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American Hippopotamus
A bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos.
When We Are Called to Part
An absorbing, affecting, and often funny story of life in the last years of a rapidly vanishing community.
Murder on the Mekong
A reporter travels to the scene of a crime that transfixed East Asia and finds a tale of adventure, deception, and political intrigue.
The Bones of Marianna
The story of a notorious reform school and the unlikely crusaders who pushed its dark past into the light.
Finding Shakespeare
A dramatic quest to stage the first-ever professional “original pronunciation” production of Shakespeare’s work in New York City.
Coronado High
How a group of high school kids from a sleepy beach town in California became criminal masterminds.
The Oilman’s Daughter
A dark family secret, an immense fortune, and one woman’s search for the truth.
Stray Bullet
An inmate attempts to come to terms with his own actions, and turn his life around in prison.
The Legends of Last Place
A season with America’s worst professional baseball team
The Honeymoon Murder
Young love turns tragic as a brutal carjacking leaves a beautiful newlywed murdered—and her husband the prime suspect.
The Sinking of the Bounty
The true story of a tragic shipwreck and its aftermath.
The Last Clinic
An Emmy-nominated portrait of the last abortion clinic in Mississippi.
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