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"Spiral" is back for another intriguing, gripping and critically acclaimed series about the imperfect people upholding law and order in Paris.

Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) returns early from maternity leave to help the team put a name to an anonymous murder victim identifiable only by use of his dismembered torso. Meanwhile, a high-profile trial involving a boy accused of murdering his own father tempts a jaded Joséphine (Audrey Fleurot). Magistrate Roban (Philippe Duclos) grows distracted and makes uncharacteristic mistakes.

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The Scottish town of Broughty Ferry doesn't know what's hit it. The sudden death of the sitting MP has resulted in a by-election that could change the political map of the UK.

Bob Servant (Brian Cox) has been waiting his whole life for this level of attention and he's willing to do anything to keep it. Bob sells himself as a man of the people but doesn't really like people. He also has absolutely no understanding of the political process and uses the by-election campaign as a heaven sent opportunity for self-promotion. While the bewildered Broughty Ferry locals watch on, Bob and his long-suffering best pal and campaign manager Frank (Jonathan Watson), attempt to pull off the greatest political shock of all.

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Germany, 1958. In those years, "Auschwitz" was a word that some people had never heard of, and others wanted to forget as quickly as possible.

Against the will of his immediate superior, young prosecutor Johann Radmann (Alexander Fehling) begins to examine the case of a teacher who has recently been identified as a former Auschwitz guard. Radmann soon lands in a web of repression and denial, but also of idealization. He devotes himself with utmost commitment to his new task and is resolved to find out what really happened. He oversteps boundaries, falls out with friends, colleagues and allies, and is sucked deeper and deeper into a labyrinth of lies and guilt in his search for the truth. But what he ultimately brings to light will change the country forever.

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Partition is an epic love story of two people caught in the middle of the tumultuous events that divided India and Pakistan in 1949. Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, Gian Singh (Jimi Mistry) resigns from the British Indian Army to a lead quiet life.

His world is soon thrown into turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a girl, who has been traumatized by the events that separated her from her family. Despite the social taboos, Gian finds himself falling in love with the vulnerable Naseem (Kristin Kreuk) regardless of their opposing faiths. With its rich tapestry of stories and characters based on real people and events, Partition is a moving and timeless tale of innocent people struggling to find happiness in treacherous times.

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From creator Graham Yost, each episode of the edge-of-your-seat final season propels U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) and criminal mastermind Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) ever closer to their ultimate confrontation.

While Raylan is torn by just how far he will go to bring Boyd down - including using Boyd's fiancee Ava (Joelle Carter) as his secret informant - both Raylan and Boyd must now contend with the new incendiary force in town (Sam Elliott), a drug lord intent on building his own pot empire in Harlan. Based on the short story "Fire in the Hole" by Elmore Leonard, the Peabody Award-winning drama now takes its place in the pantheon of acclaimed drama series.

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This season, Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) confronts the Crowes, a deadly, lawless family from Florida intent on settling in Harlan with new criminal enterprises in mind.

Meanwhile, Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) struggles to free his imprisoned fiancee Ava (Joelle Carter) as he partners with the Dixie Mafia's Wynn Duffy (Jere Burns). Based on the late Elmore Leonard's short story 'Fire in the Hole', 'Justified' was developed for television by Graham Yost.

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A classic BBC drama series depicting the true-life cases and personal demons of Sir Edward Marshall Hall, Edwardian London's most celebrated barrister.

Presiding over trials that made news headlines and drew large crowds to the public gallery, Old Bailey defence counsel Sir Edward Marshall Hall was Britain's first legal celebrity. A champion of justice for all, Marshall Hall (Jonathan Hyde) earns a reputation as The Great Defender as he pleads the innocence of clients other lawyers refuse to represent. He champions a lowly German prostitute accused of murdering a client, dissects an ugly libel battle about homosexuality within an aristocratic family, and defends the accused in the infamous Camden Town Murder. With every case Marshall Hall seizes the high ground and boosts his standing. But when a maid is accused of killing her illegitimate baby, it brings back dark memories of the barrister's unhappy first marriage...

