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Set in 2049 when the Earth is at a breaking point due to climate change, coastal flooding and overpopulation, a radical faction known as the Wolfpack overthrows the government and takes control.
Travis McGee, a free-living bachelor and reluctant hero who lives on a houseboat in Florida, works as a "salvage consultant," recovering property and money for clients and taking half the fee in return. McGee takes on tracking down a treasure that a solider escaped with and hid after World War II.
Based on the true story of two African-American brothers kidnapped by a white man and displayed as circus freaks, while their mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back.
The story focuses on the lives of two men who turned the 1893 Chicago World's Fair into their playground. One man, Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, in a short period of time was forced to overcome immense obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. The other, H.H. Holmes, was a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair. Holmes devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims to their death.
A college drop-out returns to his small home town and receives a hero's welcome after he unintentionally saves a local's life. He decides to set up more would-be disasters in order to receive even more praise.
Peter Chancellor turns in a novel about D.C. power brokers who are blackmailed into altering U.S. policies. When some operatives get hold of the manuscript, they think he has uncovered their actual scheme and they try to hunt the author down.
Set in the early 1900s, Joe Petrosino, a NYPD cop, goes after a ruthless gang (with the calling card black hand) that migrated from Italy to America. The thugs kidnap people and then extort money from their families. They are loathed by law-abiding Italian families who are frightened, but nevertheless help Petrosino behind the scenes. He arrests and deports as many of these criminals as he can, for the sake of his own heritage.
Jose Miguel Battle Sr. escapes to the United States, where he and other Cubans are trained by the CIA to invade the country in an ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion.
A true story about Billy Milligan, a man with 24 different personalities. Afflicted with multiple personalities due to a childhood filled with abuse, Billy Milligan, livesa nightmarishly schizoid life. Eventually, several of his personalities band together and commit a series of rapes, which results in Billy being put in a hospital for the criminally insane. Now well on the road to mental health, Billy hopes to be set free, but instead finds himself remanded to a hellhole of a mental hospital by a society that still fears him. Inevitably, though, justice prevails. As of this day, Billy leads a productive, sane, freelife.
An environmentalist, Tim Treadwell, is fatally mauled by the bears he wanted to protect.
Set during the Depression, a war-scarred rancher on the Central California coast finds himself entangled in scandal when he is asked to investigate the brutal murder of a local man, a case that local police have swept under the rug.
When the townspeople gather at a cemetery to bury a local man, they are suddenly interrupted by a loud plane crash in the desert. As the sheriff speeds toward the crash-site, he almost hits a man running down the road. He has no shoes, no memory and no ID. The only clue to who he is is a label in his jacket and a book that’s been inscribed to him: both giving him the name Solomon Creed. When he learns of the name of the Arizona town, he thinks he is there to save a man who was buried that morning. To uncover the story of his past, Solomon must first learn the town’s secrets and the truth behind the death of the man he is there to save. Along the way there are people willing to do anything to stop him, prepared to call on the darkest forces to prevent Solomon from succeeding.
In the 1960s, the CIA's covert Operation Mongoose is developed during the first year of the Kennedy administration in an effort to remove Fidel Castro's Communist regime from power.
The story centers on the campaign by British intelligence to undermine the Irish Republican Army by planting spies in top positions. Program helped the Brits negate much of the terrorist activity planned by the IRA, but at a high price.
After being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that it's inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor.
Revolves around a serial killer in 1930s Chicago who stumbles upon a time traveling device.
Centers on one central storyline with elements from the Twilight Zone universe.