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Stories Set in New Mexico
Breaking Bad's Albuquerque, Oppenheimer's Los Alamos and Georgia O'Keeffe skies — New Mexico fuses science history with desert myth. Its stories glow after dark.
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Browse 94 books, 123 movies, 6 TV shows and 9 games set in New Mexico.
Oppenheimer
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Breaking Bad
When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to…
Thor
Against his father Odin's will The Mighty Thor - a powerful but arrogant warrior god - recklessly reignites an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here Thor learns…
Better Call Saul
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make…
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.
High Noon
Will Kane the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him Kane is…
High School Musical
Troy the popular captain of the basketball team and Gabriella the brainy and beautiful member of the academic club break all the rules of East High society when they secretly audition for the leads in the school's…
Scooby-Doo! and the Safari Creatures
The gang flies off to Africa for a video animal Safari So Goodi! only to learn that - zoinks! - the creatures are actually shape-shifting jungle demons! In Homeward Hound a "fiercely fanged" cat creature petrifies the…
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
A documentary about the making of season five of the acclaimed AMC series Breaking Bad.
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People…
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