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Many parts of the literary Samuel Beckett giants life Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse

It's hard to believe that she only came in second place on TV's Star Search show. After all, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles had won 35 talent contests in a row with her Girl's Tyme troupe, renamed Destiny's Child. At age 7 she had beaten kids twice her age

Follows fresh interviews, archival footage, and various animation techniques like marionation to recreate one of the worlds leading actors on screen, bringing them back to life through innovative methods

In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar

The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda

A newspaper journalist discovers a homeless musical genius and tries to improve his situation

Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame

Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest army leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world

A documentary about Spandau Ballet, who were one of the biggest pop groups of the 1980s and a defining act of the New Romantic scene

The true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night who became a phenomenon after being chosen for and ultimately winning Britains Got Talent

In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally

A film about the life and work of the cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, who despite his near total paralysis, was one of the great minds of all time

A mans coerced confession to an I R A bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well An English lawyer fights to free them

A look at the scandalous love triangle between Victorian art critic John Ruskin Greg Wise, his teenage bride Euphemia Effie Gray Dakota Fanning, and Pre Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais Tom Sturridge

A documentary encompassing the lives of world heavyweight boxing champions, Vitali amp Wladimir Klitschko The first time in history two brothers have shared all the heavyweight world titles, this film explores their humble beginnings

A fictionalized account of the life of the martial arts superstar

A marksman is drafted in World War I and ends up becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes

The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S Patton

Based on the true story of Michael Alig, a Club Kid party organizer whose life was sent spiraling down when he bragged on television about killing his drug dealer and roommate

In Greece during World War II, a young Jewish boxer, meets regularly with girlfriend Allegra until they and their families are sent to Auschwitz When the Nazis learn of his boxing, they force him to participate in weekly boxing matc

Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944

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

In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywoods top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs

Australian journalist Michael Wares experiences in Iraq during the 2003 war and after

The story of the controversial Brian Cloughs 44 day reign as the coach of the English football club Leeds United

A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for The New Yorker on the trial of the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem

Kate and Will Spicers brother, Tom, has Fragile X Syndrome, the most common form of inherited learning disability He is also a massive fan of Lars Ulrich from Metallica They made a promise to Tom that they would get him to meet La

Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord, and shotgun do your stuff, wrote Joe R Lansdale in one of his more than 50 novels, 500 short stories, and countless comic books and screenplays While a prolific storyteller, Lansdale is no ordina

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Semi biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson

The biography of Ron Kovic Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti war and pro human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for

On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean

At the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death

A young woman goes on a 1,700 mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with four camels and her faithful dog

In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh Robert Gulaczyk to deliver the troubled artists final letter and ends up investigating his final days there