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Disc 1 contains episodes 1–3 ("A Spy is Born", "The Man Who Wouldn't Be King", "Changing Times") plus bonus uncut interviews with Caroline Munro (1:03:30) and Jeffrey Caine (1:28:54) Long before franchises dominated the movies, James Bond led the way. This documentary series traces how Ian Fleming's literary hero made the leap to the big screen and grew into one of cinema's most quoted names.

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Disc 2 contains episodes 4–6 ("Over a Cliff", "A Dinosaur Reborn", "The Blonde") plus bonus uncut interviews with George Lazenby (1:35:23) and Jeff Kleeman (2:27:26) Long before franchises dominated the movies, James Bond led the way. This documentary series traces how Ian Fleming's literary hero made the leap to the big screen and grew into one of cinema's most quoted names.

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Disc 3 contains bonus uncut interviews with Gloria Hendry (1:34:37), John Glen (3:07:26), and Martin Campbell (2:28:13) — no episodes on this disc Long before franchises dominated the movies, James Bond led the way. This documentary series traces how Ian Fleming's literary hero made the leap to the big screen and grew into one of cinema's most quoted names.

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While on holiday, a group of tourists diving for sunken treasure are approached by a boat of modern-day pirates. The pirates kidnap and kill members of the group and force the survivors to recover contraband from below the waves. To stay alive, someone must plunge into waters prowled by a huge great white shark that is determined to let no one escape.

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Introducing her signature number “Ring Them Bells” at a 1972 New York concert, Liza Minnelli called her life “a truly terrific absolutely true story” — yet this documentary argues the story has seldom been told accurately. Between speculation that her godmother Kay Thompson's “Eloise” books were modeled on her and decades of tabloid pursuit, the real Minnelli has often been lost. Klein's film sets out to fix that by letting Liza recount her own life in her own words, in a portrait that is by turns revealing, reflective and very funny.

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A Milwaukee realtor who once worked on the wrong side of the law is dragged back into his old life when his former partner-in-crime reappears bearing an ominous message. With his brother, a crime lord, also closing in on him, Marvin has to face the past he never entirely escaped.

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A Milwaukee realtor who once worked on the wrong side of the law is dragged back into his old life when his former partner-in-crime reappears bearing an ominous message. With his brother, a crime lord, also closing in on him, Marvin has to face the past he never entirely escaped.

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Long after human beings have vanished, a buoy and a satellite cross paths online. With nothing but the contents of the internet to teach them, the two machines piece together what life on Earth was like — and discover for themselves what it means to be alive, and to be in love.

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Rafiki enlists Timon and Pumbaa to help him relay the legend of Mufasa to Kiara, the young lion cub daughter of Simba and Nala. Told in flashbacks, the story presents Mufasa as an orphaned cub, lost and alone, until he meets Taka, a sympathetic lion who is the heir to a royal bloodline. Their chance meeting sets in motion an expansive journey for an extraordinary group of misfits searching for their destiny, whose bonds will be tested as they work together to evade a threatening and deadly foe.

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Rafiki recounts the legend of Mufasa to Kiara, the young daughter of Simba and Nala, while Timon and Pumbaa add their comic commentary. Told in flashback, the tale follows Mufasa as a lost, orphaned cub who meets Taka, a lion of royal blood. Their meeting launches a sweeping journey alongside a band of misfits searching for their destiny, their loyalty tested as they flee a deadly enemy.

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U.A. High student Izuku Midoriya dreams of becoming the greatest hero he can be. Now he and his Class 1-A classmates — Bakugo, Todoroki and the rest — must take on Dark Might, a villain who models himself on the hero Midoriya once idolized, and the shadowy Gollini crime family backing him.

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Best friends and roommates Dreux and Alyssa face a disastrous day when they learn that Alyssa's boyfriend has spent their rent money. With eviction looming, the pair scramble across Los Angeles in a frantic, funny race against time to come up with the cash and save both their home and their friendship.

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After centuries of servitude as Dracula's lackey, Renfield is exhausted by the arrangement. He glimpses a way out — and perhaps even redemption — when he falls for Rebecca Quincy, a feisty traffic cop with a permanent temper.

