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- Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.
- Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.
- Hoping to walk away with a massive fortune, a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man who isn't as helpless as he seems.
- An All-American college star and his beauty queen wife watch their seemingly perfect life fall apart as their daughter joins the turmoil of '60s America.
- Feature film based on Derrick Todd Lee known as The Baton Rouge Serial Killer. Between 1992 and 2003, Lee brutally murdered seven women and is suspected of a total of 14 prior to his arrest and conviction in 2004.
- Charley Tate, a nice enough guy but somewhat of a braggart, takes his wife Lucy on a trip to Florida for their 50th wedding anniversary. While there, they run into one of Lucy's old boyfriends. Even though the ex-lover is himself married, Charley feels the need to prove to his wife--and himself--that she made the right choice 50 years before.
- A story of friendship, bred by the streets of Detroit and betrayed cruelly.
- While millions around the globe watched on television, thousands of people stood for hours waiting to catch just a brief glimpse of George H.W. Bush's funeral train and pay their last respects. Led by the George Bush 4141 locomotive, the 13-car train made the 2.5 hour, 70-mile journey from Spring to College Station, Texas, where the former president was laid to rest after a final funeral in Houston. This special train served as a tangible connection between the people and their former president. "Uniting America: The President's Final Journey" will show never-before-seen footage, and go behind the scenes with the Union Pacific employees who were instrumental in executing the long-planned and first presidential funeral train since Dwight Eisenhower's in 1969. While millions around the globe watched on television, thousands of people stood for hours waiting to catch just a brief glimpse of the funeral train and pay their last respects. Led by the George Bush 4141 locomotive, the 13-car train made the 2.5 hour, 70-mile journey from Spring to College Station, Texas, where the former president was laid to rest after a final funeral in Houston. This special train served as a tangible connection between the people and their former president. "When you are an American company that was created by Abraham Lincoln's pen, well, patriotism and presidents run deep," said Scott Moore, Union Pacific senior vice president and chief administrative officer. "We have flags on the sides of our locomotives and nearly 20 percent of our workforce is military veterans. It was our privilege to honor President Bush in a way that gave Americans from all walks of life the opportunity to do the same."
- About the recently widowed lady Estelle Parsons who is selling all her belongings to start a new life. Estelle believes she has powers to see into the future and to conduct seances. She moves to a boarding house and interacts with the strange residents.
- 2016–7.4 (12)TV EpisodeFollowing the Hudson river, national railroad carrier Amtrack goes from NYC's Penn(sylvania) station over Yonkers, after a Dutch manufacturing magnate, trough wild country inspiring major US literature (Washington Irving) and painting, to Garrison, a strategic focus during the Secession War, seat of US Army officers school West Point (also supplying many railroad engineers) and site of commanding crippled general Benedict Arnold's high treason. Since Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid's legendary Great Train robbery, the Scottish Pinkerton agency founder laid the foundations for the present railroad police, now focusing on anti-terrorism.
- Following the Hudson north, first to to Poughkeepsie, site of a pioneering women's college where Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Meryl Streep graduated. The wild Catskill mountain range, long trapper country, inspired mass nature tourism and Thomas Cole's romantic 'Hudson River' painting school leading it. Finally Albany, state capital of New York and once an industrial metropolis, now grand for its opulent capitol, where Michael ponders the US federal system.
- Michael's train heads west 'upstate' to the Great Lakes, roughly along the Erie Canal, jewel in the major transport network before the railroads, which made New York the main East Coast port and immigrant magnet. .He starts in Schenectady, home of General Electric since light bulb inventor Thomas Edison and still a main and innovative supplier, also to rail companies. By Wizzard of Oz author Baum's home town Chittenango Michael reaches Palmyra, where farm-boy Joseph Smith, founded the new 15 million strong Mormon 'church of Laterday Saints'. In Rochester philanthropist George Eastman made his fortune founding the Kodak company, which rendered the camera easy to handle and truly portable.
- Michael reaches the north of New York state in its second city, Buffalo at Lake Erie, which the Erie Canal enabled to develop into a major inland port, pivot of a worldwide grain trade, and Industrial central, soon served by a major Railway system. His first Americna rail tour ends at Niagara Falls, US town, once Industrial, completely shifting to tourism.
- 2016–7.0 (12)TV EpisodePennsylvania state and main city Philadelphia (Greek for 'brothery love') was founded by William Penn, a Quaker aristocrat who abandoned an English luxury life to establish a haven of religious liberty, with the Liberty Bell as symbol, later extended to abolition of slavery. It paid for its Ivy League Penn State University the main nod of US railroads as center of manufacturing. A favorite pastime was visiting the nearby coast at Atlantic city, which grew thanks to the railroads, attracting tourists nationwide, allowing gambling when competition grew.
