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Ten-year-old Keith Byrne and his 13 year-old friend Noel Murray take a train to the ferry port of Dun Laoghaire, near Dublin, and travel to London via Holyhead in 1985. They manage to evade security to board an Air India flight to New York. They are arrested near JFK Airport, igniting an investigation that spanned several continents.
In the true story of KON-TIKI, a dangerous seafaring adventure, six men sail from Peru to Polynesia risking their lives for an idea that could change history. Thor Heyerdahl (Hagen) – a restless spirit, along with five loyal buddies, follow an ancient path 4,300 miles across the Pacific on the fragile raft. Attacked by tidal waves, sharks and all the dangers the Ocean can muster, it’s six men battling with nature as Kon-Tiki strives to reach land. Having sacrificed everything for his mission, even his marriage, Thor must succeed.
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Amy Butcher forms chance friendship with Joy Mothertrucker a fifty-year-old Instagram celebrity and America’s one and only female ice road trucker, who spent 13 years driving big rigs through the deadliest road in America. Inspired by Joy’s optimism and bravery in the face of danger, Amy flies to Alaska and joins her on an incredible journey through the heart of the Alaskan wilderness, accompanying her while they navigate the deadliest road in America. The two determined women find solace and strength in each other, in the unforgiving outdoors.
A biopic of Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, the doctor who gave up his medicine practice to buy a camper and hit the road with his wife and nine children. The family would go on to start up the first U.S. surfer camp.
Based on the true story of a geneticist who attemps to bring back the Woolly Mammoth from extinction.
After quarreling with her husband over his request for a divorce, author Agatha Christie leaves their shared residence in Berkshire on the night of December 3, 1926. She leaves behind a letter for her secretary saying she is going to Yorkshire, and she is not found until 10 days later, when it is discovered that she is staying as a guest at a hotel in Yorkshire under a different name.
Three young kids make a shot-by-shot remake of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" called "Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation", in their backyard. The filming takes seven years to complete.
A salvage crew tries to save a capsized Japanese cargo ship. The tightknit crew races to save the ship's dangerous cargo and claim its reward.
Set in th 1930s, self-driven New York socialite and fashion designer Ruth Harkness goes to Shanghai to find her missing fiance, who had been searching for a mythical creature. She embarks on a quest deep into the heart of China and ends up introducing the Western world to the panda.
This is the true story of how a Japanese businessman from Los Angeles, Eishy Hayata, built an emerald mining empire in Columbia that is today one of the world's largest and most powerful, starting in the 1970s as an "esmeraldero", an emerald buyer who goes directly to rural areas where emeralds can be procured from locals at bargain prices in their rough form. Central to the film's intrigue are Columbia's more brutal realities, as guerrilla warfare and street kidnappings are quite common. To combat this, Hayata fashions himself as a sort of modern cowboy, armed and dressed to fit the bill, along with a powerful cadre of personal bodyguards.
In 1511, Gonzalo Guerrero is shipwrecked in a violent storm and finds himself cast away on an unknown shore in the New World. He and his Spaniard shipmates are enslaved by a Mayan tribe. With no hope of escape, the brilliant and pragmatic adventurer searches for a way to advance in a strange new culture.
Retelling of the story represented in the documenary, "Mountain of Fire: The Search for the True Mount Sinai" (2002). The film is based on the true story of two American adventurers who follow mysterious clues to find the true Mt. Sinai. The discoveries made by Bob Cornuke and Larry Williams will shock the world and rewrite history. Centuries of tradition place this holy mountain in the Sinai peninsula of Egypt, but compelling evidence found by the two intrepid explorers will show that this hallowed ground, where Moses was told to take the shoes of his feet before the burning bush, may actually be in the barren deserts of northwestern Saudi Arabia. Epic myth becomes burning truth on the Mountain of Fire.
The true story of a 674-mile journey in which 20 men and 200 sled dogs rushed a diphtheria antidote to Nome during the worst January on record in 1925.
A female Fish and Wildlife agent attempts to catch and successfully prosecute a wily international reptile smuggler based in Miami. Her job is made easier by the smuggler's reckless partner, who also happens to be his father.
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.
A fight ensues over treasure vaults worth $20 billion, which are hidden beneath a supposedly cursed temple in the jungles of India. A bunch of thieves, radicals and the royal family that guards the temple all try to get at the loot.