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Running A Thousand Mile...

Married in 1846, William and Ellen Craft flee slavery in 1848 when Ellen, the daughter of her slave master who because of her light complexion could pass, disguises herself as a man and poses as William's white slave owner.

The Professor, the Biki...

Paul Frampton, a divorced theoretical particle physicist, meets Denise Milani, a Czech bikini model, on the online dating site Mate1.com. Milani's pictures on the site show a dark-haired, dark-eyed beauty with a supposedly natural DDD breast size. The two begin to correspond and plan their perfect life together, but first, the woman asks the British professor if he would deliver a special package to her, setting him on a course of danger.

Three Minutes to Doomsday

During the Cold War, the FBI's leading body language expert George Navarro is sent to track down Rod Ramsey to report on his knowledge or association with Clyde Lee Conrad, an U.S. Army officer who sold top-secret classified information to the People's Republic of Hungary.

Anonymous Vs. Steubenvi...

Deric Lostutter, a member of the hacker group Anonymous, helps expose a cover-up of the rape of a 16-year-old girl by two high school football players in Steubenville, Ohio. After releasing a video made by the football players, showing them with the rape victim, Lostutter's home is raided by the FBI and he is charged for obtaining tweets and social media posts that contain details about the rape and for threatening action against the rapists. He could spend more than a decade in prison -- while the rapists he helped catch spent only one year in jail.

In With The Devil

The project is the true story of James Keene, a handsome football player turned big-time drug dealer and sentenced for ten years. The FBI offered him a quick release, in exchange, however, he had to go undercover as a patient in a sanatorium where he had to befriend a serial killer and get him to admit to his crimes.

Proof of Heaven

A neurosurgeon, who teaches at Harvard Medical School and other universities, believes in science over faith. Despite being a Christian, he does not embrace religious theories of the afterlife until he contracts a rare bacterial meningitis that penetrates his cerebro-spinal fluid and attacks his brain. He lies near death, comatose for seven days. He awakes with a clear recollection of what he describes as a journey to heaven.

The Making of Rock Hudson

A young Midwesterner transforms from a shy kid into a sex symbol with rugged good looks, but he is forced to keep secret his homosexuality. Henry Willson, an agent, discovers Hudson and beyond changing the actor's name, Willson becomes adept at keeping secrets. When the showbiz tabloid "Confidential" threatens to publish rumors that Hudson is leading a secret life in 1955, Willson arranges for Hudson to marry his secretary, Phyllis Gates. They do a good job of keeping Hudson’s private life private right up until he dies in 1985, when he becomes the first major movie star to pass away from complications relating to AIDS.

Triumph

Set against the backdrop of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the story of how the son of an Alabama sharecropper shattered Adolf Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy by winning a record four gold medals in the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash, the long jump and the 400-meter relay.

Devil In The Grove

The effort of Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP’s legal team to save the lives of four black men falsely accused of raping a white woman in Florida in 1949.

Screw Everyone: How I S...

Skeptical about long-term relationships, a woman approaches dating as a sort of research experiment from early on: she spends her twenties traveling from futon to futon and gathering data, figuring that one day she'll put it all together somehow and build her own perfect Frankenmate. When she meets a guy who doesn't fall for the emotionally cavalier facade she’d constructed (a guy who wants marriage and monogamy), she knows it is time to reevaluate. Her approach ultimately helps her overcome her phobia of commitment.

Thomas Edison Project

Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the motion picture camera as well the long-lasting light bulb and the phonograph. Known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park," the prolific inventor eventually holds more than 1,000 U.S. patents and introduces electricity to millions of Americans.

An Honest Liar

James "The Amazing" Randi enlists two fake psychics, Steve Shaw (aka Banachek) and Michael Edwards, and fools researchers for two years, making them think the duo has legitimate psychic powers such as spoon bending and moving objects in a sealed transparent container.

Cold Comfort

An American civilian turned self-taught spy works with the FBI to bring down a Russian intelligence agent on American soil.

Drunk Mom: A Memoir

Three years after giving up drinking and following the birth of her first child, a woman returns to be an alcoholic. She goes on binges, has blackouts, lies and suffers humiliations. She ultimately fights toward recovery.

Empty Mansions

Huguette Clark is the youngest daughter of W.A. Clark, who was born in a log cabin but becomes a powerful mining and banking magnate after discovering copper in Montana following the Civil War. He rises to such wealth and prominence that he helps to found Las Vegas. Huguette is born in Paris and lives a very interesting life. She grows up in the largest house in New York City — a mansion of 121 rooms for a family of four. She owns paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, and a vast collection of antique dolls and beautifully crafted dollhouses. Huguette lives out the last two decades of her life in the Beth Israel Hospital, dishing out $400,000 per year to live there but is never in the VIP section. She is a generous woman who appreciates art and the simple acts of giving. Huguette is often taken advantage of because of her kindness. She dies in 2011 at 104, leaving behind an over $310 million fortune.

Gizelle's Bucket List

After Lauren Fern Watt, a 25-year-old New Yorker, discovers her beloved 160-pound English Mastiff, Gizelle has terminal bone cancer, she sets out to take him on a series of special adventures in his final few months. They canoe, go to Times Square, find the best donuts in the world, sit on the beach in winter and people-watch in Washington Square Park.

New Coke

Set in the 1980s, the Coca-Cola Company perceives a threat by No. 2 rival Pepsi when they release a clever "Pepsi Challenge" marketing campaign. This leads Coke to corporate panic, even though Coke is outselling its rival 2-to-1. They release a so-called improved formula but its summarily rejected by Coke drinkers.

The Invention of Wings

Set in the 19th, Sarah Grimke is gifted with a 10-year-old slave girl, Hetty, for her 11th birthday. Sarah attempts to reject the gift, she ultimately cannot nor can she free Hetty or even protect her. Sarah and Hetty's lives remain intertwined as they grow up into women.