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Alvin Ailey

Biopic about Alvin Ailey who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City in 1958 and helped popularize modern dance.

Ambition

As DeAngelo Simmons' own sports dreams are ending, his sister moves back to Louisiana with her four sons and she wants to keep them away from the streets. She asks Simmons to teach them basketball. When one, Paul Millsap, grows into a 6’8”, 250 pound rebounding machine, Simmons learns to become a sports agent and brokers a four-year, $32 million deal for his power forward nephew with the Utah Jazz.

American Shaolin

An Ivy Leaguer leaves midway through his studies to learn martial arts in mainland China with the famed Shaolin fighting monks.

Angela Davis

Starting in the 1960s, Angela Davis becomes a prominent activist and radical as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

Anita

After allowing a gay screenwriter into her home, singer and orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant is forced to confront her past as an anti-gay Christian crusader who successfully campaigned to overturn a gay rights law in Florida and whose polarizing views destroyed her show biz career in the process.

Ashe

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.

At The Dark End of the ...

A biopic of a young activist Rosa Parks seeking justice for 24-year-old wife and mother Recy Taylor, who was brutally gang-raped by six white men in Alabama in 1944.

Atari

In the early 1970s, Nolan Bushnell, an engineering student, puzzle-lover & game enthusiast, goes from fixing broken pinball machines to launching the Atari Corp., a video game manufacturer. The company's first product is a game called "Pong" that transfixes kids in suburban recreation rooms across the country and leads to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of video game sales. Within a few years, he sells the company to Warner Communications for $28 million.