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Despite being born with one leg to a single-parent family on the wrong side of the tracks, Anthony Robles overcomes every obstacle to become an undefeated collegiate wrestling star, three-time All-American, 2011 NCAA National Champion, two-time ESPY Award winner and a National Wrestling Hall of Fame inductee.

Under the Bridge is based on acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey’s book about the 1997 true story of 14-year old Reena Virk (Vritika Gupta) who went to join friends at a party and never returned home. Through the eyes of Godfrey (Riley Keough) and a local police officer (Lily Gladstone), the series takes us into the hidden world of the young girls accused of the murder — revealing startling truths about the unlikely killer.

When David Smallbone’s successful music company collapses, he moves his family from Down Under to the States, searching for a brighter future. With nothing more than their seven children, suitcases, and their love of music, David (for KING + COUNTRY’s Joel Smallbone) and his pregnant wife Helen (Daisy Betts) set out to rebuild their lives. Based on a remarkable true story, Helen’s faith stands against all odds and inspires her husband and children to hold onto theirs. With their own dreams on hold, David and Helen begin to realize the musical prowess in their children, who would go on to become two of the most successful acts in Inspirational Music history: fivetime Grammy Award-winning artists for KING + COUNTRY and Rebecca St. James.

Based on the true story of Chris Paciello, the charismatic Miami nightclub owner, who in the 1990’s became the “King of Miami” and turned South Beach into the hottest party destination in the world.

Revolves around an undercover police officer in the 1980's.

In 1956, Henry Lebash, chafing to leave his teaching job at the Missouri School for the Blind for a gig at up-and-coming IBM in California, nevertheless agrees to create a wrestling team before he leaves. During the course of the season, he is inspired by a blind teen student named Luke Whitman, and becomes a committed and passionate coach, launching a career in the sport. Whitman, meanwhile, becomes his best friend and eventually gets inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

True story of Marla Ruzicka, a 28-year-old American relief worker who was tragically killed in Iraq by a suicide bomber.

Based on Laura Hillenbrand’s bestselling book, Unbroken: Path to Redemption begins where the hit movie Unbroken concludes, sharing the next amazing chapter of the unbelievable true story of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini.

Haunted by nightmares of his torment, Louie sees himself as anything but a hero. Then, he meets Cynthia, a young woman who captures his eye—and his heart.

Louie’s wrathful quest for revenge drives him deeper into despair, putting the couple on the brink of divorce. Until Cynthia experiences Billy Graham’s 1949 Los Angeles Crusade where she finds faith in God and a renewed commitment to her marriage and her husband. Now, her most fervent prayer is for God to help Louie find the peace and forgiveness he so desperately needs.

Two brothers murder the wife and infant daughter of their younger brother. The killers claimed they were acting on orders from God, consistent with their interpretation of a fundamentalist interpretation that goes back to the formation of Mormonism.

Based on the true story of Laura Vikmanis, the oldest cheerleader in the NFL. At 39-years-old and surrounded by cheerleaders half her age, the single mom tried out for the Cincinnati Bengals squad, but didn't make the cut. For a year, she practiced and improved her moves. Despite the long odds, she returned to tryouts and made the squad.

Former Olympic gold medalist and NCAA champion Tyler Hamilton is one of the first insiders to testify under oath about the doping charges against 7-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong. Hamilton comes forward publicly–on "60 Minutes"—to break the code of silence.

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An American takes a job in Hong Kong with an investment banker and realizes his boss is in cahoots with organized crime and is embezzling from the company -- the situation becomes even more precarious when he finds himself promoted to become his boss's right hand man.

Milo Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge) and Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix) star in this inspirational true story of a small town high school football team who beat all the odds to win their state championship. After a crushing defeat ended their prior season, everyone counted the Abilene Eagles out of title contention. Facing doubts and personal challenges both on and off the field, it will take the guidance of their team chaplain (Gibson) and a surrogate father figure (Fishburne) for them to realize what they can achieve when they stand united as a team. In this uplifting underdog story, the Abilene Eagles will once again soar in an incredible comeback that will be forever remembered in sports history.

When her brother, Henry, is killed during the battle of Antietam, his sister Grace returns home to take care of the family farm and Henry’s children. Life is hard, but fulfilling until Union soldiers invade their land burning the farm to the ground, wounding Grace, killing the adults and taking the children. With the help of a local woman, Virginia, Grace disguises herself as her dead brother, joins the Confederate ranks, becoming a fierce warrior hell bent on exacting revenge and rescuing the lone, surviving boy.

The story centers on two spies in the upper levels of the CIA.

The action thriller tells the true story of the riots and siege of Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in 1987. Cuban and American prisoners seized control of the maximum security facility and took more than 100 federal prison staff members hostage. The situation was so extreme that the FBI's hostage rescue team was ill-equipped to handle the riots, and Delta Force, the Special Forces detachment, was called in to retake the prison.

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.

During the Civil War, Union Army surgeon Dr. Mary Edwards Walker struggles to be accepted and compensated in the same manner as her male counterparts in the medical field and ultimately becomes the first and only female recipient to receive the Congressional Medal Of Honor. Even after receiving her medical degree at Syracuse Medical College, Walker is considered unfit for the Union Army Examining Board and initially is only allowed to serve voluntarily as a surgeon. While serving in the war, Dr. Walker is captured by Confederate soldiers after boldly crossing enemy lines to treat wounded civilians and is arrested as a spy – eventually being released in a prisoner exchange.

Rod Serling grows up outside of Syracuse, New York as the class clown, though he eventually matures enough to write for his high school newspaper. Immediately after graduation, he enlists in the U.S. Army and trains as a paratrooper. He is sent west to fight in the Philippines, where he sees death all around him each day. Though he is honored with a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, Serling’s experience in the military haunts him and has a profound effect on his later work. After being discharged, Serling attends Antioch College, where he begins writing and performing in radio shows on campus. Following his radio days, Serling moves into television, writing for a local station in Cincinnati before going out on his own. He sells several scripts, but resents the compromises that network sponsors and censors force him to make, so he decides to create his own show, "The Twilight Zone."