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The Dive

A biopic of Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras and his wife, Audrey Mestre, two world record setters in the sport of "freediving"—diving as deep as possible on one breath and without any scuba equipment. Mestre died in 2002 while trying to break her record of 557.7 feet.

Turk

Derek "Turk" Sanderson is a talented but troubled member of the Stanley Cup-winning Bruins in the 1970s. Booze and drugs send Sanderson’s life into a downward spiral but his superstar teammate Bobby Orr helps him get his life back together.

The Great Pretender

Based on the autobiography of London-based music promoter Roy Tempest, who organized UK tours in the 1960s for some of America’s biggest soul acts – even though the acts were fakes.

The Watergate Girl

Set against Watergate, the story of the only woman on the team that prosecutes the highest-ranking White House officials.

The Devil in the Kitchen

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

Toussaint

Haitian revolution hero Toussaint Louverture led one of the few successful slave uprisings in history. The slaves defeated French, Spanish and British armies and established the first independent black republic, naming Louverture president for life. He was captured and imprisoned by the French and died a year later.

The Fighting Shirley Ch...

The story of Shirley Chisholm, a U.S. Representative who was both the first woman and the first person of color to seek a major American political party’s nomination for President.

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 Beautiful and the D...

The story centers on the romance between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayme, Jazz Age icons whose courtship and marriage was riddled with jealousy and acrimony. Fitzgerald used their relationship as material for h is novels, and Sayre, who ended up being admitted to a sanitarium, did the same.

The Defender

Biopic of heroic lawyer Scipio Africanus Jones who risked his life and career to defend 87 men wrongfully accused of murder in the wake of the Elaine, AR massacre of 1919.

The $700 Billion Man

Neel Kashkari, a top US Treasury official, helped develop the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, which bailed out banks following the economic collapse in 2008. Kashkari subsequently left Washington D.C. and moved to an isolated cabin in Northern California.

The Lady and the Panda

Follows Ruth Harkness, a 1930s New York socialite who unexpectedly takes over her late husband's expedition and becomes the first person ever to bring a live giant panda out of China and to the world's attention.

The Man in the Rockefel...

Follows Christian Gerhartsreiter, a German-born imposter who posed as a member of the Rockefeller family and married a business consultant who eventually realized her husband had lied to her and sought a divorce. After their estrangement, Gerhartsreiter kidnapped their daughter in 2008 and was arrested; he was also charged in 2011 with a 1985 murder in Los Angeles.

The Man Who Drank Canad...

In the early 1980s, Canadian snooker icon "Big" Bill Werbeniuk comes out of nowhere to become one of the world's top-ranked players despite suffering from a hereditary disease that causes his cuing hand to shake uncontrollably. Bill's solution - alcohol, and lots of it - up to 50 pints of beer in a day to keep himself steady and at the top of his game. After quickly becoming a fan favorite in his adopted homeland of England, his career is abruptly brought to an end after the medication he takes to protect his heart from the booze, is summarily banned by the sport's governing body.

The Man Who Forgot He W...

T La Rock rises as a pioneer and ground-breaker in rap music until a nearly deadly beating that leaves him in a coma at the peak of his career.

The Rabbit Garden

Jerzy Kosinski a Holocaust survivor and award-winning author, leads a turbulent life. He is plagued with allegations of plagiarism and sex-addiction. Ultimately, he commits suicide in 1991 leaving a note that reads, "I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity."