Browse Movies : Development : Drama : U (Page #3)

An up-and-coming driver climbs his way into the circuit and develops a mentor/rival relationship with the driver he grew up idolizing. The dynamic is made more complex because the veteran racer's son drives for his father's team.

Set primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler lead an eccentric group of pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists as they attempt -- often successfully -- to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and Norwegian infant harp seal hunters. In the process, they inadvertently start a movement that is still going strong nearly four decades later.

Set in present day, a young boy, upon hearing the news of his lineage, embarks on a journey to unravel the secrets of Houdini's past, uncovering a legacy the famed magician was trying to protect.

Josh Hamilton’s rise from the depths of an addiction to crack to become the American League’s most feared slugger.

Jutta Kleinschmidt, who was born in Germany, buys her first motorcycle at age 18. After studying physics, she works at BMW for six years before quitting in 1992 to pursue her passion of motorsports. In 1997, she become the first woman ever to win a stage of The Dakar Rally – often called the most dangerous race on the planet. In 1999, she earns recognition – finishing third overall – as half of the first all-female team to stand on the winners' podium. In 2001, after 15 years of trying, Kleinschmidt wins the race.

Based on the true story of Laura Vikmanis, the oldest cheerleader in the NFL. At 39-years-old and surrounded by cheerleaders half her age, the single mom tried out for the Cincinnati Bengals squad, but didn't make the cut. For a year, she practiced and improved her moves. Despite the long odds, she returned to tryouts and made the squad.

Lenny Dykstra, a key part of the champion 1986 New York Mets, leads a checkered life after retiring from baseball in 1996. He is the subject of multiple investigations into his financial empire, which includes a jet charter company and a magazine marketed to professional athletes. He files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009 and auctions off his World Series ring. Dykstra pleads guilty in 2012 to bankruptcy fraud, concealment of assets and money laundering and is sentenced to six months in prison, 500 hours of community service, and is ordered to pay $200,000 in restitution.

A baseball player gets injured and has to go back to the minors where the only place he can find lodging is in a senior citizens' home. There, he meets an old baseball guru who helps lead him back.

Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani rape victim, wages a legal battle against her attackers and the justice system that sanctioned the crime. When her young brother goes before a council of tribal elders after he is accused of being seen with a girl from a rival tribe, Mai pleads for his release. They spare him -- but order that she be gang-raped in public to shame her family. While most victims of this authorized crime commit suicide rather than exist as a pariah, Mai fights back.

During the Civil War, Union Army surgeon Dr. Mary Edwards Walker struggles to be accepted and compensated in the same manner as her male counterparts in the medical field and ultimately becomes the first and only female recipient to receive the Congressional Medal Of Honor. Even after receiving her medical degree at Syracuse Medical College, Walker is considered unfit for the Union Army Examining Board and initially is only allowed to serve voluntarily as a surgeon. While serving in the war, Dr. Walker is captured by Confederate soldiers after boldly crossing enemy lines to treat wounded civilians and is arrested as a spy – eventually being released in a prisoner exchange.

Centers the life of Jacques “Jock” Boyer, the first American cyclist to race in the Tour de France.

Mike Hammer is a no-holds barred private investigator who carries a .45 Colt in a shoulder harness under his arm. His love for his secretary Velda is only outweighed by his willingness to kill a killer.

A young woman follows her boyfriend to Miami after he gets drafted into the NBA. Thrust into the world of professional sports, she meets and learns from the sisterhood of players' wives and from their trials & tribulations.

The story centers on the former Black Sabbath singer/reality TV star and head of the Osbourne family.

Set in South Africa, Papwa Sewgolum, a caddie at a South African country club, is prevented from playing in his native country in the 1940s because of apartheid. He is "discovered" by a German Graham Wulff while playing a round with Sewgolum caddying. After an argument results in the young caddie playing a better shot than one of the golf party, Wulff takes Sewgolum overseas to play in the British Open. Sewgolum goes on to win the Dutch Open three times during the 1960s.

The story centers on Parkour, a free-jumping extreme sport where people run and jump from rooftops, and two jumpers who use these skills in their heists.

Photojournalist Robert Capa memorialized many conflicts, including the Spanish Civil War and World War II. He was one of the few photographers to land on the beach in Normandy.