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1) Red sparrow
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Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to Sparrow School, a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
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Except for the Dardanelles/Gallipoli campaigns, the extensive combat operations in the Middle East during World War I have been largely overlooked in documentary programs. Given the historical significance of the Ottoman Empire's demise in 1918, and the ongoing importance of Middle Eastern oil reserves to Western economies, a close study of this conflict provides two important lessons: 1. The Treaty of Versailles, agreed to by the Western Powers in...
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Many familiar faces return for this day of crisis. A fearsome new villain is played with cold-hearted intensity. The threat this time around is much different, and for Jack Bauer there are multiple situations to deal with. Jack has to make some extremely difficult choices, including how to handle a new love in his life who happens to be the daughter of the Secretary of Defense. Their new found love will be put to the ultimate test during the next...
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The new Director of Homeland Security reunites the team when a nuclear powered Russian satellite is knocked out of orbit and must be diverted before it detonates over Southern California. The team races against time to stop an unstable ex-member of Scorpion, Mark Collins who kidnaps and threatens to kill Toby if his demands are not met.
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A harrowing exploration of the rapid rise of American religious fanaticism after 9/11. This film explores an emerging ultra Right Wing mass movement seeking dominion over all aspects of contemporary American society. The film weaves archival video, contemporary Christian Nationalist movement propaganda (recruiting videos, apocalyptic/military videogame imagery, etc.) and original investigative material) to create an intense examination of the totalistic...
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Eccentric genius Walter O'Brien and his team of brilliant misfits continue to be the last line of defense against the complex, high-tech threats of the modern age as they solve extreme, life-threatening cases, including a global extinction event, a nuclear missile launch on U.S. soil, and even the perils of geniuses trying to start a family.
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"Robert Clayton Dean is a successful Washington D.C. attorney who-- without his knowledge-- is given a video that ties a top official of the National Security Agency to a political murder! Instantly, every aspect of Dean's once-normal life is targeted by a lethal team of skilled NSA surveillance operatives, who wage a relentless, ultrahigh-tech campaign to discredit him and retrieve the incriminating evidence!"--Container.
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Assigned to protect a seemingly safe U.S. embassy in the Middle East, elite Marine Corporal Evan Albright thought he wasn't going to see much action. But when a hostile, extreme militant group launches a surprise attack aimed at killing an embassy informant, Albright's team is caught off guard. Outgunned and outnumbered, Albright's routine assignment escalates into an all-out war.
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A course of 12 lectures by Professor Paul Rosenzweig.
The office of the president of the United States of America is one that can shape not just a nation but the entire world. But what limits are there if any on presidential power? How do we keep such awesome responsibility in check? These 12 eye-opening, timely lectures examine the ins and outs of presidential investigations using past events as a lens through which to make sense of current (and...
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When Scorpion is on the case, saving the world is a no-brainer! Walter, the eccentric leader of a team of brilliant misfits -- a psychiatrist with a gambling addition, a mechanical prodigy with anger issues, and a "human calculator" with social anxiety, who save the world from problems only a genius could solve.
13) Snowden
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The incredible untold story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a traitor by others.
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Frontline investigates the secret history of the unprecedented surveillance program that began in the wake of September 11th and continues today. As big technology companies encouraged users to share more and more information about their lives, they created a trove of data that could be useful not simply to advertisers, but also to the government. The revelations of NSA contractor Edward Snowden would push Silicon Valley into the center of a debate...
15) 24: Season 5
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Eighteen months after faking his own death, Jack Bauer returns to L.A. when it becomes clear that the only four people who know he is still alive are being targeted for assassination. The killings coincide with the signing of an anti-terrorism treaty with Russia, leading Jack to suspect a line between the assassinations, the treaty, and a group of Russian terrorists. But as the terror unfolds, Jack learns the day's events were set in motion by an...
16) The spy factory
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This videodisc exposes the hidden, high-tech workings of the world's largest intelligence agency, the National Security Agency (NSA) and a report on the threat to privacy and the effectiveness of high-tech surveillance in the age of terrorism.
17) Citizenfour
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With unprecedented access, this gripping behind-the-scenes chronicle follows award winning director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald's remarkable encounters with whistle-blower Edward Snowden in a hotel room in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents that provide evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA.
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