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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.

A reclusive writer receives an invitation to a bachelorette party of her best friend from high school, who she hasn’t seen in 10 years.

A strong-willed teenaged daughter of first-generation Mexican immigrants must help hold her family together after a tragic accident.

Hank Williams, who grows up dirt poor in Alabama during the Depression, skyrockets to fame with 11 No. 1 hits, including classics "Cold, Cold Heart," "Your Cheatin' Heart" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." Williams suffers from spina bifida, which leads him to turn to alcohol and morphine for pain relief. Haunted by demons and bad habits, Williams dies in 1953 at age 29.

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.

Two teenage twins, Noah and Jude, both budding artists are torn apart in the wake of a family tragedy, but are reunited as they put the pieces back together.

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.

Superhero-turned-villain, the Plutonian, goes on a killing rampage. His former allies, the superhero group The Paradigm, attempt to find a way to stop his rampage while dealing with their own problems of betrayal and hopelessness.

Launched on cable in 1981, MTV revolutionizes music and television. The cable network starts out with a concept few think can work: watching songs on TV. But what begins as a way simply to promote record companies’ latest products becomes the music video.

A jaded and distracted husband and father's life changes when he meets Mister Rogers.

The drama tells the story of William Vincent (Franco), and recounts his eccentric and curious journey that brought him back to New York City after four years in exile to rescue the woman he loves from a crime syndicate.

A teenage girl is forced to move in with her off-the-grid dad in the Canadian wilderness after her mother is killed in a car crash. After a series of events and only her father’s dog for company, she’ll discover she’s stronger than she ever imagined.

Set in the 1990s, British-American astronaut Mike Foale overcomes a series of crises aboard the Mir space station to become one of NASA's most highly-respected astronauts to date.

Tamara Mellon, who had a troubled childhood, loses her job as an editor at Vogue. After a stint in rehab, Mellon partners with Malaysian-born cobbler Jimmy Choo whose footwear she develops into a billion-dollar brand in the late 1990s & early 2000s. As the company becomes a runaway success, private equity suits try to take over, undermine quality, boost sales, and ultimately sell the firm out from under her. Mellon fights back tooth-and-nail. She ultimately sells her shares for a reported $135M and exits the company in 2011.

The story involves parallel storylines with Dante in 14th-century Italy as he tries to complete the work, and a contemporary storyline involving Tosches, who is asked to authenticate what might be Dante's original manuscript.

After taking a commercial DNA test on a whim, the man a woman had known her whole life as her father was not biologically related to her. She goes on to uncover the truth about her identity, which had been kept from her for more than 50 years.

In 1968, the Memphis sanitation workers strike becomes a turning point in the U.S. civil rights movement. The strike, carried out by black employees over poor working conditions and discrimination, draws Martin Luther King Jr, the National Guard and the national media for what is a 65-day, often violent labor action.

A woman in her twenties with vulnerability and no sexual guilt dates all the wrong men, and tries to survive a generation of guys who know more about love songs than love.

A seemingly ordinary Texas family pulls off two bold heists before they are caught attempting a third.

The story centers on the internecine plots and counterplots surrounding Claudius, the fourth emperor of Rome who ruled from 41-54 A.D. The stuttering and handicapped Claudius, born into a murderous, imperial family, used his cunning mind and rivals' misjudgment to not only survive but eventually become one of Rome's greatest emperors.