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Christopher Jones offers a young Korean woman a ride to the Greyhound bus station, and within hours, his good deed plunges him into the dark, dangerous world of human trafficking. Struggling with a painful divorce, unemployment, and responsibilities of caring for his mother and teenage daughter, Christopher is hardly prepared for the dangers that unfold. Helping the woman escape from sex traffickers puts him on the radar of Korean mobsters, exposing...
2) Veterans Day
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Explains the creation, history, and meaning of the holiday that honors our nation's soldiers.
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"Thirty-three-year-old Luke "Pax" Paxton has been out of the US military for almost a decade, adrift in an America he no longer understands, haunted by a mistake made in an unforgiving moment of combat. When an old army friend suggests they travel to Ukraine to help fight against the Russian invasion, he agrees, and together they cross an ocean to Lviv, the City of Lions. But Pax isn't merely going out of the goodness of his heart. He carries with...
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"Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the LAPD, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera confiscated....
5) Jacknife
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When Joe, a troubled Vietnam vet, visits his war buddy David, he finds him drunk with only his sister to keep him company. Can Joe help his friend get sober and give the sister the love she deserves?
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In 2007 Ukraine, after Yefim Shulman, beloved husband, grandfather and World War II veteran, passes away, his widow Nina finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase that reveals his lifelong secret, which forces them to reassess the man they thought they knew and the country he defended.
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