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Surge is back with over 50 stars! Laugh at zany superhero antics from Big City to Las Vegas, enjoy familiar celebrities, and learn how intolerance can turn you evil! Surge's nemesis, Metal Master, struggles with his estranged parents (Linda Blair, Exorcist, Gil Gerard, Buck Rogers) and is tempted to continue a life of crime by Augur (Eric Robert, The Dark Knight, Doctor Who), arch enemy of Surge's mentor, Omen (Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols and Robert Picardo). Find out what happens next with...

Surge is back with over 50 stars! Laugh at zany superhero antics from Big City to Las Vegas, enjoy familiar celebrities, and learn how intolerance can turn you evil! Surge's nemesis, Metal Master, struggles with his estranged parents (Linda Blair, Exorcist, Gil Gerard, Buck Rogers) and is tempted to continue a life of crime by Augur (Eric Robert, The Dark Knight, Doctor Who), arch enemy of Surge's mentor, Omen (Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols and Robert Picardo). Find out what happens next with...

Part of the Earth's Furies series: Cyclones are the most powerful natural disasters on Earth. Many coastal regions live under the constant threat of these incredibly powerful surges of energy. Why are they becoming more common, widespread and powerful than ever before? This series focuses on the science behind natural catastrophes and helps audiences to understand these spectacular moments of Earth's anger.

James Daly plays Michael Powers, a crusading reporter investigating the crime and corruption that arose from the ashes of World War II in this long-lost TV drama! Overseas Adventure originally aired as part of Foreign Intrigue, a four-year series that began in syndication starring Jerome Thor. After two seasons, he was replaced by Daly (the change of star also meant a change in character and locale.) Thor's episodes were later rerun as Dateline Europe, while a fourth and final season starring...

Based on Richard Muller's book, Physics for Future Presidents, National Geographic investigates the science behind the dangers of a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse, or HEMP. Picture an instantaneous deathblow to the vital engines that power our society, delivered by a nuclear weapon designed not to kill humans but to attack electronics. What could happen if an electromagnetic pulse surged to earth, crippling every aspect of modern society's infrastructure, including our especially...

Power lines down, amazingly high speed winds, and deadly cold temperatures raged through the eastern United States with one violent bang. Storm of the Century presents an up close and personal look into the terrifying effects of these acts of nature. National Geographic has compiled shattering footage of some of the worst catastrophe's to hit the Florida's Gulf Coast and all the way to Canada. Witness one family's horrible ordeal to survive a 12-foot-high storm surge that wipes away what was...

Based on the first of Kenneth Robeson's 181 adventure-packed Doc Savage books, Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze hits the screen with all its gee-whiz, gung-ho spirit intact. And its bold protagonist, who along with having a herculean body is also a surgeon, linguist and inventor, remains determined to do right to all and wrong to no one. Ron Ely (TV's Tarzan) plays the strapping Savage in this high-camp, big-heroics tale of his trek into the Valley of the Vanished to confront the power-hungry...

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,...

Chad Everett and James Daly, as Chief of Surgery Joe Gannon and Chief of Staff Paul Lochner, continue their hit run as the groundbreaking medical drama entered its well-seasoned fifth year. As the country started to come of cynical age due to Watergate, urban blight and rampant inflation, Drs. Gannon and Lochner waged their healers' war against the likes of hysterical paralysis, sudden infant death, gambling addiction, kidney transplants and seismic- sensitive seizures. Parallel to these...

Chad Everett and James Daly, as Chief of Surgery Joe Gannon and Chief of Staff Paul Lochner, lead their hit medical drama into its fourth outing tackling controversial topics and cutting-edge medicine simultaneously. Alternative medicine, parapsychology, professional sports' abuse of performance enhancing drugs, "angels of mercy" killers and more are tackled with compassion and conviction by Dr. Joe and Dr. Lochner alongside a ward full of A-list guest stars. One those guests, Audrey Totter,...

Based on the first of Kenneth Robeson's 181 adventure-packed Doc Savage books, Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze hits the screen with all its gee-whiz, gung-ho spirit intact. And its bold protagonist, who along with having a Herculean body is also a surgeon, linguist and inventor, remains determined to do right to all and wrong to no one. Ron Ely (TV's Tarzan) plays the strapping Savage in this high-camp, big- heroics tale of his trek into the Valley of the Vanished to confront the power-hungry...

Steel separates 1873 Pittsburgh into rich and poor, master and worker, powerful and powerless. On one side is Paul Scott, the progressive son of a steel mill owner. On the other is Mary Rafferty, daughter of an embittered laborer who was crippled in a mill accident. When Mary takes a post as housemaid at the Scott mansion, she and Paul fall desperately in love. But a bloody strike may tear the city -- and the lovers -- apart. Surging with passion and strife, featuring a commanding cast that...

Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray and Alexis Smith star in this dramatic tale of two men who must choose between love of country and the love of a woman during the desperate early days of World War II and the often-lethal development of the Dive Bomber. As the very existence of the United States and the Free World is threatened by Germany and Japan, U.S. Navy surgeon Lt. Doug Lee (Flynn--The Adventures of Robin Hood) races to find a way to keep pilots from losing consciousness during power dives...

Ex-railroad man turned hobo, Larry Doyle, is given a second chance to earn an honest buck in the busy train yards of the Midwest. Doyle's benefactor, tough-as-nails rail boss Dan Thorn, is convinced that the unwashed vagabond is, at heart, actually a proud, hard-working man. Things work out well until Doyle falls for Thorn's fiancee, Mary Ryan. A showdown between the two men in a dark, rain-drenched switching yard ends in tragedy when Thorn is struck down by a speeding locomotive. His severe...

Karl Zaroff, an eccentric European inventor, tests a new kind of armor-piercing shell for the British government. Following the demonstration, he is gravely injured in a freak auto accident. Brought to the hospital, Zaroff is operated on by Sir James Quentin, a distinguished surgeon who saves his life. The following night, however, he is found poisoned in his hospital bed. Suspicion falls upon Sir James, who turned virulently anti-war when his son died in WWI. But the doctor may just be an...

DEADLY CULTURE (2007) : Beautiful young actress Natasha Kimmont is stricken with a rare, fatal disease. She is approached by a shadowy government agency who offer her a cure. Refusing to be cut down in the prime of her life, Natasha agrees to undergo a painful, experimental surgery. She emerges not only cured of her illness, but stronger, faster, smarter than ever before. But now, when the moon rises, Natasha is transformed into a horned, green-skinned creature...with a taste for human...

In the carnage and cruelty of Vietnam, Navy surgeon Don Jardian learned he had to move fast to deal with black marketeers who control vital supplies -- and even faster to stitch together a shrapnel-riddled combatant. But he couldn't foresee the emotional crossfire he and nurse Deborah Solomon experience as their romance -- and the war's dangers -- heighten. Ken Wahl (Wiseguy) and Cheryl Ladd (Charlie's Angels) star in director Sidney J. Furie's vivid and moving Purple Hearts, a Vietnam War...

En route to the World Cup in Brazil, four American friends and filmmakers decided to take a four-month journey through Latin America. Over 7,000 miles and 8 countries, their goal is to explore the region's passion for futbol and translate if for a surge of soccer fans back in the US. But what they find along the way are stories that transcend the sport itself. From soccer at the US-Mexico border to blind footballers in Bogota and mafia-run supporter groups in Buenos Aires, the crew unearths...

Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff and John Howard star in Disputed Passage, a gripping story about the powerful healing ability of the human spirit. John Wesley Beaven (Howard), an understudy of Dr. 'Tubby' Forster (Tamiroff), esteemed professor of medicine and surgery, struggles to fully surrender to his teacher's philosophy of keeping the sterility of science separate from the warmth of the human spirit. His views are challenged after he falls in love with Lan Ying (Lamour), a Chinese woman of...

Every year in Pakistan, at least 100 people are victimized by acid attacks. The majority of these are women, and many cases go unreported. With little or no access to reconstructive surgery, survivors are physically and emotionally scarred, while many reported assailants -- typically a husband or someone close to the victim -- are let go with minimal punishment from the state. Saving Face tells the stories of two acid-attack victims: Zakia, a 39-year old whose husband threw acid on her after...

Lights Out was an early television series based on the eerie dramatizations of the popular 1930s radio show. The broadcasts made writer and director Arch Oboler a household name synonymous with the macabre. It was brought to network television between 1949 and 1952. A precursor to shows like "Twilight Zone," "Night Gallery" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Lights Out" is a chilling remnant of old-fashioned ghost story-telling.Dark Image: Newly-wed Aleen Pollard makes the mistake of gazing...

Willow Cabin (1950, B&W): Screen legend Charlton Heston stars as Michael Knowle, a wealthy British surgeon whose extramarital affair with rising young stage actress Caroline Seward sets tongues wagging across pre-war London. When Caroline abandons her skyrocketing career to be with him, Michael is torn and his inner torments rise to the surface. With his wife Mercedes traveling though France, Michael's plans for divorce are constantly interrupted and delayed. After war breaks out and Mercedes...