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Jim Thorpe is a member of the Sac and Fox Nation and his native name, Wa-Tho-Huk, translates as Bright Path. In 1912, he wins two Olympic gold track and field medals, representing the United States while his citizenship goes unrecognized during a period of cultural genocide for Native Americans. Known as one of the most versatile athletes, Thorpe goes on to play Major League Baseball, professional football and eventually founds the organization that becomes the National Football League.

Joe goes on various child-friendly misadventures, in which he is sometimes joined by a host of friends such as Pesty, Mort, Toughie, Hungry Herman, love interest Jane and a dog named Walkie Talkie.

Set in the aftermath of the 1942 Bataan Death March, in which 10,000 American and Filipino POWs died on a forced march to captivity, a young lawyer tries his first cas and fights against the death penalty for his client, who is being tried for war crimes by U.S. General Douglas MacArthur.

Ben Tennyson, a normal ten-year-old boy, finds a watch-like device called the Omnitrix. Once he puts on the mysterious alien device, it gives him the power to transform into ten different alien life-forms, and he becomes a reluctant superhero.

When Roberto “Bob” travels to the enchanting Island of Puerto Rico for a major construction job, he takes on issues affecting the island and digs deeper into what it means to build. Bob’s journey will celebrate the vibrant and colorful textures of the Caribbean Latin nations and their people.

A young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined, dangerous city of the near future. The city is littered with discarded experiments from the Company — a bio-tech firm now seemingly derelict. From one of her scavenging missions, Rachel brings home Borne, who is little more than a green lump, but exudes a strange charisma. And yet, little as she understands what or who Borne may be, she cannot give him up, even as Borne begins to grow and change in unexpected ways.

A woman wakes up with amnesia, only to discover it's her wedding day. She has until the end of the day to figure out who she is, who she's marrying, and whether or not she's about to make the biggest mistake of her life.

The unease between Bostonians and British troops turns violent after the Boston Tea Party, when violent sieges erupt in Lexington and Concord and a British blockade leads to outright war in the Battle of Bunker Hill, a bloody clash that unites the colonies and starts the war for independence. A group of participants, including a 33-year-old physician named Joseph Warren, who becomes a leader of the Patriot cause; Paul Revere, George Washington, British General Thomas Gage, and others.

Set in the Bay Area during late 1969, a psychedelic rock band called Sunrise Majesty sequesters themselves away on their communal ranch while they work on their new album. Unfortunately, their lead singer has contracted a mysterious venereal disease that transforms him into a werewolf every time he's around a "square," making him more like a "squarewolf." After transforming the rest of the band, Sunrise Majesty holds a love-in on their ranch to which only their most die-hard fans are invited.

A terrorist cult uses a series of novels to brainwash their readers while the world’s most celebrated spy is sent to track down and kill the author responsible.

Pino Lella is a normal Italian teenager living an idyllic life in Italy, until bombs begin falling on Milan and word of Nazi atrocities begin to circulate. Lello joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, guiding hundreds of Jews to safety in a year. On his 18th birthday, Lella is forced to enlist with the German Army, and is immediately assigned as a personal driver to Adolf Hitler's left hand, General Hans Leyers. This fly on the wall in the upper echelons of the Third Reich positions him to be recruited by the Allies as a spy.

"Bitch" is a satirical look at the new generation of young, successful black women in Washington, D.C.

Two hapless but earnest friends decide to give purpose to their lives by protecting America's borders from illegal immigrants. In the process they find themselves accidentally stranded in Mexico without identification and must sneak back into the USA.

A former soldier believes the world is a good place and worth fighting for, but his optimism is tested in the most dramatic way possible after he returns home from the war and takes a job as a police officer.

The biopic will follow the Bronte sisters and their brother Branwell who grew up in isolation on the Yorkshire moors and went on to write some of the most enduring novels in English literature -- Charlotte's "Jane Eyre", Emily's "Wuthering Heights" and Anne's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". As children, they created epic fantasy worlds to entertain themselves, led by the charismatic Branwell, but when he descended into alcohol and opium abuse, the sisters had to find their own way in a world dominated by strict patriarchal conventions. This initially forced them to disguise their identities by publishing under male pseudonyms.

An average geek's uneventful life changes when Buddy Holly turns up on every TV channel and declares that the geek is the only one who understands why this is happening -- which causes him to be pursued by a mob of disguised aliens.