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Everyman's War is a movie starring Cole Carson, Lauren Bair, and Michael J. Prosser. The true story of Don Smith's heroic experience at the Battle of the Bulge while with the 94th Infantry.

Facing Ali is a movie starring George Chuvalo, Henry Cooper, and George Foreman. Ten of Muhammad Ali's former rivals pay tribute to the three-time world heavyweight champion.

Telstar: The Joe Meek Story is a movie starring Con O'Neill, Kevin Spacey, and Pam Ferris. A music-infused drama about Joe Meek, the flamboyantly gay, tone deaf, songwriter-producer behind the '60s hits "Have I the Right," "Just...

The lives of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith, aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

After leaving her philandering husband, an elegant socialite takes her two sons on a road trip across America in search of a better life.

Taking Woodstock is a movie starring Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, and Edward Hibbert. A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.

The Last Station is a movie starring Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, and Christopher Plummer. A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's (Christopher Plummer's) struggle to balance fame and wealth with his...

The true story of Alexander Pearce, Australia's most notorious convict. In 1822, Pearce and seven fellow convicts escaped from Macquarie Harbour, a place of ultra banishment and punishment, only to find a world less forgiving.. the A

Waris Dirie, born 1965 in Somalia, flees at 13 when sold as 4th wife. She's maid at the Somalian embassy in London, then McDonald's, where she's discovered and becomes int'l top model. 1997, she speaks up against female genital mutil

Boy Interrupted looks at the life of Evan Perry a 15-year-old boy from New York who committed suicide in 2005. The film made by his parents Dana and Hart examines how Evan's bipolar disorder and depression affected his life and the l

Amelia is a movie starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, and Ewan McGregor. A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight...

The three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life.

Nowhere Boy is a movie starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Anne-Marie Duff. A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised...

A thriller set in London's slave trade and centered on a woman's fight for freedom.

A romantic, a scoundrel, a private man... The touching and absurd story of the philosopher Albert Camus as seen through they eyes of the many women in his life.

A documentary on the life and career of Joan Rivers, made as the comedienne turns 75 years old.

Mi ricordo Anna Frank is a TV movie starring Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, Emilio Solfrizzi, and Csilla Bakonyi. Freely inspired by Alison Leslie Gold's "Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend," the film tells of...

Marwencol is a movie starring Mark Hogancamp, Emmanuel Nneji, and Edda Hogancamp. After a vicious attack leaves him brain-damaged and broke, Mark Hogancamp seeks recovery in "Marwencol", a 1/6th scale World War II-era town he...

When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgivenes

A look at the life and work of doctor-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian.

Based on the true story of the enduring but troubled love between Lois Wilson, co-founder of Al-Anon, and her alcoholic husband Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when h

Princess Ka'iulani is a movie starring Q'orianka Kilcher, Barry Pepper, and Shaun Evans. The true story of a Hawaiian princess' attempts to maintain the independence of the island against the threat of American colonization.

Worried About the Boy is a TV movie starring Douglas Booth, Jonny Burt, and Mathew Horne. The story of Boy George, the famous androgynous lead singer of the band, Culture Club.

Fair Game is a movie starring Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, and Sonya Davison. CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush...

On June 20, 2009, Neda Agha Soltan was shot in the heart by a sniper during the protests against the Iranian presidential elections. This documentary tells the personal story of the young Iranian woman and her tragic death.

Mahler auf der Couch is a movie starring Johannes Silberschneider, Barbara Romaner, and Karl Markovics. Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav...

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story is a movie starring Avi Arad, Jim Goodkind, and Jeremy Piven. The life and career of the comic book writer and editor.

The Wildest Dream is a movie starring Conrad Anker, Susan Robertson, and Robert Macfarlane. Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad...

Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny highlights Churchill's years in the political wilderness, his early opposition to Adolf Hitler and Nazism, and his support for Jews under threat by the Nazi regime.

Howl is a movie starring James Franco, Todd Rotondi, and Jon Prescott. As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.

The First Grader is a movie starring Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, and Tony Kgoroge. The story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau veteran who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the...

Janie Jones is a movie starring Abigail Breslin, Alessandro Nivola, and Elisabeth Shue. A young girl who has been abandoned by her former-groupie mother informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter.

A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34.

In 1959, at just nineteen years of age, Harry Jerome was Canada's most promising track and field star, and was on his way to the Olympics in Rome. By 1962, after suffering a gruesome leg injury, there was every reason to think that h

Raging Boll is a movie starring Uwe Boll, Richard Kyanka, and Chance Minter. Widely recognized as the planet's worst film director, Uwe Boll embarks on a quest to conquer Hollywood and take vengeance upon the film fanatics striving...

When Jan Peters' girlfriend accidentally takes his wallet on a trip to foreign climes, she leaves the filmmaker standing in Frankfurt Airport without a penny to his name. The only capital he possesses is a group ticket for the public

Bhutto is a movie starring Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari, and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. A riveting documentary of the recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto, a polarizing figure in the Muslim world. Following in her...

A film about the life and relationships of the early 20th century American educator, editor, and journalist Leonie Gilmour, the mother of the acclaimed artist and architect Isamu Noguchi.

Entrelobos is a movie starring Juan José Ballesta, Sancho Gracia, and Manuel Camacho. A child who lived alone with wolves for 12 years.

After avenging the death of his father and brother, a man must now content with another vengeful male.

Toast is a TV movie starring Oscar Kennedy, Victoria Hamilton, and Colin Prockter. The ultimate nostalgia trip through everything edible in 1960s Britain.

The Craigslist Killer is a TV movie starring Jake McDorman, Agnes Bruckner, and Joshua Close. On the surface, Philip Markoff appears to be the ideal med student, fiancé and future son-in-law - but there's something seriously wrong...

When a young high school football took a hit that paralyzed him on the field, his life turned to despair and loneliness until a chance moment brought him from the depths of hell to the joys of being a hero to all.

From PBS and American Experience - In the summer of 1868, paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh boarded a Union Pacific train for a sightseeing excursion through the heart of the newly opened American West. While most passengers simpl

Bill Cunningham New York is a movie starring Bill Cunningham, Anna Wintour, and Michael Kors. A profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer.

Christopher and His Kind is a TV movie starring Matt Smith, Imogen Poots, and Lindsay Duncan. How real-life British-American author Christopher Isherwood and his German boyfriend Heinz met and fell in love during the 1930s and the...