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Ronda Rousey faces challenges in and outside the Octagon from the painful loss of her father when she was eight years old to the intensity of her judo training, battles with love, and her meteoric rise to fame to become the "toughest woman on Earth."

When Vernon Turner is only 11, he comes home to find his mother shooting heroin into her veins in the bathroom of their Brooklyn home. If that isn't hard enough, he also watches as his black mom and white father fight over her drug abuse. Vernon assumes the role of adult for his siblings. Often told he has no chance to make it to the NFL after playing local college ball, he finally finds his place in the sun as a kickoff and punt returner with the Rams, Lions, Buccaneers, and Panthers before playing in Europe until he retires in 1998.

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.

Sunny Jacobs, in her 20s, and her husband, Jesse Tafero, are convicted of the fatal shooting of two law enforcement officers based on the false testimony of the man who actually committed the murders.

Neel Kashkari, a top US Treasury official, helped develop the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, which bailed out banks following the economic collapse in 2008. Kashkari subsequently left Washington D.C. and moved to an isolated cabin in Northern California.

Biopic of heroic lawyer Scipio Africanus Jones who risked his life and career to defend 87 men wrongfully accused of murder in the wake of the Elaine, AR massacre of 1919.

During WWII, British spy Christine Granville takes on one dangerous mission after another. She narrowly escapes arrest numerous times and saves the lives of fellow officers.

Jutta Kleinschmidt, who was born in Germany, buys her first motorcycle at age 18. After studying physics, she works at BMW for six years before quitting in 1992 to pursue her passion of motorsports. In 1997, she become the first woman ever to win a stage of The Dakar Rally – often called the most dangerous race on the planet. In 1999, she earns recognition – finishing third overall – as half of the first all-female team to stand on the winners' podium. In 2001, after 15 years of trying, Kleinschmidt wins the race.

A 19th-century woman finds fulfillment in the rough realities of San Francisco's Chinatown.

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

Elizabeth Taylor takes on a crusading role in the fight against AIDS, which stems from her hiring of assistant Roger Wall, a gay man who grew up in poverty in the homophobic Deep South, in the mid-1980s.

A biopic about the famed paleontologist and conservationist Richard Leakey. Leaky battles with ivory poachers who threaten the existence of the African elephant population and the very soul of Africa.

Biopic of the Bahamian-born backyard brawler Kevin 'Kimbo Slice' Ferguson who rose from homelessness to mixed martial arts (MMA) fame after his brutal backyard fights drew a huge YouTube audience. He unfortunately died suddenly in June 2016 at 42 from heart failure and a liver mass.

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.

Gabrielle Hamilton, the youngest of five siblings born to a French mother and an artist father who made the sets for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus, takes an unorthodox trajectory to becoming a chef. She later becomes the owner and chef of New York's Prune restaurant and also a trained writer with an MFA from the University of Michigan.

The life of Jack Healey who leaves his life as a priest in order to promote the cause of human rights worldwide.

Sue Mengers crashes the boys club that is Hollywood agenting, brandishing an outsized personality to go with her famous client list.