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An aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.

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Timid high-school student Kenji works part-time moderating OZ, the virtual network that runs everything from messaging to municipal services. When popular classmate Natsuki hires him to pose as her fiancé at her sprawling family's countryside estate, a rogue military A.I. steals his OZ identity and frames him for a hack that throws the real world into chaos. With infrastructure collapsing and the Jinnouchi clan in turmoil, Kenji has to rally this new family — in both worlds — to stop the program before its destruction turns deadly.

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The final season opens mid-battle, with Superman locked in a brutal fight against the monster Lex Luthor has unleashed, and Clark's life hangs in the balance. While the creature keeps him occupied, Luthor's men hold General Lane captive, sending Lois and the twins racing to free him. Luthor himself has relocated to Smallville for good, methodically working through a plan to ruin Lois and everything the Kents have built — and this time he intends to finish it.

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The final season opens mid-battle, with Superman locked in a brutal fight against the monster Lex Luthor has unleashed, and Clark's life hangs in the balance. While the creature keeps him occupied, Luthor's men hold General Lane captive, sending Lois and the twins racing to free him. Luthor himself has relocated to Smallville for good, methodically working through a plan to ruin Lois and everything the Kents have built — and this time he intends to finish it.

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In war-torn sixteenth-century Japan, potter Genjuro and his brother-in-law Tobei leave their village dreaming of riches and glory — Genjuro of wealth from his pottery, Tobei of becoming a samurai. On the road, Genjuro falls under the spell of the beautiful Lady Wakasa, whose affections hide a terrible secret, while their wives endure the brutal cost of the men's ambitions back home. Mizoguchi's ghost story weighs desire against devotion and shows what war makes of both.

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In Mexico today, lawyer Rita receives an unexpected offer: help a feared cartel boss retire from his business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he has always dreamed of being.

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Disc 2 (the Blu-ray disc of the set) contains the theatrical cut of the film with audio commentary by writer/director Brandon Cronenberg and cinematographer Karim Hussain, the short film Broken Tulips, the featurettes Anatomy of a Virus, Reviving a Dead Cell, Brandon Cronenberg: A First-Time Director's Vision, First Meeting and The Design of Antiviral, deleted scenes with optional commentary, the Manufacturing Celebrity EPK, and the theatrical trailer. Syd March works at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses taken from sick celebrities to fans desperate for a biological connection to fame. On the side, he smuggles samples out in his own body and supplies them to piracy groups. When he infects himself with the illness that kills superstar Hannah Geist, collectors and rabid fans come after him. He has to unravel the mystery of her death before the disease kills him too.

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Disc 1 (the 4K UHD disc of the set) contains Antiviral (2012) in 4K UHD with Dolby Vision and HDR10, the audio commentary by writer/director Brandon Cronenberg and cinematographer Karim Hussain, and the theatrical trailer. Syd March works at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses taken from sick celebrities to fans desperate for a biological connection to fame. On the side, he smuggles samples out in his own body and supplies them to piracy groups. When he infects himself with the illness that kills superstar Hannah Geist, collectors and rabid fans come after him. He has to unravel the mystery of her death before the disease kills him too.

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Disc 3 contains The Black Enforcer (1972), plus audio commentaries by James Mudge and Brian Bankston and newly translated optional English subtitles. Constable Lung is assigned to escort a convicted murderer to prison, but the prisoner's men ambush the party and free him, killing Lung's mother and sister in the attack. Lung sets out after the men responsible. What follows is a classic Shaw Brothers tale of revenge.

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In the closing days of a race for governor, candidate Al Donnelly campaigns in his hometown, where his younger brother Mike - good-hearted but accident-prone - is determined to help and keeps making things worse. The campaign assigns junior aide Steve Dodds to keep Mike out of sight. Meanwhile, incumbent Governor Evelyn Tracy happily exploits every one of Mike's blunders, even engineering a few of them herself.

