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In 1942, Rudolph Vrba is deported to Auschwitz at the age of 18 from his hometown in Slovakia. He becomes connected to the underground resistance within the camp where he and his friend Fred Wetzler devise an ingenious escape plan. In the Spring of 1944, they break out of the prison, just as the Nazi's Final Solution is heading into its deadliest months. Once free, Vrba and Wetzler set off through nearly 100 miles of treacherous Nazi territory and are tracked by SS search parties desperate to hunt them down. After multiple close calls, they make it back home to Slovakia where they write the first eyewitness accounts of the death camps. The Vrba-Wetzler Report finds its way to FDR, Churchill, the Pope, and finally, to the front page of the New York Times, where it exposes the truth of the Final Solution to the world. In the end, Rudi's escape and thorough account of the horrors of Auschwitz helps to save hundreds of thousands of lives.

Revolves around four intersecting love stories. Sightings and chance encounters lay bare the truths and oddities of real-life loneliness and attractions.

20-something New York lawyer Lily Wilder is whip-smart, unapologetically self-assured, and not-quite-capable of being faithful to one man. So as her wedding day approaches in beautiful Key West, Lily starts to ask questions about whether the happiest day of her life might turn out to be her worst mistake yet.

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 buttoned-up lawyer gets her troublemaker brother a summer job at her New York law firm. He quickly becomes the toast of the town — and the object of desire of the powerful women they work for.

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.

A depressed middle-aged man is a volunteer police officer living in the shadow of his mother, a highly decorated retired officer. When she dies, her continued influence forces him to become a real police officer, which is something he never wanted to be.

Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition to the Antarctic is an attempt to become the first land crossing of the continent. Disaster hits the expedition when its ship, Endurance, becomes trapped in pack ice and is slowly crushed in 1915. All 27 men on the expedition are ultimately rescued with no lives lost.

In the early 1990s, a detective is cryogenically frozen by a powerful drug dealer after a drug bust went upside down. The detective thaws out 22 years later and then seeks revenge.

Follows a group of Minnesota guys who set off to ride snowmobiles to the North Pole.

The story follows Lenny Kravitz's character, a musician, from a promising start in his 20s to a descent into drugs in his 30s.

Story of investigative journalist Ida Tarbell as she digs into the Rockefeller oil empire through public documents to unearth the truth behind Standard Oil.

Just days from getting released from Soledad State Prison, Nate McClusky runs afoul of the powerful leader of the Aryan Brotherhood, who runs its state-wide Meth network from his cell. Marked for death his release, Nate soon realizes that everyone he has ever loved is a target — including his daughter, who he hasn't seen for years. Soon the two of them find themselves on a non-stop struggle for survival, and along the way, discover the bonds that eluded them for so many years.

The Young Postman's days are numbered. Estranged from his family and living alone with only his cat, Cabbage, to keep him company, he is unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. Before he can tackle his bucket list, the devil shows up to make him an offer: In exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, the postman will be granted one extra day of life beginning a very strange week that brings the young postman and his beloved cat to the brink of existence. With each object that disappears, the postman reflects on the life he's lived, his joys and regrets, and the people he's loved and lost.

An emotionally disturbed man helps his sister see the world through the strange but beautiful cartoon images he has created in his mind to cope with the loss of their parents.

Set in the 14th century in Florence, this epic progresses through 200 years of Italian history while telling the powerful tale of orphan Luca Bastardo. Luca's unusually long life affords him the chance to thoroughly explore the elements of good and evil, the ability to make the ultimate choice between true love & immortality and most importantly, the opportunity to learn how to believe in something as intangible as faith.

A group of high-octane conmen, who stage car accidents for a living, unknowingly take part in a plot to assassinate a key government witnessand must deal with the consequences.

"Import Export" tells the story of Dan who is about to propose to his girlfriend Jasmin. However, his world is shattered when they learn Jasmin is to be given away by her traditional Pakistani family to an overseas cousin in an arranged marriage. Determined to fight for her Dan has to overcome the preconceived notions that her very traditional family has against mixed marriages. So Dan must take drastic measures and go through multiple obstacles to gain her parents' trust and prove that love should know no frontiers. Thorough his efforts to change her family and gain their approval, Dan also changes significantly, understanding their perspective on this delicate issue.