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H.A. and Margaret Rey go to great lengths to save their manuscript for Curious George, while fleeing Nazi occupied Europe for their lives. Curious George goes on to inspire and charm millions worldwide.

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Follows the friendship between political rivals John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, from their early years as Senators to the race for the Presidency, leading up to the historic 1960's televised debate.

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Katharine Hepburn recreates herself from outsider into one of the greatest stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age.

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Set right after WWII, Otto Frank struggles to find a publisher for the diary written by his daughter Anne Frank before she perished in the Holocaust. He is aided by an ambitious young woman who, fresh out of the Doubleday typing pool, becomes a junior editor trying to find her way by combing through the slush pile for publishable manuscripts. She and Otto Frank find each other and their perseverance leads to the publication of one of the most enduring documents of the Holocaust. The woman, Barbara Zimmerman, becomes a publishing legend at Doubleday and is the founder of the New York Review of Books.

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In Khe Sanh, five thousand young Marines are surrounded and attacked by 20,000 battle-hardened North Vietnamese Army veterans for 77 nonstop days of rocket and mortar fire, as the world watches on TV.

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The life of of Stylianos Kyriakides, who won the 1946 Boston Marathon after escaping execution during the Nazi occupation of Greece.

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In 2019, young attorney Brent Wisner (Powell) took on a major case against the chemical giant Monsanto on behalf of Dewayne "Lee" Johnson (Mackie), a high school groundskeeper who used their popular weed killer Roundup.

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A true-life podcast tale of a group of high school students and their teacher Alex Campbell who profiled a local serial killer, leading to his capture.

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Set during Colin Powell’s tenure as Secretary of State in the George W. Bush White House.

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Follows gunwalking, which later became known as the Fast and Furious scandal, was a strategy used by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms where the agency allowed the illegal sale of guns in Arizona with the hopes that the guns would cross the border into Mexico and lead to the arrests of members of the drug cartels.

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John LeFevre shoots to prominence — anonymously — as the creator of the @GSElevator Twitter account, an inside look at the real world of international finance.

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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.

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A ragtag team of American volunteers, socialists and outcasts fight alongside the Kurdish militia known as the YPG to beat ISIS in Syria and establish an anarchist collective amid the rubble of war.

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In the early 20th century, Amy Archer-Gilligan runs a nursing home that plays host to a curiously high number of fatalities between 1907 and 1917. Most of the deaths are found to be caused by poisoning, and bulk arsenic buyer "Sister Amy" is eventually found guilty of murder.

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Weeks after Hitler’s suicide but before the German surrender, American Captain Jack Lee must find a way to free prisoners they learn have been sentenced to be killed by the Nazi soldiers to prevent them from providing damning war crimes testimony. About 200 hardened Waffen SS troops are right behind the Americans, with orders to murder the prisoners, and the badly outnumbered Americans must turn to the German castle guards who just surrendered to them, to help move the French POWs to safety.

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Fillmore Slim (né Clarence Sims) begins pursuing a music career in the 1950s, but is lured away by the pimp game during the 1960s and 1970s. He eventually returns to music in the 1980s and continues to tour today at age 77.

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After being arrested for several bank robberies in Los Angeles, a bank robber is recruited by the U.S. government to plan bank heists against Al Qaeda post-9/11.

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An American dad's daughter asks if she would ever be a real princess. The question sets the man on a search for a region in the world that is disputed, eventually finding a territory in Africa named Bir Tawil, an area between Egypt and Sudan. In June of 2014, he flies to the area, plants a flag and, calls it the Kingdom of North Sudan, claiming it for himself and his family.

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Dare Wright becomes well-known in the 1950s thanks to her best-selling children's book "The Lonely Doll." Wright lives a bizarre life of glamour and isolation, and she struggles to escape her painful childhood through her art. Wright passes away in 2001 at the age of 86.

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