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Black Ops reveals how elite special operations units in different countries carry out their high-risk assignments and shares the inside story of some of the most dramatic military actions in recent history through expert testimony and dramatic reconstructions.

City Under Siege

On the 26th November 2008, India's largest city, Mumbai, was shaken by a series of unprecedented brutal terrorist attacks. Several landmarks were hit whilst bombs blasted across the city and the iconic 5-star Taj Mahal Palace Hotel was besieged and set on fire... Only India's National Security Guard, nicknamed the Black Cats, could stop the chaos. Trained by Germany's GSG9, the Delhi-based Black Cats flew into Mumbai ready to bring the madness to a halt. However, there was little inside information to go on...

Someone is picking off the last remaining occupants of a tower block, using a high powered, silenced rifle. Nobody else has heard the shots, and no help is coming. If the terrified victims can't figure out how to escape, they're all going to be killed, one by one.

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There is a serial killer at bay in Amsterdam's canal network and the race is on to stop him before mass hysteria grips the nation.

Dick Maas's cult slasher movie starts as it means to go on when the predator leaves the protective habitat of the dark canal to claim his first victim before dragging her back into a watery grave. The Mayor is desperate for an end to the mayhem as it becomes clear that the killer could strike at any time, and Detective Eric Visser (Huub Stapel) is given the task of finding the murderer. Amsterdamned became a cult thriller classic on its original release and has stood the test of time with its great action sequences, including an unforgettable speedboat chase along the city's narrow canals, evidence of the high production values and the masterful, clever and dark witty direction of DickMaas.

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Surrounded by lies and deceit, verteran secret agent, Adereth (Ben Kingsley), can no longer distinguish between enemy and ally. Corruption is detected in the production of Syrian chemical weapons and after a shocking kidnap, Adereth is brought in for one final mission.

In search for answers, he soon forges a relationship with Angela (Monical Bellucci), a key lead in his investigation. Hostility from his allies however together with a dubious past that can escape him, leaves Adereth trapped in a complex web of mistrust in this intelligent and gripping spy thriller.

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Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife: the woman both are sleeping with.

But as wit becomes wicked and clever becomes cutthroat, Wyke and Tindle's game of one-upmanship spirals out of control, in an escalating chess match that can only lead to a deadly outcome.

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The thrills are non-stop as CIA recruit Ryan (Chris Pine) is caught in a dangerous web of intrigue spun between bis unsuspecting fiancee (Keira Knightley), a shadowy government agent (Kevin Costner), and a ruthless Russian criminal (Kenneth Branagh).

Ryan must quickly evolve from analyst to fully-fledged operative to stop a devastating terrorist plot against the United States. The stakes have never been higher in this "clever, super-suspenseful" thrill ride.

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The monks of Mount St. Bernard Abbey, a community of 25 men, are opening the first Trappist brewery in the UK. For their historic, counter-cultural lifestyle to survive, the venture must succeed. But with more than half of the monks aged over 80 years old, time isn't on their side.

As the monks reflect on spirituality, ageing and the end of life, the number of burials in the Abbey graveyard continues to grow...Spending a year with the community as they adapt to brewery life, director Nick Hamer's absorbing documentary captures this unique group of men as they contemplate the meaning of life and death.

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Complete miniseries based on the novel by Fay Weldon. Ruth (Julie T. Wallace) is the classic dissatisfied, bored housewife, with a house in the suburbs, two children and an unfaithful husband, Bobbo (Dennis Waterman).

When Bobbo eventually leaves Ruth for the seductive and enigmatic novelist Mary Fisher (Patricia Hodge), Ruth embarks on a sustained and brutally vindictive campaign of vengeance.

Episode 1
Ruth discovers that her husband has fallen in love with another woman and in her fury discovers that she has extraordinary powers. Peel away the wife and mother and what do you find?
Episode 2
It's hard to believe that sexy amazon Rita Rooney was only recently the Good Housewife Ruth, but you have to adopt strange roles as a She Devil determined on revenge.
Episode 3
Mary Fisher's romantic idyll with her lover Bobbo is beginning to fray a little as her drunken mother and her lover's demanding children invade their lives. But they still have each other. Or do they?
Episode 4
Mary Fisher's life is in ruins - she has lost almost everything and in her despair she turns to her priest for comfort. But how can she hope to win against the She Devil, whose triumph seems inevitable?

