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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.

Max Mermelstein, a Jewish hotel engineer, transforms Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel from a small mom-and-pop drug organization into a billion-dollar enterprise.

In the early 70's, Jon Roberts, an injured Vietnam veteran by the age of 20, ends up involved in gangland takeovers of NYC nightclubs. He goes to Miami where he deals billions of dollars of cocaine for the Medellin drug cartel and ultimately spends 10 years in prison.

Dark Wire covers the unbelievable true story of how the FBI launched a fake telecom company and became the number one phone service provider to the world’s most notorious gangs, culminating in the arrest of more than a thousand international criminals.

A PTA President named Kelli Peters is framed from drug possession by a set of parents. Peters is arrested and investigated but the truth eventually comes out and, after a five-year ordeal, she wins a $5.7 million-dollar civil judgment against the couple.

Scoff Kelly struggles as a C- student but then later trains as a Navy test pilot. His highly competitive nature drives both he and his identical twin brother, Mark, as they both become astronauts. Scott becomes a pioneering NASA astronaut by spending 340 days in space aboard the International Space Station. He retires in April 2016 with the record for the most days spent in space for an American with 382 days, which includes previous missions.

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

Story of the haunted Skirvin Hotel in Oklahoma City. The hotel is often frequented by traveling NBA teams.

A true story about Billy Milligan, a man with 24 different personalities. Afflicted with multiple personalities due to a childhood filled with abuse, Billy Milligan, livesa nightmarishly schizoid life. Eventually, several of his personalities band together and commit a series of rapes, which results in Billy being put in a hospital for the criminally insane. Now well on the road to mental health, Billy hopes to be set free, but instead finds himself remanded to a hellhole of a mental hospital by a society that still fears him. Inevitably, though, justice prevails. As of this day, Billy leads a productive, sane, freelife.

With crime rampant in 1940s, Boston mayor gave the nod to the creation of a task force known as "The Shadows," the first police force to work with criminal informants, wear plain clothes and go undercover.

Hakeem Oluseyi grows up in Louisiana. When his parents divorce, he has to find his own way through life. Through pure will and perseverance, Hakeem ends up becoming a NASA astrophysicist.

A fictionalized account of a real battle between the hacktivist organization Anonymous and the Mexican drug cartel known as Los Zetas.

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.

A biopic of Harland Sanders and how he builds Kentucky Fried Chicken into one of the world's largest restaurant chains.

Anita Hemmings, a light skinned African American woman and the daughter of a janitor, is passed as white so she can attend Vassar at the turn of the century.

Lawrence Horn, a former record producer and Motown Records executive, is sentenced to life in prison for hiring Detroit-based hit man James Perry to murder his wife, quadriplegic son and the wealthy family's overnight nurse at their suburban home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Horn's son is the victim of medical malpractice and as the result of a subsequent lawsuit, has a trust worth nearly $2 million, which his father stands to inherit in the wake of his death. Detectives discovers that Perry used how-to book "Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors" as a guide to execute the murders. The families of the victims go on to file a class-action lawsuit against the Colorado-based publisher Paladin Press. The attorneys representing the families then hire Rodney Smolla, a First Amendment attorney and professor at William & Mary Law School, to consult on the historic case, which takes five years to settle amidst a series of shocking and bizarre developments.

Set against the backdrop of the Russian revolution, during his tenure at Mariinsky Theater and school, George Balanchine meets his muse, Leda Ivanova. Despite the traumatizing political turmoil surrounding them and the mysterious disappearance of Ivanova, Balanchine goes on to revolutionize modern ballet.

Recounts Malaysia's 1MDB money-laundering scandal, which encompasses elite wealth, banking, Hollywood and politics.