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An investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988, examining unanswered questions and exploring the truth behind the atrocity that left 270 people dead. With access to victims' families, investigators, intelligence officers and other key figures.

On October 23, 1989, Charles "Chuck" Stuart places a frantic 911 call reporting that he and his pregnant wife, Carol, a white couple, have been shot by a Black man in Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood. The ensuing investigation proves to be a lightning rod for the city, igniting decades-old racial tensions and brutal targeting amidst a media firestorm.

The staff of a New York City taxicab company go about their job while they dream of greater things.

Set in 1985, behind the Iron Curtain, as Geri leaves for college. He is looking forward to meeting girls and partying and joins a group of radicals, led by the charismatic Száva. But Geri has a secret. He's an informant of the totalitarian state and to save his brother, he's been forced to spy on his new friends for State Security. While Geri's life changes forever - juggling parties and political debates - he wrestles with a daily challenge; whose side should he be on? Especially when the group's increasingly radical leader, Száva realizes that there is an informant among them.

The town is shocked with a brutal double murder. The "Courier" hands the case to an experienced journalist - Witold Wanycz. At the same time, he learns about the mysterious suicide of two teenagers. Together with Piotr, a young journalist, they start their own investigation.

"21 Jump Street" is about a group of under-age looking cops who go undercover at high schools to catch young criminals before they become older, more dangerous criminals.

In 1985, American DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by Mexico's most notorious drug lords. Thirty-five years later, three former cartel insiders share unprecedented details. This is the story of Camarena, the drug cartel he infiltrated, and the narc who risked everything to discover the truth.

A semi-autobiographical sitcom about stand-up and presenter Alan Carr's life growing up in Northampton in the 1980s as the son of a fourth division football manager.

Long ago, there was a thriving civilization of small humanoid bears called Gummi Bears. Possessing powerful magic and advanced technology, this race coexisted with humans until the growing rivalry forced the Gummis to flee across the sea, leaving only a small caretaker colony to prepare for a possible return.

Somewhere in the world, there is a workshop owned by a an inventor named Doc and his Dog, Sprocket. While Doc spends his days coming up with new ideas, Sprocket is peering into a large hole in the baseboard. He knows that something lives behind the wall. Through the hole and down the tunnel, hidden from everyday reality, are brightly lit caves filled with wonderful creatures.

A flying saucer crashed in the Mojave Desert and its inhabitants turned out to be alien slaves, bred to be super intelligent and strong, and controllable by their Overseers.

A dramatisation of the very first major UK criminal case that was solved using DNA profiling.

The tumultuous life of director Toru Muranishi is examined, as the director recounts how he revolutionized the porn industry during the economic boom of 1980s Japan.

"The Real Ghostbusters" continues where the first movie left off, with the four Ghostbusters facing forces of the supernatural.

Set in 1985, the series will follow the exploits of a country bloke from outback Queensland. On the run from a troubled past, he blows into Sydney where he lands a job as a bouncer at an illegal casino. A classic fish out of water who is desperate to get home, he soon finds himself seduced by the city's illicit charms and dragged into a web of underground criminality.

Dirty Lines centers on young businessman Frank Stigter, who goes about setting up Europe's first phone sex line, sparking what would become a multi-million dollar industry. Working with his brother and sister, Stigter started with a clumsy experiment in his parents' garage, but his business became part of the hedonistic culture of Amsterdam, offering anonymous thrills for new kinds of customers.

The reconversion of fishing has left a part of the Galician(Spain) fleet on land and hundreds of owners in debt. No work. In the many fishing villages that cross the Galician(Spain) coast, the lack of income and daily payments strangle family economies. It is the perfect breeding ground for the great transformation to take place: the former tobacco traffickers make the leap to something bigger, more lucrative, but much more dangerous: drugs. The smuggling of tobacco, which in some way had taken root in society for years, gives way to drug trafficking. Traffickers in the area contact the Colombian drug cartels and start trafficking in cocaine. The white powder drug trafficking - which is already moving huge amounts of money in the US - reaches Galicia (Spain) and, therefore, Spain and the rest of Europe.

Told from both sides of the law, this docuseries from the makers of "Fear City" follows the FBI's battle to bring down infamous mob boss John Gotti. It's 1985 and John Gotti is the most powerful man in New York; he's also the most surveilled. His public execution of 'Boss of Bosses' Paul Castellano sets in motion a series of events that catapults the young mobster to the helm of America's most powerful mafia family. As the tentacles of Gotti's criminal enterprise extend deep into the heart of the city, law enforcement and state prosecutors scramble for their chance to bring the charismatic Godfather to his knees. From the creators of 'Fear City,' this three-part series for Netflix chronicles Gotti's meteoric rise and crashing fall - all told from the very mouths of those who brought him down.

Growing Pains was a successful ABC sitcom about the Seaver family making their way through life. Jason and Maggie Seaver, two loving parents, raise their three children: Mike Seaver, the troublesome teenager, Carol Seaver, the brainy middle child, and Ben Seaver, the cute youngest son. Jason, a psychiatrist, works out of his house and takes care of the children so that his wife, Maggie, can pursue her career in journalism. As the years go by, many changes occur. Mike graduates high school and begins class at Alf Landon Community College, at which time he proceeds to move out, but only to live above the garage. Maggie gets pregnant and gives birth to another daughter, Chrissy and switches roles with Jason as she decides to stay home with the kids while he moves his practice to an actual office. The Seavers also take in a troubled young homeless boy by the name of Luke in the final season.

The show involves four lunatic students who live in a shared, somwhat derelict, house. There is Rick, the (self-styled) Marxist Anarchist Cliff Richard fan; Vyvian, who is always the experimental scientific one; Neil, the worried hippy and Mike, the ladies man.

Arguably the best soap opera ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. It had the best trans-season cliffhanger in history that had the whole world asking "Who shot J.R.?" Dallas is an important part of American History, if not world history.

A stupid bionic police inspector stumbles about on his cases while his niece and dog secretly do the real investigative work.

Matlock is a shrewd lawyer with a folksy charm and clever tactics that always get his clients off the hook. With his signature seersucker suit and southern drawl, Matlock navigates the legal system to uncover the truth.

The third installment from executive producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, following in the footsteps of critically-acclaimed series "The Sixties" and "The Seventies," tackles 10 years shaped by exceptionalism and excess. Like its predecessors, "The Eighties" intersperses rare archival newsreel footage, interviews, and comments by historians, journalists, politicians, celebrities and others, painting a perspective-rich picture of a vibrant decade. Episodes examine the age of Reagan, the AIDS crisis, the end of the Cold War, Wall Street corruption, the evolving TV and music scene, and everything in between.

Code Monkeys is an animated comedy about Dave and Jerry. Two video game makers who have just got jobs at a company called Gameavision. What the two didn't know was that their new boss, Mr. Larrity, is crazy. Watch as Dave and Jerry go through a multitude of misadventures at their new jobs at Gameavision.