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Seacole
Based on the life of pioneering Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole.
See No Evil
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.
Sheikh Zayed
Ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Zayed is instrumental in the formation of the UAE in 1971.
Signal Hill
Story of the landmark Signal Hill police brutality case in 1981 with Anthony Mackie playing attorney Johnnie Cochran.
Silent Spring
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.
Smoke
Set in the 1980s in South Beach, Joey Ippolito is was one of the world’s top speedboat racers. No one in the South Beach socialite crowd knows, however, that he is also running one of the biggest cocaine smuggling operations out of the U.S.
Snow Dragon
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.
Spanish Dracula
A silent film star and Mexican actress Lupita Tovar finds popularity starring in Spanish-language versions of Hollywood films.
Spitfire
Louise Smith, a fiery, handful-of-a-woman, leads a motley crew of barnstormers and former bootleggers as they criss-cross the country to raise interest in a fledgling professional racing tour – at the behest of Florida businessman and former driver Bill France Sr. Smith is the quintessential small-town girl with big dreams who smashes through the gender preconceptions of the time to ultimately race at the famed Daytona Beach road course and helps France secure the initial funding for what becomes the billion-dollar sports giant NASCAR.
Spy's Kid
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.
Superman vs. the KKK
Chronicles the creation of a real-life 1946 radio drama in which Superman took on a thinly-veiled version of the actual Klan.