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Despite being born with one leg to a single-parent family on the wrong side of the tracks, Anthony Robles overcomes every obstacle to become an undefeated collegiate wrestling star, three-time All-American, 2011 NCAA National Champion, two-time ESPY Award winner and a National Wrestling Hall of Fame inductee.

The film will center on the life of rap star Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott. The singer got her break in the music business with girl group Sista, before moving on to a producing career. Finally, she made it on her own as a solo artist more than 10 years ago.

Dr. S. Allen Counter is an African-American neuroscience professor at Harvard University who has explored northern Greenland, the South American rainforests, and many other parts of the world. He is also the first director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations.

Derek Boogaard, a shy over-sized man, learns to use his fists to make it to the National Hockey League and becomes a renowned hockey enforcer. The hulking 6'7" and 270 pounds Boogaard becomes known as the Boogeyman, and rarely loses a fight while playing for the Minnesota Wild and the New York Rangers. He gets addicted to painkillers from years of damage, and is found dead at age 28 after mixing prescription drugs with booze.

Susan Spencer-Wendel, a longtime court reporter is diagnosed with ALS, which destroys the nerves that power muscles including the lungs. She races against time to create a record of her life before her illness overcomes her. Spencer-Wendel and her 14-year-old daughter are fans of the reality show "Say Yes To The Dress," and so they head to Kleinfeld's so the teen can try on wedding dresses for her mom, which is always the plan before her mother took ill. Spencer-Wendel leaves behind money so her sister can eventually buy a dream dress there when her daughter is ready to get married.

A young boy is taught by his father, a racer, to ride motocross before he can even walk. The boy goes on to win racing titles by the time he is seven, and at sixteen becomes the first African American to win a major motosports title. The son's sudden success though strains his relationship with his dad.

This Peggy Lee biopic will explore the professional and personal life of one of America's most iconic recording artists and performers. A singer, songwriter, composer and actress, Lee's career spanned nearly seven decades.

Vince Lombardi, a fiery disciplinarian, seems stuck when he is offensive line coach of a New York Giants team that loses the 1958 championship game. His Giants counterpart on the defense, the cool Tom Landry, is signed to head the Dallas Cowboys after being widely courted. Lombardi practically has to beg to run a Packers team so dismal that other team owners want to fold the franchise. Lombardi turns the team into perennial winners, and gets his showdown with Landry in the 1967 league championship game, known as the Ice Bowl because it is played in 13 below zero temperatures. The Packers win.

The mandolin-playing Bill Monroe, along with his band "The Blue Grass Boys," is credited with creating the bluegrass style of music.

American photographer Dorothea Lange triumphs over physical disability to capture iconic images of unemployed workers and dispossessed farmers during the Great Depression.

Danny Basavich transforms from a successful pool hustler to the No.1-ranked professional billiards player in the nation.

Robert Craig Knievel becomes a household name in the 1970s for his nationally televised motorcycle jumps. Ever the showman, daredevil Evel Knievel is recognized for his use of a Stars-and-Stripes getup and known for his 433 broken bones. At the height of his celebrity, he gains endorsements from Harley-Davidson and a toy line by the Ideal Toy Company. Knievel dies in 2007 at the age of 69.

Greg Louganis starts taking dance, acrobatics and gymnastics classes at 18 months, after witnessing his sister's classes and attempting to join in. By the age of three, he is practicing daily and is competing and giving public performances. He also takes up trampolining, and at the age of nine begins diving lessons after the family gets a swimming pool. Later, he goes on to win Olympic Gold Medals. Six months before the 1988 Olympics, Louganis is diagnosed with HIV but it's not until years later that he comes out as being gay.

Set against a backdrop of music, surfing, and South Africa's racism, Selema "Sal" Masekela emerges out of the shadow of his successful but troubled father Hugh Masekela, the jazz musician featured on Paul Simon’s "Graceland" album and South African apartheid activist who was exiled for more than 30 years.

The story centers on the former Black Sabbath singer/reality TV star and head of the Osbourne family.

Set in South Africa, Papwa Sewgolum, a caddie at a South African country club, is prevented from playing in his native country in the 1940s because of apartheid. He is "discovered" by a German Graham Wulff while playing a round with Sewgolum caddying. After an argument results in the young caddie playing a better shot than one of the golf party, Wulff takes Sewgolum overseas to play in the British Open. Sewgolum goes on to win the Dutch Open three times during the 1960s.

Story traces the rise of Rick “Freeway” Ross as he starts out in the 1980s selling cocaine nationwide.

Rod Serling grows up outside of Syracuse, New York as the class clown, though he eventually matures enough to write for his high school newspaper. Immediately after graduation, he enlists in the U.S. Army and trains as a paratrooper. He is sent west to fight in the Philippines, where he sees death all around him each day. Though he is honored with a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, Serling’s experience in the military haunts him and has a profound effect on his later work. After being discharged, Serling attends Antioch College, where he begins writing and performing in radio shows on campus. Following his radio days, Serling moves into television, writing for a local station in Cincinnati before going out on his own. He sells several scripts, but resents the compromises that network sponsors and censors force him to make, so he decides to create his own show, "The Twilight Zone."

Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí achieves international renown for his unique twists on visual reality, and for a flamboyantly high-profile social life. He also has a tumultuous marriage to his equally vivid wife, Gala.