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William Dodd, the United States' reluctant and mild-mannered ambassador to Berlin in 1933, and his daughter Martha, a vivacious socialite have romantic affairs with a Gestapo official and a Soviet spy. Dodd and his family at first naively navigate life in Nazi Germany but they slowly gain awareness of the mounting brutality around them.

A reclusive writer receives an invitation to a bachelorette party of her best friend from high school, who she hasn’t seen in 10 years.

Set during WWII, airline pilot Paul "Pappy" Gunn's family is imprisoned by the Japanese in the Philippines at the infamous Santo Tomas Internment Camp. Gunn is an adviser to the Air Force, helping to reinvent aerial warfare and change the tide of the war in the Allies' favor.

Tamara Mellon, who had a troubled childhood, loses her job as an editor at Vogue. After a stint in rehab, Mellon partners with Malaysian-born cobbler Jimmy Choo whose footwear she develops into a billion-dollar brand in the late 1990s & early 2000s. As the company becomes a runaway success, private equity suits try to take over, undermine quality, boost sales, and ultimately sell the firm out from under her. Mellon fights back tooth-and-nail. She ultimately sells her shares for a reported $135M and exits the company in 2011.

A strong-willed teenaged daughter of first-generation Mexican immigrants must help hold her family together after a tragic accident.

Hank Williams, who grows up dirt poor in Alabama during the Depression, skyrockets to fame with 11 No. 1 hits, including classics "Cold, Cold Heart," "Your Cheatin' Heart" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." Williams suffers from spina bifida, which leads him to turn to alcohol and morphine for pain relief. Haunted by demons and bad habits, Williams dies in 1953 at age 29.

American humanitarian aid worker Jessica Buchanan travels to Somalia to help children only to be kidnapped by militants and held for ransom for 93 days. Her captors are killed by Navy SEALs in a dramatic rescue mission in January 2012.

The drama tells the story of William Vincent (Franco), and recounts his eccentric and curious journey that brought him back to New York City after four years in exile to rescue the woman he loves from a crime syndicate.

In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sells his home and possessions, loads his dog and surfboards into his truck, and sets off in search of his best friend and long-time surfing companion Christopher, who has vanished into the depths of Central America.

A depressed middle-aged man is a volunteer police officer living in the shadow of his mother, a highly decorated retired officer. When she dies, her continued influence forces him to become a real police officer, which is something he never wanted to be.

Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario.

A woman believes she is going to visit her new shrink but really ends up baring her soul to an accoutant.

Set in the 1990s, British-American astronaut Mike Foale overcomes a series of crises aboard the Mir space station to become one of NASA's most highly-respected astronauts to date.

Story of investigative journalist Ida Tarbell as she digs into the Rockefeller oil empire through public documents to unearth the truth behind Standard Oil.

A re-imagining of the first moon mission in which disaster strikes and the astronauts find themselves up against insurmountable odds.

An American motorcycle racer comes out of retirement to compete in a dangerous race, the famed Isle of Man TT, near the Irish Sea.

Lynsey Addari travels to war-torn countries like Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq and wins the MacArthur Fellowhip in 2008. Her work in dangerous locales include her being kidnapped by pro-Quaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war. She is part of the N.Y. Times team which wins a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for International Reporting for her work in Waziristan.

Georgia Young, a successful doctor who seemingly has everything — a great family, good friends and a wonderful career — but it isn’t enough. Feeling stuck and restless, she is determined to make major changes in her life and so decides to track down her former lovers.

In 1968, the Memphis sanitation workers strike becomes a turning point in the U.S. civil rights movement. The strike, carried out by black employees over poor working conditions and discrimination, draws Martin Luther King Jr, the National Guard and the national media for what is a 65-day, often violent labor action.