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- John McClane attempts to avert disaster as rogue military operatives seize control of Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C.
- An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?
- A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.
- Young filmmakers document their colleague's budding online friendship with a young woman and her family which leads to an unexpected series of discoveries.
- A macho man in a family on the eve of deer-hunting season must deal with the eldest son's curse of never having bagged a buck.
- In post-apocalyptic 2037, Judy rebels against the AI-ruled utopia where people live in a happy VR simulation. She's exiled to a post-nuclear wasteland where she meets drifter Stover. Mutated cannibals capture them for their leader Seer.
- Nick Broomfield's second documentary about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, focusing on her mental state on death row.
- A working-class boy falls for a girl from a wealthy family, and must compete for her with a rich boy who also wants her.
- In this steampunk, fantasy adventure, a tunnel collapse imprisons three dwarven miners who must work collectively to combat starvation, despair, and a mysterious creature.
- Expected to follow his opera star father into the business, but discontent with his life, a young man pursues a career in popular music and romances the aquatic ballet dancer he met during his time in the service.
- A schoolteacher teams up with with a priest to stop a town being overrun by vampires.
- David (Tequan Richmond) is fleeing from a murder, a pair of deadly con-men, and is inadvertently toting a bag full of crystal meth and cash with him. On the run, he ends up in a small, frozen, nowhere town in the heart of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
- Two never-were stand-up comics go to tiny Pine Lake, Wisconsin, where they hope to catch the eye of a Tonight Show talent scout who never misses his hometown Rocktoberfest, an annual weekend beer-blast with music and comedy performances.
- An ex-priest working for NASA is sent to investigate a remote observatory that went silent after receiving a radio signal from deep space. He discovers that signal has set in motion the biblical end of times.
- In 1969, recent high school graduates and best friends Derek and Charlie embark on a 1,300 mile bike trip around Lake Superior to escape the pressure of their future, but the two cousins that left the Keweenaw as boys must overcome the wilderness and uncertainty on their journey as men.
- Animator Thomas Kempton gets more than he bargained for when a snowmobile trip turns to terror in the wilds of Northern Michigan. Held prisoner by two cannibalistic sisters who try unsuccessfully to add him to their long list of victims, Tom becomes obsessed with tracking down his captor's long lost daughter. The ensuing drama becomes perfect material for Tom's latest Hollywood screenplay, inevitably luring one cannibal sister back to her original prey.
- Aquarians is a wintertime drama about a seminary student who returns to his hometown and is compelled to reconnect with his estranged brother.
- After ninety years let it finally be known that the Cold War did not end without fire and the blood of our fathers and grandfathers was spilled on Communist Russian soil. Told in the haunting words of the young soldiers themselves, Emmy-Nominated, award-winning documentary filmmaker Pamela Peak takes us on an emotional journey inside the hearts and minds of a group of young American soldiers as they faced one of the toughest missions in American history fighting the early Communists (known as Bolsheviks) in Northern Russia in 1918. Those that survived called themselves The Polar Bears. Voices of a Never Ending Dawn is not a political film or simply a "war documentary". It is a touching human story about a group of 5,500 young Americans (mostly draftees) sent to fight under the most impossible conditions ever assigned to a unit of American soldiers. The film includes dramatic re-enactment scenes shot on location in upper Michigan during a five-day blizzard and sub-zero temperatures that strongly resemble the exact conditions these young Americans found themselves in.
- This is a fast paced, modern, thirty-minute program that explores the best of Michigan. Airing on PBS outlets all across Michigan, in Northern Ohio and Eastern Wisconsin and 2.5 Million homes in Canada. Think modern, hip, high tech, fast paced, travel channel - concentrating on only Michigan. Each week UTR host Tom Daldin explores everything from Michigan restaurants and museums, to cool businesses and neighborhoods. The object is to discover the people, places and things that are unique about Michigan.
- In 1960s Soviet Union, a baptist pastor is sent to a labor camp for his faith. With two other Christians, he tries to spread the gospel to the other inmates.
- For centuries, the tobacco pipe has been a symbol of contentment and contemplation. Through the window of this transcendental artifact and its sacred origins, Father the Flame is a cinematic exploration of legacy, family and love.
- A documentary that chronicles four years in the lives of childhood friends as they enter a faraway war.
- A story about heroes... The Wings of Angels documentary follows two wounded war veterans (both amputees) who heal their bodies through marathoning, and the dedicated group of engineering students that attempt to design and build a better hand cycle for the vets to compete with. Inspired by the vets it becomes more than just a grade for the students; it becomes a passion.
- Set against the backdrop of a town's annual snowmobile race, this cinematic, observational documentary explores the American working class experience.
- A shocking tragedy sends Mara down a dark path of sin, guilt, grace and redemption.
- Two little Michigan towns stake their claim to the "Godfather of Punk".
- The Wake takes place a century after a nuclear winter has obliterated the world we know today. As tribes of survivors struggle to rebuild, we begin to learn that remnants of the old world, and the very forces that destroyed it, may not be entirely absent. Each of our seasons follows a distinct yet interconnected protagonist and their society - an isolated township, a humming metropolis, an alliance of jungle tribes, and a seemingly abandoned research facility - working to thrive in this desolate world. When a powerful being from the past is uncovered, the survivors begin to realize that the true battle for their world is only just now beginning. On an epic and global scale, The Wake challenges the possibilities of the technology we know today, the capabilities of the human mind, and man's inherent struggle to survive.
