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Gorgeous George

The story of George Wagner, a professional wrestler, who helped transform the industry when he created a pompous, arrogant character everyone loved to hate.

Grant

Story of one of the most complicated military leaders-turned politicians in American history, Ulysses S. Grant.

Great Men

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum creates four sixty-foot presidential heads carved in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Insane

True story of consumer electronics king Eddie Antar who served six years in prison for perpetrating one of the greatest securities frauds in history.

Lombardi

During the week leading up to the 1967 NFL championship game, Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lmbardi prepares his team to play against the Dallas Cowboys. The game becomes known as the "Ice Bowl" due to the extreme weather.

On the Brinks

Samuel Millar is a member of the Irish Republican Army and spends eight years in tough Irish prisons during the late 1970s and 1980s, where he takes part in the blanket protest in which political prisoners refuse to wear prison garb and are severely punished for it. He then comes to America under a different identity, reinvents himself as a family man and comic book shop owner. But then he helps pull off an armored truck heist, stealing more than $7 million from a Brink's truck and thus executing one of the most successful heists in U.S. history. Millar is eventually pardoned by President Bill Clinton and sent back to Ireland, where he reinvents himself once again, this time as a best-selling author of crime books.

Pretty Boy Floyd

The story of the Depression-era bank robber, Charley "Pretty Boy" Floyd, his friendship with fellow gang members Adam Richetti and George Birdwell, long-burning love for his ex-wife Ruby Hardgraves, and his desire to get to know the son he never met.

The American Duchess: T...

Handsome, charismatic, and popular Prince Edward is expected to marry a well-bred virgin who will one day become Queen of England when he ascended the throne. But when the prince is nearly forty, he falls in love with a divorced American woman—Wallis Simpson. No one thinks the relationship will last, and when the prince becomes king, everyone assumes that it's the end of the affair. But to the shock of the British establishment, the new king announces his intention to marry the American divorcée. Overnight, Wallis is accused of entrapping the prince in a seductive web in order to achieve her audacious ambition to be queen. After declaring that he could not rule without the woman he loves, the king abdicates, and his family banishes him and his new wife from the country. The couple spends the rest of their days in exile, but happy in their devoted love for each other.

The Devil in the Kitchen

Marco Pierre White has a tumultuous childhood upbringing before becoming a rock star chef in 1980s London.

The Journey Is the Dest...

In 1992, 22-year-old Dan Eldon travels to Somalia on assignment for Reuters. He witnesses American and UN troops launching 'Operation Restore Hope', first with a sense of relief, then growing frustration. His pictures help draw international attention to the developing crisis. On 12 July 1993, he is due to leave Mogadishu but then UN forces bomb a house where they believe the warlord General Farah Aideed is present. Instead, 74 innocent men, women and children are killed and more than 100 injured. Survivors race to the journalists' hotel and ask them to take pictures. Travelling in convoy, under the protection of Somalis, Eldon and a group of colleagues go to the bombed compound. As they begin to take photographs, the crowd erupts in anger at what has happened and attack the journalists, who are stoned and beaten to death.

The Smashing Machine

Mark Kerr is born in Toledo, Ohio. From early childhood, he dreams of being in the World Wrestling Federation and holds mock fights with his younger siblings in the back yard. He comes a high school state champion wrestling for Toledo Waite. Later Kerr becomes known as The Smashing Machine, The Titan and The Specimen — and is a two-time UFC heavyweight champ, and is widely regarded as the best fighter in the world during his MMA career.

You Really Got Me

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

All Apologies

Explores the life of Kurt Cobain, who formed Nirvana in 1987 with bassis Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl. Nirvana ushered in the Seattle grunge music movement in the early ‘90s. Cobain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1994, leaving behind his wife and a daughter.

Alvin Ailey

Biopic about Alvin Ailey who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City in 1958 and helped popularize modern dance.