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You ever hear the one about the cop, the songbird, the psycho andnSfe mafia princess? This twisted tale is told by Harley Quinn herself, as only Harley can tell it. When Gotham's most nefariously narcissistic villain, Roman Sionis (a.k.a.

Black Mask), and his zealous right hand, Zsasz, put a target on a young girl named Cass, the city is turned upside down looking for her. While on the trail, Harley clashes with the Birds of Prey, but the unlikely foursome may have to team up to take Roman down.

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An intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a terrifying life-and-death struggle that holds the key to mankind's

salvation... or total annihilation. Helix is the product of some of the biggest names in genre television, starting with Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore. Also Executive Producing are Lynda Obst and Steven Maeda.

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After a failed global-warming experiment, a post-apocalyptic Ice Age has killed off nearly all life on the planet. All that remains of humanity are the lucky few survivors that boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine.

A class system has evolved aboard the train, fiercely dividing its population - but a revolution is brewing. The lower-class passengers in the tail section stage an uprising, moving car-by-car up toward the front of the train, where the train's creator and absolute authority resides in splendor. But unexpected circumstances lie in wait for humanity's tenacious survivors...

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When crime lord Finn Wallace (Colm Meaney) is shot dead under mysterious circumstances, the delicate network of alliances holding London's underworld together threatens to shake apart. Not least because Wallace's heir, Sean (Joe Cole), is out for revenge whatever the cost.

Meanwhile, Wallace organisation grunt Elliot (Sope Dirisu) is so desperate to earn Sean's trust and approval, he puts his very life on the line.

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Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) is a shrewdly successful businessman who is accustomed to being in control of each facet of his investments and relationships.

His well-ordered life undergoes a profound change, however, when his brother Conrad (Sean Penn) gives him an unexpected birthday gift that soon has devastating consequences. There are no rules in The Game.

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His Majesty was all powerful and all knowing. But he wasn't quite all there. 1788 - King George IIl (Nigel Hawthorne) is almost 30 years into his reign and is once again preparing for the Opening of Parliament.

Queen Charlotte (Helen Mirren) skillfully divides her role as both devoted wife and mother to their 15 children. Yet, despite the apparent veneer of respectability, something is going sadly awry within the walls of Windsor Castle. The King's behaviour is becoming increasingly irrational, he is babbling ceaselessly, spewing obscenities and attacking the Queen's Mistress of Robes, Lady Pembroke (Amanda Donohoe). Has the King of England gone...mad? As the King's condition deteriorates, his son, the Prince of Wales (Rupert Everett) sets out to have his father declared unfit in order that he should be proclaimed Regent. The Queen is denied access to her husband and the King consequently becomes an isolated figure at the mercy of his own inept physicians. Not until he is persuaded to engage a new doctor, Dr Willis (Ian Holm) does the King show any signs of improvement. Yet the King's only true salvation relies on the support of the most potent of medicines - the Queen herself.

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Fleeing an ecological disaster past the point of no return, what's left of humanity must escape the hell on Earth they've created and fly to the stars. Giant interstellar cruise liners, outfitted with every luxury money can buy, take the human race on a three-week journey to their new home: Mars.

On one such space liner, a woman known only as Mimaroben (Emelie Jonsson) assists the passengers as they use MIMA, an advanced Al, to lose themselves in memories of a time when the earth still thrived. Days into their voyage, disaster strikes the ship; debris throws them off course, depletes their fuel and cuts their comms. As the ship floats aimlessly through space with no sign of rescue, MR holds on to hope as society crumbles around her. She looks past certain doom to find a way to help her fellow survivors live, love and do whatever is necessary to hold on to their humanity. Based on the iconic poem by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson, 'Aniara' explores the challenges faced by humankind with a deeply compassionate eye.