Shot Through the Heart is a 1998 TV film directed by David Attwood, shown on the BBC and HBO in 1998, which covers the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. The film is based on a true story and an article called Anti-Sniper by John Falk.
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After seeing devastating results of ethnic war in former Yugoslavia, soldiers from UNPROFOR (United Nations Protection Force) peace units find it impossible to return to their civil lives in the United Kingdom.
Alija Izetbegović, a prominent political leader, tries to hold his country together while negotiating an agreement that will mean the end of the war. At the same time, the story of the Kahramanović family offers an insider's perspective on the war.
A girls' handball team from Mostar fled the war in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, thanks to their coach. After a perilous bus journey, they arrived in Oosterblokker; without their parents, living in fear and uncertainty. Searching for answers, the women returned 33 years later, by bus to Mostar.
The Enclave is a three-part series directed by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen, about the fall of Srebrenica and the Dutch government's failure to protect the town from attackers. The series originally aired by Netherlands Public Broadcasting. The series was made in 2002. It has since been condensed into a movie and is regularly shown on US free satellite network LinkTV. In the original series, each episode describes the Srebrenica massacre in three different points of view and how it continues to control the characters. In the movie version, only two points of view were shown. The following episode descriptions were taken from the Dutch Public Broadcasting website.
Lingerie is a sitcom that focuses on the daily lives, love, and sex of three female protagonists in their late 20s, each of whom play different roles, the president of the company, the head of a designer department, and the owner of a bar. It approaches stories about sex and love that are not covered on terrestrial broadcasting programs in an honest and bold manner, creating empathy and entertainment.
When a cleaner is hired by a wealthy businesswoman, her life changes forever as their initial friendship threatens to become a manipulative, psychological game of cat and mouse.
A group of teenagers with serious illnesses meet in the hospital and form a bond. Led by the belief that their fate is in their hands, they support each other, facing their challenges with humor and optimism. Despite their struggles, their youthful spirit inspires those around them as they search for happiness and hope for a brighter tomorrow.
A short story about young people working in a call center and meeting real customers.
Lu Ruonan, an older, unmarried doctor, develops anorexia due to psychological issues. Under pressure from her family to marry, she hires Jiang Xiaoge, a lifestyle actor, to pretend to be her boyfriend. Though they clash at first, they gradually grow closer. Both carry their own emotional scars, but in time, they help each other heal.
Ertan Aydin is one of Istanbul’s top lawyers, confident, calculating, and trained by his father to win at any cost. When his father dies suddenly, Ertan learns he was hiding a secret that could upend everything he thought he knew about himself. To protect that secret, Ertan enlists Asya, a street-smart con artist struggling to keep her family afloat. Together, they stage a dangerous deception inside one of the country’s most powerful families. Asya thinks she’s using Ertan to escape her debts. Ertan thinks he’s using her to protect his name. But the game quickly turns personal, as lies become leverage, alliances shift, and emotions cloud the plan. In a world where truth is just another trick, Ertan and Asya will learn that the biggest con may be the one they’re playing on themselves.
Lingyun, a cunning palace maid, rises through the imperial ranks to become the emperor’s favored consort, exposing the empress’s hidden corruption. But her ascent comes at a terrible cost, as she becomes ensnared in ruthless palace intrigues and a forbidden love that could destroy her.
After the Fox Clan is wiped out by Prince Xiling Xuan of Xiling Kingdom, the clan’s sacred maiden Tu Shanyue survives as a wandering soul and possesses the body of the late Empress Jiang Xin'er. Determined to take revenge, she infiltrates the palace—only to uncover a shocking truth that changes everything.
On her wedding night, wealthy heiress Liang Yi is betrayed by her husband, disfigured, and cast into a river. Rescued and given a new face, she assumes the identity of courtesan Xu Yin and draws close to gang leader Lin Yun, determined to take her revenge.
