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The story of singer Tina Turners rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner

Chronicles the ups and downs of legendary music group New Edition from their humble beginnings in Boston to individual solo success and everything in between

The relationship between Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk group Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is portrayed

When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true

Yip Mans resistance against invading foreigners, along with his romantic relations while under the tutelage of three Wing Chun masters

U K gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one

This drama series from Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay explores Kaepernicks high school years and the experiences that led him to become an activist

A five year old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family

The story of James J Braddock, a supposedly washed up boxer who came back to challenge for the heavyweight championship of the world

The story of how Benjamin Bugsy Siegel started Las Vegas

In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era when he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and faces considerable racism in the process

A fictionalized account of the life of the martial arts superstar

A British writer struggles to fit in at a high profile magazine in New York City

A single mother who becomes the first victim of kidnapper Ariel Castro finds herself trapped in his home for 11 years, where she eventually becomes a friend and sister to two other women who are taken captive by Castro

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life

A 17 year old dancer joins a thinspiration website and devotes herself to the almost religious glorification of thin, until she becomes completely possessed by the dark world of anorexia

In August 1977, a series of bizarre and terrifying events begin to take place in a seemingly ordinary house in Enfield, North London

Based on the real life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Courts historic 1967 decision

The life of one of the USAs Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nations first 50 years

14 year old Laura Dekker sets out on a two year voyage in pursuit of her dream to become the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone

Robert Ford, whos idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader

Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 1653 was one of the first well known female painters The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi Her professional curiosity ab

The life and career of the comic book writer and editor

A light comedylove story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan

Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictators final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII

Chopper tells the intense story of Mark Chopper Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison His book, From the Inside, upon which the film is based, was a best seller

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar a k a El Cid overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors

A chronicle of the rise and fall of O J Simpson, whose high profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation

A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34

The biography of Sir Edmund Hillary, who, as a boy, was raised in a strict family, but eventually has to rebel against his stern fathers backward ideals, to follow his own convictions He wants to climb mountains

At the end of the 16th century Wallachian ruler Prince Michael the Brave overcame the adversity of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires to unite Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania into one country

Follow the lives of the WWE divas in their work and relationships

The story of the life of Gia Carangi, a top fashion model from the late 1970s, from her meteoric rise to the forefront of the modeling industry, to her untimely death

Goodbye Bafana is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years The prisoners name was Nelson Mandela