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The true story of the rise and fall of London’s most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ron Kray, both portrayed by Tom Hardy in a double performance. Legend is a classic crime thriller taking us into the secret history of the 1960s and the extraordinary events that secured the infamy of the Kray twins.

A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1980s results in a very violent outcome. Lords of Chaos tells the true story of True Norwegian Black Metal and its most notorious practitioners - a group of young men with a flair for publicity, church-burning and murder: MAYHEM.

In 1913, at the age of 16, Italian born Tina Modotti (né Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini) emigrates to the United States to join her father in San Francisco, California. Attracted to the performing arts supported by the Italian émigré community in the Bay Area, Modotti experiments with acting. She appears in several plays, operas, and silent movies in the late 1910s and early 1920s, and also works as an artist's model. She later becomes an activist.

A Ping-Pong match between players Zhuang Zedong of China and Glenn Cowan of the U.S. in Japan leads to a diplomatic breakthrough between the U.S. and China. It results in a historic 1972 meeting between President Richard Nixon and Chinese leader Mao Zedong that changes world history.

Dennis Stock is a young photographer working for the Magnum agency receives an assignment that changes his life: shoot a free-spirited actor named James Dean. The gig becomes a personal journey for both as they travel from L.A. to New York to Indiana.

The true story of Lance Corporal Leslie Martz, a U.S. Marine who was stationed in Haditha, Iraq.

American fashion model, artist and war correspondent Elizabeth "Lee" Miller is a muse and collaborator to famous artists such as Pablo Picasso and Man Ray, an acclaimed photojournalist documenting some of the most important moments in history, a witness to wartime atrocities and one of the most glamorous women of her time.

David’s comfortable world is turned upside down when his birthmother unexpectedly reaches out to him, longing to meet the 18-year-old son she’s only held once. With the encouragement of his adoptive parents, David embarks on a journey of discovery that leads to a staggering truth from his past.

The unlikely true story of Eugene Brown and his one-man mission to give inner-city kids of Washington D.C. something he never had – a future. He discovered a multitude of life lessons through the game of chess during his 18-year incarceration for bank robbery. After his release and reentry into the workforce, Eugene developed and founded the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the streets and working towards lives they never believed they were capable of due to circumstances. From his daring introductory chess lessons to group of unruly high school students in detention to the development of the Club and the teens’ first local chess competitions, this movie reveals his difficult, inspirational journey and how he changed the lives of a group of teens with no endgame.

The true story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemontree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.

In the late 1940's, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez were America's notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers". Their lethal scam was simple; they would swindle and then viciously murder lovelorn war widows who would answer their personal ads in which Ray would describe himself as a sexy Latin Lover. Ironically, Ray's initial introduction to Martha was as a prospective mark. But when they met, it was love at first sight, perhaps as a result of their penchant for kinky sex and their mutual love for duplicity and easy money. With Martha posing as Ray's sister, they bilked elderly spinsters and widows of their savings and then viciously murdered them in a bloodbath of sexual frenzy. When they were arrested, Martha and Ray confessed to 12 killings, although it is believed the actual number is closer to 20. At their sensational trial, Martha and Ray cooed, held hands and seemed as though they could not get enough of each other. Their plea of not guilty by reason of insanity was rejected, and on August 22, 1949, the homicidal lovers were sentenced to death. After numerous appeals, they were electrocuted on March 8, 1951, side-by-side in Sing Sing prison.

A World War II mission takes place to rescue Corporal Margaret Hastings, one of three U.S. military survivors of a plane crash in an isolated corner of the South Pacific The ancient indigenous tribe members help those stranded on the ground in this Shangri-La.

British Naval officer Lord Horatio Nelson makes a name for himself while fighting Napoleon's forces on the Mediterranean stage and also for engaging in a scandalous love affair with Lady Emma Hamilton.

Follows the true story of the infamous Bondurant Brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. In this epic gangster tale, inspired by true-life tales of author Matt Bondurant’s family in his novel "The Wettest County In The World," the loyalty of three brothers is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation’s most notorious crime wave.

Despite 5000-to-1 odds, Leicester City soccer club wins the English Premiere League in 2016 overcoming perennial monied powerhouses like Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool.

Texas senator Wendy Davis' 11-hour filibuster helps stall an anti-abortion bill in the Texas state house.

Police inaction drives Mari Gilbert (Amy Ryan) to investigate the disappearance of her daughter. Mari's search of the gated community where Shannan was last seen brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.