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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

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.

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.

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.

All Apologies

Explores the life of Kurt Cobain, who formed Nirvana in 1987 with bassis Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl. Nirvana ushered in the Seattle grunge music movement in the early ‘90s. Cobain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1994, leaving behind his wife and a daughter.

Angela Davis

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

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 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 Loving Gentleman

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

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.

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.

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.

Audrey Hepburn Project

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