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A Nigerian native who emigrated to the United States at age 11, Alex Owumi's exploits on the basketball court lead him to a successful career as a small college player. Undrafted by the NBA, Owumi pursues his pro basketball dream overseas, eventually signing with Al-Nasr of Libya, a state-run athletic club privately funded by the family of then-Libyan president Muammar Qaddafi. Owumi's tenure with Al-Nasr is interrupted by the Libyan uprising and resulting civil war in 2011. Imprisoned in his Benghazi apartment for more than 2 weeks with no food, phone, Internet, or hope, Owumi wonders whether he will make it out of Libya alive. Despite his weakened condition and the dangers lurking in the city, he is able to escape the country. Smuggled to a refugee camp in Egypt, he is, much to his surprise, contacted by an Egyptian team seeking his services. Owumi finishes the year by helping lead the team to an unlikely league championship, earning league MVP honors in the process.
In real time, Secret Service agents try to protect President Ronald Regan (code name "Rawhide") from assassination, police officers investigate the shooter John Hinckley, and Cabinet members engage in a power struggle as they await Reagan's fate.
Based on a true story about Derek Hounakey, a thirty-something West African native who has weekly sessions with his psychologist. Derek attends these sessions to get over the life-shattering breakup of his marriage from his new wife. During a visit to West Africa, Derek's mother introduces him to a woman named Virginia, a beautiful but troubled young woman with a hidden agenda and one major secret. Virginia desperately wants to live in the United States and is looking for an unsuspecting victim to win over to gain her citizenship. She moves into Derek's home in New Jersey and announces her pregnancy. Derek is happy about being a father, but a series of questionable events leads Derek to become suspicious of Virginia. He discovers something that shatters his world once again.
An investigative journalist unearths the complex reality behind a serial killer's lies and confessions.
Reverend Jeffrey Brown tests his faith against a violent gang code and confronts corruption within the Boston Police Department.
John D'Agostino, an Italian kid from Brooklyn, studies at Harvard and lands on the Merc Exhange. After establishing himself, he hooks up with another young trader and a mysterious Middle Easterner to engage in a dangerous scheme to revolutionize the oil trading industry.
Set in the late 1960s when cheap counterculture films are minting money, struggling studio 20th Century Fox gives soft-core pulp director Russ Meyers the opportunity to direct "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls" because his profit margins are so high and his costs are miniscule. Meyer agrees to take on "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls" on the condition that the script is written by film critic Roger Ebert, who had written one of the few positive reviews Meyer had ever received. Meyers and Ebert struggle with the studio's board of directors and the ratings board, but despite being the rare major studio release with an X rating, they are vindicated when "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls" is released in 1970 to big box office.
Centers on the relationship between astrophysicist & author Carl Sagan and his wife and collaborator Ann Druyan.
Tells the true story of the rescue and redemption of the black Jews of Ethiopia, known as the Falashas.
During a short marriage, writer Erskine Caldwell and photojournalist Margaret Bourke White collaborate on a number of books.
A college student learns he is going deaf and memorizes his favorite songs to help capture the most important memories of his life — including falling in love.
In 1963, a 13-year-old baseball player falls under the spell of his fantastic coach John Jennings while playing on a Southern California Pony League baseball team. By the time the summer was over, Coach Jennings had robbed a string of 20 banks up and down the California coast, using the team's travel as cover.
A Chicago psychiatrist treats a female patient who has created 17 different versions of herself — men, women, young boys, a toddler, nurturing, prim, licentious — to survive. The psychiatrist eventually learns that the patient has been a victim of sexual abuse.
An immigrant white kid from Macedonia moves to the most dangerous neighborhood in Detroit at the height of gang violence in the 1970s. He befriends two of Detroit's most wanted drug lords, and just when he feels he's starting to fit in, he becomes a witness to a horrific crime that shatters his American dream and the life he loved in Detroit.
True story of the first all-black lacrosse team founded in Baltimore in 1970. Team consisted of off-season college football players from Morgan State University who had never really heard of the game of lacrosse before. Their Jewish coach took them from miserable to competing and winning in the NCAA championships.
U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant and pararescueman August O’Niell is injured in the line of duty and makes the decision to amputate his left leg above the knee so he has a better chance of returning to service.
True story of how, after Saddam Hussein's capture, Iraq's top nuclear scientist Mahdi Obeidi tried to turn himself and his secrets over to the U.S., only to find the CIA and other government agencies didn't believe him. So, "People" magazine foreign correspondent Kurt Pitzer hatched a scheme to get Obeidi and his family out of the country before he was killed by insurgents who wanted to silence him. Obeidi gave over secrets that included a uranium enrichment device he buried in his yard.
A two-year-old baseball prodigy begins sharing vivid memories of a life he never lived: that of a baseball player in the 1920s and 1930s. Distraught by her son’s uncanny revelations, his mother embarks on a sacred journey of discovery that shakes her Christian faith to the core and changes their lives forever.
Taylor Wilson, an exceptionally smart and curious kid, is given the room and encouragement by his "ordinary" parents to nurture his great gifts and passion for nuclear science and experimentation. When his grandmother becomes ill, the 14-year old becomes involved in an attempt to harness the short-lived isotopes that kill cancer cells and then deteriorate before they harm healthy cells, in hopes that the cancer curing isotopes could be generated on site at hospitals and save lives. Taylor later harnesses his discoveries as an alarm system to root out dirty bombs in shipping containers. He becomes the youngest ever to achieve nuclear fusion.
Navy Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift is a member of the legal team that takes the case of Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's Yemeni driver who is charged in the first US war-crimes trial since WWII, to the Supreme Court and wins a pretrial decision that even terrorists are covered by the Geneva Convention. The victory costs Swift his job and his marriage.