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Amy Renner Amy Renner

Dec. 13, 2015

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Story center on the true story of Marlin "The Magician" Briscoe, the first African-American starting quarterback in football.

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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.

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Biopic of real-life Aussie hero, bush poet Banjo Paterson.

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Ruth Handler turns the toy industry upside down by creating a grown-up doll for girls after watching her daughter at play.

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A cartoonist falls in love with a celebrity restaurateur and as she is planning their wedding she suddenly is diagnosed with breast cancer and also realizes that she has let her health insurance lapse. Her friends -- stylists, gossip columnists, and designers -- rally around her and strive to get her married on time.

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Follows the life of Crazy Eddie Antar, as he launches the successful Crazy Eddie chain and becomes the consumer electronics king, only to wind up serving six years in prison for fraud.

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The story of con man Bo Stefan Eriksson, who has been in and out of Swedish and U.S. jails for fraud, extortion, auto theft, kidnapping and other charges, and the video game company, Gizmondo, that he founded before filing for bankruptcy.

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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."

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Music adviser Guy Stevens steers the punk band The Clash into the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame with their hit album, "London Calling."

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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.

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Chicago mob boss Tony Accardo is replaced by his protégé Sam Giancana.

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Story will trace Sam Kinison's rise as the son of a preacher to be one of the most cutting-edge and significant comedians of his era. His comedy often pivoted on his former role as an evangelist, with his first album titled "Louder Than Hell."

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At age 17, Casey Connor, a promising singer-dancer, put her career aspirations aside to raise her 12-year-old sister following the death of their parents. She winds up accelerating her high school courses to graduate early and runs their mother's daycare center out of their Brooklyn home to pay down the family's debts. Her career dreams take off after a chance encounter with a talent manager lands her spinning gigs at New York City nightclubs and Los Angeles events.

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Three years after giving up drinking and following the birth of her first child, a woman returns to be an alcoholic. She goes on binges, has blackouts, lies and suffers humiliations. She ultimately fights toward recovery.

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Musicians David Bowie and Iggy Pop relocate to West Berlin in the late ’70s and begin a creative collaboration that leads to three albums -- Pop's "Idiot" & "Lust for Life" and Bowie's "Low."

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A story about the philanthropist known as "Robin Hood 702".

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Rachel Carson struggles against the chemical industry she fights, which leads to a campaign to discredit both her and her work. Carson dies of breast cancer soon after Houghton Mifflin publishes her book in 1962.

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Mississippi native Dickie Scruggs becomes among the most successful plaintiffs' lawyers in America by winning cases against tobacco and asbestos industries. As a result, he develops a huge appetite for the high life, culminating in his guilty plea in a conspiracy to bribe a state judge.

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