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New this week: Your Place or Mine and All That Breathes

Here’s a collection of what’s arriving on TV and streaming services this week.

Movies

• Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes, one of the more transfixing and beautiful documentaries of the past year, is about a pair of brothers in New Dehli who make a makeshift clinic to mend and heal the birds of prey who are increasingly falling to Earth in the pollution-choked Indian capital. The film, nominated for best documentary at the Academy Awards, is a stirring and poetic portrait of ecological urban rescue that begins streaming on Crave today. Nadeem Shehzad and Mohammad Saud may be amateurs, but they’ve saved some 20,000 birds.

• With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, the rom-coms cometh. Two notable ones are on tap this week: Your Place or Mine on Netflix and Somebody I Used to Know on Prime Video. Aline Brosh McKenna’s Your Place or Mine, debuting Friday, stars Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher as longtime friends who swap houses for a week. Dave Franco’s Somebody I Used to Know, premièring Friday, is his second film as director and fourth collaboration with his wife, Alison Brie. Brie stars as a young woman who, while visiting her hometown, reunites with an old flame (Jay Ellis).

• Just half a year after the death of NBA great Bill Russell, a new Netflix documentary reflects on the life and legacy of one of the best basketball players of all time. Sam Pollard, the veteran documentarian of MLK/ FBI, directs Bill Russell: Legend (streaming Wednesday), a twopart film featuring interviews with Russell taped before his death, as well as Steph Curry, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Chris Paul. The film illuminates both Russell’s on-court accomplishments, including 11 championship titles with the Boston Celtics, and his off-the-court activism.

— Jake Coyle

Television

• MGM+ is out with a new documentary series, which premièred Monday, about Jack Roland Murphy — also known as Murf the Surf. Murf, an infamous thief who was also known for his elaborate, tall tales, stole the Star of India sapphire plus other jewels from New York’s Museum of Natural History in 1964. To date, it’s the largest jewel thief in the city’s history. Murf went on to be convicted of murder and then sentenced to life in prison, plus additional time added later for other crimes but was paroled in 1986. The fourpart series looks at Murphy’s life, crimes and how a criminal was able to captivate both the media and public. — Alicia Rancilio

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