After drinking the Hua family’s secret liquor, Third Young Master Hua Wuyou falls into a nine-year sleep. Years later, Mo Yueying accidentally awakens him and becomes the only one who can keep him conscious, forcing them together as hidden agendas and unexpected challenges draw them into an uneasy, inescapable bond.
Michael Gallagher is an ambitious young detective, promoted to a task force aimed at taking down Belfast's most dangerous crime family: the Farrs. However, as his investigation deepens, a murder pushes him towards a reckoning with his own dark past.
A young priest and professor of theology upsets a small town upon his arrival. Apart from charm, however, it also hides secrets. No one knows the real reason it is there. And no one can predict, least of all himself, that the young daughter of the most powerful man in the area will prove to be his greatest test.
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
Life, death and drama at 20,000 feet. The series weaves together intense character journeys and high-stakes medical rescues, as we follow the triumphs, heartbreaks and tribulations of budding nurses and pilots flying air ambulances in remote Northern Canada. They’re all in over their heads, and on their own, with no one to rely on but each other.
Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman & McBride, the massive law firm he helped create, Billy and his ragtag team uncover a vast and deadly conspiracy, pitting them all in a life or death trial against the ultimate Goliath.
The spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.
Jake takes out an ad in the newspaper after the suicide of his unfaithful fiancée, in an effort to understand the reasons for the betrayal. By soliciting the secret diaries of other women, he hopes to find some reconciliation with the truth.
A basketball prodigy must navigate a maze of pressure if he's going to overcome the odds against him and learn what it truly means to have swagger.
Through Julia Child’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history – the emergence of public television as a new social institution, feminism and the women's movement, the nature of celebrity and America's cultural evolution.
The mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on-board the submarine HMS Vigil bring the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services. DCI Amy Silva and DS Kirsten Longacre lead an investigation on land and at sea into a conspiracy that goes to the very heart of Britain’s national security.
An exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman and her struggle to deal with her fabulously messy family, her hunt for a decent love life and her tendency to overthink and fly off into fantasy.
Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and what is illusion?
Amanda Knox arrives in Italy for her study abroad only to be wrongfully imprisoned for murder weeks later. Follow Knox's relentless fight to prove her innocence and reclaim her freedom and examines why authorities and the world stood so firmly in judgment.
In the early 1990s in New York, during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, a visionary musician named Bobby Diggs aka The RZA begins to form a super group of a dozen young, black men, who will eventually rise to become one of the unlikeliest success stories in American music history.
A dramatization of the life and death of Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.
Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 1979, to September 4, 1986.
Bad Girls is a British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1 June 1999 to 20 December 2006 and starred Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones, Debra Stephenson, Linda Henry, Jack Ellis and many more throughout the eight-year run. The series was broadcast in 17 countries and was produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road. It is set in the fictional women's prison of Larkhall, and features a mixture of serious and light storylines focusing on the prisoners and staff of G Wing. From 2010, the UK broadcast rights were bought by CBS Drama, and is repeated regularly – as of September 2012, the channel is re-running the series again in a late-night time slot.
The shocking true-life tale of Ed Gein, the infamous murderer and grave robber who inspired many of Hollywood's most iconic on-screen killers.
Wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital, one man faces secretive doctors, dangerous patients, and something even worse …
A gifted heart surgeon excels in her new leadership role as Chief of Surgery after her renowned boss falls into a coma. When her former boss wakes up months later demanding to resume his duties, Sam is tasked with supervising this egotistical expert with a scalpel who never acknowledged her stellar talent.
Letty Dobesh is a thief and con artist fresh out of prison whose life is always one wrong turn and bad decision from implosions — just how she likes it. But when she overhears a hitman being hired to kill a man’s wife, she sets out to derail the job, launching her on a collision course with the killer, entangling them in a dangerous and seductive relationship.
Set in South Jamaica, Queens, in 1991, this prequel to "Power" revolves around the coming of age of Kanan Stark.