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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.
A young drummer travels from the heartland of America to Hollywood in pursuit of his musical destiny. After attending a B.B. King concert in 1980, the drummer strikes up a friendship with the blues legend that endures for 30 years, culminating with him gifting King with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
While Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb first begin performing together in the late 1950s, much of their popularity comes after they write songs for the 1977 film "Saturday Night Fever" that prolongs the popularity of disco and leads to one of the top selling albums ever. The trio's worldwide sales of over 220 million records established them as one of the biggest selling groups of all time.
A biopic about Alina Fernandez, Fidel Castro's exiled daughter.
Zoe Saldana stars as Mae, an extremely intense and determined young woman who finds discipline, self-respect and peace in the most unlikely place - the fencing piste. He struggling and obsession rule every facet of her life to the detriment of family and friendships; achieving physical and mental perfection for the fight comes at a cost. As Mae competes to make the Tokyo Olympics, her blade accidentally cuts short a rival's career. Guilt over the accident leads Mae to question everything about her life. But spurred on by her tenacious coach Noah, Mae seeks the courage to get up and fight again. The weight of a life-long ambition and her biggest goal in touching sight.
A biopic of rock icon Janis Joplin.
In 1913, at the age of 16, Italian born Tina Modotti (né Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini) emigrates to the United States to join her father in San Francisco, California. Attracted to the performing arts supported by the Italian émigré community in the Bay Area, Modotti experiments with acting. She appears in several plays, operas, and silent movies in the late 1910s and early 1920s, and also works as an artist's model. She later becomes an activist.
Story of notorious Depression-era criminal duo and lovers, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
A method actor who refuses to put his private life on display, Montgomery Clift graduates from stage roles to screen success in films that include "A Place In The Sun" and "From Here To Eternity." His matinee idol good looks are destroyed by a devastating car accident that leaves him with a broken nose and facial scars. Though he continues to make movies, the accident haunts him until his death, even though he receives an Oscar nomination for one of his last performances in Judgment At Nuremberg.
Kerri Strug triumphs against the odds to win Team USA's first gold medal at the 1996 Olympics. Strug is hailed as an American hero when she completes her final vault at the Atlanta games on a badly injured ankle to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Strug is carried onto the medals podium to join her team, after which she is treated at a hospital for tendon damage. She becomes an instant national hit, visiting President Clinton, appearing on various talk shows, and making the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Centers around a specific period in Roald Dahl’s life when his four-month old son was tragically struck by a taxi, and the author went to great lengths to save the boy’s life.
Sabrina Greenlee, a young, single mother, is attacked and left for dead. She finds herself in a battle to change the course of her life and stay on the new path she's created for herself and her four children, one of whom, DeAndre Hopkins, becomes a star wide receiver for the Houston Texans.
An authorized biopic telling the life-story of Siegfried & Roy. The will cover their life together and how they influenced each other to achieve world-renowned success.
Story of the landmark Signal Hill police brutality case in 1981 with Anthony Mackie playing attorney Johnnie Cochran.
Story of teacher Christa McAuliffe who was part of the astronaut crew on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
A young woman finds her voice through the written word and her salvation as a swimmer – ultimately becoming a triumphant teacher, mother, and a singular modern writer.
During his final days, a famous American rock star in the early ’70s, navigates his relationships with two women in Paris — a glamorous French Countess and his California “soulmate.”
During World War II, Australian Nancy Wake, nicknamed "The White Mouse," works with the French Resistance to save downed Allied airmen in France and later becomes Australia's most decorated servicewoman.
Greg Louganis starts taking dance, acrobatics and gymnastics classes at 18 months, after witnessing his sister's classes and attempting to join in. By the age of three, he is practicing daily and is competing and giving public performances. He also takes up trampolining, and at the age of nine begins diving lessons after the family gets a swimming pool. Later, he goes on to win Olympic Gold Medals. Six months before the 1988 Olympics, Louganis is diagnosed with HIV but it's not until years later that he comes out as being gay.
The story of rookie Canadian journalist Bahadur, who in 2008 formed a plan to embed himself among the pirates of Somalia. He ultimately succeeded in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them.