- A nearby market-leader remains Hershey, the Pennsylvanian town founded by the self-made founder of 'the' US candy bar firm which introduced milk chocolate outside Switzerland. The milk comes from the wide traditionalist countryside of the Pennsylvania Dutch: Amish, Mennonites and Brethren, Anabaptists fleeing persecution from Switzerland, Germania, Low Countries and Scandinavia. Michael ends in Gettysburg, site of the turn-point battle in the Secession War and Lincoln's Address.
- 2016–6.9 (11)TV Episode
- 2016–6.6 (10)TV Episode
- 2016–7.1 (12)TV Episode
- Michael leaves federal capital Washington to Richmond, capital if senior state Virginia and of the Confederation. First stop is Manassas, an old rail road crossing, which helps to explain it was the site of two major civil war battles, both won by the Confederate general Robert Lee. Next Fredericksburg, for a taste of bourbon after an elaborate visit to a distillery of the Kentucky-created corn-based US version of whiskey. Finally Richmond, the fall of which spelled the defeat of the Dixieland secession but not of structural racial inequality. Michael attends a cotillion class, a 'European' tradition and a refined way to prepare youths to social life.
- Randall and William take a road trip to Memphis, where Randall learns about William's past.
- Michael presents his second American rail route using the Appleton's guide, this time along a great axis of the pioneers follow-up west of the Appalachians, across the great barrier stream Mississippi. For long, the main city westward apart from Chicago was its central port Saint Louis, the Western metropolis supplying cowboy country. It prospered, growing into a real great city, flouting old and new monuments, including the 1874 engineering pioneer bridge named after US architect Eads and iconic arch which has a train inside instead of a lift.
- 2016–7.3 (15)TV EpisodeDocumentary- Michael Portillo visits The gateway Arch in St. Louis, replica of the original keel boat used for historic expedition, we see corn pipes made in Washington, MO, and a fortified building that was the jail for the entire Wild West. He visits Hermann, MO and wineries and we hear how the outbreak of WW2 practically killed off the German language in the area, but many people have German heritage.
- 2016–7.9 (11)TV Episode
- 2016–7.7 (14)TV EpisodeMichael is in Lawrence, a fast-grown city in the Bleeding Kansas era of pioneers establishing a territory of Kansas and claiming statehood during the the slavery conflict escalating into the Civil war of Secession. Its home to a rare Indian school -founded to gruesomely assimilate natives from tribes from many states- turned college, where he enjoys an Indian prairie grouse dance in 'full regalia', and the proud birthplace of regulation basketball at Kansas University. A private tourist line keeps the steam train experience alive.
- 2016–7.7 (14)TV Episode
- 2016–7.8 (13)TV Episode
- 2016–8.0 (11)TV Episode
- 2016–7.5 (12)TV Episode
- 2016–7.9 (12)TV Episode
- 2016–7.9 (10)TV Episode
- 2016–7.6 (13)TV Episode
- 2016–7.9 (9)TV Episode
- 2016–6.9 (12)TV Episode
- 2016–7.3 (7)TV Episode
- 2016–7.6 (6)TV Episode
- 2016–6.9 (10)TV Episode
- Michael travels from Plymouth to New London and uses historic rail. He traces the steps of the Pilgrim Fathers in Plymouth, Mass; we see how indigenous tribes of the Wampanoag people taught settlers to live off the land; he boards the Cape Cod Central Railroad, bound for Hyannis and then takes the ferry to Martha's Vineyard, where several presidents have holiday homes. Y
- 2016–7.6 (6)TV Episode
- 2016–7.5 (8)TV EpisodeNew Haven to Plattsburgh A rail journey through Connecticut and New England; rowing in New Haven, Conn.; the world's first mountain climbing cog railway; the logging industry in Vermont; the Olympic bobsleigh run in Lake Placid, N.Y.
- 2016–8.0 (6)TV Episode
- Reno to Napa Valley, over the Sierra Mountain range in Nevada and Lake Tahoe ; Michael meets experts in their field about how the west was opened by rail and due to the gold and silver mining.
- Actually in this same show Michael travels on to Los Angeles also. He travels on the Coast Starlight rail service, he visits the historic port of Monterey, Warner Bros studio, and explores a rail link with 7 new stations on the LA Metro that was started in 2015 and expected finish date is 2024.