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The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them

In small town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his ex girlfriend a Greenpeace volunteer on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle

As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this mans life, family, and American society

Based on the true life story of a young Marine corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq

Chronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicagos South Side

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi occupied Netherlands

Biography of pro basketball player Pistol Pete Maravich, who died suddenly in 1988 at age 40 from a heart attack

Nelson Mandela, in his first term as President of South Africa, initiates a unique venture to unite the Apartheid torn land enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup

Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown

A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy

The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig

Boxer Rocky Grazianos biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947

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

A look at the life and work of American film maker Robert Altman

In the early 1980s, the most feared battle MC in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenage girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders At the age of 14, Lolita Roxanne Shante Gooden was well on her way to becoming a hip hop legend as she hustled

A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest

The story of the Jackson family and their rise to success

When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup detat in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him

Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in love with Lionel Sweeney, an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the

The idealist William Wilberforce Ioan Gruffudd maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade

A heart racing documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular and dangerous feats of foot launched human flight

Winston Churchills wilderness years prior to World War II, when only he could see the threat that Adolf Hitler and a rearmed Germany posed to Europe

An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrongs performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong

The life story of RB singer songwriter and producer, Toni Braxton

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape

A young FBI agent, eager to prove himself in the field, goes undercover as a white supremacist

A chronicle of John Lennons first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life

Rome, 1973 John Paul Getty III, the heir and younger member of an oil tycoons saga, is kidnapped by the Italian mafia in order to get a ransom

The inspirational story of World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza who, after a near fatal car crash which left him not knowing if hed ever walk again, made one of sports most incredible comebacks

Based on the extraordinary true story of Andrea Bocelli, a blind boy, who against all odds becomes one of the most world renowned opera singers To date, he has sold over 80 million records worldwide

The Bobby Brown Story (2018 ) (2018) From the team that produced the critically acclaimed "The New Edition Story," the top cable biopic of all time, comes the four-hour miniseries "The Bobby Brown Story." It picks up where its predecessor left off, d

First hand witness to the infamous World War II fire bombing and destruction of his hometown, Dresden, Germany, 15 year old Diether Warneck lost his girlfriend and bicycled to the

Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia Explore Janets discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim

An in depth look at how an FBI profiler helped track down the terrorist Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber

Surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of himself as a young man becoming a poet in Chile, befriending other artists, and freeing himself from the limits of his youth

The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry