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Victoria: The Complete Second Season

This acclaimed drama returns for a second season. Victoria (Jenna Coleman) is a nineteenth-century heroine for our times. This landmark account of the life of one of history’s greatest monarchs continues as the Queen faces the very modern challenge of balancing a growing family with her marriage to Prince Albert (Tom Hughes) and her work-all while being the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth.

Victoria: The Complete First Season

Created by Daisy Goodwin, this ambitious drama presents the early years of one of history's greatest monarchs. Stretching from the upper echelons of the royal court to the below-stairs staff, this is a story of passionate affairs, power struggles, and unrequited love, at the center of which stands the new Queen (Jenna Coleman) a strong, complex, and willful woman who must, somehow, become an enduring icon.

Gia

It's 1970s New York where designer jeans, disco, and drugs are rampant. America's first supermodel, Gia, portrayed by Angelina Jolie in this Golden Globe award-winning performance, appears to have a charmed life. Sex, money, power, and fame are all here for the taking. When insecure Gia falls victim to life in the fast lane, her career and her life become a casualty of life on the edge.

Archive

2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. His latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest. Especially as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs: being reunited with his dead wife.

The Bookshop

England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer, Mary Poppins Returns) follows her lifelong dream by opening a bookshop in a conservative coastal town. While bringing about a cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson, Sharp Objects) and the support of a reclusive, book-loving widower (Bill Nighy, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel). As Florence's obstacles amass, she reminds herself that a town without a bookshop is no town at all.

The Machine

Deep into a second Cold War, Britain's Ministry of Defense wants a game-changing weapon. Lead scientist Vincent McCarthy (Toby Stephens) has developed a cybernetic super-soldier dubbed "The Machine". When a programming bug causes the prototype to run amok, McCarthy takes his obsessive efforts underground. Soon he has perfected the ideal marriage of human and machine in his ultimate creation, a beautiful and dangerous being (Caity Lotz) that may be the key to ending the war, but a sentience stirring inside the machine puts everyone's plans in jeopardy.

Nashville: The Complete Series

Behind the music of Nashville lies a web of betrayal, heartbreak and rivalry second to none. Experience the tantalizing first season of ABC's Nashville~ and surrender to a seductive mix of music, intrigue, and passion that's "Pure Gold." Matt Roush, TV Guide Magazine. Rayna James (Connie Britton) is the Queen of Country, but there's a new "royal" on the rise. Meet Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere), a hot, young diva poised to knock Rayna off her throne - both on the charts and in the heart of Rayna's lead guitarist and former lover, Deason Claybourne (Charles Esten).

The Soong Sisters

By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Soong Sisters - Ai-ling, Ching-ling, and May-ling - became legends in their own time. One loved money, one loved power, and one loved her country. Their lives were interwoven into the turbulent history of modern China. Ching-ling married to Dr. Sun, who led to the 1911 Revolution and she embarked on a long journey of vagrant life. A proud winner of the 17th Hong Kong Film Awards.

Harriet

Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, Harriet tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of Americas greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.

Hotel Mumbai

A true story of humanity and heroism, Hotel Mumbai vividly recounts the 2008 siege of the famed Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Among the dedicated hotel staff is the renowned chef Hemant Oberoi (Anupam Kher) and a waiter (Academy Award nominee Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire) who choose to risk their lives to protect their guests. As the world watches on, a desperate couple (Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name and Nazanin Boniadi, Homeland) is forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to protect their newborn child.

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