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Based on the true story of two African-American brothers kidnapped by a white man and displayed as circus freaks, while their mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back.

During the Gold Rush, a young man befriends a wolf-dog and sets off on a number of adventures through Alaska involving starving wolves, Aboriginal peoples, grizzly bears and dogfighters.

Set in Los Angeles, the story will connect two events from May of 1974 - the unsolved murder of an LAPD cop and a shoot-out in South Central LA between the LAPD and the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Otto Skorzeny, a high ranking Nazi special forces soldier and Hitler confidant, is known by the Allies as "the most dangerous man in Europe." After the war, Skorzeny is relocated and recruited by an intrepid Mossad agent to work with him as a double agent to eliminate Nazi rocket scientists working on a secret Egyptian rocket program.

Responding to a meat shortage in the U.S. in 1910, two bitter enemies, Frederick Russell Burnham and Fritz Duquesne, join forces to try and import hippopotamuses to the swamps of Louisiana and convince Americans to eat them.

Sophia Augusta is trapped in an abusive marriage with the heir to the Russian throne. But, when her inept husband proves incapable of ruling, she utilizes her intelligence, fortitude, and passion to rise to power, becoming Catherine the Great.

The Egyptian queen Cleopatra, a firm ruler and military tactician, embarks on a ruthless rise to power. She twice marries brothers, killing each of them as well as a sister. Romantic alliances with the much-older Roman honchos Julius Caesar and Marc Antony help her solidify power, but her dalliance with Antony undoes both of them.

Tom Hiddleston will play renowned war photographer Robert Capa, Hayley Atwell the acclaimed photojournalist Gerda Taro. Born Andrei Friedman and Gerta Pohorylle, Capa and Taro reinvented themselves after fleeing the Nazis in 1934 to Paris, where they built a life together. It was there, after the war, that the two would create the Magnum photo agency in 1947.

Delilah Dirk, a 19th century adventurer, plots to rob a corrupt Sultan in Constantinople. She evades the Sultan’s guards with the aid of her flying boat. Dirk is aided by her new friend, a Turkish tea-master Erdemoglu Selim, who becomes duty-bound to follow her across Turkey after she saves his life.

Story of one of the most complicated military leaders-turned politicians in American history, Ulysses S. Grant.

In the 1920s, Dr. Perry Baird, who was born in Texas and educated at Harvard, begins his career ascent in the field of medicine. Over time, he grows more and more interested in the cause of manic depression. Sadly

Helen Duncan, a famous Scottish medium, is to put to the test and eventually becomes the last woman ever legally tried for witchcraft in 1933 in London.

Jane Steele, a fresh and determined Victorian orphan (unlike her idol Jane Eyre) does not accept her place in life without a fight. Fiercely intelligent and resourceful, Steele is forced to resort to extreme measures to make sure that life turns out the way she needs.

After a conspiracy to conquer England in which the love of her life Robin Hood dies before her eyes, Marian picks up the cause to lead her people into a pivotal war. She comes to power, charging into a battle that will not only decide the fate of the kingdom but will see her don the mantle of the man she loved. In the process, she rises as a legend herself.

A young Jack Aubrey is given his first command and he forms a friendship with his naval surgeon, Dr. Stephen Maturin.

Set in the Utah territory during the mid-1800s gold rush, Porter Rockwell, a U.S. Deputy Marshal, reluctantly leads a family of prospectors into the mountains, where they are ambushed and he is left for dead. Fueled by vengeance, Rockwell treks through rugged and snowy terrain to hunt down the gang that kidnapped a rebellious young girl.

Set in colonial America, a villager falls asleep only to wake up decades later, missing the American Revolution.

Unlike the 1960 film of the same title, this version will rely on historic facts of Spartacus as a revolutionary, focusing on him leading a band of elite gladiators and freed slaves in revolt against the Roman war machine.