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The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat of the pants approach to the space program

During the 1960s, a renegade Scottish psychiatrist courts controversy within his profession for his approach to the field, and for the unique community he creates for his patients to inhabit

Idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J Jones, tasked by his boss to lead an investigation into the CIAs post 911 Detention and Interrogation Program, uncovers shocking secrets

Director Jonas Mekas provides an intimate glimpse of his personal life by constructing a feature length narrative from over 30 years of private home movie footage

Composer and pianist Franz Liszt Roger Daltrey attempts to overcome his hedonistic life style while repeatedly being drawn back into it by the many women in his life and fellow composer Richard Wagner Paul Nicholas

Drawn from a never before seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to shatter conventions

President John F Kennedy kept a unique inauguration gift on his desk a plastic encased coconut The tale of that coconut is the heroic story of PT 109

Marguerite must navigate through the hardships of the Liberation after losing her husband and starting a relationship with the enemy during the War

Toward the end of his life, F Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife He is also struggling against alcoholism Into his life comes the famous gossip columnist

The story of British explorer Robert Falcon Scotts 1912 expedition and his quest to be the first to reach the South Pole

The story of a young boy who witnesses Billy the Kids encounter with Sheriff Pat Garrett

A kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975

The life and career of Elvis Presley are chronicled in home movies, concert footage, and dramatizations Subjects include early performances, army service, Ed Sullivan Show appearance, marriage, 1968 comeback, health decline and deat

Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past lif

The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubmans escape from slavery and transformation into one of Americas greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history

The story of Dr Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincolns assassin in 1865

Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid

A look at the life and career of professional wrestler Andre Roussimoff, who gained notoriety in the 1980s as Andre the Giant

The inspirational tale of the grandfathers of fitness as we now know it, Joe and Ben Weider Facing anti Semitism and extreme poverty, the brothers beat all odds to build an empire and inspire future generations

John Dillinger and his gang go on a bank robbing spree across the midwest, but one G Man is determined to bring him down

This film explores the inner lives and motivation behind the murders of entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty at the hands of their sons Lyle and Erik in 1989

Horrific true tale set in late 1970s Australia and later West Germany about an abused wife who learns in horror that her sadistic German born husband is actually a fanatical neo Nazi

The true story of Don Smiths heroic experience at the Battle of the Bulge while with the 94th Infantry

Hounded by the police on charges of inflammatory writing, the once handsome Marquis De Sade seeks refuge in an abandoned family mansion This colorful movie depicts DeSades life from childhood to manhood A life infamous for erotic

Story of Rani Lakshmibai, one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and her resistance to the British Rule

In small town Texas, an affable mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when she starts to become controlling, he goes to great lengths to separate himself from her grasp

A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J P Morgans daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light

Follows the highs and lows Wendy has experienced throughout the years, from her scrappy upstart days in urban radio to the success of her own syndicated talk show

Fanciful biography of the Belgian nun who briefly made the hit parade

A young boxer, Emilio, from the wrong side of the tracks with big dreams of winning the Golden Gloves boxing championship, finds himself at a cross roads after being locked up

The story of castrato opera singer Carlo Broschi, who enthralled 18th century European audiences under his stage name Farinelli

For the first installment of his ambitious yet restrained two part study, director and co screenwriter Jacques Rivette surveys the revelatory period where Joan met with royalty, joined the army, and led the French into battle against the English As J

Bernadette knows shes been chosen to be the Bride of the Lord

A satirical comedy about a common man and the struggle he goes through to prove his existence after being falsely being declared dead on government records

Funk Queen Betty Davis changed the landscape for female artists in America She was the first as former husband Miles Davis said Madonna before Madonna, Prince before Prince An aspiring songwriter from a small steel town, Be

From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous Frenc