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The Manassas Tigers football team from inner-city Memphis has been a perennial loser for so long that the school sells slots in its schedule to more affluent schools looking for an easy win. But the Tigers learn to "roar" with the help of a dogged head coach. They win games and the coach helps the players prepare for manhood and life after high school.
Carrie Buck, a young Virginia woman, becomes a lightning rod for a political movement that promises to eliminate the "unfit" from our country. She is forced to single-handedly fight against it for the one thing she desperately wants – to be a mother.
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.
Bowe Bergdahl, an Army sergeant, is captured by the Taliban and held prisoner for five years after he leaves his base in Afghanistan.
Derek Boogaard, a shy over-sized man, learns to use his fists to make it to the National Hockey League and becomes a renowned hockey enforcer. The hulking 6'7" and 270 pounds Boogaard becomes known as the Boogeyman, and rarely loses a fight while playing for the Minnesota Wild and the New York Rangers. He gets addicted to painkillers from years of damage, and is found dead at age 28 after mixing prescription drugs with booze.
Johnny Thunders is the guitarist for the influential 1970s punk bands the New York Dolls and the Heartbreakers. He later dies in New Orleans in 1991.
Josh Hamilton’s rise from the depths of an addiction to crack to become the American League’s most feared slugger.
Vince Lombardi, a fiery disciplinarian, seems stuck when he is offensive line coach of a New York Giants team that loses the 1958 championship game. His Giants counterpart on the defense, the cool Tom Landry, is signed to head the Dallas Cowboys after being widely courted. Lombardi practically has to beg to run a Packers team so dismal that other team owners want to fold the franchise. Lombardi turns the team into perennial winners, and gets his showdown with Landry in the 1967 league championship game, known as the Ice Bowl because it is played in 13 below zero temperatures. The Packers win.
Centers on legendary CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite's time reporting on Vietnam and the role that he played in the proxy war.
True life story of the Syrian Civil Defense, better known as the White Helmets, an organization credited with saving more than 60,000 people from the bombed buildings in war-torn Syria.
PG Wodehouse, the creator of the "Jeeves & Wooster" short stories, is accused of being a traitor during the Second World War after making light hearted radio broadcasts from Nazi Germany, and never returns to the UK.
Story centering on the dramatic weeks in China as the medical community confronts a mysterious virus.