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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.
A London investigator is hired to discover whether Princess Diana's death was a tragic accident or something more. When he begins to uncover a conspiracy, the gumshoe’s own safety is compromised.
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.
The project is the true story of James Keene, a handsome football player turned big-time drug dealer and sentenced for ten years. The FBI offered him a quick release, in exchange, however, he had to go undercover as a patient in a sanatorium where he had to befriend a serial killer and get him to admit to his crimes.
Steve Banerjee, an immigrant goest from pumping gas in Culver City to running a high-end nightclub that evolves into Chippendales. As the male stripper concept beomes a phenomenon in the 1980s at the height of the women’s lib movement, Banerjee is consumed by excess and competition. After hiring a New York choreographer to polish the all-male dance troupe, Banerjee beomes wildly rich, and just as paranoid. Banerjee hires a hit man to murder the choreographer when negotiations go sour. After being arrested, Banerjee dies in jail awaiting trial.
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."
Follows a group of Minnesota guys who set off to ride snowmobiles to the North Pole.
Lynsey Addari travels to war-torn countries like Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq and wins the MacArthur Fellowhip in 2008. Her work in dangerous locales include her being kidnapped by pro-Quaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war. She is part of the N.Y. Times team which wins a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for International Reporting for her work in Waziristan.
Amy Purdy nearly dies after catching Neisseria meningitis at age 19. Though she loses both legs, Purdy becomes a world class snowboarder, a 2014 Paralympic medalist, and a fan favorite contestant on "Dancing With The Stars," where she finishes as runner-up in 2014.
Set in the 1990s, British-American astronaut Mike Foale overcomes a series of crises aboard the Mir space station to become one of NASA's most highly-respected astronauts to date.
Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition to the Antarctic is an attempt to become the first land crossing of the continent. Disaster hits the expedition when its ship, Endurance, becomes trapped in pack ice and is slowly crushed in 1915. All 27 men on the expedition are ultimately rescued with no lives lost.
The story the USS Indianapolis in 1945 when it was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine.
Tamara Mellon, who had a troubled childhood, loses her job as an editor at Vogue. After a stint in rehab, Mellon partners with Malaysian-born cobbler Jimmy Choo whose footwear she develops into a billion-dollar brand in the late 1990s & early 2000s. As the company becomes a runaway success, private equity suits try to take over, undermine quality, boost sales, and ultimately sell the firm out from under her. Mellon fights back tooth-and-nail. She ultimately sells her shares for a reported $135M and exits the company in 2011.
Charts the rise of Ethereum, the second-biggest digital asset in the world.
True story of consumer electronics king Eddie Antar who served six years in prison for perpetrating one of the greatest securities frauds in history.