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One of the most destructive traitors in American history, CIA officer Aldrich Ames provides information to the Soviet Union that contributes to the deaths of at least ten Soviet intelligence officers who spied for the United States. Considering it their personal mission, two CIA officers Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille dedicate themselves to identifying the traitor responsible for the execution or imprisonment of the Soviet agents with whom they worked. Their efforts eventually lead them to a long-time acquaintance and coworker in the CIA's Soviet-East European division and Counterintelligence Center, Aldrich Ames. Ames, who received millions of dollars for his treachery and nearly gets out of the country before he is caught.

Tierney Cahill, a teacher from Reno, Nev., takes a challenge from her sixth-grade students to run for Congress in the 2000 elections on the condition that they would help run her campaign. The single mother ultimately loses her bid to an incumbent, but she ends up winning 35% of the popular vote.

Focuses on a US Army division trained for combat in extreme mountain conditions and deployed to the mountains of the Italian border during WWII. The

A break in the manhunt for Osama Bin Laden serves as the riveting backdrop for a gripping story about the combined efforts of an extraordinary group of Navy Seals. This is the story of a clandestine operation, a perfect storm of people, and the rare synergy of circumstances that would amount to the most daring military operation of our generation, inspired by the true story of how it almost fell apart.

The film tells the true story of Capt. Ernest Evans, the U.S. Naval Commander posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle off Samar, part of the October 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf - one of the largest naval engagement in history.

Follows the life of Crazy Eddie Antar, as he launches the successful Crazy Eddie chain and becomes the consumer electronics king, only to wind up serving six years in prison for fraud.

Erie, Pa. pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells enters a bank and tells the teller he’d been shackled with an explosive device around his neck and forced to pull off a heist. The bomb goes off as Wells exits the bank, which is surrounded by cops, and it kills him instantly. While investigating the crime after his grisly death, the FBI ultimately discover that Wells was not an innocent victim but a co-conspirator unaware that a real bomb would be involved for the actual heist. The alleged mastermind of the intricate plot is Marjorie Diehl Armstrong who is currently serving life in prison plus thirty years.

Set in 1972, two best friends live on the small island of Corsica where they choose different paths in life -- one as an honest working man, the other as a gangster -- and feud over a woman who comes between them.

Mike May, a man who was blinded at age 3 and regains his vision at age 46 after an experimental surgery involving stem cells.

Winston Churchill is U.K. prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. He rises to power as he stands against parliament to defend Britain and the world from Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.

Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple from Portsmouth, New Hampshire are captured by a UFO the night of September 19, 1961. A black postal clerk and a white social worker, the Hills claim that they had been studied by extraterrestrials, and then returned to their lives with missing memories that were later retrieved under hypnosis.

A centuries-old tradition within Thailand's prison system allows inmates to compete in state-sanctioned tournaments to win early release. An American locked up overseas in a Thai prison and must learn Muay Thai in order to fight for his freedom.

Mike "The Mouth" Matusow deals with drugs, depression, promiscuous sex, jail, and suicidal depression along with his success as a four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and winning the 2005 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions. His nickname comes from his affinity for razzing other players during poker games.

Set against the backdrop of the making of Star Wars, Peter Mayhew tries to balance a career as a hospital worker while chasing Hollywood dreams by playing furry suited alien Chewbacca, who goes on to become one of the most iconic screen sidekicks in modern times.

The men he put behind bars know him as Roman Caribe or one of the dozens of other aliases he has used undercover. His handlers in the DEA, ICE, and FBI know him as Confidential Source Ninety-Six, or C.S. 96, named for the year he confronted the sins of his life atop a massive drug distribution ring and flipped, becoming law enforcement's secret weapon. As Caribe launches his career as a confidential source, he finds his faith and seeks to finally do right by his stoic wife, Inez, and his four children, his marriage becomes stressed in new ways, the risks to his family unimaginable if he makes a single mistake on the job. He finds himself looking over his shoulder every day, knowing that with each drug ring or kingpin he destroys, he makes another dangerous enemy.

The remarkable true story of one mother's tireless struggle to fulfill her dream to give her severely disabled twins some semblance of a normal childhood-the friendships, learning and cultural experiences provided by a public school education.

Sue Mengers crashes the boys club that is Hollywood agenting, brandishing an outsized personality to go with her famous client list.

In the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, record producer James William Guercio runs recording studio Caribou Records. From around 1971 to 1985, Caribou is the site of recordings by, among others, Chicago, Amy Grant, Joe Walsh, Paul McCartney and Elton John. John even titled one album after the studio. The facilities are destroyed by a fire in 1985.

Chief Ron Roberts, a conman, claims he has Mohegan ancestry in order to open a casino.

A U.S. spy is recruited by the Chinese to infiltrate Japanese intelligence in 1938.