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Brothers in Arms

Based on a true story, this war drama follows an all-black tank battalion's 183 days on the front lines of the Battle of the Bulge.

Impossible Odds

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.

Six Triple Eight

Six Triple Eight tells the inspiring true story of the incredible and brave women of the only all-black, all-female World War 2 Battalion. These 855 women joined the war effort with little knowledge of what exactly they would be doing, but were quickly given the mission of a lifetime: sort through and fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. A herculean task, that most thought to be impossible, the women not only succeeded but did it in half the time they were given. Facing discrimination, unfamiliar land, and a war-torn country, they persevered and sorted over 17 million pieces of mail, reconnecting American soldiers with their families and loved ones back home. The motto that kept them going each day was one they created themselves: “No Mail, Low Morale.” The women of the 6888 weren’t just delivering mail, they were delivering hope.

Marching Powder

A British drug trafficker is arrested in Bolivia and jailed in La Paz's San Pedro prison. During his six-year stretch, the man serves as a tour guide in a prison that thrives under a capitalist system made possible by bribery of officials.

Bad Blood

Elizabeth Holmes is the founder of blood testing company Theranos, which skyrockets her to fame with an estimated value in the billions. The value of Theranos plunges though following news that the company is under investigation for inaccurate testing.

In the Garden of Beasts

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.

The Man Who Made It Snow

Max Mermelstein, a Jewish hotel engineer, transforms Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel from a small mom-and-pop drug organization into a billion-dollar enterprise.

White Night

A woman rises through the ranks at Peoples Temple and then fights to expose the truth about cult leader Jim Jones to the world before it’s too late.

Dark Wire

Dark Wire covers the unbelievable true story of how the FBI launched a fake telecom company and became the number one phone service provider to the world’s most notorious gangs, culminating in the arrest of more than a thousand international criminals.

The Kidnapping of Edgar...

In 1858, an Italian Jew beomes the center of an international controversy when he is removed from his parents at the age of seven by authorities of the Papal States and is raised as a Catholic. He goes on to become a priest in the Augustinian order.

Fearless

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

Finding Winnie

Lieutenant Harry Colebourn buys an orphaned bear cub for $20 in Ontario as he is about to leave for duty in Europe during World War I. Colebourn nicknames the cub “Winnie” after his hometown of Winnipeg and takes her to Europe, where she becomes the unofficial mascot of a regiment in England. While Coleburn serves in France, he keeps Winnie at the London Zoo and eventually donates her to the zoo. The bear serves as inspiration for A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh character since his son, Christopher Robin Milne, has named his teddy bear after the bear who he often sees at the zoo.

Unstoppable

Despite being born with one leg to a single-parent family on the wrong side of the tracks, Anthony Robles overcomes every obstacle to become an undefeated collegiate wrestling star, three-time All-American, 2011 NCAA National Champion, two-time ESPY Award winner and a National Wrestling Hall of Fame inductee.

It's What I Do

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.