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Disc 9 contains The Black Tavern (1972), plus audio commentaries by James Mudge and Brian Bankston and newly translated optional English subtitles. A motley crew of rogues descends on an isolated tavern, each of them chasing a rumored treasure said to be hidden there. Once they have gathered under one roof, the would-be fortune hunters discover that something else entirely awaits them. It remains one of the lesser-known gems of the Shaw Brothers catalogue.

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Disc 2 (the Blu-ray disc) contains the film, plus the select-scene audio commentary with Sting and director Richard Loncraine, "Trouble Brewing", an interview with Loncraine, "A House for the Devil", an interview with production designer Milly Burns, "Big Visions and Small Screens: Dennis Potter on Film" with film historians Jon Dear and John Williams, and the original trailer. Martin Taylor, a young drifter running cons on the streets of London, crosses paths with Tom Bates and learns that Bates's daughter Pattie has been left brain-damaged by a hit-and-run driver. Claiming to be an old boyfriend of Pattie's, Martin talks his way into the family home, winning over mother Norma, who lets him stay to help care for the girl — while Tom remains suspicious of the stranger's motives. The deeper Martin embeds himself in the household, the clearer it becomes that his intentions are far more sinister than anyone suspects.

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Disc 1 (the 4K UHD disc) contains the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR, plus the select-scene audio commentary with Sting and director Richard Loncraine. Martin Taylor, a young drifter running cons on the streets of London, crosses paths with Tom Bates and learns that Bates's daughter Pattie has been left brain-damaged by a hit-and-run driver. Claiming to be an old boyfriend of Pattie's, Martin talks his way into the family home, winning over mother Norma, who lets him stay to help care for the girl — while Tom remains suspicious of the stranger's motives. The deeper Martin embeds himself in the household, the clearer it becomes that his intentions are far more sinister than anyone suspects.

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Fleeing a Europe scarred by war, architect László Tóth emigrates to America hoping to rebuild his career and reunite with his wife Erzsébet, from whom wartime borders and regimes separated him. Alone in an unfamiliar country, he settles in Pennsylvania, where wealthy industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren spots his talent and takes him up. The patronage offers László a shot at a lasting legacy, but it comes at a heavy personal cost.

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Fleeing a Europe scarred by war, architect László Tóth emigrates to America hoping to rebuild his career and reunite with his wife Erzsébet, from whom wartime borders and regimes separated him. Alone in an unfamiliar country, he settles in Pennsylvania, where wealthy industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren spots his talent and takes him up. The patronage offers László a shot at a lasting legacy, but it comes at a heavy personal cost.

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Alan Rudolph's dreamy, neon-lit romance follows a group of lonely strangers whose lives intersect at Eve's Lounge, a smoky Los Angeles dive bar. Among them are a radio relationship expert who is insecure about her own love life, the bar's owner - a former sex worker wary of commitment - and a mysterious drifter passing through town. Set to Teddy Pendergrass's slow jams, their entanglements become a tender, offbeat look at people hurt by love who still reach for connection.

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Disc 11 contains Crazy Nuts of Kung Fu (1974), plus the interviews Creating Some Craziness with director Lee Tso-Nam, The Kung Fu Hustle with actor Jack Long and Nut-Cracker with actor Yu Tai-Ping, audio commentaries by James Mudge and Brian Bankston, and newly translated optional English subtitles. A highway bandit hires himself out as bodyguard to a traveling gambler, and the mismatched pair soon run afoul of a powerful warlord. Before long they are swept up with a group of rebels who have revolution on their minds. What follows is an early attempt at a kung fu comedy from director Lee Tso-Nam.

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In a crumbling post-apocalyptic city where food is scarce, a butcher hires a string of handymen, murders them, and sells the flesh to his tenants. His latest hire is Louison, a former circus performer, who seems destined for the same fate. Instead, Louison falls in love with the butcher's daughter Julie, and the two team up with an underground group of vegetarians determined to stop the killings.

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In a burnt-out city sliding toward collapse, a butcher keeps his tenants fed by hiring a string of handymen, killing them, and selling them as meat. His newest hire is Louison, a former circus performer who shows up looking for work and seems destined to be the next on the block. But Louison falls in love with Julie, the butcher's daughter, and together they team up with an underground group of vegetarians determined to stop her father for good.

