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A White Lie

Anita Hemmings, a light skinned African American woman and the daughter of a janitor, is passed as white so she can attend Vassar at the turn of the century.

He Wanted The Moon

In the 1920s, Dr. Perry Baird, who was born in Texas and educated at Harvard, begins his career ascent in the field of medicine. Over time, he grows more and more interested in the cause of manic depression. Sadly

Unfit

Carrie Buck, a young Virginia woman, becomes a lightning rod for a political movement that promises to eliminate the "unfit" from our country. She is forced to single-handedly fight against it for the one thing she desperately wants – to be a mother.

Not Without Hope

Four friends are on a fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico when their boat capsizes, stranding the four men at sea. In the days that follow, the men fight to survive as they await to see if help will come.

Signal Hill

Story of the landmark Signal Hill police brutality case in 1981 with Anthony Mackie playing attorney Johnnie Cochran.

Bubbles

A baby chimp is adopted by pop star Michael Jackson. Bubbles the Chimp details his life within The King of Pop's inner circle through the scandals that later rocked Jackson’s life and eventually led to Bubbles’ release.

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.

In With The Devil

The project is the true story of James Keene, a handsome football player turned big-time drug dealer and sentenced for ten years. The FBI offered him a quick release, in exchange, however, he had to go undercover as a patient in a sanatorium where he had to befriend a serial killer and get him to admit to his crimes.

The Invention of Wings

Set in the 19th, Sarah Grimke is gifted with a 10-year-old slave girl, Hetty, for her 11th birthday. Sarah attempts to reject the gift, she ultimately cannot nor can she free Hetty or even protect her. Sarah and Hetty's lives remain intertwined as they grow up into women.

Voyagers

Set in 1977, the film follows NASA's preparations for launching the first interstellar probes. Led by astronomer Carl Sagan, a team is tasked with creating a message called The Golden Record to accompany these probes. However, what begins as a time-sensitive mission transforms into an extraordinary and unforeseen love story.

I Am Chippendales

Steve Banerjee, an immigrant goest from pumping gas in Culver City to running a high-end nightclub that evolves into Chippendales. As the male stripper concept beomes a phenomenon in the 1980s at the height of the women’s lib movement, Banerjee is consumed by excess and competition. After hiring a New York choreographer to polish the all-male dance troupe, Banerjee beomes wildly rich, and just as paranoid. Banerjee hires a hit man to murder the choreographer when negotiations go sour. After being arrested, Banerjee dies in jail awaiting trial.

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.

The Corporation

Jose Miguel Battle Sr. escapes to the United States, where he and other Cubans are trained by the CIA to invade the country in an ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion.

The Crowded Room

A true story about Billy Milligan, a man with 24 different personalities. Afflicted with multiple personalities due to a childhood filled with abuse, Billy Milligan, livesa nightmarishly schizoid life. Eventually, several of his personalities band together and commit a series of rapes, which results in Billy being put in a hospital for the criminally insane. Now well on the road to mental health, Billy hopes to be set free, but instead finds himself remanded to a hellhole of a mental hospital by a society that still fears him. Inevitably, though, justice prevails. As of this day, Billy leads a productive, sane, freelife.

Dark Web

A young kid is arrested for putting out a hit on the clients of the Silk Road, the illegal online bazaar he created where one could buy illegal goods including drugs or services like contract killings.

Running A Thousand Mile...

Married in 1846, William and Ellen Craft flee slavery in 1848 when Ellen, the daughter of her slave master who because of her light complexion could pass, disguises herself as a man and poses as William's white slave owner.

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.

Collar Bomb Heist

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.