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The Kidnapping of Edgar...

In 1858, an Italian Jew beomes the center of an international controversy when he is removed from his parents at the age of seven by authorities of the Papal States and is raised as a Catholic. He goes on to become a priest in the Augustinian order.

The Giver of Stars

Set in Depression-era Kentucky and rooted in true events, the story of a group of young women who defy the odds to bring knowledge to a remote mountain community.

The Professor, the Biki...

Paul Frampton, a divorced theoretical particle physicist, meets Denise Milani, a Czech bikini model, on the online dating site Mate1.com. Milani's pictures on the site show a dark-haired, dark-eyed beauty with a supposedly natural DDD breast size. The two begin to correspond and plan their perfect life together, but first, the woman asks the British professor if he would deliver a special package to her, setting him on a course of danger.

The Billion Dollar Spy

Adolf Tolkachev, a senior engineer in a top-secret Soviet aerospace laboratory, becomes one of the most valuable spies ever for the U.S. during the Cold War.

The Crowded Room

A true story about Billy Milligan, a man with 24 different personalities. Afflicted with multiple personalities due to a childhood filled with abuse, Billy Milligan, livesa nightmarishly schizoid life. Eventually, several of his personalities band together and commit a series of rapes, which results in Billy being put in a hospital for the criminally insane. Now well on the road to mental health, Billy hopes to be set free, but instead finds himself remanded to a hellhole of a mental hospital by a society that still fears him. Inevitably, though, justice prevails. As of this day, Billy leads a productive, sane, freelife.

The Fox Hunt

In Yemen, young Muslim Mohammed Al Samawi's discovery of the Bible leads him to become a peace activist. His life, in the ensuing civil war, is threatened and then saved as four American activists he barely knew come together via Facebook and use social media to activate their networks and crowd-source a rescue mission.

The Legend of Fillmore ...

Fillmore Slim (né Clarence Sims) begins pursuing a music career in the 1950s, but is lured away by the pimp game during the 1960s and 1970s. He eventually returns to music in the 1980s and continues to tour today at age 77.

The Secret Life of the ...

Dare Wright becomes well-known in the 1950s thanks to her best-selling children's book "The Lonely Doll." Wright lives a bizarre life of glamour and isolation, and she struggles to escape her painful childhood through her art. Wright passes away in 2001 at the age of 86.

Taking Flight

Story centers on Colton Harris-Moore (known as the "Barefoot Bandit") — the teenager who’s stolen cars, boats and planes and taught himself how to fly in order to evade local police, Homeland Security and the FBI. He’s still at large and has a massive Facebook following.

The Last Battle

Weeks after Hitler’s suicide but before the German surrender, American Captain Jack Lee must find a way to free prisoners they learn have been sentenced to be killed by the Nazi soldiers to prevent them from providing damning war crimes testimony. About 200 hardened Waffen SS troops are right behind the Americans, with orders to murder the prisoners, and the badly outnumbered Americans must turn to the German castle guards who just surrendered to them, to help move the French POWs to safety.

The Great High School I...

Follows Artur Samarin, a young Ukranian man who posed as a teenager so he could be adopted by a childless couple in a small Pennsylvania town and became the top student in his high school.

The Island

An American couple abandons civilization to build a peaceful retreat on a deserted island. Their plans are disrupted when a European countess and her lovers arrive, aiming to take over the island and construct a luxury hotel, leading to conflicts and challenges for the couple.
Location: Spain

The Life and Times of t...

A group of Canadian criminals rob North American banks in the 1980s without ever having to fire their guns. Lionel Wright is a meticulous introvert who could disappear in a room full of people. Paddy Mitchell is a charming and well-connected crook who sees an angle in everything and will go to any lengths to avoid the hell of being locked away. And Stephen Reid is a fearless point man who can find the weakness in any system and whose story — of addiction and descent into crime, of redemption and literary fame — is all prelude to a tragic but life-saving fall from grace. The men rob an estimated 100 banks, from which they steal roughly $10 million.

The Man Who Made It Snow

Max Mermelstein, a Jewish hotel engineer, transforms Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel from a small mom-and-pop drug organization into a billion-dollar enterprise.

The Secret Life of Dr. ...

A woman spends her entire life as a man so she can study and practice medicine. She becomes a prominent surgeon who spends her groundbreaking career championing the rights of the lower classes and pushing for medical reforms and better sanitary conditions. Her true gender is not discovered until her death in 1865.

Thomas Edison Project

Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the motion picture camera as well the long-lasting light bulb and the phonograph. Known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park," the prolific inventor eventually holds more than 1,000 U.S. patents and introduces electricity to millions of Americans.

Tulia

In 1999, a drug bust in Tulia, Texas leads to 10% of the town's African American population being arrested. An attorney from the NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational Fund becomes involved. The arrests never produce neither drugs nor money and they end up causing prosecutors and civil rights groups to denounce the bust as racial profiling. The undercover agent who conducted the bust is indicted for perjury, and most of the 46 arrestees are pardoned by Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

The Boy Who Knew Too Much

A two-year-old baseball prodigy begins sharing vivid memories of a life he never lived: that of a baseball player in the 1920s and 1930s. Distraught by her son’s uncanny revelations, his mother embarks on a sacred journey of discovery that shakes her Christian faith to the core and changes their lives forever.
Location: US - California