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Sam Phillips is a pioneer in the music industry during the 1950s as a producer helps launch the careers of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.

The story centers on the romance between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayme, Jazz Age icons whose courtship and marriage was riddled with jealousy and acrimony. Fitzgerald used their relationship as material for h is novels, and Sayre, who ended up being admitted to a sanitarium, did the same.

A big-screen adaptation of football coach Barry Switzer's memoir about coaching at Oklahoma University and the NFL's Dallas Cowboys

Taylor Wilson, an exceptionally smart and curious kid, is given the room and encouragement by his "ordinary" parents to nurture his great gifts and passion for nuclear science and experimentation. When his grandmother becomes ill, the 14-year old becomes involved in an attempt to harness the short-lived isotopes that kill cancer cells and then deteriorate before they harm healthy cells, in hopes that the cancer curing isotopes could be generated on site at hospitals and save lives. Taylor later harnesses his discoveries as an alarm system to root out dirty bombs in shipping containers. He becomes the youngest ever to achieve nuclear fusion.

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

The story of Shirley Chisholm, a U.S. Representative who was both the first woman and the first person of color to seek a major American political party’s nomination for President.

Based on the autobiography of London-based music promoter Roy Tempest, who organized UK tours in the 1960s for some of America’s biggest soul acts – even though the acts were fakes.

T La Rock rises as a pioneer and ground-breaker in rap music until a nearly deadly beating that leaves him in a coma at the peak of his career.

Between 1959 and 1963, Dr. Gilbert Mason, a Biloxi physician, leads nonviolent "wade-ins" against segregation on Gulf Coast beaches. The protests spark violence from whites and results in the first successful anti-discrimination suit against the state of Mississippi.

Arthur Ashe becomes the first African-American player to be selected to the U.S. Davis Cup team and to win three Grand Slam titles.

For over a decade, through the cyclist's recovery from deadly cancer to his capturing seven Tour de France titles, Lance Armstrong vehemently denies the allegations of doping. But he eventually falls on his sword and confesses in a January 2012 interview with Oprah Winfrey.

The plot focuses on British aid worker Emma McCune, who travels to Sudan and ends up marrying a local warlord and supporting wholeheartedly his bloody bid to take over the southern part of the county.

The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Mick Taylor and Charlie Watts record their "Exile on Main Street" album in the south of France in the summer of 1971.

Follows Pam Grier, the iconic African American female sex symbol and action star from the 1970Œs.

The story of George Wagner, a professional wrestler, who helped transform the industry when he created a pompous, arrogant character everyone loved to hate.

A former J. Walter Thompson executive finds himself down and out when he is downsized out of a job. In his 60s and in a personal dilema because of an affair that ended his marriage, he sees his luck change when he enters a Starbucks and walks out with a job offer from the store's manager, giving his life new purpose.

Based on Michael Drosnin’s Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness that focuses on the freakier decades of Hughes remarkably secretive and OCD-addled life.