"Watch list" playlist

Out West (1918)

A satire of western movies. Roscoe comes into town after riding the rails. The saloon has a trap door over a pit where bodies are tossed as they are shot. A bla...

Missing Husbands (1921)

Two men, lost in the desert, meet Queen Antinea, ruler of Atlantis.

A Shot in the Dark (1935)

A group of people gathered in an old mansion are being systematically murdered by a hooded killer.

Lying Lips (1939)

A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt, convicted of the killing and sent to prison. However, her friend, w...

My Little Chickadee (1940)

Rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, Flower Belle Lee is run out of Little Bend. On the train she meets con man Cuthbert J. Twillie an...

Northwest Passage (1940)

After being expelled from Harvard for criticising the food there, being jilted by his sweetheart's family, Langdon Towne gets drunk at the tavern and says some...

Arizona (1940)

Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't...

Kit Carson (1940)

Indian fighter, trapper and frontier scout Kit Carson leads a wagon train of settlers from Fort Bridger, along the Oregon Trail through Shoshone territory, to C...

Stormy Weather (1943)

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African American entertainers of the early 1900s.

Abilene Town (1946)

In the years following the Civil War, the town of Abilene, Kansas is poised on the brink of an explosive confrontation. A line has been drawn down the center o...

Hi-De-Ho (1947)

The legendary Cab Calloway stars in this musical about a band leader caught between two women and under pressure to take his band to a gangster-run establishm...

Albuquerque (1948)

Cole Armin, recruited by his corrupt uncle as heir apparent to his freight-hauling empire, defects to his honest rival.

Frenchie (1950)

Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows on...

Bend of the River (1952)

Glyn McLyntock has taken a job leading settlers west. He is helped by Emerson Cole, a man with a shady past whom McLyntock saves from a lynching. The homestead...

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

A silent-film star (Gene Kelly) loves a chorus girl (Debbie Reynolds) who dubs his squeaky-voiced co-star in a 1927 Hollywood talkie. ...

Carmen Jones (1954)

Screen version of the musical ``Carmen Jones,'' which adapted Bizet's opera Carmen for an African-American cast. A soldier falls for Dandridge...

Three Hours to Kill (1954)

Framed for murder, Jim Guthrie barely escapes lynching by the town mob, becomes a wanted fugitive for three years but returns to find the real killer.

Track of the Cat (1954)

A family saga: In a stunning mountain valley ranch setting near Aspen, complex and dangerous family dynamics play out against the backdrop of the first big snow...

The Trouble with Harry (1955)

Rural Vermonters (Edmund Gwenn, Shirley MacLaine, John Forsythe) try to bury a corpse, more than once.

Backlash (1956)

Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but d...

Maverick (1957)

Bret and Bart Maverick (and in later seasons, their English cousin, Beau) are well dressed gamblers who migrate from town to town always looking for a good game...

The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)

The misadventures of a TV writer both at work and at home.

The Richard Pryor Show (1977)

The Richard Pryor Show lasted only 4 episodes during the 1977 season. It was a far cry from the goofy, cookie cutter "bad comedy skits with songs" type of varie...

In the Heat of the Night (1988)

In Sparta, Mississippi, a crusty Police Chief (later Sheriff) and his African American Chief Detective investigate crimes.

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1991)

Contestants pursue the international thief as junior detectives who must answer questions about geography.

The Job (2001)

New York detective Mike McNeil is well-known for his unconventional approach of fighting crime. But it also takes a toll in his personal life complicated by his...

Dexter (2006)

Meet Dexter Morgan. By day he's a blood spatter pattern expert for the Miami Metro police department. But by night - he takes on an entirely different pers...

Traveler (2007)

Jay and Tyler find themselves hunted by the FBI after a bombing of a museum. Their only lead is their best friend, Will Traveler, who disappeared after the bomb...

Cane (2007)

A Latino family works together to operate a rum business.

Dirty Sexy Money (2007)

A lawyer is forced to take care of one of New York City's wealthiest families.

Peaky Blinders (2013)

A British gangster saga set in 1920s Birmingham.

Penny Dreadful (2014)

Explorer Sir Malcolm Murray, American gunslinger Ethan Chandler, and others unite to combat supernatural threats in Victorian London.

The Expanse (2015)

The crew of the Rocinante discover a derelict vessel which holds a secret that may be devastating to human existence.

Texas Rising (2015)

The story of how the Texas Rangers were created.

Quarry (2016)

Quarry, a disillusioned Vietnam War vet, returns home to Memphis in 1972 only to find rejection and scrutiny at every step. A mysterious man known only as The B...

Designated Survivor (2016)

A low-level Cabinet member becomes President of the United States after a catastrophic attack kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.

American Gods (2017)

A recently released ex-convict named Shadow meets a mysterious man who calls himself "Wednesday" and who knows more than he first seems to about Shadow's life a...

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2017)

A sci-fi anthology series with stand-alone episodes based on the works of Phillip K. Dick.

Damnation (2017)

An epic saga about the secret history of the 1930s American heartland, centering on the mythic conflict and bloody struggle between big money and the downtrodde...

In Contempt (2018)