Soon after L.A. police detective Mike Carter is bounced from the force, the officer who fired him is found dead. Suspect #1: Mike Carter. While the police dragnet draws tighter, Carter scrambles to clear his name, connecting the dots involving Pasadena bluebloods, the meat-packing industry and cop corruption. As Carter, noir icon Lawrence Tierney (Dillinger, Reservoir Dogs) brings grim toughness to this atmospheric whodunit that marks the genre debut of another film noir notable, director Richard O. Fleischer (Armored Car Robbery, The Narrow Margin). A film-making legend of even greater renown was in the wings. Robert Altman of M*A*S*H, Nashville and Gosford Park receives his first credit (as story co-writer Robert B. Altman).+++++++++++++++++ Director: Richard O. Fleischer Cast: Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ * Studio: RKO RADIO PICTURES * Screen Aspect: 4 X 3 FULL FRAME * Run Time: 62 minutes * Packaging Type: Amaray Case * Copyright: Bodyguard © 1948 RKO Pictures, Inc. Package Design © 2010 Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved. * Genre: CRIME, Mystery

Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay, this critical and box-office hit from 1973 provided a perfect reunion for director George Roy Hill and stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who previously delighted audiences with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Set in 1936, the movie's about a pair of Chicago con artists (Newman and Redford) who find themselves in a high-stakes game against the master of all cheating mobsters (Robert Shaw) when they set out to avenge the murder of a mutual friend and partner. Using a bogus bookie joint as a front for their con of all cons, the two feel the heat from the Chicago Mob on one side and encroaching police on the other. But in a plot that contains more twists than a treacherous mountain road, the ultimate scam is pulled off with consummate style and panache. It's an added bonus that Newman and Redford were box-office kings at the top of their game, and while Shaw broods intensely as the Runyonesque villain, The Sting is further blessed by a host of great supporting players including Dana Elcar, Eileen Brennan, Ray Walston, Charles Durning, and Harold Gould. Thanks to the flavorful music score by Marvin Hamlisch, this was also the movie that sparked a nationwide revival of Scott Joplin's ragtime jazz, which is featured prominently on the soundtrack. One of the most entertaining movies of the early 1970s, The Sting is a welcome throwback to Hollywood's golden age of the '30s that hasn't lost any of its popular charm. --Jeff Shannon

Heath Ledger stars as Alex Bernier, a young priest and protegee of the excommunicated head of a mysterious order known as the Carolingians, who has recently died under mysterious circumstances. Alex is sent by Father Driscoll to Rome to investigate the death; once there, he uncovers evidence pointing to the existence of a mysterious being known as a sin-eater, a being that exists outside the jurisdiction of the church and performs "last rites" on people who have been exiled by the Church. But as Bernier, aided by his old friend Father Thomas (Mark Addy) and an artist upon whom he once performed an exorcism (Shannyn Sossamon), gets closer to the sin-eater, he is besieged by doubt as to what it really is; human or beast, evil creature that preys upon humans or renegade angel who provides fallen sinners a last chance to make it into heaven.

The Medal represents the second episode of the American Patriot Series. This television special and DVD documentary explores our nation s recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Of the over 40 million men and women who have served in our nation s Armed Forces, there stands above all a group of but 3,442 individuals our nation s recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. They came from every corner of our nation, and together they represent every race and creed that has formed our rich and diverse culture. More than half died in the action that resulted in their receiving the Medal. Of those who survived, some became household names and went on to fame and fortune. But most went quietly home to the towns and cities they loved across America. Still others lived out their remaining life in poverty and obscurity, forgotten by the nation for which they sacrificed so much. All of them, though, lived humbly and report almost universally that they were not the true heroes - the burden of such an honor being more than most can bear. Rather, they say, the Medal is a symbol of the valor and sacrifice of their fellow soldiers who never received it - whose names are not recorded in the history books, but whose lives nonetheless left their mark on the American Experience. The Congressional Medal of Honor, like so many of our most sacred monuments, stands in testimony to the courage and fortitude of the American spirit. It is, according to many, a hallmark of our American freedom meant to remind us all of the tremendous price our citizens have been willing to pay to live up to our American ideals. Only around 100 Medal of Honor recipients remain alive today! The Medal launched in March 2008, and is currently airing on broadcast network affiliates (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX) throughout the United States.