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Robert Durst on a hot mic: "killed them all, of course"; the true-crime series that solved a case.

Five episodes of the 1986 disaster and the lies around it; the highest-rated series on IMDb.

Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell by candlelight; Hilary Mantel on the BBC.

Five friends in London through the AIDS years of the 1980s; Russell T Davies.

Ten films for the Ten Commandments in one Warsaw housing estate; Kieslowski's TV masterpiece.

Easy Company from Normandy to Berchtesgaden; Spielberg and Hanks' ten-part war.

An orphan chess prodigy in the 1960s; the series that sold out chess sets.

The Marines from Guadalcanal to Okinawa; the harder companion to Band of Brothers.