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Peter Chancellor turns in a novel about D.C. power brokers who are blackmailed into altering U.S. policies. When some operatives get hold of the manuscript, they think he has uncovered their actual scheme and they try to hunt the author down.

After freed slave Britt Johnson moves his family to Young County, TX at the end of the Civil War, his family and neighbors are attacked by Comanche and Kiowa, with many of them being taken captive. While Britt waits through the winter before he can set out to rescue his wife and children, Samuel Hammond, a Quaker man preaching nonviolence and an agrarian lifestyle gets sent to the region to be the new Indian Agent. The contrast between Johnson, a pragmatic man of action, and Hammond, an idealist who struggles with the ambiguities of reality, echoes the history of a period when government programs and westward expansion collided, ruinously, with Native cultures.

Set in a distant land after the king, queen and crown prince are murdered, a nobleman devises a plan to find someone to impersonate the king’s long-lost son and act as a puppet. An orphan finds himself chosen with three other boys in the running. But this is no mere competition -- with court intrigue and political conspiracies make it a contest to the death.

Set in Depression-era Kentucky and rooted in true events, the story of a group of young women who defy the odds to bring knowledge to a remote mountain community.

Set during the Baku oil rush at the turn of the century where oil barons lawlessly engage in games of deceit, espionage, and murder to build oil empires, a young Emanuel Nobel is longing for excitement in the shadow of a family of genius inventors.

In 1858, an Italian Jew beomes the center of an international controversy when he is removed from his parents at the age of seven by authorities of the Papal States and is raised as a Catholic. He goes on to become a priest in the Augustinian order.

A wealthy British aristocrat falls in love with his Albanian housekeeper, unaware that she is on the run from human traffickers.

The story centers on an American economist who becomes the target of professional assassins. When a U.S. intelligence agent investigating his case finds herself discredited, the two end up on the run and uncover a vast multinational conspiracy manipulating the global economy and world events.

Set in 1977, the film follows NASA's preparations for launching the first interstellar probes. Led by astronomer Carl Sagan, a team is tasked with creating a message called The Golden Record to accompany these probes. However, what begins as a time-sensitive mission transforms into an extraordinary and unforeseen love story.

Rick Wershe, a teen living in Detroit in the 1980s, joins the ranks of the drug kingpins on the East Side to become a prolific cocaine trafficker, going by the name "White Boy Rick." Wershe works as an undercover informant for the FBI and DEA while simultaneously rising to become one of the biggest drug dealers in the city.

Set in "New Manhattan," a city rebuilt by Japanese money, a bike gang leader must rescue his younger brother from his involvement in Akira, a secret government project. While doing so, the biker must battle with anti-government activists, shady politicians and reckless scientists.

Set in the distant future, a disgraced Conglomerate Enforcer gets a shot at redemption by leading a rag tag group of explorers on a first contact mission to a newly discovered planet. The mission turns out to be a deadly trap and the leader and crew are stranded with all their technology destroyed. Their only chance is to rely on their wits and earn the trust of the warring hostile inhabitants if they have any chance to return home to earth.

The film is based on a true story that began with the death of Don Bolles, an investigative reporter for the Arizona Republic. In 1976, Bolles was killed in a car bomb explosion as he was investigating the infiltration of organized crime into state government.

Two friends become bitter rivals for the presidential election, which is won by computer fraud.

Humans living on the Twelve Colonies planets become engaged in a lengthy war against a cybernetic race known as the Cylons.

The adventures of a 16-year-old girl during her eight week stint at a girl’s camp in Maine.

The film is based on the main antihero in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It's an original story rather than an adaptation of Jules Verne's 19th-century novel.

Story tracks a young boy and his father who must battle cardboard monsters that magically come to life.

A modern retelling of the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid and Greek tragic dramas set in the world of contemporary crime.

A linguistics professor returns home one day to find his wife dead in their backyard. In an effort to uncover what happened, he attempts to teach the couple's dog, the only witness to her death, to talk.