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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.

A Complete Unknown

During a period when he is poised to become folk music's most seminal figure, young Bob Dylan embraces rock ‘n’ roll and trades his acoustic guitar for an amp and an electric guitar, and it creates a huge outcry. And it cements the status of rock music.
Location: US - New Jersey

A Letter From Rosemary ...

The story of Rose Marie “Rosemary” Kennedy, the first-born daughter to Rose Fitzgerald and Joseph Kennedy Sr. After displaying behavioral problems that caused her to fall behind the achievements of her siblings due to a mental disability that was long kept secret, Joseph Kennedy arranged one of the first prefrontal lobotomies for her when she was 23. The procedure was botched and left her permanently incapacitated.

A Boy Named Shel

Explores the personal and professional struggles that made Shel Silverstein, who died in 1999, a unique voice. Silverstein’s resume includes best-selling books such as “The Giving Tree,” poetry collections “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and “A Light in the Attic,” chart-topping songs such as Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue” and Dr. Hook’s “The Cover of Rolling Stone”; and memorable illustrations.

Africa

A biopic about the famed paleontologist and conservationist Richard Leakey. Leaky battles with ivory poachers who threaten the existence of the African elephant population and the very soul of Africa.

Angela Davis

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

Audrey Hepburn Project

A biopic of actress Audrey Hepburn who appeared in such films as .Breakfast at Tiffany's and My Fair Lady.

A Finger Lickin' Good S...

A biopic of Harland Sanders and how he builds Kentucky Fried Chicken into one of the world's largest restaurant chains.

A First Class Man

A self-taught Indian math child prodigy and mystic Ramanujan corresponds with British mathematician and atheist G.H. Hardy, who is struck by the Indian's genius and invites him to work in Cambridge.

A Season In The Congo

Patrice Émery Lumumba, a Congolese independence leader, becomes the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, after he helps win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. Only twelve weeks later, Lumumba's government is deposed in a coup during the Congo Crisis.

A Special Relationship

Elizabeth Taylor takes on a crusading role in the fight against AIDS, which stems from her hiring of assistant Roger Wall, a gay man who grew up in poverty in the homophobic Deep South, in the mid-1980s.

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.

A Civil Right

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.

A Fine Brother

A biopic about Flora Sandes, the only British woman to enlist as a soldier and fight on the frontline in the First World War.

A Loving Gentleman

A decades-long affair takes place between William Faulkner and longtime Hollywood script supervisor Meta Carpenter.

Adewumi Project

After being threatened by Boko Haram, the Adewumi family flees Nigeria and escapes terrorism in their home country. They seek and receive asylum in America, and — against all odds — find a welcoming new home in New York. Living in a homeless center on religious asylum, their 8-year-old son, Tani, wins the 2019 New York State chess championship, despite only being introduced to the game two years prior.