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Feb. 19, 2023

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American humanitarian aid worker Jessica Buchanan travels to Somalia to help children only to be kidnapped by militants and held for ransom for 93 days. Her captors are killed by Navy SEALs in a dramatic rescue mission in January 2012.

Drama Action

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Adolf Tolkachev, a senior engineer in a top-secret Soviet aerospace laboratory, becomes one of the most valuable spies ever for the U.S. during the Cold War.

Drama Thriller

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Anita Hemmings, a light skinned African American woman and the daughter of a janitor, is passed as white so she can attend Vassar at the turn of the century.

Drama Adaptation

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Mary Jennings serves three tours in Afghanistan as a rescue helicopter pilot where she Medevac'd hundreds of men and women off of the battlefield. At one point, her helicopter is shot down during a rescue mission and she is shot by the Taliban. She fights through her injuries to save the three Americans that are the target of the rescue mission, and her own team. Their ordeal culminates in a daring escape hanging onto the skids of a Kiowa helicopter. Hegar also sues the secretary of defense asserting that the Combat Exclusion Policy (which prevents women from entering direct combat) is unconstitutional, and she wins. In 2013, the secretary of defense repeals the policy.

Drama War

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A biopic of Rock Hudson, the Hollywood screen icon who lived in fear of the discovery of his gay lifestyle.

Drama Biography

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Lisette Lee portrays herself as an heiress to the Samsung fortune, as well as an actress, singer and model. She fakes all of this and beneath the bling are secrets, lies & private jets filled with weed. She is a drug mule and after she is caught trafficking 500 pounds of pot into Ohio, she draws a six-year sentence.

Drama Crime

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Set in Depression-era Kentucky and rooted in true events, the story of a group of young women who defy the odds to bring knowledge to a remote mountain community.

Drama Adaptation

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Lobster fisherman John Aldridge falls into the ocean in the middle of the night, forty miles off Montauk with no life vest and no way to signal where he is. Anthony Sosinski, his childhood best friend and partner on the boat, wakes up to realize John is gone. An unprecedented multi-state rescue operation takes place involving both the Coast Guard and the fishing community from across the Northeast.

Drama True Story

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A PTA President named Kelli Peters is framed from drug possession by a set of parents. Peters is arrested and investigated but the truth eventually comes out and, after a five-year ordeal, she wins a $5.7 million-dollar civil judgment against the couple.

Drama True Story

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Ernest Shackleton leads three British expeditions to the Antarctic. His ship Endurance is crushed by ice floes and he manages to keep everyone alive in a harrowing journey to safety in sub zero temperatures.

Drama Adventure

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William Dodd, the United States' reluctant and mild-mannered ambassador to Berlin in 1933, and his daughter Martha, a vivacious socialite have romantic affairs with a Gestapo official and a Soviet spy. Dodd and his family at first naively navigate life in Nazi Germany but they slowly gain awareness of the mounting brutality around them.

Drama True Story

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Tells the true story of what happened when the PT boat captained by future president John F Kennedy was smashed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer.

Drama Action

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Max Mermelstein, a Jewish hotel engineer, transforms Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel from a small mom-and-pop drug organization into a billion-dollar enterprise.

Drama Crime

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Paul Le Roux is a brilliant programmer and a vicious cartel boss who becomes a prized government asset.

Drama Crime

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Focuses on the 2006 standardized test cheating scandal at Atlanta public schools. Michael B. Jordan will portray teacher Damany Lewis, who joined the effort in order to prevent his school from shutting down under provisions of the No Child Left Behind law. Eleven teachers were indicted on racketeering allegations.

Drama True Story

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A special ops soldier runs covert missions into Baghdad before the U.S. invasion. The unit is comprised of seven men from the Navy Seals, Green Berets, Army Rangers and Marine Recon who are conducting secret surveillance during the Saddam Hussein regime.

Drama Action

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A sobering, searing portrait of youth and guns in contemporary America.

Drama True Story

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Story of Uber engineer Susan Fowler and the widespread sexual harassment at the ride-hailing service company.

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While he is building TV news empire "60 Minutes," newscaster Mike Wallace struggles with a major chemical depression that he keeps secret from friends and family until the end of his career.

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