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In the 1950s, Reuben Sturman begins selling "girlie magazines" in Ohio, imports porn from Europe and brings peep shows to America. Despite legal challenges, he becomes a billionaire in the 1970s but gets into business with the Gotti mob in New York, ends up in jail and dies penniless.

Sam Phillips is a pioneer in the music industry during the 1950s as a producer helps launch the careers of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Story of teacher Christa McAuliffe who was part of the astronaut crew on the Space Shuttle Challenger.

A biopic of Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras and his wife, Audrey Mestre, two world record setters in the sport of "freediving"—diving as deep as possible on one breath and without any scuba equipment. Mestre died in 2002 while trying to break her record of 557.7 feet.

The story of Shirley Chisholm, a U.S. Representative who was both the first woman and the first person of color to seek a major American political party’s nomination for President.

The life story of Lou Pearlman, the former multiplatinum boy band manager-turned-convicted felon.

Follows Ruth Harkness, a 1930s New York socialite who unexpectedly takes over her late husband's expedition and becomes the first person ever to bring a live giant panda out of China and to the world's attention.

During WWII, British spy Christine Granville takes on one dangerous mission after another. She narrowly escapes arrest numerous times and saves the lives of fellow officers.

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."

A biopic of Rock Hudson, the Hollywood screen icon who lived in fear of the discovery of his gay lifestyle.

Starting in the 1960s, Angela Davis becomes a prominent activist and radical as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

Bernard King plays in the NBA for 14 seasons until 1993 and is a four-time All-Star. But besides chronic physical injuries, the Knicks star endures cycles of negativity and self-destructiveness due to childhood trauma and sobriety issues.

Genghis Khan, one of the great military figures in world history, is the ruler who united the Mongol tribes and conquered great parts of Asia and Eastern Europe in the early 13th century. The story will be told from the point of view of Khan’s son and grandson.

True story of consumer electronics king Eddie Antar who served six years in prison for perpetrating one of the greatest securities frauds in history.

Lynsey Addari travels to war-torn countries like Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq and wins the MacArthur Fellowhip in 2008. Her work in dangerous locales include her being kidnapped by pro-Quaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war. She is part of the N.Y. Times team which wins a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for International Reporting for her work in Waziristan.

A narrative that connects Leonardo da Vinci's art to his science and voracious curiosity and imagination.

Story of notorious Depression-era criminal duo and lovers, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.