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"War Eagles" is a project original "King Kong" co-director Merian C. Cooper and Harryhausen had developed together and were nearly set to produce before the outbreak of WWII. The period actioner is set in 1939 and revolves around an ace fighter-pilot who tests a new jet and winds up crash-landing in the arctic, where he encounters a lost civilization that's been thriving there for centuries.

The final recruits of a grueling special ops boot camp encounter a deadly force from beyond this world.

The horror comedy follows two janitors who, during a Christmas holiday, get trapped in an underground research facility after accidentally unleashing military-trained Rhesus monkeys. Hung is one of the janitors who battles the rabid simians.

When the daughter of an investigative reporter falls violently ill from a mysterious neurotoxin, he investigates and uncovers the remains of a government scheme to create an unsurvivable military poison.

Rell Sunn, a native of Oahu, is a pioneer in the big-wave world of the late 1960s as well as an expert diver, a black belt in karate and a hula dancer. She becomes known as "Queen of Makaha." Sunn establishes a surf contest for children to combat juvenile delinquency and fights breast cancer for 15 years. She dies in 1998.

Set in an eerie and isolated English town during an alternate-1960s, where the government has imposed a drug-induced happiness to mask gruesome violence and conceal a nefarious mystery. The story revolves around one rebellious resident illegally free of the drug’s effects, who risks his life to learn why his home is a bizarre open-air prison.

Focuses on the internal battles between Orson Welles and producer John Houseman that nearly derailed the shocking radio broadcast of War of the Worlds in 1938.

Set in a decaying Hollywood mansion, a former child star and her sister, a movie queen, are forced into retirement after a crippling accident and live together in a lethal relationship culminating in violent tragedy.

Set in the small Northern California logging town, two brothers, while on a deer hunting trip to the coast, make a most unusual discovery -- a narco-submarine that has washed ashore along a deserted stretch of coastline. And it's not only what the brothers find inside the sub that alters their lives forever, but rather who they find inside, sparking a CIA cover-up that sends one brother on the run and the other brother to cover their tracks, while a rookie U.S. Army Special Investigator is dispatched to find the brothers and to get to the bottom of the mystery.

During the 1980s in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a teenage boy contemplates coming out, but his ultra-progressive family wants to celebrate the boy's newfound sexuality, while the boy wants is to be left alone.

In 1996 when his father suffers a heart attack, Peter Godwin returns to Africa and discovers his father is Jewish and has hidden it from Peter and his siblings all their lives. As his father's health deteriorates, so does Zimbabwe. Mugabe, self-proclaimed president for life, institutes a series of ill-conceived land reforms that throw the white farmers off the land they've cultivated for generations and consequently throws the country's economy into free fall. There's sadness throughout—for the death of his father, for the suffering of everyone in Zimbabwe (black and white alike) and for the way that human beings invariably treat each other with casual disregard.

Kelly Medina's obsession starts on an ordinary fall morning when she gets a call from her son's pediatrician. It's a cruel mistake; her son left for college a year ago. The receptionist quickly apologizes: another Kelly Medina, who's half her age, is a new patient. For days, Kelly can't stop thinking about the woman who shares her name, lives in her same town, has a baby, and her whole life ahead of her. When Kelly just happens to bump into the single mother outside that pediatrician's office, it's simple curiosity getting the better of her. When they become friends, Kelly can't help but find a renewed sense of purpose taking care of this young woman and her adorable baby boy. And when one Kelly disappears, well, the other one may know why.

Two brothers become pastors at different churches in the same community. One brother develops his church into a modern, high-tech congregation that uses digital devices and ATMs. The other brother follows a humbler path but soon finds his church in decline and in need of financial help.

Carter Paysinger, a black student from the wrong side of town, lands hard at upscale, mostly white Beverly Hills High, and his friendship with Fenton, a Jewish kid with whom he has little in common. Years later, Paysinger becomes a coach, teacher and eventually the first African-American principal in the storied school's 80-year history. This perch gives him the opportunity to team with Fenton to turn around the school and help the community that put him on the path to success.

When the ACME agency’s greatest detective Carmen Sandiego becomes the world’s greatest thief, it’s up to her former partner to follow her clues and track her down.