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Air Force Combat Control Technician (CCT) John Chapman dies in battle on March 4, 2002 in Afghanistan. Following his death, no one imagined it would take over a decade for the truth of what really happened on that snowy mountainside to emerge.

Set in one of the most dangerous and corrupt cities in the world, a black market mercenary is hired by a Brazilian drug lord to rescue his kidnapped daughter.

The film tells the true story of Capt. Ernest Evans, the U.S. Naval Commander posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle off Samar, part of the October 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf - one of the largest naval engagement in history.

Hank Thompson, a burned-out former baseball player, unwittingly plunges into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of 1990s NYC.

Willow Chance, a 12-year-old genius who is obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn't kept her from leading a quietly happy life her world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world.

Billy Bigelow is a carnival barker with a serious temper, that gets him in trouble and in the middle of a robbery gone bad. He dies and is sent to purgatory, where he is given one day to return to Earth and fix his troubles.

Tierney Cahill, a teacher from Reno, Nev., takes a challenge from her sixth-grade students to run for Congress in the 2000 elections on the condition that they would help run her campaign. The single mother ultimately loses her bid to an incumbent, but she ends up winning 35% of the popular vote.

Set in the early 1900's during the birth of jazz, Charles "Buddy" Bolden, an African American cornetist, is a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of rag-time music which becomes known as jazz. "King Bolden" and his band are a top draw in New Orleans from about 1900 until 1907, when he is incapacitated by schizophrenia. He is admitted to a mental institution where he spends the rest of his life.

The men he put behind bars know him as Roman Caribe or one of the dozens of other aliases he has used undercover. His handlers in the DEA, ICE, and FBI know him as Confidential Source Ninety-Six, or C.S. 96, named for the year he confronted the sins of his life atop a massive drug distribution ring and flipped, becoming law enforcement's secret weapon. As Caribe launches his career as a confidential source, he finds his faith and seeks to finally do right by his stoic wife, Inez, and his four children, his marriage becomes stressed in new ways, the risks to his family unimaginable if he makes a single mistake on the job. He finds himself looking over his shoulder every day, knowing that with each drug ring or kingpin he destroys, he makes another dangerous enemy.

Set in Las Vegas during the late 1960s, a pair of hustlers rob the decaying Moonlight Casino.

Story tracks a young boy and his father who must battle cardboard monsters that magically come to life.

Carrie Hamilton is the daughter of Carol Burnett, one of the most beloved figures on television and in film. Carrie journeys from teenage drug addiction to her sober adult life where she finds happiness and success as an actress and a writer before her untimely passing from cancer at age 38.

Set on island of Catan, settlers must outwit one another amidst fierce competition for the island's scarce resources.

No plot details have been announced. Involves an exploration of a youth subculture.

Elissa Hall, a Latina college student, competes in Mexican horse dancing, only to discover she has A.P.L. (Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia), an acute form of leukemia. As she goes to the hospital for treatment, her horse, Centurion, goes from being abused to starring as a celebrated champion.

Set in the near future, a notorious corporate raider renounces his worldly wealth. To redeem himself, he signs up for an interplanetary mission to colonize the greater solar system. During his final days on Earth, a fallout occurs when the trip doesn't go as planned.

Writer Tom O’Neill disappears into the complex and shadowy cultural vortex on the 1960s.

During the 1970s, FBI agents Jim Wedick and Jack Brennan infiltrate the world of Phillip Kitzer Jr, a Minnesota swindler who masterminds dozens of multimillion-dollar schemes, such as selling worthless securities from bogus offshore enterprises. His international network of associates is known as The Fraternity.