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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.

Story of John Scott, a journeyman hockey player who: was voted into this year’s NHL All-Star Game as a captain through an Internet write-in campaign, got traded and then demoted to the minors by a pissed-off NHL because he wouldn’t withdraw and wound up the game’s MVP before heading back to the minors in Newfoundland.

Adolf Tolkachev, a senior engineer in a top-secret Soviet aerospace laboratory, becomes one of the most valuable spies ever for the U.S. during the Cold War.

In 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden, a gang of brazen robbers use a stolen Bell 206 Jet Ranger to land on the roof of the G4S cash service depot, where they steal more than $5 million. The robbers place decoy bombs around the area to prevent police from closing in on them.

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.

Set in Depression-era Kentucky and rooted in true events, the story of a group of young women who defy the odds to bring knowledge to a remote mountain community.

Chronicles the rise and fall of General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding general of international and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and is a shocking behind-the-scenes portrait of our military commanders, their high-stake maneuvers and the political firestorm that shook the United States.

Tells the true story of what happened when the PT boat captained by future president John F Kennedy was smashed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer.

Covering the Vietnam War for UPI, Kate Webb survives fierce battles and 23 days of captivity in the jungles of Cambodia after she is taken hostage by Communist Forces/Viet Cong in 1971. She is believed to be dead — her obituary even runs in the New York Times — before she is released.

Follows Artur Samarin, a young Ukranian man who posed as a teenager so he could be adopted by a childless couple in a small Pennsylvania town and became the top student in his high school.

Fillmore Slim (né Clarence Sims) begins pursuing a music career in the 1950s, but is lured away by the pimp game during the 1960s and 1970s. He eventually returns to music in the 1980s and continues to tour today at age 77.

A biopic of Harland Sanders and how he builds Kentucky Fried Chicken into one of the world's largest restaurant chains.

Lobster fisherman John Aldridge falls into the ocean in the middle of the night, forty miles off Montauk with no life vest and no way to signal where he is. Anthony Sosinski, his childhood best friend and partner on the boat, wakes up to realize John is gone. An unprecedented multi-state rescue operation takes place involving both the Coast Guard and the fishing community from across the Northeast.

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.

Set in the late 1970s, Coach Fitz teaches kids to fight "the natural instinct to run away from adversity" and to battle their way through all the easy excuses life offers for giving up.

Carol Blevins, a heroin addict, helped the FBI investigate the Aryan Brotherhood Of Texas for six years. She lived with the gang, remembered details, and stopped crimes, helping convict 13 members. But now, she faces ongoing threats from the gang.

Set during the Second Battle of Fallujah, Staff Sergeant David Bellavia faces life-threatening experiences and other conflicts.

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.