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Jesse Holley overcomes a poverty-ridden upbringing and multiple personal obstacles and goes from working as a security guard to being an NFL wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, when he is invited to Cowboys training camp after winning "4th and Long," a reality series.
The Clash's rise to fame in the mid-1970s and this gives the band status as the most crucial pillar in that first wave of British punk. Frontman Joe Strummer amasses a huge body of work and continuously creates new music up until his death in 2002.
Story centers on the life of carmaker John DeLorean, who famously left his executive job at General Motors to launch the DeLorean Motor Co., which manufactured his DMC-12s in Northern Ireland during the early 1980s.
Iowa born John William Carson grows up to be a successful late night talk show host. He adopts a casual, conversational approach with extensive interaction with his guests. But his personal life is more tumultuous and he goes through three divorces and marries four times.
While in Paris in the late 1700s, Madame Tussaud's initial interests in her art leads to her harrowing experiences in the French Revolution creating death masks and barely surviving the guillotine herself.
The story of songwriter-producer Dennis Lambert ("Baby Come Back," "Rhinestone Cowboy"). A songwriter/producer achieves rock star status late in life when he goes on a singing tour of the Philippines, and discovers he is to Filipinos what Jerry Lewis is to the French.
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.
The story of legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson.
The story centers on the Chilean dissident movement in the wake of General Augusto Pinochet's seizure of power in 1973.
Set during the 1980s, a woman battles to secure equal rights for female sports journalists, insisting they deserve the same access to athletes as their male colleagues. She eventually becomes one of the first women to enter the locker room.
Story center on the true story of Marlin "The Magician" Briscoe, the first African-American starting quarterback in football.
Traces Julian Assange’s childhood to his founding of Wikileaks, the whistleblower website that put Assange into the US government’s crosshairs when in November 2010 he published secret diplomatic cables. Right after, he was accused of sexual offences and is currently on bail.
Joseph Carey Merrick spends most of his life as a carnival freak due to physical deformities. He is hounded, persecuted and starved in a brutal Victorian world until his fortune changes when he is rescued and befriended by Dr. Frederick Treves.
The story of Peter Buckley -- aka "the worst boxer of all time."
Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the motion picture camera as well the long-lasting light bulb and the phonograph. Known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park," the prolific inventor eventually holds more than 1,000 U.S. patents and introduces electricity to millions of Americans.
Set against the backdrop of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the story of how the son of an Alabama sharecropper shattered Adolf Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy by winning a record four gold medals in the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash, the long jump and the 400-meter relay.
In 1999, Jack Ma founds the Alibaba website from his garage. The site is a business-to-business portal to connect Chinese manufacturers with overseas buyers. In 2014, Ma eventually launches an IPO for Alibaba on the New York Stock Exchange and finishes the day with his company valued at $231 billion — more than Amazon and eBay combined — and making him the richest man in China and among the richest in the world with $26.5 billion.
American photographer Dorothea Lange triumphs over physical disability to capture iconic images of unemployed workers and dispossessed farmers during the Great Depression.
Born in a broken home in Chicago, Anita O'Day leaves home at age 14 and tours the Midwest as a marathon dance contestant and sings for tips. She later performs with the big bands of Gene Krupa and Stan Kenton, teams with Charlie Parker and Louis Armstrong, and establishes a solo career that rivals those of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday and Sarah Vaughn.
Derek Boogaard, a shy over-sized man, learns to use his fists to make it to the National Hockey League and becomes a renowned hockey enforcer. The hulking 6'7" and 270 pounds Boogaard becomes known as the Boogeyman, and rarely loses a fight while playing for the Minnesota Wild and the New York Rangers. He gets addicted to painkillers from years of damage, and is found dead at age 28 after mixing prescription drugs with booze.