A popular TV series in the late 1950's, "Lock Up" dramatizes how innocent citizens can be accused and punished for serious crimes, and that a thorough investigation - without prejudice, is the unalienable right of every citizen. The inspiration for these weekly stories(78 episodes from 1959 through 1961), came from the personal files and case histories of prominent, Philadelphia lawyer, Herbert L. Maris, a man who strongly believed in the major canon of American jurisprudence: That we are all...
A popular TV series in the late 1950's, "Lock-Up" dramatizes how innocent citizens can be accused and punished for serious crimes, and that a thorough investigation - without prejudice - is the unalienable right of every citizen. The inspiration for these weekly stories (78 episodes from 1959 through 1961), came from the personal files and case histories of prominent, Philadelphia lawyer, Herbert L. Maris, a man who strongly believed in the major canon of American jurisprudence: That we are...
A popular TV series in the late 1950's, Lock-Up dramatizes how innocent citizens can be accused and punished for serious crimes, and that a thorough investigation - without prejudice - is the unalienable right of every citizen. The inspiration for these weekly stories (78 episodes from 1959 through 1961), came from the personal files and case histories of prominent, Philadelphia lawyer, Herbert L. Maris, a man who strongly believed in the major canon of American jurisprudence: That we are all...
12 episodes on 3-DVDs from the classic "Lock-Up" television series.
Two girls. One lockdown. Kristal meets Lisette on the last night of her trip to Australia, and the pair share a one-night stand. But when Melbourne suddenly goes into COVID lockdown, Kristal finds herself trapped and unable to return to Canada. With nowhere to go, Kristal accepts Lisette's invitation to stay with her, until the pandemic is over. Will these two strangers drive each other crazy during lockdown, or find themselves falling in love?
Recently split Linda (Anne Hathaway) and Paxton (Chiwetel Ejiofor) are at a distressing crossroads when London's mandatory COVID-19 lockdown forces them to stay under the same roof. While high-flying marketing exec Linda's new responsibilities leave her disillusioned by the corporate world, Paxton, a creative with a criminal past, winds up furloughed. Fueled by poetry and copious amounts of wine, their efforts to peacefully cohabitate find them rediscovering the free spirits they once were -...
U.S. oil interests threaten to destroy a traditional way of life in Canada's north. For the Vuntut Gwitch'in people of Old Crow in the Yukon, much depends on the caribou migration. Now new oil drilling in Alaska could bring an end to the caribou and an end to this ancient culture
When an American teenager gets bullied at her school in Asia, she fights back and gets sent to an Asian reform school. But the "school" is more like a prison, and the young teenager must fend off predatory guards and gangs to survive.
This popular and dramatic series returns with ten new episodes featuring the true stories of everyone from drug dealers to hostages who find themselves passing time in foreign prisons. Told in their own words, we hear from criminals, conmen and those who have been conned. In this series we meet American, David, who was on a drug smuggling road trip from Afghanistan to Germany with his friend, Tom, when they were caught on the Turkish/Greek border and imprisoned in Greece.
The most tense and dramatic series on TV is back. The new season includes the extraordinary adventures of David Kunkel, who smuggles 100 lbs of hash from Afghanistan hidden in a Land Rover; the jaw-dropping tale of wrongly imprisoned Carlos Quijas, who joins a Mexican cartel in order to survive; and government operative Keith Stansell, taken hostage after his plane crashes in the Colombian jungle.
Locked Up Abroad tells the true stories of unsuspecting travelers embarked on what they thought would be fun-filled vacations only to barely make it home. Combining revealing interviews with dramatic re-enactments, each episode recounts an extraordinary situation and the unfortunate luck and, in some cases, the bad decisions that put the travelers in the wrong place at the wrong time. Season Four episodes include: The Real Midnight Express, Saddam's Iraq, Tokyo, Bangkok, Spain, and Panama.
National Geographic's critically acclaimed series Locked Up Abroad, takes viewers inside firsthand accounts of capture, imprisonment and pure terror. Combining revealing personal interviews with dramatic re-enactments, each episode focuses on one extraordinary situation, recounting the brutality, the bravery and, in some cases, the bad decisions that put the traveler in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The new season of Locked Up Abroad kicks off with an episode featuring Erik Aude, a Hollywood actor who was locked up in Pakistan for opium smuggling; other stories include Stephen Comiskey, arrested in Saudi Arabia for being gay; truck driver Thomas Hamill who was kidnapped by insurgents in Iraq; and Lucy Wright, a British student nurse who went on the run after being busted in Argentina.
There's a fine line that marks the difference between a vacation to paradise and a vacation from hell. From kidnap and torture to foolish plans to smuggle drugs, this nail-biting series tells the harrowing stories of people who set out hoping for adventure or easy money, only to end up in situations beyond their worst nightmares.
LOCKED UP ABROAD is the cult favorite that takes viewers inside accounts of capture, incarceration, and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic reenactments. This season, we'll hear more firsthand accounts not only from those who were locked up, but also from those who were directly part of the story. Whether it is the undercover agent compiling the evidence against the suspect, or the person making the drug dealing offers... we're going to deliver the stories...
Skip delves into the mysteries of an old creepy locker. His sage supervisor recounts 4 chilling cautionary tales to warn Skip, and the stories come into play when Skip faces a life-or-death decision of his own. A Twilight Zone style thriller.
A gold locket around the neck of a little girl. So sweet, so demure, so unlikely to trigger a nightmare of death and deceit. The Locket is a chilling film noir suffused with the vivid postwar psychological mystery that made films such as Spellbound Bijou favorites. Laraine Day stars as a woman who was denied the locket in childhood and who now turns her charms on man after man as she plots jewel theft after jewel theft and as theft ultimately leads to murder. The film's intricate use of...
Dicey found success with the band he was in. So he decides to break up the band and try his hand at a solo career. Except now he's failing. The old band doesn't want him back. Desperate to reinvent himself, he turns to his old love, a groupie.
A landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.
Based on the famous French novel Les Liaisons Dangeureux (Dangerous Liaisons), Log In is a 21st-century take on voyeurism, passion, and revenge. Janka (Nora Parti) and Banhegyi (Jozsef Talos) meet over the internet on a video dating site, where each is searching for clues to a loved one's suicide. Janka has just learned that when her husband killed himself, he was secretly involved with Anett (Kata Gaspar), a larcenous seductress he met through a video dating site. Banhegyi has just lost his...
In 2319, much of Earth's civilization has been wiped out and now survives in small isolated societies. In the City of Domes, citizens live idyllic lives until they turn 30 and are led to Carousel for "renewal" -- but instead are killed! When Sandman Logan 5 (Gregory Harrison) dares to question the ruling order, beautiful rebel Jessica 6 (Heather Menzies) helps him escape to the outside world. Now Logan, Jessica and their android companion, Rem, are on a desperate quest for the fabled utopian...
When all signs indicate that Logan won't pull through a traumatic injury, his family witnesses God's miraculous power.
Logan Madsen is one in a billion. Literally. He and his sister share a life-threatening lung disease and Miller syndrome, a rare genetic disorder affecting fewer than thirty people in the world. Despite malformed arms and hands, Logan paints hyper-realistic pictures boldly depicting his body and his struggles with autism. Through the unwavering devotion of his mother and support from his sister, Logan is able to rise above his disabilities in pursuit of becoming a great artist.