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In real time, Secret Service agents try to protect President Ronald Regan (code name "Rawhide") from assassination, police officers investigate the shooter John Hinckley, and Cabinet members engage in a power struggle as they await Reagan's fate.
On October 3, 2009, more than 300 Taliban fighters launch a predawn raid on a remote and controversial American outpost near the Afghan-Pakistani border, overrunning its perimeter defenses and breaching its wire. Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha, a husband and father of three children, plans and leads a small band of soldiers in a counterattack against seemingly insurmountable odds, saving dozens of American lives, and ultimately receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions.
Reverend Jeffrey Brown tests his faith against a violent gang code and confronts corruption within the Boston Police Department.
The true story of BMX rider John Buultjens.
A story about the philanthropist known as "Robin Hood 702".
Set in the late 1960s when cheap counterculture films are minting money, struggling studio 20th Century Fox gives soft-core pulp director Russ Meyers the opportunity to direct "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls" because his profit margins are so high and his costs are miniscule. Meyer agrees to take on "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls" on the condition that the script is written by film critic Roger Ebert, who had written one of the few positive reviews Meyer had ever received. Meyers and Ebert struggle with the studio's board of directors and the ratings board, but despite being the rare major studio release with an X rating, they are vindicated when "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls" is released in 1970 to big box office.
20th century musical radical and multi-hyphenate George Antheil has an unlikely friendship with movie star Hedy Lamarr. Despite their day jobs in entertainment, the two possess an intense desire to defeat the Nazis and thus invent and patent a secret communications system in 1941 which sketches out the principle of frequency hopping. Their invention proves crucial to the development of modern communications.
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The incredible true story of Reality Winner in her own words. Filmed over five years, this is the only documentary about the young NSA whistleblower who exposed Russian interference in U.S. elections and went to jail for it. With exclusive access to Reality Winner and the media outlet involved in her arrest, this film also uncovers FBI evidence never before released. Would you risk your freedom to protect democracy?
Fallen American cyclist Jack "Jock" Boyer struggles to build a competitive national cycling team from survivors from both sides of the Rwandan genocide.
Detailing an incredible true story involving gangsters, strippers, and live bears serving beer on a hockey rink, Red Penguins tells the wild forgotten true story of capitalism and opportunism run amok in Moscow. Shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Pittsburgh Penguins and the famed Red Army hockey team formed a joint venture that redefined what was possible in the new Russia. Eccentric marketing whiz, Steve Warshaw, is sent to Moscow and tasked to transform the team into the greatest show in Russia, attracting some of the biggest names in Hollywood and advertising along the way. He takes the viewer on a bizarre journey highlighting a pivotal moment in U.S.-Russian relations during a lawless era when oligarchs made their fortunes and multiple murders went unsolved.
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Based on a true story about Derek Hounakey, a thirty-something West African native who has weekly sessions with his psychologist. Derek attends these sessions to get over the life-shattering breakup of his marriage from his new wife. During a visit to West Africa, Derek's mother introduces him to a woman named Virginia, a beautiful but troubled young woman with a hidden agenda and one major secret. Virginia desperately wants to live in the United States and is looking for an unsuspecting victim to win over to gain her citizenship. She moves into Derek's home in New Jersey and announces her pregnancy. Derek is happy about being a father, but a series of questionable events leads Derek to become suspicious of Virginia. He discovers something that shatters his world once again.
When Vernon Turner is only 11, he comes home to find his mother shooting heroin into her veins in the bathroom of their Brooklyn home. If that isn't hard enough, he also watches as his black mom and white father fight over her drug abuse. Vernon assumes the role of adult for his siblings. Often told he has no chance to make it to the NFL after playing local college ball, he finally finds his place in the sun as a kickoff and punt returner with the Rams, Lions, Buccaneers, and Panthers before playing in Europe until he retires in 1998.
An investigative journalist unearths the complex reality behind a serial killer's lies and confessions.
John D'Agostino, an Italian kid from Brooklyn, studies at Harvard and lands on the Merc Exhange. After establishing himself, he hooks up with another young trader and a mysterious Middle Easterner to engage in a dangerous scheme to revolutionize the oil trading industry.