The Black Dawn

20096mEnded1 Season · 24 Episodes

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

A plague has fallen over Los Angeles, turning the sky black and leaving death in its wake. Only 13 survive. No one knows how it happened. No one knows why it happened...

Released: Jan 31, 2009

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