Crime and Punishment COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307734/
Living in squalor, a former student and loner (Raskolnikov) murders an old pawnbroker woman in order to confirm his hypothesis that certain individuals can pretermit morality in the pursuit of something greater.
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Degrassi High COMPLETE S 1-2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrassi_High
Much like its predecessor, Degrassi High followed the lives of a group of students attending the titular fictional school, who deal with controversial issues ranging from AIDS, abortion, abuse, alcoholism, cheating, sex, death and suicide, dating, depression, bullying, gay rights, homophobia, racism, the environment, drugs, and eating disorders.
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Catherine the Great COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112031/
In this romanticized biography, a small German principality’s inexperienced princess, Catherine, becomes the bride of czarevitch Peter, the mad and abusive nephew and heir of the Russian czarina Elizabeth. From Elizabeth she learns the cynical ropes of wielding absolute imperial power at any cost, including sacrificing her lover, young guards officer Saltykov, who must give her an heir that Peter can’t and is then sent abroad. After Elizabeth’s death, she quickly moves to seize power with military and court support. She then works to enlarge and modernize the empire, again putting statesmanship ahead of her lover, a military genius who defeats the Ottomans and governs the conquered territories for her.
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Oppenheimer COMPLETE S01
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078037/
Biography of the American physicist who led the U.S. effort to develop the atomic bomb during World War II, only to find himself suspected as a security risk in the 1950s because of his increasing ambivalence about the effect of his life’s work.
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Foolish Heart COMPLETE S01
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187638/
Foolish Heart was a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television in 1999. The series, a short run dramatic anthology, was produced and written by Ken Finkleman following his earlier series The Newsroom and More Tears.
Although the episodes were linked by character interactions, each of the series’ six episodes focused on a different character’s family or romantic relationship problems. Finkleman also starred in the series as George Findlay, the same character he had played in The Newsroom and More Tears.
The series won Finkleman a 1999 Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Series.
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The Fugitive 2000 COMPLETE S01
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247097/
Dr. Richard Kimble is framed for his wife’s murder by a mysterious one-armed man. During sentencing Kimble escapes intending to catch the one-armed man and find out why he was framed. Following in hot pursuit is Inspector Philip Gerard, who is intending to bring in Kimble alive. But Gerard and the one-armed man are not the only thing Kimble has to worry about. The father of his late wife has hired bounty hunters who are willing to break the law to catch him, and in the age of internet tracking and high-tech surveillance, it’s not as easy to hide as it used to be.
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Law and Order True Crime COMPLETE S01
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6110318/
When the Menendez brothers were tried on national TV for brutally killing their parents in Beverly Hills, their story became a national obsession. Now, the first edition of this anthology series delves into the players, the crime and the media circus, detailing the day-to-day battles of the trial and unveiling the shocking truth of what really went down when the cameras
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