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A group of men brutally torture and murder a prostitute, who was caught stealing from them

A gritty fact based drama series that tells the astonishing story of a drug dealer who was arrested then given a desperate ultimatum serve over 20 years in jail, or go undercover inside one of Americas most notorious biker gangs C

The story of Indias incredible cricket World Cup victory in 1983

Aracy de Carvalho is a young clerk at the Brazilian Consulate For two years, she has been secretly issuing passports to Jews without the dreaded J stamp, which not only wont allow them to travel, but will doom them to the horrors

Documentary series profiles young athletes who are on the brink of becoming the next superstars in their respective sports

Traces the life of Anita Mui, Hong Kongs legendary Cantopop star

In the late 1950s in Chateauroux, France, Rachel, a modest office worker, meets Philippe, a brilliant young man born to a bourgeois family This brief but passionate connection results in the birth of a daughter, Chantal Philippe re

TV series based on the life of Joe Exotic, the former Oklahoma zoo operator and big cat breeder who was put on trial and sentenced to 22 years in prison for plotting to murder another big cat enthusiast

A documentary about the most notorious drug baron in the world Pablo Escobar, head of the Colombian Medellin Cartel from the perspective of his son Juan Pablo Escobar

A documentary on the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone

The Greek pirate who turned businessman, Ioannis Varvakis, made his fortune selling caviar in Russia and all over the world Varvakis strives all his life for freedom for himself and then for his country

Black Gold tells the actual events of how one desperate man, armed with only his charm and wits, takes on a racist San Francisco corporation in 1971

The story of how the 22 year old Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street 1960

Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre Auguste returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I At his side is Andree, a young woman who rejuvenate

The biography of Neapolitan comic theater legend Eduardo Scarpetta

A civilian businessman who has no choice but to cooperate with the secret operation of the National Intelligence Service to arrest the Korean drug lord who has taken control of Suriname in South America

Emily imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the worlds most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers who died too soon at the age of 30

Based on the real life of Dr Marcel Petiot During world war II Petiot, an MD living in occupied Paris, promised to help wealthy Jewish people among his patients to flee occupied France for Spain Instead, he drugged them and bur

A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton

Warren Jeffs Prophet of Evil pulls back the curtain on the now imprisoned religious prophet to an estimated 15,000 followers of the FLDS Church who, before going to jail for two felony counts of child sexual assault in 2011, is

Looking for work as a violinist, Josef comes into the orbit of a rich young woman She introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from religious intolerance Josef gets an incredible commission to write an opera for the San Ca

Imagine your mind has been wiped memories, knowledge, experiences, language every word you ever spoke, has vanished If eventually you found the words, what would you say For Edwyn Collins, The Possibilities Are Endless

The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine

A five part series that tells the true story of how Nixons own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, E Howard Hunt and G Gordon Liddy, accidentally toppled the presidency they were trying to protect

An Italian industrialist died in a plane crash An accident or an assassination

Based on a true story of Colorados only convicted killercannibal Alfred Packer

A documentary series which follows the life and legacy of Tupac Shakur and his mother, the Black Panther activist Afeni Shakur

Tells the hard to believe story of the mythical basketball legend from Watts California who was blackballed from the NBA in the early 70s following an ugly contract dispute with the Philadelphia 76ers

Based on the true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges, the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, who rises to heights in French society as a composer before an ill fated love

In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King

Crumps mission to raise the value of Black life as the civil lawyer for the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Black farmers and banking while Black victims, Crump challenges America to come to terms with what it owes his

An exciting and unsettling cinematic journey through the life, work and torments of Caravaggio Light and shadow, contrasts and contradictions, genius and intemperance distinguish his existence and his art A narrative and visual

Early in 2017, Gulpilil was diagnosed with lung cancer His doctors estimated six months for him but David, being David, was always likely to defy the odds And he continues to do so with probably his last great work, My Name is G

A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death squad leaders to reenact their mass killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers

It tells the remarkable true story of athlete Diana Nyad who, at the age of 60 and with the help of her best friend and coach, commits to achieving her life long dream a 110 mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida

Set in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion Down and out in Hartford CT, married to a woman half his age and with a drug addled son and mounting debts, Pep decides to make a return to the