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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The small town of Chester's Mill is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by a massive transparent barrier. The epic story of a town in peril unfolds as the residents struggle to maintain control and ultimately figure out the truth about the dome.
7) Cat's eye
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Cat's Eye: A stray cat is the linking element of three tales of suspense and horror. Creepshow: Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A. Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
FBI Agent Audrey Parker travels to the small town of Haven, Maine to solve the murder of a local ex-con. Soon she discovers that Haven is a refuge for people with supernatural powers, and it's up to her to unlock the town's mysterious secrets, including the hidden truth about her own past.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.
10) Prison state
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With this intimate, graphic film, award-winning director Dan Edge follows four residents of a housing project in Louisville, Ky., as they cycle in and out of the state's jails and prisons. More than two years in the making, the program uses deep access to the Louisville jail to offer raw firsthand accounts from prisoners, prison staff, and people whose lives are forever altered by this troubled system, and focuses on the efforts of Mark Bolton, the...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Percy Talbot, a young woman who has just been released from prison after serving five years for manslaughter, decides to move to the small town of Gilead, Maine for a fresh start. Percy takes a job at the Spitfire Grill, the only restaurant in a town suspicious of outsiders, where she slowly gains the trust of [most of] the townspeople, finding acceptance and redemption.
12) Salem's Lot
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Into the sleepy little hamlet of Salem's Lot comes a stranger who unleashes an insidious evil so devastating it threatens to destroy the entire town and everyone in it. Ben Mears, a young novelist, returns home to Salem's Lot, determined to write a book about the eerie old Marsten House which overlooks the town. It is Mears' conviction that the source of all the trouble is the house itself, which he believes attracts evil to it. With the help of his...
13) It
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
It can be anything. A fanged monster that won't stay on the movie screen. Something ominous lurking in the basement. A malevolent force in a small New England town takes the shape of a clown, but It isn't clowning around. Instead, It terrifies youngsters with their innermost fears, bringing some to their untimely doom -- until a group of wily neighborhood kids fight back. Thirty years later the evil resurfaces: meaner, angrier, deadlier. And the friends...
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Enjoy a visit to Acadia National Park, the crown jewel of the North Atlantic Coast. Travel through history and learn about the political, economic, social, cultural, and demographic changes after the civil, industrial and revolutionary wars. Appreciate the world's greatest inventor, American conservationists, sculptor art, former presidents, women's rights, and natural wonders along the way. This program features over a dozen National Park sites throughout...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In Season two, the people of Chester's Mill struggle to break free of their nightmare, as a mysterious stranger and diminishing food supply threaten their very survival. Big Jim, driven by his lust for power, assumes the role of town sheriff. Meanwhile, someone has discovered a way out of the dome; will the rest escape?
17) Olive Kitteridge
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The four-part drama that tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's...
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage in remote St. Cloud, Maine. Dr. Larch, who also provides medically safe, if illegal, abortions, runs the orphanage. Homer is Dr. Larch's favorite, and over the years, Dr. Larch trains Homer as his successor. Homer thus becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. Homer, however, yearns for a life outside the orphanage. When Wally and pregnant Candy come for an abortion, Homer leaves with them to work on Wally's...
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
It can be anything. A fanged monster that won't stay on the movie screen. Something ominous lurking in the basement. A malevolent force in a small New England town takes the shape of a clown, but It isn't clowning around. Instead, It terrifies youngsters with their innermost fears, bringing some to their untimely doom -- until a group of wily neighborhood kids fight back. Thirty years later the evil resurfaces: meaner, angrier, deadlier. And the friends...
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
The father of a colonial family seeking a new and promising life in the deep wilderness of Maine in 1763 reluctantly leaves his 13-year-old son alone in the wilderness to protect their claim until he can return with the rest of the family and their belongings.
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