new and familiar faces undergo compelling metamorphoses within the third season of this Golden Globe and Emmy Award- winning series.

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As the new season begins, Murdoch and his colleagues are dealing with the aftermath of the brutal beating of Inspector Brackenreid at the hands of the violent O'Shea brothers. The area remains a contentious and dangerous place as gangs vie for power and extort and murder local merchants.

Among the intricate investigations this season, Murdoch joins forces with legendary lawman Bat Masterson in pursuit of notorious bank robbers Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and becomes the object of adoration for a group of detective admirers. Crabtree and Higgins get to explore their performance aspirations when they go undercover at a vaudeville show featuring a young, fumbling W.C. Fields. Meanwhile, Dr. Ogden and Dr. Grace join forces with Margaret Haile and a group of suffragettes in their quest for the women's vote, only to find themselves in jail and defended by Clara Brett Martin, the first woman lawyer in the British Empire.

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During an outbreak of the bubonic plague in the magnificent Seville of 1597, Mateo (Pablo Molinero), a former soldier, returns, honouring his word to find and extract a dead friends son from the city.

Previously, Mateo had been forced to flee the city to save his life, having been sentenced to death by the Inquisition for printing forbidden books. Before he can complete his task, Mateo is arrested by the Inquisitor's bailiffs, who promise to pardon his life in exchange for solving a series of crimes of diabolic overtones being committed in Seville.

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When his son dies of a drug overdose, mild-mannered snow plough driver, Nils (Stellan Skarsgard), refuses to believe the results from the police report. On finding out who was responsible for his son's death, Nils sets out for revenge and justice.

In the process, he becomes embroiled in a drug war between the Serbian mafia and gangster boss, The Count. For an ordinary guy, he soon displays an extraordinary talent for revenge.

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Ten years in planning, Sergio Leone's epic 'Once Upon a Time in America' portrays 50 years of riveting underworld history and offers rich roles to a remarkable cast. Robert De Niro and James Woods play lifelong Lower East Side pals whose wary partnership unravels in death and mystery.

Strong support comes from 'Tuesday Weld', Joe Pesci, Jennifer Connelly, Elizabeth McGovern and the young actors playing the central characters as ghetto kids.

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Based on Jack Higgins electrifying World War II novel in which a Nazi impersonator is asked to recover the secret plans of the 1944 D-Day landings. Shortly before the D-Day landings Colonel Kelso, an American officer with plans of the forthcoming invasion, is washed ashore on Nazi occupied Jersey.

Hearing that Kelso is still alive, the Allies ask Harry Martineau (George Peppard) to travel to Jersey, pose as a Nazi agent, and to either rescue Kelso, or silence him. Martineau is accompanied on his daring mission by the beautiful Sara Drayton (Deborah Raffin) a former resident of Jersey. Martineau's assignment becomes more complicated when Field Marshall Rommell (Michael York) appears on Jersey for an unannounced visit. Will our heroes be able to rescue Kelso and return him to England or will he pay the ultimate price?

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In the 1920s, political activist Jimmy Gralton built a dance hall in rural Ireland. As the hall grew in popularity its free-spirited reputation brought it to the attention of the church and politicians who forced Jimmy to flee and the hall to close.

A decade later, at the height of the Depression, Jimmy returns from the US. The hall stands abandoned but as Jimmy sees the poverty and growing oppression in the village, the leader and activist within him is stirred. He decides to reopen the hall, and so takes on the established authorities of the church and the government.

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Brian De Palma's 'The Untouchables' is a must-see masterpiece - a glorious, fierce, larger-than-life depiction of the mob warlord who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago...and the law enforcer who vowed to bring him down.

This classic confrontation between good and evil stars Kevin Costner as federal agent Eliot Ness, Robert De Niro as gangland kingpin Al Capone and Sean Connery as Malone, the cop who teaches Ness how to beat the mob: shoot fast and shoot first.

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'Woman in Cold' is the remarkable true story of one woman's journey to reclaim her heritage and seek justice for what happened to her family.

Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Gustav Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds), she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court, and forces her to confront difficult truths about the past along the way.

Starring Academy Award-winning actresses Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, "Big Little Lies" is a subversive, darkly comedic drama that weaves a tale of murder and mischief as it explores society's myth of perfection and marriage, sex, parenting and friendship.

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From 1971 to 1980, millions followed the drama and spectacle of this lavishly-filmed television series: the glorious opening credits set to music from Khachaturian's Spartacus; the magnificent sight of tall ships under full sail and, of course, the trials and triumphs, loves and betrayals,

adventures and disasters of James and the rest of the Onedin family.
Already a seasoned seafarer at 28, James Onedin is determined to command his own ship and has found just the vessel - the schooner Charlotte Rhodes - even if it means marrying a woman he does not love. With the assistance of his loyal Captain, Mr Baines, Onedin soon proves a shrewd operator: battling storms, mutinies and the bitter rivalry of his former employer, Callon. However, back in Liverpool, he has other distractions, including his volatile sister, Elizabeth, who is courting both seafarer Daniel Fogarty and the wealthy Albert Frazer - and now reveals that she is pregnant...

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Prince Charles (Tim Pigott-Smith) has waited his entire life to ascend to the throne. But after the Queen's death, he finds himself wrestling his conscience over a bill to sign into law.

His hesitation detonates a constitutional and political crisis and divides his family, with William (Oliver Chris) and Kate (Charlotte Riley) realising his actions may threaten their future. Meanwhile an unhappy Prince Harry (Richard Goulding) starts a relationship with a 'commoner', just when the press is looking to attack... With the monarchy's future under threat, protests on the streets, and his family in disarray, Charles must grapple with his identity and purpose, to decide whether the Crown still has any real power.