- The documentary Yoopera. tells the story of how the legacy of family stories and local history inspired both the commissioning and production of a major opera and a widespread community celebration of heritage in the beautiful, remote Upper Peninsula of Michigan (the U.P.)
- It is 1771, and the oppressed Regulators take the risk, and stand against Governor Tryon. The repercussions are more than anyone anticipated. The Price of Freedom follows Pastor Tidence Lane and a group of Regulators as they retreat over the Mountains and into hiding. They must start their lives over and begin rebuilding their families after losing everything to the hands of the British. These defeated Regulators must find the Courage to come back Over the Mountains and take back their Lands, their homes and Their Freedom.
- After a vicious chase home from gathering firewood, an innocent boy unknowingly leads his brother to fall through an isolated pond. The boy has to accept and use his twisted hallucinations of hatred as his only hope to break the ice and save his brother in time or die trying.
- Destiny is the last thing on the mind of a group of unsuspecting strangers as they await the arrival of a small town film star, but fate rarely plays by the rules.
- Two twenty-something siblings watch their mother's house while she's away and are visited by a mysterious woman claiming to be their sister.
- When legendary Hollywood director Otto Preminger chose Michigan's rustic Upper Peninsula as the filming location for Anatomy of a Murder (1959), he not only changed the way movies would get made for decades to come, he forever altered a Midwestern community. Anatomy of 'Anatomy' tells the story of how Marquette became the backdrop for an Oscar-nominated motion picture and how the lives of the locals it touched were never the same again.
- A photographer traveling through the remote wilderness stumbles upon an abandoned cabin and becomes obsessed with an old photograph he finds inside.
- Peel back the curtain on the art of drum-making. Stars collide as John Good (the 'Wood Whisperer') crafts one of the most epic drum-sets of all time: The R40 played by Neil Peart on their final tour, made from a Romanian Bog Oak that is over 1500 years old. A journey from the Forest, to the Stage.
- This Traveltalks entry roams through the northern end of Michigan's Lower Peninsula and makes a short visit to the Upper Peninsula. We start with a ride in a dune buggy on the Sleeping Bear sand dunes. Then it's on to Traverse City, the cherry capital of the world. In Harrison, we visit with Spikehorn Meyer, who lives with the bears that roam freely on his large natural preserve. Our visit ends with a look at Mackinac Island and Sault Ste. Marie, with emphasis on water sports and the water transportation industry.
- Curious about why President Bush reversed regulations to phase out the two-stroke snowmobile, the filmmaker goes on the road to look at other acts of de-regulation. This rambunctious trip reveals political manipulation that caused the death of thousands of salmon on the Klamath River, suppressed water rules that resulted in a range war between ranchers and oil companies in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, and serious health consequences for firefighters, paramedics and Wall Street workers triggered by White House suppression of environmental regulations in the aftermath of 9-11.
- This film takes a look into the world of Unitarian Universalism. Six in-depth interviews relay the history of Unitarian Universalism, famous UUs, why they joined the religion, and much much more.
- A park ranger tracks a poacher though the forest.
- Mike Rowe goes on a wild goose chase literally! After traveling to the tundra, Mike joins forces with a team of workers that round up a flock of wild geese with airplanes.
- The Mayan Prophesy says the end of the world will be on 21 December 2012. Can science explain how one terrible disaster could suddenly destroy the planet? Mega-Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Arkstorms, Asteroid Strikes and Super volcanic eruptions.
- On the last day of deer hunting season, a woman is killed while walking her dogs in the woods. Police assume it was a hunting accident, until a strange letter turns up, allegedly written by the woman before her death. Police begin to wonder if the woman may have been the target all along. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 2.
- Dave challenges Johnny and Dick to go car-camping in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Canterbury-style. At a junkyard, they each select a vehicle to drive through the logging roads, staying at different campsites over three nights and ending at the northernmost tip of Lake Superior. Using only their cars and a few demolition tools, the guys must take whatever they can from their vehicles to use as camping resources for each night on the road.
- 18 months after The Cataclysm has decimated North America, lone father Alex and his comatose daughter Crystal have settled with a pacifist community that has struggled to maintain a fragile cease-fire with a dangerous rival militia. The lines begin to shift when someone close to the community reappears after a long absence, bearing news from the outer world that could destroy the peace.
- After joining the Infinity Group, Danny's father Dennis reveals that the Firewalker militia has been seizing Sleepers and trafficking these comatose Cataclysm survivors with Allied Command in return for supplies. Learning that Danny's comatose brother Miles is to be moved between Allied Command facilities, Wallace's community is forced to contemplate a dangerous rescue.
- In an act that threatens the cease-fire with the Firewalkers, Alex, Danny and Dennis lead a bold attempt to rescue the comatose Miles from Allied Command captivity.
- The Infinity Group has made a major gain, but the cost may prove to be too high. The Firewalkers are scolded by Allied Command for not keeping the regional peace, and are ordered to take drastic measures against Wallace's community. Meanwhile, as Wallace's community enjoys a rare moment of joy, Alex uncovers a plot that could spark open war with The Firewalkers.
- Justin, Jennifer and their dog want to find peace and quiet in northern Michigan. With a budget of $350,000, can they find their dream log cabin and take advantage of all the seasonal activities Michigan has to offer?