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A former musician who traded his guitar for guns, El Mariachi drifts into a small Mexican border town after years away. The town is controlled by Bucho, a drug kingpin, and it takes little time for the newcomer's violent past to entangle him with Bucho's gang.

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In Accendura, a sleepy rural Italian village, a series of murders of young boys sends the superstitious locals hunting for someone to blame, and suspicion falls on Maciara, the woman they call a witch. As the bodies pile up and the community's panic turns into a thirst for vengeance, two outsiders — city journalist Andrea and the spoiled, wealthy Patrizia — team up to crack the case. But more blood will be spilled before the mystery is solved, and not all of it will belong to the guilty.

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Disc 4 contains Duel for Gold (1971), presented in 1080p HD widescreen (2.35:1) with Mandarin DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 dual mono and newly translated English subtitles. When a fortune in gold comes within reach, six skilled and cunning warriors turn on one another to claim it. Plotting, betrayal, and counter-plotting follow as each tries to outwit the rest and walk away with the prize.

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On Earth II, a peaceful space colony where even toy guns are outlawed, an ideal society faces a terrifying threat: a Chinese satellite carrying three nuclear warheads. China warns that anyone who interferes will trigger a thermonuclear World War III. The colonists decide to disarm the warheads anyway.

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Disc 5 contains Finger of Doom (1972), presented in 1080p HD widescreen (2.35:1) with Mandarin DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 dual mono and newly translated English subtitles. Two swordsmen set out on a strange, supernatural quest to find their missing brother. Along the way they try to unravel the secret of a mysterious kung fu style known as the Finger of Doom. Their search becomes an unusually eerie martial arts adventure.

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Rudolph Valentino became a star playing Julio Desnoyers, the Argentine son of a wealthy French family, who returns with his family to Europe. In Paris he lives as an artist and falls for Marguerite, a married woman. When the First World War breaks out, Julio stays aloof, even after a vision of the Four Horsemen; but Marguerite's devotion to her husband, blinded in action, shames him into enlisting — against his own German cousins fighting on the other side.

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Don, a writer for the true-crime television series Crime of the Week, has been having an affair with Paula, an ice-cold actress. When she demands a ransom to keep the affair secret from his wife, he agrees to pay — but when he arrives with the money, he finds Paula dead. Henry, the show's researcher, then proposes reenacting Paula's murder as their next episode, and reveals that he holds evidence that could incriminate Don.

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Jean, a long-haul trucker, spends the night with his girlfriend Alice and then comes across a corpse lying in the road on the drive home. He does the right thing and notifies the police, only to find himself treated as their prime suspect in the death. A gang of criminals connected to the dead man is also leaning on him, squeezing him from the other side. Backed by Alice and his fellow truckers, Jean decides to push back against everyone closing in on him in this French noir starring Jean Gabin and Jeanne Moreau.

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Former cop Tyrone Tackett refuses to believe his brother Cornell killed himself, and his search for the truth pulls him across Los Angeles through the city's porn underworld and organized-crime scene. Aided by an adult-film actress, he works his way from cheap motels and corner hangouts up to a mob kingpin's pleasure dome. Plenty of people get hurt before he pieces the killing together. Bernie Casey stars in this Americanized reworking of Get Carter, with Pam Grier (billed as Pamela Grier) in support.

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After their earlier documentary P4W: Prison for Women, Janis Cole and Holly Dale filmed the sex workers of Vancouver's Davie Street, then notorious as Canada's prostitution capital. Working in the mid-1980s, they combined frank interviews with hidden-camera footage of the women's nightly street work. The film follows its subjects as a community and ends with their organized push against the laws used to oppress them. Canadian International Pictures presents the documentary in a new 4K restoration for its 40th anniversary.

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Chan Mei Ling, the thoroughly Americanized daughter of a kung fu school's founder, arrives in Hong Kong to take over the school and modernize it with discos, aerobics-style recruitment and other trendy ideas. Her reforms infuriate the school's old-fashioned master, and her meddling soon draws the attention of a local gang. The culture clash turns into open conflict, forcing master and boss to settle their differences and fight side by side. Lau Kar-leung directs and co-stars opposite Kara Hui in this Shaw Brothers kung fu comedy.

