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Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.
This thriller explores the fractious relationship between a mother and her evil son.
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Star trek next generation motion picture collection volume disc 1
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The skipper of the fourth U.S.S. Enterprise is Jean-Luc Picard who is sent to investigate a massacre at a science outpost. The only survivor is Dr. Soran, who perpetrated the event to cover up his invention: a bomb he launched into a nearby sun, exploding it. As Soran escapes with Klingon cronies, Picard learns that Soran's plan is to summon a heavenly energy ribbon called the Nexus. Attempting to stop Soran, Picard ends up inside the Nexus, where...
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For more than a decade starting in 1920, millions of regular Americans ignored the law of the land. Parents became bootleggers, kids smuggled illegal alcohol, and outlaws became celebrities. It wasn't supposed to be that way, of course. When Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the United States, supporters believed it would create a better, stronger nation. Instead it began an era of lawlessness,...
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Disc 1. Death Row. The death penalty in the United States is an old as the country itself with roots to the original European settlements. It is the ultimate punishment for murderers, terrorists, traitors and serial killers. During this time over 15,000 men and women have been executed spurring a heated debate about its moral and ethical use. Featuring interviews and commentary from leading criminal and sociology experts, this documentary takes an...
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"In 1871, Santanta, a Kiowa war chief, boasted at the Kiowa-Comanche Agency that he had led a war party against a wagon train of freighters. When he repeated his boast to General W. T. Sherman, who was on a tour of frontier forts, the order was given for his arrest, along with two other chiefs who were implicated. The killing, torture, and mutilation of the freighters was said to have been a ghastly crime. But never before had members of an Indian...
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Savage Texas volume 2
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In Hangtree, Texas, any other day could be your last. For, on the heels of the Civil War, Hangtree is drawing gamblers, fast women and faster gunmen. Amidst the brawls and shooting, the land-grabbing and card-sharking, two men barely hold the boomtown together: Yankee Sam Heller and Texan Johnny Cross. Heller and Cross can't stand the sight of each other. And Hangtree needs them more than ever. Now, a Comanche named Red Hand leads a horde of warriors...
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Set in Sao Paulo's House of Detention. An oncologist arrives at the jail to test patients for HIV infection. Seeing the disease, overcrowding, and rampant circulation of drugs, the doctor comes to realize the internal power structure among the prisoners. Narratives develop, including the attempted murder of Dagger, the solitary confinement of Chico, and the romance between Lady Di and Too Bad. The doctor eventually sees the prisoners as survivors,...
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Preacher is on the move, joining a springtime trail drive led by freewheeling Wiley Courtland. Wiley has good horses to deliver to the American Fur Company at Fort Gifford. Red Knife's war party has other plans. Fighting their way to safety, the horse traders make it to Fort Gifford - where the beautiful wife of the fort's commander makes a raid of her own with Wiley. As jealousy erupts, Red Knife's bloodthirsty legion comes galloping over the horizon....