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Story of the landmark Signal Hill police brutality case in 1981 with Anthony Mackie playing attorney Johnnie Cochran.

Story of how a Chinese ice-breaker on a scientific expedition rescued a group of 74 Australian, British, and Russian nationals on a chartered Russian vessel, which had become trapped in Antarctic ice.

Mary Jennings serves three tours in Afghanistan as a rescue helicopter pilot where she Medevac'd hundreds of men and women off of the battlefield. At one point, her helicopter is shot down during a rescue mission and she is shot by the Taliban. She fights through her injuries to save the three Americans that are the target of the rescue mission, and her own team. Their ordeal culminates in a daring escape hanging onto the skids of a Kiowa helicopter. Hegar also sues the secretary of defense asserting that the Combat Exclusion Policy (which prevents women from entering direct combat) is unconstitutional, and she wins. In 2013, the secretary of defense repeals the policy.

Six Triple Eight tells the inspiring true story of the incredible and brave women of the only all-black, all-female World War 2 Battalion. These 855 women joined the war effort with little knowledge of what exactly they would be doing, but were quickly given the mission of a lifetime: sort through and fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. A herculean task, that most thought to be impossible, the women not only succeeded but did it in half the time they were given. Facing discrimination, unfamiliar land, and a war-torn country, they persevered and sorted over 17 million pieces of mail, reconnecting American soldiers with their families and loved ones back home. The motto that kept them going each day was one they created themselves: “No Mail, Low Morale.” The women of the 6888 weren’t just delivering mail, they were delivering hope.

Spread follows Ruby (Gillies), an aspiring journalist and staunch feminist, who has big dreams but has not done much to make them a reality. Broke and desperate, Ruby is forced to swallow her pride and take a temp job at SPREAD, an outdated adult magazine. There she discovers that despite the industry, this is just another office job with bad coffee, stale pastries, and unhappy employees. Planning to escape as soon as possible, Ruby somehow finds herself making a good impression on her boss, Frank Ferretti (Keitel), a former industry king who has been riding on his glory days. Needing a fresh take, Ferretti puts Ruby in charge of designing the company’s new app. While trying to hide her status working in the adult business, Ruby steps into her own power and slowly changes her tune on an industry that she might have a chance to change for the better.

John LeFevre shoots to prominence — anonymously — as the creator of the @GSElevator Twitter account, an inside look at the real world of international finance.

Centers on an assistant football coach in the 1980s who goes to American Samoa on a fool’s errand to recruit a high school phenom. He discovers a gold mine of talent that the college and pro ranks have mined ever since.

In 2003, when LeBron James turns 18 and is the top pick in the draft, Bernard James is an unheralded Atlanta kid who drops out of high school and enlists in the Air Force. Unlike his namesake, Bernard James never plays hoops until he joins the military. After surviving three tours in Iraq, he becomes the oldest player to be selected in the NBA draft.

Set in the 1970s, Janet Guthrie, a pilot turned racecar driver, makes a bid for the Indianapolis 500 in 1976 despite relentless opposition from the racing establishment and the men she hopes to race against. Janet qualifies for the race in 1978 where she finishes in the top ten, destroying many widely-held stereotypes about female drivers.

A 20-year CIA vet is convicted of spying and is sentenced to 23 years in prison, becoming the highest-ranking officer convicted of espionage. After leaving behind a failed Army career and while in a state of depression, his youngest son begins to seek solace and advice from his father who is in an Oregon federal prison. The father raises his son's spirits but also coaches him in spycraft, in effect launching a second act of espionage from behind bars by using his son as a courier. In the ensuing year and a half, the son travels the world selling secrets to the Russians, all the while getting deeper and deeper over his head.

The story centers on the rise and fall of entrepreneur John DeLorean. After his arrest in 1982, DeLorean presses a defense that he was entrapped by the FBI and is eventually acquitted. Still, his company goes bankrupt after producing only 9,000 automobiles.

Skeptical about long-term relationships, a woman approaches dating as a sort of research experiment from early on: she spends her twenties traveling from futon to futon and gathering data, figuring that one day she'll put it all together somehow and build her own perfect Frankenmate. When she meets a guy who doesn't fall for the emotionally cavalier facade she’d constructed (a guy who wants marriage and monogamy), she knows it is time to reevaluate. Her approach ultimately helps her overcome her phobia of commitment.

Alfred Anaya, a car stereo installer in California, becomes in demand because of ability to design traps, or secret compartments that often are used to conceal everything from drugs to cash and weapons. Once Anaya’s skill is discovered by the DEA, the feds try to turn him as an informant. Terrified that informing on his clientele will put his family in danger, Anaya refuses. He is arrested and charged as a conspirator in a drug ring that spans from California to Kansas.

Ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Zayed is instrumental in the formation of the UAE in 1971.

Rachel Carson struggles against the chemical industry she fights, which leads to a campaign to discredit both her and her work. Carson dies of breast cancer soon after Houghton Mifflin publishes her book in 1962.

During a short marriage, writer Erskine Caldwell and photojournalist Margaret Bourke White collaborate on a number of books.