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Grace Pudel is a lonely Australian misfit who collects ornamental snails and devours romance novels. Separated from her twin brother Gilbert while still a child, she sinks into anxiety and hoarding as one hardship follows another. An unlikely friendship with Pinky, an elderly and eccentric neighbor, slowly pulls her back toward the world. Learning to clear out both her house and her head, Grace finally finds the confidence to open herself up to love. Adam Elliot's stop-motion feature is voiced by Sarah Snook, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver.

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Disc 6 contains the film Na Cha and the Seven Devils plus its special features: 'A Devilish Success' interview with Luke White, audio commentary by film historian Brian Bankston, audio commentary by film critic Ian Jane, optional English subtitles newly translated for this release, and an image gallery. Na Cha, a mischievous young god living high on Mt. Kunlun, steals a sacred peach from a forbidden tree and gains amazing powers from eating it. His carelessness knocks seven more of the magical peaches down to Earth, where animals that eat them are transformed into devils. To make amends, Na Cha is sent down to the mortal world to hunt down all seven devils himself. Tetsuya Yamanouchi directs this Shaw Brothers fantasy adventure, co-starring Ching Li and Tina Chin-Fei.

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Disc 2 (the Blu-ray disc) contains the film and the special features: new audio commentary by Matthew Asprey Gear, new audio interview with actor Jennifer Warren, an interview with Arthur Penn from a 1975 episode of Cinema Showcase, an interview excerpt with Penn from the 1995 documentary Arthur Penn: A Love Affair with Film, The Day of the Director featurette, and the trailer. Los Angeles private eye Harry Moseby is hired by a faded actress to track down her missing teenage daughter, and the trail leads him to the Florida Keys. What looked like a routine runaway case opens into a sordid family drama and a smuggling conspiracy he can barely piece together. Meanwhile his own marriage is quietly falling apart. Gene Hackman stars in Arthur Penn's post-Watergate neo-noir, written by Alan Sharp and edited by Dede Allen.

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Disc 1 (the 4K UHD disc) contains the film presented in 4K Dolby Vision HDR with the new audio commentary by Matthew Asprey Gear; the set's remaining special features are on the Blu-ray disc. Los Angeles private eye Harry Moseby is hired by a faded actress to track down her missing teenage daughter, and the trail leads him to the Florida Keys. What looked like a routine runaway case opens into a sordid family drama and a smuggling conspiracy he can barely piece together. Meanwhile his own marriage is quietly falling apart. Gene Hackman stars in Arthur Penn's post-Watergate neo-noir, written by Alan Sharp and edited by Dede Allen.

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In 1959 an alien experiment crashes to Earth and infects a college student, whose body ends up cryogenically frozen. Twenty-seven years later, two fraternity pledges thaw the corpse out as a prank and unleash brain-eating alien slugs across the campus. Students begin turning into zombies as the slugs spread from host to host. Detective Ray Cameron joins the fight in Fred Dekker's horror-comedy, whose characters are named after famous horror directors.

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This is only for the bonus disc and contains the special features for the Night of the Creeps Scream Factory Collector's Edition: the interview "A New Breed of Terror: The Films of Fred Dekker"; the original theatrical ending; the interviews "Real Good Plan" with Jason Lively, "The Bradster" with Allan Kayser, "I Vote for That One" with Ken Heron, "Worst Coroner Ever" with Vic Polizos, "Answering the Door" with Suzanne Snyder, and "Final Cut" with editor Michael N. Knue; "Horror's Hallowed Grounds"; the five-part documentary "Thrill Me!: The Making of Night of the Creeps"; "Tom Atkins: Man of Action"; deleted scenes; and the theatrical trailer.

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In 1941, Japanese forces invade Thailand carrying a biological weapon they cannot control. When the experiment gets loose, the men it infects become undead creatures — the Fumetsu — who keep unsettling traces of the soldiers they were. A unit of young, green Thai recruits, among them two brothers, is thrown into the fight. As the outbreak spreads, the few survivors have to contain it before it destroys their country.