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Two foot soldiers in a New Jersey crime syndicate, bent on expanding its horizons in the construction business, are sent to Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz, Europe’s most massive post-WWII construction site. While scouting the area for their syndicate, they encounter other criminal factions with the same idea, including the Russian mafia.

Sam Phillips is a pioneer in the music industry during the 1950s as a producer helps launch the careers of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Details the struggle between the “Mother Company,” a conspiracy of energy companies that secretly controls much of the Western world, and a highly skilled assassin named Nicholaï Hel.

Mary Jennings serves three tours in Afghanistan as a rescue helicopter pilot where she Medevac'd hundreds of men and women off of the battlefield. At one point, her helicopter is shot down during a rescue mission and she is shot by the Taliban. She fights through her injuries to save the three Americans that are the target of the rescue mission, and her own team. Their ordeal culminates in a daring escape hanging onto the skids of a Kiowa helicopter. Hegar also sues the secretary of defense asserting that the Combat Exclusion Policy (which prevents women from entering direct combat) is unconstitutional, and she wins. In 2013, the secretary of defense repeals the policy.

Set in the 1950s, a young book editor grows troubled by the social trappings of her time and slowly descends into mental illness.

After freed slave Britt Johnson moves his family to Young County, TX at the end of the Civil War, his family and neighbors are attacked by Comanche and Kiowa, with many of them being taken captive. While Britt waits through the winter before he can set out to rescue his wife and children, Samuel Hammond, a Quaker man preaching nonviolence and an agrarian lifestyle gets sent to the region to be the new Indian Agent. The contrast between Johnson, a pragmatic man of action, and Hammond, an idealist who struggles with the ambiguities of reality, echoes the history of a period when government programs and westward expansion collided, ruinously, with Native cultures.

A biopic of Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras and his wife, Audrey Mestre, two world record setters in the sport of "freediving"—diving as deep as possible on one breath and without any scuba equipment. Mestre died in 2002 while trying to break her record of 557.7 feet.

Set in the shadowy underworld of the Stasi, East Germany’s infamous Ministry for State Security, an ambitious young Stasi officer is handed his chance to advance within the system by unmasking "The Englishman," a peerless assassin whose identity is unknown to even those who hire him.

Three different women's lives are plunged into crises after one of the women opens a Pandora’s Box that ties all three women together in ways no one could have suspected.

Amy Biehl, an American Fulbright scholar, is living in Apartheid-era South Africa when she is stabbed to death. Her parents sit through the murder trial and eventually support their daughter's killers' application to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

A young Florida girl gets lost in the child welfare system for five years until she's discovered by an unpaid volunteer who must convince the girl's biological mother to release her parental rights.

The story of Rose Marie “Rosemary” Kennedy, the first-born daughter to Rose Fitzgerald and Joseph Kennedy Sr. After displaying behavioral problems that caused her to fall behind the achievements of her siblings due to a mental disability that was long kept secret, Joseph Kennedy arranged one of the first prefrontal lobotomies for her when she was 23. The procedure was botched and left her permanently incapacitated.

In Guatemala, Rodrigo Rosenberg, a wealthy businessman who watched his wife-to-be get assassinated along with her father, is later gunned down while riding his bicycle. His murder stirs up an entire country frustrated by the endless waves of violence, sometimes involving corrupt government officials

During WWII, Edward Arnold Chapman, a career criminal, spies on the Germans for the British.

Responding to a meat shortage in the U.S. in 1910, two bitter enemies, Frederick Russell Burnham and Fritz Duquesne, join forces to try and import hippopotamuses to the swamps of Louisiana and convince Americans to eat them.

A 17-year-old art student's father occasionally sends her on errands around the world collecting human teeth for a mysterious purpose. The young woman gradually becomes aware that she is part of an ancient struggle between devils and angels and finds herself in a forbidden romance with a warrior angel.