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A biopic about Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Academy Award.

Jesse Holley overcomes a poverty-ridden upbringing and multiple personal obstacles and goes from working as a security guard to being an NFL wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, when he is invited to Cowboys training camp after winning "4th and Long," a reality series.

Story centers on the life of carmaker John DeLorean, who famously left his executive job at General Motors to launch the DeLorean Motor Co., which manufactured his DMC-12s in Northern Ireland during the early 1980s.

Iowa born John William Carson grows up to be a successful late night talk show host. He adopts a casual, conversational approach with extensive interaction with his guests. But his personal life is more tumultuous and he goes through three divorces and marries four times.

Ashley Fiolek, deaf since birth, rises to become the youngest Women's Motocross Association Champion at age 18, winner of two consecutive X Games Gold Medals, and the first-ever female factory rider for Honda Red Bull Racing.

Music adviser Guy Stevens steers the punk band The Clash into the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame with their hit album, "London Calling."

British Naval officer Lord Horatio Nelson makes a name for himself while fighting Napoleon's forces on the Mediterranean stage and also for engaging in a scandalous love affair with Lady Emma Hamilton.

Musicians David Bowie and Iggy Pop relocate to West Berlin in the late ’70s and begin a creative collaboration that leads to three albums -- Pop's "Idiot" & "Lust for Life" and Bowie's "Low."

While in Paris in the late 1700s, Madame Tussaud's initial interests in her art leads to her harrowing experiences in the French Revolution creating death masks and barely surviving the guillotine herself.

Follows the story of Italian pop singer Mina who stirred up controversy when she had a child with a married man, forcing her to withdraw from the public eye in the late 1970s.

In his early days, Paul Watson works for Greenpeace. He later creates the controversial Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which wages dangerous ocean battles against illegal whaling vessels.

The story of songwriter-producer Dennis Lambert ("Baby Come Back," "Rhinestone Cowboy"). A songwriter/producer achieves rock star status late in life when he goes on a singing tour of the Philippines, and discovers he is to Filipinos what Jerry Lewis is to the French.

In 2003, when LeBron James turns 18 and is the top pick in the draft, Bernard James is an unheralded Atlanta kid who drops out of high school and enlists in the Air Force. Unlike his namesake, Bernard James never plays hoops until he joins the military. After surviving three tours in Iraq, he becomes the oldest player to be selected in the NBA draft.

Rachel Carson struggles against the chemical industry she fights, which leads to a campaign to discredit both her and her work. Carson dies of breast cancer soon after Houghton Mifflin publishes her book in 1962.

The story centers on the Chilean dissident movement in the wake of General Augusto Pinochet's seizure of power in 1973.

Story center on the true story of Marlin "The Magician" Briscoe, the first African-American starting quarterback in football.

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.

Joseph Carey Merrick spends most of his life as a carnival freak due to physical deformities. He is hounded, persecuted and starved in a brutal Victorian world until his fortune changes when he is rescued and befriended by Dr. Frederick Treves.