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Chicago mob boss Tony Accardo is replaced by his protégé Sam Giancana.
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."
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.
In the early 1960s, Helen Gurley writes the blockbuster book "Sex and the Single Girl" and then takes the top job at floundering magazine Cosmo. She remakes the magazine and turns it into a cultural powerhouse.
Ashley Fiolek, deaf since birth, rises to become the youngest Women's Motocross Association Champion at age 18, winner of two consecutive X Games Gold Medals, and the first-ever female factory rider for Honda Red Bull Racing.
British Naval officer Lord Horatio Nelson makes a name for himself while fighting Napoleon's forces on the Mediterranean stage and also for engaging in a scandalous love affair with Lady Emma Hamilton.
In his early days, Paul Watson works for Greenpeace. He later creates the controversial Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which wages dangerous ocean battles against illegal whaling vessels.
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.
John D. Rockefeller is ruthless in building Standard Oil, and spends 30 years dodging investigations into his business tactics until Teddy Roosevelt takes him on. Rockefeller also turns into a philanthropist who gives away most of his fortune.
In 1925, a Kentucky farmer attracts national attention after becoming trapped in a cave. Although volunteers are able to reach him, they cannot get him out. A massive rescue effort continues for two weeks, attracting thousands of spectators, the National Guard and journalists from across the country. A cub reporter for the "Louisville Courier-Journal" ventures into the cave and conducts a series of face-to-face interviews with Collins.
A biopic of Dusty Springfield.
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.
Ruth Handler turns the toy industry upside down by creating a grown-up doll for girls after watching her daughter at play.
In 2011, a 44 year-old court reporter quits her job after being diagnosed with ALS, a degenerative ailment that destroys the nerves that power muscles, which forces her to confront her own mortality. She tries her best to create memories for 14-year old daughter and her husband, that will bring them happiness when she is gone.
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.
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.
Huguette Clark is the youngest daughter of W.A. Clark, who was born in a log cabin but becomes a powerful mining and banking magnate after discovering copper in Montana following the Civil War. He rises to such wealth and prominence that he helps to found Las Vegas. Huguette is born in Paris and lives a very interesting life. She grows up in the largest house in New York City — a mansion of 121 rooms for a family of four. She owns paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, and a vast collection of antique dolls and beautifully crafted dollhouses. Huguette lives out the last two decades of her life in the Beth Israel Hospital, dishing out $400,000 per year to live there but is never in the VIP section. She is a generous woman who appreciates art and the simple acts of giving. Huguette is often taken advantage of because of her kindness. She dies in 2011 at 104, leaving behind an over $310 million fortune.
Joan Didion moves to New York when she is in her 20s and lives there until 1964. She and her newlywed husband John Gregory Dunne then move to Los Angeles and thus, begin her writing career as a journalist, essayist, author and screenwriter (with her husband).
A biopic about Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Academy Award.
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."