A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hosting a singing competition.
When the CEO tries to close her hard-partying brother's branch, he and his Chief Technical Officer must rally their co-workers and host an epic office Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and close a sale that will save their jobs.
A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.
Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.
After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Smart but self-destructive lawyer Cleaver Greene faces new challenges to his career and his personal life as the hit Australian comedy drama returns. Last seen dangling from a runway hot air balloon, Cleaver crashes into the window of wanted criminal Edgar Thompson. Forced out of hiding, Edgar stirs up a huge corruption scandal involving most of the politicians in Sydney, and vows revenge on Cleaver.
Ingrid becomes obsessed with a social network star named Taylor Sloane who seemingly has a perfect life. But when Ingrid decides to drop everything and move west to be Taylor's friend, her behaviour turns unsettling and dangerous.
The Great Courses: Law School for Everyone
To many people, the law is both powerful and mysterious. We depend on lawyers to help us navigate rules, standards, and procedural codes that have been around for hundreds of years. Because we depend on their specialized skills in argumentation, logic, and critical thinking, we may wonder how they come to know so much about the inner workings of the law.
- Disc 1 - Litigation and legal practice
- Litigation and the American legal system
- Thinking like a lawyer
- Representing your client
- Trial strategy behind the scenes
- Opening statements : the moment of primacy
- Direct examination : questioning your witnesses
- Disc 2 - Litigation and legal practice.
- The art of the objection
- Problematic evidence
- Controlling cross-examination
- Closing arguments : driving your theory home
- Understanding the appellate process
- Disc 3 - Arguing before the Supreme Court
- Who defines crimes, and how?
- Crime and the guilty mind
- Homicide and moral culpability
- The law of self-defense
- Federal crimes and federal power
- Cruel and unusual punishments
- Disc 4 - Criminal law and procedure.
- Due process and the right of counsel
- Government searches and privacy rights
- The shrinking warrant requirement
- The Fifth Amendment privilege
- Miranda and police interrogations
- Plea bargains, jury trials, and justice
- Disc 5 - Civil procedure.
- Procedural rights and why they matter
- Subject matter jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction over the defendant
- A modern approach to personal jurisdiction the role of pleadings
- Understanding complex litigation
- Disc 6 - Civil procedure.
- The use and abuse of discovery
- Deciding a case before the trial ends
- The right to a civil jury trial
- Determining what law applies
- Relitigation and preclusion
- Appeals and how they are judged
- Disc 7 - Torts.
- The calamitous world of tort law
- Legal duty to others
- Reasonable care and the reasonable person
- Rules versus standards of care
- The complexities of factual causation
- Legal causation and foreseeability
- Disc 8 - Torts.
- Liability for the acts of others
- When tort plaintiffs share the blame
- Animals, blasting, and strict liability
- The rise of products liability
- Products liability today
- Punitive damages and their limits.
A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.
Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.
Set in 1879 Paris. An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician with her own plan to win, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and a few unexpected turns. Proving that #95 isn't through yet will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing’s biggest stage!
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide, and neither will ever be the same.
A profile of an ancient city and its unique people, seen through the eyes of the most mysterious and beloved animal humans have ever known, the Cat.
Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.