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A probing, contemporary look at crime, the presumption of guilt and the urban prison system, 'The Night Of' centres around the police investigation of a murder on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

The prime suspect in the case - a college student, the son of immigrant parents - finds himself and his family thrown into the pit of NYC's criminal, legal, penal and judicial system after his arrest and imprisonment. Written by Steven Zaillian and Richard Price, 'The Night Of' takes an unvarnished look at both the city's multifaceted criminal justice system and the purgatory of Riker's Island. Starring John Turturro and Riz Ahmed.

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Julie (Juliette Binoche) loses her composer husband and their child in a car crash and, though devastated, she tries to make a new start, away from her country house and a would-be lover. But music still surrounds her and she uncovers some unpleasant facts about her husbands life.

Slowly Julie learns to live again, as music and the gift of creativity prove to be a healing force.

Director Luchino Visconti brings all of his famed majestic style to bear on this lavish and operative portrait of Ludwig II (Helmut Berger), the nineteenth-century 'mad king' of Bavaria, whose obsession with Wagner's music inspired him to build fairytale castles and finally lose his already-fragile grip on his sanity.

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The location: a picturesque seaside town in 1991. The scene: two bodies in a carbon monoxide filled car. Nurse, Lesley Howell, and police officer, Trevor Buchanan, have apparently taken their own lives...

This is the true story of a Sunday school teacher and respectable dentist and pillar of the community, who formed a murderous partnership. Hazel Buchanan and Colin Howell met at their local Baptist Church in Coleraine, Northern Ireland and embarked upon a passionate and destructive affair, which climaxed in an elaborate plot to commit the "perfect murder".

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The Emmy Award-winning 'Justified' returns for its fourth season with U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) picking at the thread of a cold case over 30 years in the making and unravelling a riddle that echoes all the way back to his boyhood and his criminal father's bad dealings.

Meanwhile, Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) finds his own criminal grip on Harlan County loosening due to a Pentecostal preacher with a penchant for theatrics and a knack for manipulation. Developed by Graham Yost, 'Justified' is based on the works of crime novelist Elmore Leonard, including Leonard's short story "Fire in the Hole".

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Marcel Ophuls' four-and-a-half hour portrait of the French town of Clermont-Ferrand under German occupation from 1940-44 is one of the greatest documentaries ever made, as important as Claude Lanzmann's 'Shoah' in its value not just as a film but as an essential historical record in its own right -

not least since its interviewees are all long dead. Describing the fall of France and the rise of the Resistance, with the aid of newly-shot interviews and eye-opening archive footage including newsreels and propaganda films, Ophuls painstakingly crafts a complex, nuanced picture of what really happened in France over this period. He also demolishes numerous self-serving national myths to such an extent that, although he made the film for French television, they wouldn't show it for over a decade. But, as he demonstrates again and again, the overwhelming majority of French citizens during this period weren't heroes, villains or cowards, but simply ordinary people trying to make the best of an impossible situation. And it's Ophuls' portrayal of these people, their hopes, their fears and their appalling moral quandaries, that remains unmatched in film history.

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As shown on TV, 'Nazi Collaborators' explores the fascinating and often shocking tales of how individuals from all walks of life: the privileged; the political elite; ordinary working men; turned against their nations and races to fight alongside the Nazis during World War 2.

Many did it for financial gain, others for the promise of elevated status. Some believed that siding with the imperialist Germans offered the best chance of survival for their people, whilst others would later claim they would be killed if they refused. From the Jewish leader who offered up his people as free labour, to the ex-French Prime Minister who actively aided the Nazi hunt for the Resistance. And from the IRA-German plot to invade Northern Ireland to the brutal killing squads of Lithuania, this ground-breaking series explores the complex motivations behind the controversial paths these collaborators chose.

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Len Green is a man in crisis. After four and a half years in prison and having more than provided for his family through a lifetime of crime, the one-time getaway driver has decided to go straight and earn an honest living.

But how will his wife, Gloria and four daughters adjust to their new-found, and much less influential, status? And will it really be so easy for Len to resist the temptations offered by his criminal past, particularly when his old cohorts are so reluctant to let him go? Offered work in his Uncle Irwin's undertaking business, Len's rose-tinted view of his family life is gradually obliterated. Faced with a series of challenges, in the form of the seven deadly sins, he struggles to reach a greater understanding of his life, love, family and friends - and of himself.