Browse Movies : Development : Drama : I

American humanitarian aid worker Jessica Buchanan travels to Somalia to help children only to be kidnapped by militants and held for ransom for 93 days. Her captors are killed by Navy SEALs in a dramatic rescue mission in January 2012.

William Dodd, the United States' reluctant and mild-mannered ambassador to Berlin in 1933, and his daughter Martha, a vivacious socialite have romantic affairs with a Gestapo official and a Soviet spy. Dodd and his family at first naively navigate life in Nazi Germany but they slowly gain awareness of the mounting brutality around them.

Set during WWII, airline pilot Paul "Pappy" Gunn's family is imprisoned by the Japanese in the Philippines at the infamous Santo Tomas Internment Camp. Gunn is an adviser to the Air Force, helping to reinvent aerial warfare and change the tide of the war in the Allies' favor.

A reclusive writer receives an invitation to a bachelorette party of her best friend from high school, who she hasn’t seen in 10 years.

Lynsey Addari travels to war-torn countries like Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq and wins the MacArthur Fellowhip in 2008. Her work in dangerous locales include her being kidnapped by pro-Quaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war. She is part of the N.Y. Times team which wins a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for International Reporting for her work in Waziristan.

A teenage girl is forced to move in with her off-the-grid dad in the Canadian wilderness after her mother is killed in a car crash. After a series of events and only her father’s dog for company, she’ll discover she’s stronger than she ever imagined.

Launched on cable in 1981, MTV revolutionizes music and television. The cable network starts out with a concept few think can work: watching songs on TV. But what begins as a way simply to promote record companies’ latest products becomes the music video.

Just days from getting released from Soledad State Prison, Nate McClusky runs afoul of the powerful leader of the Aryan Brotherhood, who runs its state-wide Meth network from his cell. Marked for death his release, Nate soon realizes that everyone he has ever loved is a target — including his daughter, who he hasn't seen for years. Soon the two of them find themselves on a non-stop struggle for survival, and along the way, discover the bonds that eluded them for so many years.

Georgia Young, a successful doctor who seemingly has everything — a great family, good friends and a wonderful career — but it isn’t enough. Feeling stuck and restless, she is determined to make major changes in her life and so decides to track down her former lovers.

In 1968, the Memphis sanitation workers strike becomes a turning point in the U.S. civil rights movement. The strike, carried out by black employees over poor working conditions and discrimination, draws Martin Luther King Jr, the National Guard and the national media for what is a 65-day, often violent labor action.

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.

Story of investigative journalist Ida Tarbell as she digs into the Rockefeller oil empire through public documents to unearth the truth behind Standard Oil.

Follows a girl who becomes an assistant for a popular singer and then tries to become her.

Superhero-turned-villain, the Plutonian, goes on a killing rampage. His former allies, the superhero group The Paradigm, attempt to find a way to stop his rampage while dealing with their own problems of betrayal and hopelessness.

Two teenage twins, Noah and Jude, both budding artists are torn apart in the wake of a family tragedy, but are reunited as they put the pieces back together.

A jaded and distracted husband and father's life changes when he meets Mister Rogers.

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

In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sells his home and possessions, loads his dog and surfboards into his truck, and sets off in search of his best friend and long-time surfing companion Christopher, who has vanished into the depths of Central America.

Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario.