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Plot: A special victims unit of NYPD detectives solve cases based on real crimes. At the same time, they try not to let the dark side of investigation affect their personal lives.
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Plot: A former US Marine poses as an inmate inside a Mexican prison, in order to infiltrate a dangerous gang suspected of kidnapping a US judge's teenage daughter.
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Plot: Exploring Humboldt's marijuana farms - both legal and illegal - and providing a glimpse into what it takes for an outlaw farmer to cross over to the legal market.
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Plot: Before Nathaniel Fisher Sr. dies, he hands over the control of his funeral home business to his sons Nathaniel Samuel Jr and David. But the brothers and the entire family are caught in a conflict.
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Plot: This documentary series offers rare access to a community of 15 Mormon families that live in the desert of Utah, famous for its reddish sand and the tall rock structures that rise up from the desert floor. These families are unusual in that they are polygamists - the practise of marriage to multiple...
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Plot: Lucas Hood, an enigmatic former swindler, assumes the identity of a murdered sheriff. But haunted by his past, he finds it difficult to carry on with his devious criminal activities.
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Plot: Ten years after transporting drug money to Alex, Piper is imprisoned for the crime. The toughness of prison changes her drastically as an individual, compelling her to do the unthinkable.
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Plot: An engaged couple travel around the world for a year, exploring marriage customs in diverse cultures; the journey may bring them closer or tear them apart.
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Plot: Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, two ordinary Roman soldiers, turn into heroes after their feats in the arena. Their lives change as they witness the fall of a republic and the creation of an empire.
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Plot: The war on drugs is fought on a daily basis on the streets of virtually every major city in America. This reality series offers a sobering look at the drug trade and its effects on the people involved. Filmed from the perspectives of dealers, users and law enforcement, the series covers topics that...
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Plot: A journalist travels to different locations to explore the imprisonment process of various societies. In the Philippines, the featured prison is Rizal Jail, where inmates perform dances and cook for each other. In Poland's Piotrkow Prison, he experiences intensive guard and riot training and spends...
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Plot: A nuclear conflict has decimated civilisation. A century later, a spaceship accommodating humanity's lone survivors dispatch 100 juvenile delinquents back to the Earth to determine its habitability.
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Plot: Being locked up can be hard on anyone, but it can be especially taxing for young people who miss out on some milestones that teens should be able to enjoy with their friends and family. This series follows teenage girls who are incarcerated at American correctional facilities, documenting what their...
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Plot: "Serial Killer with Piers Morgan" delves into the minds of depraved serial killers for the first time. These are individuals who haunted communities for decades, and viewers are given access to maximum security prisons to discover what drove these people to kill. Morgan meets with victims' families...
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Plot: Four friends challenge each other with a series of awkward and outrageous dares. If any of the four refuses to complete a dare, he loses and must endure punishment.
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Plot: "Westside" provides viewers with a deeply personal glimpse into the journeys of nine young Los Angeles-based musicians who are following their musical dreams. Each episode sheds light on the performers' creative processes and personal struggles, using a combination of documentary footage and music...
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Plot: Ted Bundy was one of America's most notorious serial killers. He was convicted in the deaths of more than 30 women before being caught in 1978. Thirty years after Bundy's 1989 execution, this docuseries brings viewers into the mind of the criminal known as the "Jack Ripper of the United States." Oscar...
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Plot: Ex-Special Forces soldier Jason Fox used to hunt down drug lords for a living. Now, in this dramatic new three-part series, he travels through Latin America meeting the kind of gangster he was once dispatched to take out. This time he's unarmed and at their mercy as he seeks to understand how the billion...
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Plot: When is a confession not a confession? When it's involuntary, coerced or downright false. Those are the claims made by the subjects featured in this true-crime series. Each episode goes inside a case in which a murder suspect made a confession but later backtracked. Episodes include interviews with...
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Plot: A convict is paroled 30 years after being sentenced to death for murder, then he makes a shocking confession.
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Plot: College Behind Bars is a 2019 American television documentary series, directed by Lynn Novick, which originally aired on PBS. It focuses on the lives and academic careers of inmates in the Bard Prison Initiative. Wikipedia
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Plot: The "Real Housewives" franchise continues to expand across America, with this edition landing in Potomac, Md., a community of rolling hills and gated mansions just up the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. As is standard for the franchise, the reality show follows several well-to-do women who are...
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Plot: Detective Robin returns to Sydney to escape her past and reunite with her daughter. There, she and her partner deal with the murder of an Asian girl whose body is found inside a suitcase.
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Plot: An engineer installs himself in a prison he helped design, in order to save his falsely accused brother from a death sentence.
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Plot: After a fateful domestic clash, a devoted mother finds herself in prison, fighting to survive in hopes of reuniting with her daughter.
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Plot: The first day of jail is probably the hardest for inmates, knowing that it's just the first day of their sentence. On the other hand, with the last day of imprisonment comes a sense of freedom, knowing that they are about to released from the facility. Both days are emotionally charged, but for entirely...
