What to Watch: 'The Crazies,' 'The September Issue' DVD, 'Health Crisis'

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Imagine living in a small town where everything is safe and happy... until suddenly it isn't. Imagine your friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane. In a terrifying tale of the American dream gone horribly wrong, four friends find themselves trapped in their hometown in 'The Crazies,' a reinvention of the George Romero classic, directed by Breck Eisner.

David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) is sheriff of Ogden Marsh, a picture-perfect American town with happy, law-abiding citizens. But one night, one of them comes to a school baseball game with a loaded shotgun, ready to kill. Another man burns down his own house after locking his wife and young son in a closet inside. Within days, the town has transformed into a sickening asylum; people who days ago lived quiet, unremarkable lives have now become depraved, blood-thirsty killers, hiding in the darkness with guns and knives.

Sheriff Dutton tries to make sense of what's happening as the horrific, nonsensical violence escalates. Now complete anarchy reigns as, one by one, the townsfolk succumb to an unknown toxin and turn sadistically violent. In an effort to keep the madness contained, the government uses deadly force to close off all access and won't let anyone in or out – even those uninfected. The few who are still sane find themselves trapped: Sheriff Dutton; his pregnant wife, Judy (Radha Mitchell); Becca (Danielle Panabaker), an assistant at the medical center; and Russell (Joe Anderson), Dutton's deputy and his right-hand man. Forced to band together, an ordinary night becomes a horrifying struggle for survival as they do their best to get out of town alive.

Why Fashion Week is still ongoing in New York City, now is the perfect time to watch 'The September Issue' on DVD.

An intimate, funny and surprising look at Vogue's legendary editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her team of larger-than-life editors, this is the captivating story of how they create the must-have bible of fashion: 'The September Issue.' Director RJ Cutler explores the untouchable glamour of Wintour's Vogue to reveal the extraordinarily passionate people at its heart.

The documentary stars a who's who of fashion, featuring unprecedented access into the hallways of Vogue magazine, along with fashion royalty such as Oscar De La Renta, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Vera Wang, Thakoon, Karl Lagerfeld and more. The two-disc "double issue" DVD contains extensive bonus materials, including more than 90 minutes of never-before-seen deleted scenes, audio commentary with the director and a photo gallery.

Today in the United States there are an estimated 46 million people -- that is almost one in six Americans-- who don't have health insurance. The numbers continue to grow as health insurance costs rise and more Americans find health insurance impossible to afford. In this important hour-long special, 'Peter Jennings Reporting - Breakdown: America's Health Insurance Crisis,' his last documentary for ABC News, reports on how this country's broken health insurance system is threatening America's families, America's businesses, and America's health.

Jennings reports from hospitals in Houston, where the large numbers of uninsured people who flood the emergency rooms are affecting the emergency care everyone gets -- the insured and uninsured alike.

Jennings also goes inside the once-mighty General Motors, the largest private sector provider of health insurance in the nation. He reveals how the uniquely American system of employer-based health insurance really works, and why GM, in part because of this system, is struggling today to remain competitive in the global market.

Though Americans often blame insurance companies for the rapidly increasing cost of health insurance, Jennings explains why health insurance costs are really going up and how we all bear some responsibility. We're using more health care than ever before, leaving Jennings to ask whether all this money that we spend actually results in better medical care?

Our health insurance system, with its growing inequities and spiraling costs is revealed as a broken system in desperate need of comprehensive reform.

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