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Now showing — The Trial of the Khmer Rouge: Thirty Years of Investigation into the Cambodian Genocide · 5 works
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A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's *The Sellout* showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relatio...
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Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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During the early 1930s in Chicago, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, is starting its legendary journey that will leave a trail of blood all over the country. At the same time in New York, the ambitious scientist Szilard and his unwilling aide Ennis are looking for missing bottles of the immortality elixi...
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A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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The Corleone family saga. Power, loyalty, and the corruption of the American dream.
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