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Plot: The psychological thriller examines the lives of two hunters -- one is a serial killer who preys on victims in and around Belfast, Northern Ireland, and the other is a female detective drafted from the London Metropolitan Police to catch him. The local authorities have no suspects and no experience...
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Plot: Nasir Khan gives a lift to a mysterious woman and takes her to a party hosted by his friend. However, he is charged with murder when she is found dead and must prove his innocence.
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Plot: With seemingly every other Hollywood celebrity checking him or herself into or out of a recovery center, this reality series has a timely feel with its depiction of addicts and the impact their illness has on those around them, resulting in an inevitable if uncomfortable intervention.
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Plot: During the budding drug epidemic in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, a crime family decides to make money selling cocaine. Meanwhile, a CIA operative also gets involved.
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Plot: Catching a criminal often requires the authorities to get inside the villain's mind to figure out how he thinks. That's the job of FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench. They attempt to understand and catch serial killers by studying their damaged psyches. Along the way, the agents pioneer the development...
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Plot: Featuring never before seen footage with unprecedented access to prisons across America, this crime documentary series gives an in-depth insight into the stories of prisoners who are awaiting their fate on death row. Each episode profiles a different prisoner convicted of capital murder and sentenced...
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Plot: In the city of Baltimore, Detective James McNulty and his team investigate crimes and try their best to solve the bridge that exists between the drug kingpins and the law enforcement agencies.
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Plot: How does the drug trade work? Can it be stopped or should it be regulated? And what are the personal costs? Those are just some of the questions asked in this series, a comprehensive look at society's most abused drugs: cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana. First-person perspectives from traffickers...
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Plot: This documentary series reveals young women emerging from the shadows and uniting their voices against singer R. Kelly. Celebrated as one of the greatest R&B singers of all time, R. Kelly's career has been plagued with rumours of abuse, paedophilia, and predatory behaviour toward women. Now, survivors...
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Plot: At the Sacramento County Jail, incarcerated females have to fight the power, and one another, as they try to make the best of life -- and love -- while on the inside. When one inmate messes with her cellmates, it becomes payback time for the victims. The inmates try to hook up through "the bowl," connecting...
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Plot: This docuseries shines a light on some of the most notorious drug kingpins in history and the law-enforcement officials who have sworn to bring them down. While the show profiles cartel leaders with global reach -- including infamous Pablo Escobar and his nearly 20-year stranglehold on the world's...
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Plot: After some residents mysteriously disappear from Mapleton, New York, the people left behind struggle to rebuild their lives.
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Plot: Based on Stephen King's best-selling novel of the same name, "The Outsider" begins by following an investigation which at first seems like it will be simple and straightforward but things change as it leads into the gruesome murder of a young boy by a seasoned cop. When an insidious supernatural force...
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Plot: When and how a person will die is unknown until it actually happens. Unless that person is on death row, where inmates are told the precise day, hour and minute of their deaths. This series documents the story of crime and the death penalty as filmmaker Werner Herzog interviews American inmates as they...
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Plot: In going behind bars of Georgia's correctional system, each episode of this series examines one aspect of the state's paramilitary approach to their prisoners, the idea being treat them like highly disciplined soldiers and they will stop acting like criminals. Over the course of a year, cameras capture...
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Plot: The film-maker sheds light on the life situations of people who have been arrested while travelling abroad, usually for trying to smuggle illegal drugs out of a particular country.
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Plot: Tony Soprano, an Italian-American mafia head based in New Jersey, struggles to manage his family and criminal life and confides his affairs to his psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi.
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Plot: The Philippine jail known for a viral Michael Jackson dance video comes under the management of a former convict, sparking controversy and criticism.
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Plot: Social media can be a good thing when used properly, allowing people to catch up with friends and family who don't live nearby. Things can go wrong, though, when it's not used the right way. This series shows extreme examples of the negative outcomes that can result from social media usage. Episodes...
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Plot: DS Steve Arnott is transferred to the anti-corruption unit after he refuses to participate in a cover-up that involves an innocent man getting shot in a police encounter.
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Plot: Following the aftermath of one of the worst hurricanes in the USA, folks of a community in New Orleans try to rebuild their lives and homes while upholding their unique culture.
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Plot: Created by George Pelecanos and David Simon, who also collaborated on HBO's "The Wire" and "Treme," the semifictional drama series "The Deuce" tells of the germination of the sex-trade industry in the heart of New York's Times Square. It's the early 1970s, and the porn business begins a shift from...
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Plot: At the Sacramento County Jail, incarcerated females have to fight the power, and one another, as they try to make the best of life -- and love -- while on the inside. When one inmate messes with her cellmates, it becomes payback time for the victims. The inmates try to hook up through "the bowl," connecting...
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Plot: Enoch Thompson, the treasurer of Atlantic City, is friends with gangsters and politicians alike, resulting in the federal government taking special interest in him.