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Focuses on the life and career of groundbreaking comedian Richard Pryor, who found unprecedented success on the stage and screen, but also suffered from drug addiction and personal problems.

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.

The film will chronicle the formative years of Roosevelt as he reinvented himself from a slight and privileged New York politician with a Harvard degree to the burly commander of the Rough Riders, a track that would lead him to the New York governorship, the vice presidency and the White House, when William McKinley was assassinated.

Jarred Weisfeld, a 22-year-old VH1-intern-turned-manager, has various misadventures with hip-hop artist Ol’ Dirty Bastard (real name: Russell Jones) leading up to the performer’s tragic death in 2004.

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.

The movie will follow the quarterback's career from Bear Bryant's football program at the University of Alabama to the New York Jets of the NFL to his guarantee that his Jet would defeat the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. All this while Broadway Joe battled knee problems so bad that he was actually denied entry into the Vietnam War. Of course, he went on to win the Super Bowl and become a cultural icon.

Documents the band’s life before and after the death of front man Bradley Nowell in 1996.

Chronicles the last six years of Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson's life before his death in 1983.

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.

During the Jazz Age, Josephine Baker rises from the slums of St. Louis to become the toast of Europe. She also is an undercover agent for the French resistance during World War II and later in life becomes a civil rights activist. She is the only woman to stand alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and speak at the 1963 March on Washington.

Master P changed the music game in the 90's with an eighty-twenty distribution deal with Priority records, the first of its kind. Selling over one hundred million records independently, making No Limit one of the most successful Hip Hop labels to date.

This film tells the story of John Madden, a legendary NFL coach. Madden's dream was to become a head coach, and he achieved great success. However, the pressures of the job eventually took a toll on him, leading him to step away. The film focuses on his friendship with Al Davis, the owner of the Oakland Raiders, and how Madden found a new path that made him even more famous.

Lenny Dykstra, a key part of the champion 1986 New York Mets, leads a checkered life after retiring from baseball in 1996. He is the subject of multiple investigations into his financial empire, which includes a jet charter company and a magazine marketed to professional athletes. He files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009 and auctions off his World Series ring. Dykstra pleads guilty in 2012 to bankruptcy fraud, concealment of assets and money laundering and is sentenced to six months in prison, 500 hours of community service, and is ordered to pay $200,000 in restitution.

Through an unlikely pairing and tumultuous 19-year relationship, improv maestro Del Close and Charna Halpern own, run and teach at the Chicago's Improv Olympic theater. Together as friends, saviors and soulmates, the duo helps each other overcome his addiction, financial ruin, and their own personal demons to ultimately establish improv as an art form. As such A-list talent are cutting their teeth at IO, it isn’t unheard for Halpern to put a roof over their head, feed them and coach them through bad patches. Together they re-write the rules of improvisation, urging their students to bring intelligence to their art and justice to their characters. Close dies in March 1999.

Former NASA programmer John McAfee develops the first commercial anti-virus program which is eventually acquired by Intel in 2010 for $7.68 billion. McAfee's personal fortune takes a significant hit in the wake of the financial crisis, forcing him to sell almost everything he owns. While leaving in Belize, Belizean authorities seek him out to question him about the murder of American expatriate and neighbor Gregory Viant Faull in Orange Walk Town. McAfee seeks political asylum in Guatemala, but his plea is denied and he is designated for deportation after allegedly entering the country illegally. While at a detention center, McAfee fakes a heart attack in order to give his attorney time to file a series of appeals that prevents his deportation to Belize, and on December 12, 2012, he was deported to the United States.

Seuss will follow Geisel in the 1920s as he struggles to find his voice as a writer before meeting his muse and future wife in Helen Palmer, who propels him into becoming Dr. Suess.