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From New Jersey choir girl to one of the best-selling and most awarded recording artists of all time, audiences are taken on an inspirational, poignant—and so emotional—journey through Houston’s trailblazing life and career, with show-stopping performances and a soundtrack of the icon’s most beloved hits as you’ve never heard them before. Don’t you wanna dance?

In 1966, single-mother Helen Reddy (Tilda Cobham-Hervey) leaves her old life in Australia for New York and stardom, only to find that the industry’s male gatekeepers don’t take her seriously. Helen finds an encouraging friend in legendary rock journalist Lillian Roxon (Danielle Macdonald), who becomes her closest confidant. When ambitious aspiring talent manager Jeff Wald (Evan Peters) sweeps Helen off her feet, everything changes as he becomes both her husband and manager and relocates the family to California. With a strong push from Helen, Jeff secures her a recording contract and subsequent string of hit singles, including the iconic megahit “I Am Woman.” Increased fame leads to added pressures on themselves and their relationship, forcing Helen to find the strength to take control of her own destiny.

Launched on cable in 1981, MTV revolutionizes music and television. The cable network starts out with a concept few think can work: watching songs on TV. But what begins as a way simply to promote record companies’ latest products becomes the music video.

Story of investigative journalist Ida Tarbell as she digs into the Rockefeller oil empire through public documents to unearth the truth behind Standard Oil.

The story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life.

Based on unbelievable but true events, I, Tonya is the tale of American figure skater Tonya Harding and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy has forever been defined by her association with an infamous, ill-conceived and worse-executed attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Kerrigan.

A woman from a working class town in northern Scotland must learn to deal with the onset of sudden international fame when she gains attention for her singing on "Britain’s Got Talent."

Before Errol Flynn became one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood, he was braving cannibals and crocodiles while searching the jungles of Papua New Guinea for gold with his ragtag crew. Flynn is forced to learn what it means to be a master of his own destiny.

True story of consumer electronics king Eddie Antar who served six years in prison for perpetrating one of the greatest securities frauds in history.

True story of Michael May, a blind athlete who holds the downhill skiing record for a completely blind person, racing at 65 mph. In 1999, May was offered a revolutionary stem-cell operation that potentially could restore his sight.

Amy Purdy nearly dies after catching Neisseria meningitis at age 19. Though she loses both legs, Purdy becomes a world class snowboarder, a 2014 Paralympic medalist, and a fan favorite contestant on "Dancing With The Stars," where she finishes as runner-up in 2014.

The film centers on the life of film director Nicholas Ray, especially his relationship with a teenager, who eventually became his wife.

At age 4 Sammy Davis, Jr. begins singing and dancing with his father on the vaudeville circuit. Later on he helps to shatter race barriers in Las Vegas, and he arouses the ire of racists by dating white actresses including Kim Novak, which hinders his film career. He also becomes a Rat Pack member and rubs elbows with everyone from Frank Sinatra to President Kennedy to Martin Luther King Jr.

Tamara Mellon, who had a troubled childhood, loses her job as an editor at Vogue. After a stint in rehab, Mellon partners with Malaysian-born cobbler Jimmy Choo whose footwear she develops into a billion-dollar brand in the late 1990s & early 2000s. As the company becomes a runaway success, private equity suits try to take over, undermine quality, boost sales, and ultimately sell the firm out from under her. Mellon fights back tooth-and-nail. She ultimately sells her shares for a reported $135M and exits the company in 2011.

After taking a commercial DNA test on a whim, the man a woman had known her whole life as her father was not biologically related to her. She goes on to uncover the truth about her identity, which had been kept from her for more than 50 years.

At the beginning of the rave scene in the early 1990s, Pasquale Rotella becomes a promoter of EDM events starting with 50 people in warehouses in Venice Beach and eventually goes on to to stage events like the Electric Daisy Carnival Flagship Festival, which draws 400,000 to Vegas each June.

Clara Bow, best known for her work in silent films, was Hollywood’s first sex symbol.

Lynsey Addari travels to war-torn countries like Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq and wins the MacArthur Fellowhip in 2008. Her work in dangerous locales include her being kidnapped by pro-Quaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war. She is part of the N.Y. Times team which wins a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for International Reporting for her work in Waziristan.