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1) Crisis
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After years spent paying his dues, talented physician Craig Bowman enjoys a successful practice providing "concierge" medicine for patrons wealthy enough to afford this exclusive service. But when a hypocondriac patient dies and a malpractice suit is launched, the good doctor's life is sent into a tailspin. New York medical examiner Jack Stapleton suggests the body be exhumed, and then things get really interesting. Startling evidence comes to light--and...
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2007.
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"Led by Alan (Alan Ormsby), a mean-spirited director, a theater troupe travels by boat to a small island for buried criminals. Using a grimoire, Alan begins a séance to raise the dead. The group finds more than they bargained for when the dead return from their graves, forcing the troupe to take refuge in an old abandoned caretaker's house. Can they stay put until daylight against the undead onslaught, or do they flee into the pitch black night?...
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"An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice. "Exhumation can divide brothers and restore fathers, open old wounds and open the possibility of regeneration -- of building something new with the pile of broken mirrors that is loss...
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At her law office in South Lake Tahoe, Nina Reilly sees a client who wants to locate the remains of his son, missing nine years and presumed dead. Although she suspects that her former investigator and lover, Paul van Wagoner, may have had something to do with the son's disappearance, Nina accepts Peter Brinkman's case. Soon, caught between two body snatchers and desperate to protect Paul, Nina is forced to step outside the legal system.
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[2022]
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Recounts the story of the Dozier School, a Florida reform school shut down in 2011 due to reports of cruelty, abuse, and mysterious deaths, and the efforts of the author, a leading forensic anthropologist, to locate and exhume the graves of the boys buried there in order to reunite them with their families.
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"The definitive, newsbreaking account of the ongoing investigation into the Tulsa race massacre. In the late spring of 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma, erupted into the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. Over the course of sixteen hours, mobs of white men and women looted and burned to the ground a prosperous African American community, known today as Black Wall Street. More than one thousand homes and businesses were destroyed, and...
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[2003]
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"Bob Clark's Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things is one of the most inventive zombie movies to come out in the wake of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Six friends dig up a corpse named Orville. They decide to experiment with witchcraft and voodoo rituals on the poor rotting Orville, only to be surprised and terrified by the awakening of the dead as they rise from their graves. This film is chilling, tension filled and only for those...
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Bodies are being exhumed to higher ground at King's Lynn's cemetery to avoid flooding. But when the coffin of murdered pub landlady Nora Tiden is hauled up, the corpse of a young black man is revealed; killed by a billhook blow to the head and dumped in the grave when Nora was buried, twenty-eight years earlier. Was he the victim of a racist crime? When DI Peter Shaw and DS George Valentine investigate, they are led to The Flask, Nora's pub just along...
13) Scorched earth
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[2002]
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The inhabitants of Good Hope, Virginia, haven't felt the cooling effects of rain in weeks one brutally hot summer, and only a spark is needed to ignite the rage and hatred that have been so carefully hidden. A baby is born and then dies in the arms of her mother, Nora Carol, who is of mixed race. The child, Nora Carol, is buried quickly and quietly in the church graveyard. The white deacons of Good Hope's Victory Baptist Church have the body exhumed,...
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