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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.

Based on the autobiography of London-based music promoter Roy Tempest, who organized UK tours in the 1960s for some of America’s biggest soul acts – even though the acts were fakes.

Based on a true story about the controversial love affair between an oil baron and his adopted daughter destroys the empire they built together.

Chronicles the last six years of Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson's life before his death in 1983.

Handsome, charismatic, and popular Prince Edward is expected to marry a well-bred virgin who will one day become Queen of England when he ascended the throne. But when the prince is nearly forty, he falls in love with a divorced American woman—Wallis Simpson. No one thinks the relationship will last, and when the prince becomes king, everyone assumes that it's the end of the affair. But to the shock of the British establishment, the new king announces his intention to marry the American divorcée. Overnight, Wallis is accused of entrapping the prince in a seductive web in order to achieve her audacious ambition to be queen. After declaring that he could not rule without the woman he loves, the king abdicates, and his family banishes him and his new wife from the country. The couple spends the rest of their days in exile, but happy in their devoted love for each other.

A biopic based on the true story of South African-born British Olympian and former world champion athlete Precious McKenzie.

Mark Kerr is born in Toledo, Ohio. From early childhood, he dreams of being in the World Wrestling Federation and holds mock fights with his younger siblings in the back yard. He comes a high school state champion wrestling for Toledo Waite. Later Kerr becomes known as The Smashing Machine, The Titan and The Specimen — and is a two-time UFC heavyweight champ, and is widely regarded as the best fighter in the world during his MMA career.

Neel Kashkari, a top US Treasury official, helped develop the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, which bailed out banks following the economic collapse in 2008. Kashkari subsequently left Washington D.C. and moved to an isolated cabin in Northern California.

Biopic of heroic lawyer Scipio Africanus Jones who risked his life and career to defend 87 men wrongfully accused of murder in the wake of the Elaine, AR massacre of 1919.

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.

A big-screen adaptation of football coach Barry Switzer's memoir about coaching at Oklahoma University and the NFL's Dallas Cowboys

A young Jewish girl hides with her family from the Nazis in an attic in Amsterdam.

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.

Fillmore Slim (né Clarence Sims) begins pursuing a music career in the 1950s, but is lured away by the pimp game during the 1960s and 1970s. He eventually returns to music in the 1980s and continues to tour today at age 77.

Colonel Tom Parker discovers Elvis Presley when he is just an unknown and quickly moves in as his lone representation. Parker is responsible for various milestones, including Presley's record deal with RCA and his successful acting career.

Film explore the history of hip-hop's first superstars, Run-DMC: Joseph "Run" Simmons, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell, who was shot to death in his Queens studio in 2002.

An immigrant white kid from Macedonia moves to the most dangerous neighborhood in Detroit at the height of gang violence in the 1970s. He befriends two of Detroit's most wanted drug lords, and just when he feels he's starting to fit in, he becomes a witness to a horrific crime that shatters his American dream and the life he loved in Detroit.