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As groundbreaking hospital drama Medical Center enters its seventh and final season, Drs. Gannon (Chad Everett) and Lochner (James Daly) continue to offer up cutting-edge TV replete with social conflicts, commentaries and controversies. Medical Center hits the ground stunning with a daringly cast "viewer discretion recommended" two-parter, "The Fourth Sex," which examines transgender issues on television at a time when they were taboo. Adding extra frisson is the episode's main guest star,...

Two generations of tragic love make Smilin' Through one of the screen's great romances. The story begins in 1868 England, when John Carteret's fiancee is shot dead on the couple's wedding day by a rejected lover aiming at the groom. Flash forward to 1915, after the devoted John has raised his fiancee's niece Kathleen as his own. Kathleen falls in love with an American -- the murderer's son -- and the past sweeps back to haunt the present. Film legends Norma Shearer, Fredric March (both in dual...

"Everybody has problems. Nobody goes through life unscathed, and I think if you write about those things, you're going to touch people," says Stephen Sondheim at the start of Six by Sondheim, an intimate look into his long and prolific career creating ground-breaking work that has redefined the musical theater. Directed by award-winning Broadway director and playwright James Lapine, and predominantly told by Sondheim himself, this film weaves together dozens of interviews of Sondheim,...

Kind. Gentle. Sympathetic. Jim Norton is none of these things, and that's why he's one of the hottest new comedians in America. Norton continues the rich One Night Stand tradition of no-holds-barred comedy that blows apart the double standards of polite society. His pit bull approach is as far from politically correct as pro football is from men's figure skating. Taped in front of a live New York audience, Norton riffs hilariously on sex, drugs and the hypocrisies of modern culture. See what...

Oscar winner* Helen Mirren stars in the enthralling HBO drama Catherine the Great, delivering a regal performance as the brilliant monarch who ruled the Russian empire and transformed its place in the world in the 18th century. Over the course of four hour-long episodes, this limited series charts Catherine's tumultuous reign as the cunning and ambitious empress fights off threats to her crown, wages war with the Ottoman Empire and expands Russia's borders as far as the Black Sea and Crimea....

After three years behind bars, Max Dembo faces Straight Time. He hopes it will mean a new life, a job, a place to call home, perhaps even a girl of his own. Instead, it's a one-way ticket to disaster. Dustin Hoffman plays Max, a freed con trapped by an indifferent criminal system and his self-destructive bent. Before and during the film's shoot, Hoffman apprenticed himself to Edward Bunker, the ex-con whose book No Beast So Fierce inspired the movie. The resulting experience is intensely real...

With James Daly and Chad Everett confidently guiding the series, Medical Center entered its second year of television residency and continued to court controversy and stand-out costars. With the tag-team of chief medico Dr. Lochner and super-surgeon Gannon bringing enough experience and youth to cover any crisis and bridge any generation gap, Medical Center had the prescription for history-making television. Giving and getting treatment in this 6-Disc, 24-Episode collection are James Shigeta,...

A gritty take on the classic Teen Titans franchise, this live-action adventure series follows a group of young superheroes from every corner of the DC Universe as they band together to form one of the most celebrated comic book teams of all time: the Titans. Recruited by Dick Grayson (Brenton Thwaites), the team consists of Starfire (Anna Diop), Superboy (Joshua Orpin), Beast Boy (Ryan Potter), Raven (Teagan Croft), and more. As they come of age and try to find where they belong, the Titans...

Paired as rivals in A History of Violence, Ed Harris (who also directs, produces and co-scripts) and Viggo Mortensen stand together as friends and for-hire peacekeepers Cole and Hitch in a character-driven, bullet-hard Western based on Robert B. Parker's novel. As the woman who arrives in town with only a dollar and a keen sense of survival, Renee Zellweger adds feelings - things that can get you killed - to a quest to bring murderer Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) to justice. Blood will spill in...

Warren William and Bette Davis get out the vote in this snappy political comedy costarring Guy Kibbee. "He's the dumbest human being I ever saw. Every time he opens his mouth he subtracts from the sum total of human knowledge." So states Hal S. Blake (William), campaign manager to dimwitted Zachary Hicks (Kibbee), the Progressive Party's candidate for governor. Aided by his secretary Kay (Davis) and promised a $50,000 bonus if Hicks wins, the unscrupulous Blake leaves no stone unturned as he...

"A smart guy could clean up in a racket like this." So says Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond), a smooth-talking hood who sells unwanted babies to childless rich couples. Teaming up with a broken-down sawbones (Ralph Morgan) and a silver-tongued shyster (George Meeker), Condon operates a private maternity home where he rakes in the dough until a pre-paid baby is stillborn. Intent on keeping the cash, he hands over his sister-in-law's newborn instead, a baby-switching scheme that soon gives way to...