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Set against a backdrop of music, surfing, and South Africa's racism, Selema "Sal" Masekela emerges out of the shadow of his successful but troubled father Hugh Masekela, the jazz musician featured on Paul Simon’s "Graceland" album and South African apartheid activist who was exiled for more than 30 years.

The story centers on the life of pioneering musician Louis Armstrong during his early years in New Orleans and chronicle his career as a trumpet virtuoso and improvisational singer.

Follows the friction between Ray and Dave Davies, the brothers who formed seminal Brit band The Kinks.

A 19th-century woman finds fulfillment in the rough realities of San Francisco's Chinatown.

Elizabeth Taylor takes on a crusading role in the fight against AIDS, which stems from her hiring of assistant Roger Wall, a gay man who grew up in poverty in the homophobic Deep South, in the mid-1980s.

Starting in the 1960s, Angela Davis becomes a prominent activist and radical as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

In the early 1970s, Nolan Bushnell, an engineering student, puzzle-lover & game enthusiast, goes from fixing broken pinball machines to launching the Atari Corp., a video game manufacturer. The company's first product is a game called "Pong" that transfixes kids in suburban recreation rooms across the country and leads to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of video game sales. Within a few years, he sells the company to Warner Communications for $28 million.

Follows "Wind in the Willows" author Kenneth Grahame, Elsie, and their young son Alastair, who struggled with health problems, many of which could not be properly treated at the time. The family’s troubles are eased by the “Wind in the Willows” and its success.

Jim Thorpe is a member of the Sac and Fox Nation and his native name, Wa-Tho-Huk, translates as Bright Path. In 1912, he wins two Olympic gold track and field medals, representing the United States while his citizenship goes unrecognized during a period of cultural genocide for Native Americans. Known as one of the most versatile athletes, Thorpe goes on to play Major League Baseball, professional football and eventually founds the organization that becomes the National Football League.

Tom Hiddleston will play renowned war photographer Robert Capa, Hayley Atwell the acclaimed photojournalist Gerda Taro. Born Andrei Friedman and Gerta Pohorylle, Capa and Taro reinvented themselves after fleeing the Nazis in 1934 to Paris, where they built a life together. It was there, after the war, that the two would create the Magnum photo agency in 1947.

Follows the life of Crazy Eddie Antar, as he launches the successful Crazy Eddie chain and becomes the consumer electronics king, only to wind up serving six years in prison for fraud.

The film will cover the period early in singer Dionne Warwick's career from 1962 through 1968.

Jarred Weisfeld, a 22-year-old VH1-intern-turned-manager, has various misadventures with hip-hop artist Ol’ Dirty Bastard (real name: Russell Jones) leading up to the performer’s tragic death in 2004.

Three years after giving up drinking and following the birth of her first child, a woman returns to be an alcoholic. She goes on binges, has blackouts, lies and suffers humiliations. She ultimately fights toward recovery.

While in diapers, Ryan Patterson stuffs knives into electrical sockets and learns the power of electricity the hard way. He goes on to win 2001's "Intel International Science and Engineering Fair," which lands him a job working in aerospace robotics for Lockheed Martin.