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Florence Foster Jenkins is known as the worst singer of all times and yet she is a cult figure whose recordings still outsell many contemporary singers Opera superstar Joyce DiDonato interprets the flamboyant queen of dissonan

Irish crime investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton invades the Irish underworld and attempts to expose the illegitimate activities that she has found Hampered by the system, a police consort is ineffectual at aiding her despite t

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Poor health and alcoholism force Grover Cleveland Alexander out of baseball, but through his wifes faithful efforts, he gets a chance for a comeback and redemption

A group of sad slum residents, living on the limits of society under immense pressure, find an invitation to a handball tournament in Bavaria

The true story of teenage football talent Martin Bengtssons life and death journey through a modern day football industry where everything, and everyone, has a price tag

Mosca is a night shift cab driver, a widower and father of two girls Between his daily job and the memories of his wife, he tries to figure out his role as a father Mosca mixes sleep and vigil to put up with her loss MOSCA is t

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Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlondorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions teleplay Death of a Salesman 1985

Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having lost both legs, flew a British fighter plane during WWII

The rise and fall of Truman Capote, the iconic writer of Breakfast at Tiffanys and In Cold Blood, as told by his friends and enemies

Based on the true story of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, rivals for the USA Olympic Figure Skating team When Kerrigan is savagely attacked, people begin to wonder if the intense rivalry between them was motivation for someone

During the Second Punic War in 218 BC, Carthaginian general Hannibal attacks the Roman Republic by crossing the Pyrenees and the Alps with his vast army

Orphaned in his childhood and treated abusively by higher ranking Boyars, Tzar Ivan was a mercurial ruler who committed his first murder at the age of 13 and was feared for his random acts of violence Experience his powerful reig

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In the early 1960s, a married couple undergo hypnosis, which unlocks memories of a forgotten event on a lonely road Soon they believe they were abducted by extraterrestrials

The story of the twilight years of tobacco billionairess Doris Duke and her relationship with her gay butler, to whom she left her entire fortune

A dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a national power base when he later planned t

The story of how a young black boy from working class 1950s Dublin, became Irelands Greatest Rock Star As lead singer of Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott was a songwriter, a poet, a dreamer, a wildman

Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge

This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her superstar pinnacle and back down She moves from lover to lover in order to further her career She finds fame but never happiness, only knowing seduction but no

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices

At the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England

The last year of singer Nicos life, as she tours and grapples with addiction and personal demons

The American Experience looks at Hebert Hoovers American Relief Administration and its efforts to distribute food during the Great Russian Famine of 1921

The true life story of Darby Crash, who became an L A punk icon after getting kicked out of high school and forming The Germs with a collection of friends who have little experience with their instruments or playing music

Winstanley explores the attempt by Gerrard Winstanley who formed The Diggers and with a group of followers attempted to form a small farming community in one of the first proto Communist attempts at collective agriculture

This documentary follows legendary photographer Douglas Kirkland as he assembles his first visual memoir, A Life in Pictures, and recalls pivotal moments in his career

A film relating from the inside the Notre Dame de Paris fire of April 2019

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A rescue mission is assembled in Thailand where a group of young boys and their soccer coach are trapped in a system of underground caves that are flooding

A riveting four part docuseries chronicling the untold story behind the rise and fall of Menudo, the most iconic Latin American boy band in history

Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, leads a literary double life, writing under the pseudonym A M Barnard, an identity that remains until the 1940s

Tracing the movement to breed a better American race, which turned the science of heredity into an instrument of social control that led to forced sterilization campaigns

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

Gabo, The Magic of Reality is a story about the incredible power of human imagination, which follows the interwoven threads of Gabriel Garcia Marquezs life and work Gabo to all of Latin America with the narrative tension of