Lionsgate

A look at the parole process as seen through the eyes of three inmates going before the Oklahoma State Parole Board. Model prisoner Aaron Cosar, 36, serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, hopes to convince the board that he's a changed man. Michael Sanders, 43, stole copper wire worth only $1,342, but in Oklahoma, theft of copper wire is a felony. Lincoln Taylor, 47, imprisoned for assaulting an undercover cop claims that he was protecting a prostitute whom the officer was abusing.

An examination of the terrible treatment received by men who were convicted of crimes and sent to death row, then found innocent and freed. We tell the harrowing stories of four exonerated death-row inmates who received nothing from the government--no money, no job training, and no medical care--after they were released.

She's a publishing legend whose own story reads like a romance novel a self-described "mouseburger" who rose from a tragic childhood in the Arkansas Ozarks to become the toast of Manhattan. Helen Gurley Brown kicked off the sexual revolution with her book Sex and the Single Girl. Her magazine, Cosmopolitan, was the first and most successful of all the glossy guides to the good life for young women. In remarkable interviews friends and colleagues like Judith Krantz, Gloria Steinem, Liz Smith...

Extensive accounts from their journals bring the epic quest to explore a vast continent to life.

They lit the path to a brave new world and led the way to safe harbors as they warned of dangerous coastlines. They welcomed ships carrying precious cargo and new citizens to the fledgling country. But today, many American lighthouses face grave danger. While heroic efforts by concerned preservation groups and local governments have saved some, many are perilously close to being lost forever. Host Josh Binswanger looks at efforts to protect these beautiful and historic American treasures.

You Can't Always Get What You Want: #20. High Roller Marcy returns to recoup the $60K that she previously lost. Will she succeed or will her losses grow? Former Red Sox baseball player Jason Bottenfeld is looking for a serious relationship so he turns to internet dating. He's met three women and now decides that the best way to narrow down the field to just one is to take all of the women on a date at the same time. The women compete for Jason, hoping they will be the one he chooses to enter...

Guided Missile Destroyer/WWI Aircraft & Aces/Marine Corps Fast Teams: #42. Onboard the USS Preble, one of the Navy's newest destroyers, R. Lee Ermey explains its Aegis Fire Control System, and the history of the Navy's first guided missile, the Loon. He reviews the most effective WWI aircraft and the best pilots, like US Ace Eddie Rickenbacker and Germany's Red Baron; checks out the curves of a Gibson Girl, a WWII emergency transmitter; meets the elite Marines of the Fleet Anti-Terrorism Team,...

Alyson, was a former White House intern with a full academic scholarship to a prestigious university. She was a 4.0 student before her dalliance with drugs caused her to drop out of college. Her addiction morphed into a penchant for pills, opiates and hersick father's morphine, which she steals from his safe. Alyson says she can't sleep. She is a night-owl and prefers to be up all night and sleep during the day. She takes several prescription drugs to get her to sleep and to wake her up....

If you thought the war in Afghanistan was over, think again. Young Americans continue to fight and die as they pursue Osama bin Laden, battle with Al Qaida, and destroy the last remnants of the Taliban regime. Fighting a tenacious enemy across searing deserts and frigid mountain peaks requires strong weaponry and sound tactics. These American veterans had both. Marine Gunnery Sergeant William Bodette shows us how he fought off three enemy ambushes in one month and lived to tell the tale. Three...

Knob Creek Gun Range: #90. Host R. Lee Ermey heads to Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky, outside of Fort Knox, for the Knob Creek Shoot, a weekend when machine-gun owners and collectors converge for unbridled mayhem. At this former military-munitions test range, shooters nationwide come to buy, sell, and trade. First, the Gunny shows us around, talks about the history, hits sales tables, and fires off a few thousand rounds--from state-of-the-art to early vintage. Next, Lee takes a...

In Miami, when a hard-working store worker is cut down in a hail of gunfire, a veteran Sgt. Pepi Granado and his team must turn to a silent witness--the store's video surveillance system, which caught the entire murder on tape; and in Detroit, Sgt Jo AnnKinney and Detective Ed Williams tackle a case of a young couple found brutally killed in their house and learn that the victims knew their killer. They must track down reluctant witnesses deep in the narcotics game...before their killer has a...

The Wrong Man/Five Points Payback (#49). On a rain-soaked Memphis morning, Sgts. Tony Mullins and Mitch Oliver respond to a drive-by shooting, and learn that the victim is an innocent bystander. The man who says he was the intended target lead Mullins and Oliver on a manhunt for two brothers alleged to be the driver and the shooter. And in Dallas, when a man is shot to death in a van, Det. Dale Lundberg must untangle a web of conflicting stories about the man's identity to try to find his...