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Concluding a powerful and groundbreaking five-season run, 'Boardwalk Empire', the Emmy - winning HBO drama series from Academy Award nominee/Emmy Award winner Terence Winter and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese begins its final season in 1931, a full six years after the end of Season

4. In stark contrast with the Roaring '20s, the country is in the throes of the Great Depression, and with the end of Prohibition in sight, Nucky is looking to legitimise himself by forging alliances with liquor producers. Season 5 also includes flashback scenes of Nucky, Eli, the Commodore, Gillian and others from 1884-1900 - childhood experiences that would shape their relationships and their futures.

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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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Ryan Reynolds stars in this action-packed comedy as a bank teller who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, and soon decides to become the hero of his own story...one he rewrites himself.

Also starring Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery and Taiki Waititi, and directed by Shawn Lew, 'Free Guy' is ranid-fire fun.

Matt Helm (Dean Martin) is assigned to steal back America's newest secret weapon from the evil criminal genius who stole it first.

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Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, Eugene Jarecki's new film takes the King's 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America. From Memphis to New York, Las Vegas, and beyond, the journey traces the rise and fall of Elvis as a metaphor for the country he left behind.

In this groundbreaking film, Jarecki paints a visionary portrait of the state of the American Dream and a penetrating look at how the hell we got here. A diverse cast of Americans, both famous and not, join the journey, including Alec Baldwin, Rosanne Cash, Chuck D, Emmylou Harris, Ethan Hawke, Van Jones, Mike Myers, and Dan Rather, among many others.

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In 2067 A.D. mankind has been devastated by a chemical Armageddon. The last remnants of humanity survive in an underground silo called Eden, where the upper and starving lower classes are divided by a strict caste system.

Underground the civilians survive in dire conditions, forced to work in lethal environments, while the politicians and scientists dedicate themselves to the construction of ABEL, a humanoid life-form, and mankind's last hope. When the powerful A.I. Machine learns its preprogrammed fate, the future of mankind hangs in the balance.

Based on the best-selling novel, Lily James plays free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton, who forms a life-changing bond with the eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey during WWII.

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They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces – and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the 'Vietnam War: The Green Berets'. John Wayne stars in and co-directs this red-white-and-blue depiction of America's Vietnam effort.

Wayne wrote to President Lyndon Johnson to request military assistance for the film – and got more than enough firepower to create and impressive spectacle. Its soldiers fit the tried-and-true mould of earlier Wayne war classics like 'Back To Bataan' and 'Sands of Iwo Jima'. Their heroics are timeless.

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"1917" was a pivotal year for both sides in the conduct of the First World War. Decisions made during that year were to have a profound impact on what happened the following year and the eventual outcome of the war.

"1917" was a huge blockbuster success and was inspired by the director's great-grandfather. So how much was fiction and how much was fact? This documentary analyses the events around the time the movie was set. Looking at what elements were true and the outcome of such a historical moment in history.

WWI The Great War - 1917
This film takes a detailed look at the major military events of 1917 which saw great changes in the course of the war! With significant German success against the Russian front, it meant they could concentrate on the Western Front. However in April the USA declared war on Germany meaning support for the Allies on the Western Front. Outside Europe the Allied forces gained control and submarine warfare intensified bringing rationing in Britain!

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With over 200 million album sales worldwide, Whitney Houston was the voice of a generation. Coming from an esteemed lineage of singers, Whitney was destined to be plucked from her gospel-singing roots to rule the world stage.

She inspired a generation of singers from Mariah Carey to Beyonce and her unforgettable performance of The Star-Spangled Banner unlocked an anthem that had for so long been dismissed by many black artists. Made with full access to her family and collaborators, 'Whitney' reassesses the life and legacy of one of music's biggest stars.

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Starting in the fall of 2001, filmmakers Matt Baumann and Kyle Einhorn follow Fleetwood Mac's every move as they reunite to record their first new studio album in 15 years. Cameras, including a few hidden ones, rolled almost non-stop for a year and a half.

Culled from over 500 hours of footage, this documentary follows the band members as they record 'Say You Will' and prepare for a world tour. From Stevie Nicks's first day in the studio until the band walks onstage, you are a fly-on-the-wall to the 30 year saga that is Fleetwood Mac.

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On the 26th November 2008, a wave of devastating terror attacks throughout Mumbai catapulted the bustling Indian metropolis into chaos.

In the heart of the city's tourist district, Jihadist terrorists laid siege to the iconic Taj Palace Hotel, whose guests and staff became trapped in a heroic, day-long fight for survival.

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Years after Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) fought his way out of the escape-proof prison, he's organised a new top-notch, for-hire security force, that includes some of the best in the business.

However when one of Breslin's team goes missing, he must go back into the secret lock-up to save his friend. To attempt this near impossible mission, Breslin enlists his old friend Trent Derosa (Dave Bautista) and the returning surveillance expert Hush (Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson), to help him return from the gauntlet with both his friend and his life.

Pixar's Soul introduces Joe, who lands the gig of his life at the best jazz club in town. But one misstep lands Joe in a fantastical place: The Great Before. There, he teams up with soul 22 (Tina Fey), and together they find the answers to some of life's biggest questions.

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Decorated homicide detective Ray Archer (Al Pacino) partners with criminal profiler Will Ruiney (Karl Urban) to catch one of the city's notoriously vicious serial killers, who is playing a twisted version of murder using the child's game...

Hangman, while crime journalist Christi Davies (Brittany Snow) reports on the crime spree, shadowing the detectives. The trio races against the clock to prevent the murders, as every 24 hours, a body is hung revealing a new letter of the game carved into the backs or chests of the victims.