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

Samuel Millar is a member of the Irish Republican Army and spends eight years in tough Irish prisons during the late 1970s and 1980s, where he takes part in the blanket protest in which political prisoners refuse to wear prison garb and are severely punished for it. He then comes to America under a different identity, reinvents himself as a family man and comic book shop owner. But then he helps pull off an armored truck heist, stealing more than $7 million from a Brink's truck and thus executing one of the most successful heists in U.S. history. Millar is eventually pardoned by President Bill Clinton and sent back to Ireland, where he reinvents himself once again, this time as a best-selling author of crime books.

Set during Colin Powell’s tenure as Secretary of State in the George W. Bush White House.

Tale of Heather "Razzlekhan" Morgan and Ilya "Dutch" Lichtenstein who steal over $4 billion worth of cryptocurrency. They end up caught and in jail.

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.

Set in the 1970s, Janet Guthrie, a pilot turned racecar driver, makes a bid for the Indianapolis 500 in 1976 despite relentless opposition from the racing establishment and the men she hopes to race against. Janet qualifies for the race in 1978 where she finishes in the top ten, destroying many widely-held stereotypes about female drivers.

Jose Miguel Battle Sr. escapes to the United States, where he and other Cubans are trained by the CIA to invade the country in an ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion.

Marc Rich, a child of the Holocaust, becomes the wealthiest and most powerful oil and commodities trader of the century until his 1983 indictments on 65 criminal counts including tax evasion.

A woman spends her entire life as a man so she can study and practice medicine. She becomes a prominent surgeon who spends her groundbreaking career championing the rights of the lower classes and pushing for medical reforms and better sanitary conditions. Her true gender is not discovered until her death in 1865.

Jim Obergefell marries his spouse John Arthur in Maryland in 2013, three months before Arthur dies. The state of Ohio refuses to list him as John's spouse on the death certificate, so Obergefell sues. He is the lead plaintiff in a U.S. Supreme Court case that effectively legalizes same-sex marriage.

After spending time in prison in London, Morten Storm converts to Islam and moves to Yemen in 2001 to study the Quran. There, he meets and works with extremists, but he eventually realizes how dangerous the groups are and is recruited to be a double agent for the CIA, as well as British and Danish intelligence.

A biopic of Rock Hudson, the Hollywood screen icon who lived in fear of the discovery of his gay lifestyle.

Tells the true story of the failed 1946 escape attempt from Alcatraz Prison by six inmates that incited a full-blown military response — turning the world’s most notorious prison into a war-torn battlefield.

In the early 1990s, a Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical rep helps sell the anti-anemia drug Procrit until he comes to believe it is causing harm. The salesman, who works in Johnson & Johnson's new biotech division, is fired from the pharmaceutical company after warning that the drug he had championed is dangerous. Attorney Jan Schlichtmann takes on the case for the sales rep and the plaintiffs.

Story of world champion boxer Christy Martin who had to fight through a man’s world to gain success and later personally found herself fighting for her life.

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.

The account of a Navy SEAL translator in Iraq. The translator took part in more than 1,000 missions over a six-year period.

Erie, Pa. pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells enters a bank and tells the teller he’d been shackled with an explosive device around his neck and forced to pull off a heist. The bomb goes off as Wells exits the bank, which is surrounded by cops, and it kills him instantly. While investigating the crime after his grisly death, the FBI ultimately discover that Wells was not an innocent victim but a co-conspirator unaware that a real bomb would be involved for the actual heist. The alleged mastermind of the intricate plot is Marjorie Diehl Armstrong who is currently serving life in prison plus thirty years.

A biopic (in the vein of The Social Network) on Martin Cooper, referred to as “the father of the cell phone,” who is credited with inventing the first handheld cellular device at Motorola.

Lisette Lee portrays herself as an heiress to the Samsung fortune, as well as an actress, singer and model. She fakes all of this and beneath the bling are secrets, lies & private jets filled with weed. She is a drug mule and after she is caught trafficking 500 pounds of pot into Ohio, she draws a six-year sentence.