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In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
A man jogs around an oval, a drinking bird swings back and forth. Two boys wrestle in a suburban living room, and one falls asleep on his bedroom floor. Peeling stickers, wood vinyl, beige carpet. An injured wrist is bandaged while a toy train loops in circles. A girl's name, Anna, is carved into a tree. The knife is flicked open and closed, catching a glint of light. A runner can’t arrive when he runs in a circle.
A lonely shopper tries on a new dress while a group of boys discuss the consequences of a muck-up day prank gone wrong. Contradictory impulses and neuroses concertina: be or be with, love or destroy.
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.
In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
Kraft Music Hall is an umbrella title for several television series aired by NBC in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s in the musical variety genre, sponsored by Kraft Foods, the producers of a well-known line of cheeses and related dairy products. Their commercials were usually announced by "The Voice of Kraft", Ed Herlihy.
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Dennis Potter used his own background as a Russian language clerk in the War Office when writing this play for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series. At the time of the 1956 Suez Crisis and the Russian invasion of Hungary, Private Bob Hawk reports to the London Intelligence Office where the strength of Soviet troops is under scrutiny.
