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A young college graduate has to move home (into his parents' basement) to help out after his mother faces a cancer relapse and his father is diagnosed with ALS. He is reunited with his four siblings — all colorful characters with life challenges of their own. Together, the siblings form Team Terminal, going to battle against their parents' illnesses and occasionally each other.

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

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.

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

The story the USS Indianapolis in 1945 when it was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine.

Follows the friendship between political rivals John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, from their early years as Senators to the race for the Presidency, leading up to the historic 1960's televised debate.

Story of 1970s cult leader who was behind the Jonestown mass suicide on November 18, 1978.

In Khe Sanh, five thousand young Marines are surrounded and attacked by 20,000 battle-hardened North Vietnamese Army veterans for 77 nonstop days of rocket and mortar fire, as the world watches on TV.

Follows a renegade Moscow detective investigating the murder of a female war journalist who becomes embroiled in a web of counter espionage involving chemical warfare and the assassination of the Russian president.

Story of a Connecticut nurse who found herself at the center of a political firestorm when the city of New London, Connecticut used the power of eminent domain to claim ownership of the working class Fort Trumbull neighborhood.

Follows the transition of black and white women joining the Boston Police Department in the 1970s.

Set in the 1960s and follows unexplained events surrounding the first alleged haunting in a public housing project that terrified a young boy in New Jersey.

In the early 1900s, two explorers try to be the first person to reach the last uncharterd territory on the planet, the South Pole. Englishman Robert Falcon Scott and Norwegian Roald Amundsen are explorers from antithetical countries. Their race, seen as heroic during a golden age of exploration, sparks international interest and galvanizes the world to see who will reach the Southernmost point first.

Follows gunwalking, which later became known as the Fast and Furious scandal, was a strategy used by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms where the agency allowed the illegal sale of guns in Arizona with the hopes that the guns would cross the border into Mexico and lead to the arrests of members of the drug cartels.

A woman flourishes in the male-dominated business of massage parlors and prostitution.

Story of how a Chinese ice-breaker on a scientific expedition rescued a group of 74 Australian, British, and Russian nationals on a chartered Russian vessel, which had become trapped in Antarctic ice.

A 20-year CIA vet is convicted of spying and is sentenced to 23 years in prison, becoming the highest-ranking officer convicted of espionage. After leaving behind a failed Army career and while in a state of depression, his youngest son begins to seek solace and advice from his father who is in an Oregon federal prison. The father raises his son's spirits but also coaches him in spycraft, in effect launching a second act of espionage from behind bars by using his son as a courier. In the ensuing year and a half, the son travels the world selling secrets to the Russians, all the while getting deeper and deeper over his head.

John LeFevre shoots to prominence — anonymously — as the creator of the @GSElevator Twitter account, an inside look at the real world of international finance.