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Carry On

Dartanyon Crockett, legally blind yet the best wrestler on a high school team, carries Leroy Sutton, who had lost both his legs in a train accident when he was 11, to practices and meets. Sutton graduated from college and Crockett won a bronze medal at the 2012 Paralympic Games.

Chasing Phil

During the 1970s, FBI agents Jim Wedick and Jack Brennan infiltrate the world of Phillip Kitzer Jr, a Minnesota swindler who masterminds dozens of multimillion-dollar schemes, such as selling worthless securities from bogus offshore enterprises. His international network of associates is known as The Fraternity.

Christy Martin

Story of world champion boxer Christy Martin who had to fight through a man’s world to gain success and later personally found herself fighting for her life.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper with a sixth-grade education, becomes an important voting-rights advocate and founds the first integrated political party in the South in mid-1960s Mississippi.

Fearless

Adam Brown battles personal demons, including drug addiction and jail time, to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a Navy SEAL.

Firefighters

A dozen female prisoners move from county jail to life in a Malibu fire camp. With only three weeks of training, the diverse crew must bind together not only to fight devastating blazes, but also their own personal demons and a system that seeks to keep them invisible.

Hack Attack

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and its subsidiary, News International, make a habit of hacking into the voice mail messages of elected officials, celebrities, and even ordinary British citizens. A 2011 scandal leads to the shuttering of News of the World after 168 years of publication, and spurs a government inquiry that brings to light shocking business practices.

Ice

Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition to the Antarctic is an attempt to become the first land crossing of the continent. Disaster hits the expedition when its ship, Endurance, becomes trapped in pack ice and is slowly crushed in 1915. All 27 men on the expedition are ultimately rescued with no lives lost.

In Harm's Way

The story the USS Indianapolis in 1945 when it was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine.

Jack & Dick

Follows the friendship between political rivals John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, from their early years as Senators to the race for the Presidency, leading up to the historic 1960's televised debate.

John Scott Project

Story of John Scott, a journeyman hockey player who: was voted into this year’s NHL All-Star Game as a captain through an Internet write-in campaign, got traded and then demoted to the minors by a pissed-off NHL because he wouldn’t withdraw and wound up the game’s MVP before heading back to the minors in Newfoundland.

Kate

Katharine Hepburn recreates herself from outsider into one of the greatest stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Kickback

Follows a renegade Moscow detective investigating the murder of a female war journalist who becomes embroiled in a web of counter espionage involving chemical warfare and the assassination of the Russian president.

Linda and Monica

Linda Tripp, a White House aide, secretly records 22-year old White House intern Monica Lewinsky's revelations of sexual liasons with President Bill Clinton in the White House. Tripp leaks the tape to Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor who is investigating Whitewater.

Lure

Set in a haunted building, tenants are murdered by the mistress of one of the tavern's original owners.

NBA Draft Imposter Project

6’10” writer Connor Toole successfully poses as an NBA draft and attends the NBA Draft day in New York. He convinces people that he is a second-round selection of the Utah Jazz.

Operation Pandora Project

The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD) creates a secret program, Operation Pandora’s Box, to hide an informant inmate that is feeding the FBI dirt on abuse at the Men's Central Jail. An upstart FBI agent, an idealistic sheriff's deputy and the inmate navigate a web of corruption within the county jail system as part of a sting operation.