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- After her best friend is murdered, and her father is removed as county Sheriff, Veronica Mars dedicates her life to cracking the toughest mysteries in the affluent town of Neptune.
- A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.
- An F.B.I. Agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.
- The powerful but arrogant god Thor is cast out of Asgard to live amongst humans in Midgard (Earth), where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders.
- A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.
- A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.
- Two bumbling explorers hope to beat Lewis & Clarke to the Pacific Ocean as they race across America's western frontier in the early 1800's.
- To stop an elusive criminal, a maverick detective enlists the aid of a police dog who's an unusually intelligent smart alec.
- A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community.
- After being arrested during a manic episode, a man who suffers from bipolar disorder is treated by a psychiatrist who begins to develop romantic feelings towards him.
- "Night Train to Terror" is a 1985 horror anthology movie where God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals.
- Led by a demanding coach, an unlikely squad of small town girls vie for victory in a major US cheer dance championship. Based on true events.
- Boy genius Michael Dean (Adkins) teams up with a super-talented chimpanzee and his caretaker (Modine) to take down an animal testing lab. In exchange the scientist gives the boy some pointers on the girl of his dreams.
- A young woman in dire financial straights accepts an offer to be a wealthy aristocrat's human "pet" for six months. Then ruthless modern "pet-nappers" kidnap the woman to sell her on the GSM (Global Slave Market).
- Mitchell, a police detective investigating the death of a victim of a German concentration camp, discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.
- Spoiled rotten sixteen year old boys and girls get lavish parties throw by wealthy parents.
- Vinnie Terranova is back, foiling a staged kidnaping of computer mogul Paul Callendar's son in order to probe possible inside information brokering. Meanwhile, McPike is having a hard time working with his young boss, who feels Terranova and McPike are dinosaurs not worth supporting.
- Hunter and McCall are back!
- The story of young aspiring professional surfer Ned Blakey. It chronicles the life of Ned as he lives out his dreams, unfortunately his life gets turned upside down and he eventually hits rock bottom. With nowhere to turn Ned finds himself back at where it all began.
- Judge Kay Woodbury takes a troubled teen as a foster child into her home after no one else seems to want her.
- The new coach on campus must train a handful of medal hopefuls.
- Viva and Taylor Mead are a married couple renting an extra beach-house to a group of surfers sent to them by a Mr. Morrissey of La Jolla Realty. Their daughter, Ingrid Superstar, is pregnant and on the hunt for a husband. Mr. Mead, who is gay, tries to pawn her off to one of the surfers. Meanwhile, Viva wants a divorce from her boy-crazy hubby, who wants a surfer of his own. Tom, a surfer, is inveigled by Mr. Mead to urinate on him. In a close-up, Mr. Mead receives Tom's offering ecstatically, after which he comments, "I'm a real surfer now."
- An ex-con trying to find work in a new Depression is lured back to a life of crime, but his gang passes the point of no return once they become fugitives.
- A complete performance of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO filmed as a stage play with curtains between the five acts: Act I. "The Sailor's Return," Act II. "Twenty Years Later," Act III. "Dantes Starts on His Mission of Vengeance," Act IV. "Dantes as the Count of Monte Cristo," Act V. "Dantes Accuses His Enemies," and "finis" at the end. This is the oldest known film of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. Also, it depicts the oldest known film of the San Diego coast.
- Eli, an outcast teen, connects with his isolated grandfather Samuel for the first time, and uncovers his surprising past, when he makes his grandpa the subject of an animated art project for school.
- Chafing under his dying father's prediction that he is just a fighter without a soul who someday will be beaten by his long-lost brother, brutish Charles Hinges heads west with Jacinta, a dance hall girl, and Augustina, a fortune-teller. They tour frontier towns, with Charles taking on all challengers in no-holds-barred wrestling matches. Charles is undefeated until he engages his brother, David, the town reformer. In his humiliation, Charles feels he has finally found his soul. Fearing that Jacinta admires him only for his strength, he sends her to David. Meanwhile, Jacinta has been the object of the unwelcome attentions of China Jones. Jones is killed, and saloon keeper Phil Beason fastens the blame on David, who is about to be lynched when Charles claims the guilt. Jacinta saves both brothers from the rope with the timely arrival of a posse and Augustina's confession to Jones's murder. Charles reveals himself to David and is reunited with Jacinta.
- Identical young twin girls in the USA have invented their own shared language. Scientists are wanting to study the language but social workers are trying to get the twins to leave their secret language world and enter the mainstream. This means forcing them to speak normal English and lose their secret language. The filmmaker's own questions about this process run across as text at the bottom of the screen, a first use of that technique in documentary.
- A preview of ClothesFree TV's "Nudes in the News" DVD's. Brian and Red explain a little about the DVD's, and discuss ClothesFree's website, before a number of clips taken from the DVD's are shown.
- The images and memories are still familiar to those of a certain age - children in braces or iron lungs; the terrifying fear that washed over America each summer - a fear that out of nowhere a seemingly healthy child would catch polio and be crippled or killed. A fear so great that children were forbidden to play at pools, playgrounds and movie theaters. And, then, a medical miracle occurred, and with it, a medical superstar was made, Dr. Jonas Salk, whose name became synonymous with a vaccine that he initially requested not be named after him. Less widely known are the events that took place from 1949-1955, a six-year period that changed the medical community and the country forever; how a beloved, polio-afflicted President inspired a nation to send their dimes to the unlikely place of the University of Pittsburgh, and how there, an entire community pulled together to conquer the most feared disease of the 20th century.
- What is music? Many of today's top artists and scholars grapple with the question in this cinematic look at a uniquely human obsession. The Heart is a Drum Machine is a new feature documentary film project from the producers of Moog.
- Jamie's plans for a relaxed bachelorette party with her three closest gals turn nightmarish when the celebration takes a dark twist: an unexpected guest is discovered mysteriously murdered.
- A guilt and shame ridden mentally unstable young man wears a dog mask in order to cope.
- A World War I veteran who married the girlfriend of his presumed-dead war buddy falls into the racketeering business.
- A college student is injured by a malfunctioning soda machine on Highway 6. His fellow students take him to a doctor who lives in a basement bomb shelter and awaits the second coming of Elvis Presley. They can't leave, and a killer stalks them with an ax.
- A serial killer, his eccentric wife, and their house-keeper want to hide from society before an impending economic collapse, but first they must go on one last supply run.
- Deep in the wilderness, two best friends must learn to forgive and depend on each other more than ever when they stir up a group of dangerous locals.
- While passing through an elderly woman's property, young friends investigate an old shack with a deep, dark secret.
- A young girl is kidnapped by a masked killer and held captive. She miraculously escapes, but the relentless killer will stop at nothing to get her back.
- The Sisters is an adaptation of the first short story in James Joyce's collected works, Dubliners. Set in 1915 Ireland, it tells the story of a young boy, who reflects upon his time with friend and mentor, Father Flynn, while coming to terms with the Priest's death. As he listens to the conversations of the adults around him and thinks back on his own time with the Father, the boy begins to come to a new understanding about his friend and possibly about himself, as he is confronted with questions of faith, loss and new beginnings.
- The Pure are yellow-skinned beings who see themselves as a superior race within the nation of Seyns. The Other are nameless blue-skinned slaves who cannot own anything, even clothing, and exist to serve the Pure. The Pure are divided into six Houses, or families. One of them, the Kindris, has decided to forego the ways of the Pure, leave the city, shed all clothing and property, and live in peace and respect with the Other. Their children are green skinned and are called the Mischling. The Mischling carry a deadly disease that kills anyone with whom they have sexual relations. Damek Kindris, next in line for the leadership of the Kindris tribe, refuses the throne so he could be with his beloved, a nameless Other slave, affectionately called Sweetie. In the meantime, the ruling families of Seyns feel threatened by the Kindris because they treat the Other with respect and have children with them. They devise a plan to legally take the Kindris' land from them and exile them to the desert. When confronted, many Kindris, Other and Mischling escape. Damek and Sweetie look for ancient Orics, artifacts that grant their wearer power over the elements, but the ruling class decides to hunt down the escapees and kill them. Will Damek find the orics in time to save his tribe?
- Zoe enters a train terminal but doesn't really know what to make of it. With the help of a kind soul, she is on a quest to figure out what is not right.
- The film observes the events surrounding the sudden decrease of sales of comic books in the US in the early 90's, followed by the surge of webcomics on the Internet.
- A two day program that challenges high school students to think about the consequences of drinking and driving. Day one begins with students assembled in front of the school to witness the dramatization of a fatal alcohol related collision. Emergency personnel transport the injured to the local hospital, a passenger is declared dead by the medical examiner, and the driver - now murderer - is given a field sobriety test and arrested for driving under the influence. Witness to this tragedy are the "living dead": students who have been removed from their classes by the Grim Reaper. Notices of their "deaths" are read to the student body by a California Highway Patrol Officer. The program culminates the following day with an assembly featuring the participants and other powerful speakers.
- Victor Weisskopf talks about physics and physicists of the 20th century.
- The inside look at how the creators of 16-LOVE brought such an amazing movie to life. It includes exclusive interviews with cast members Lindsey Shaw, Chandler Massey, Susie Abromeit, Lindsey Black, Josh Blaylock, Mark Elias and Steven Christopher Parker and the director Adam Lipsius. Plus, this is the only feature to include technical secrets and out-takes from the shoot. It's a can't miss if you love tennis, comedy or a great romance.
- History of the Tokamak Thermonuclear Fusion Research Worldwide. Tokamak Thermonuclear Fusion Device is invented by Andrei D. Sakharov and Igor Y. Tamm in the early 1950s.
- Film professor Aaron Sloan doggedly interviews a reticent and distracted Andy Warhol as he directs an "untitled surfing movie" (the never-released "San Diego Surf"), on location at Cliff Robertson's La Jolla, California beach house in May of 1968.