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Two longtime friends from an economically depressed steel town in Pennsylvania have their dreams of escaping to California dashed when they're implicated in a crime.

Story of the 1948 conflict in the Middle East immediately after the state of Israel was formed, which triggered a nine-month war waged by five Arab nations.

The unlikely friendship between an Israeli and a Palestinian who both lost a daughter to violence, and turned their grief into action and activism.

A 19-year-old student sees the fictional characters in the play he's writing intertwining with the people in his life.

Based on the graphic novel by Will Eisner, the set of four stories show tenement life in 1930s New York.

"A Doll's House" centers on Nora, a nice woman whose puritanical husband, Torvald, loves her but doesn't take her seriously. As Torvald finds a new job as a bank manager, an old debt of Nora's reveals secrets involving both husband and wife.

A biopic of Harland Sanders and how he builds Kentucky Fried Chicken into one of the world's largest restaurant chains.

In Guatemala, Rodrigo Rosenberg, a wealthy businessman who watched his wife-to-be get assassinated along with her father, is later gunned down while riding his bicycle. His murder stirs up an entire country frustrated by the endless waves of violence, sometimes involving corrupt government officials

A biopic about the famed paleontologist and conservationist Richard Leakey. Leaky battles with ivory poachers who threaten the existence of the African elephant population and the very soul of Africa.

Lawrence Horn, a former record producer and Motown Records executive, is sentenced to life in prison for hiring Detroit-based hit man James Perry to murder his wife, quadriplegic son and the wealthy family's overnight nurse at their suburban home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Horn's son is the victim of medical malpractice and as the result of a subsequent lawsuit, has a trust worth nearly $2 million, which his father stands to inherit in the wake of his death. Detectives discovers that Perry used how-to book "Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors" as a guide to execute the murders. The families of the victims go on to file a class-action lawsuit against the Colorado-based publisher Paladin Press. The attorneys representing the families then hire Rodney Smolla, a First Amendment attorney and professor at William & Mary Law School, to consult on the historic case, which takes five years to settle amidst a series of shocking and bizarre developments.

After the suicide of her married lover, a woman flees New York City for the canyons above Los Angeles, where she plots the takedown of a woman from her haunted past.

Set in the distant future, a disgraced Conglomerate Enforcer gets a shot at redemption by leading a rag tag group of explorers on a first contact mission to a newly discovered planet. The mission turns out to be a deadly trap and the leader and crew are stranded with all their technology destroyed. Their only chance is to rely on their wits and earn the trust of the warring hostile inhabitants if they have any chance to return home to earth.

The film is based on a true story that began with the death of Don Bolles, an investigative reporter for the Arizona Republic. In 1976, Bolles was killed in a car bomb explosion as he was investigating the infiltration of organized crime into state government.

A romantic triangle develops among an anthropologist, his particle physicist girlfriend and Lack, a black hole in the universe.

Arthur Ashe becomes the first African-American player to be selected to the U.S. Davis Cup team and to win three Grand Slam titles.

Explores the personal and professional struggles that made Shel Silverstein, who died in 1999, a unique voice. Silverstein’s resume includes best-selling books such as “The Giving Tree,” poetry collections “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and “A Light in the Attic,” chart-topping songs such as Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue” and Dr. Hook’s “The Cover of Rolling Stone”; and memorable illustrations.

Set in the mid 19th Century, a bitter, old miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present & Christmas Yet to Come and is transformed into a gentler, kindlier man.

Story follows the rise and emotional decline of a small-time hoodlum, who collects debts for the mob, but is also burdened by his family’s own financial problems.

The romance, inspired by a true story, takes place during the Chinese Revolution in 1949 and is about an American photojournalist who falls in love with a revolutionary.