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In 1956, Charles Robert Jenkins surrenders to the North Koreans while drunk and undergoes a strange 40-year prison term. He is forced to act in (propaganda) movies as an American bad guy, and he becomes a kind of a celebrity.

Set during the 1980s, a woman battles to secure equal rights for female sports journalists, insisting they deserve the same access to athletes as their male colleagues. She eventually becomes one of the first women to enter the locker room.

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.

Mississippi native Dickie Scruggs becomes among the most successful plaintiffs' lawyers in America by winning cases against tobacco and asbestos industries. As a result, he develops a huge appetite for the high life, culminating in his guilty plea in a conspiracy to bribe a state judge.

Traces Julian Assange’s childhood to his founding of Wikileaks, the whistleblower website that put Assange into the US government’s crosshairs when in November 2010 he published secret diplomatic cables. Right after, he was accused of sexual offences and is currently on bail.

In 1925, a Kentucky farmer attracts national attention after becoming trapped in a cave. Although volunteers are able to reach him, they cannot get him out. A massive rescue effort continues for two weeks, attracting thousands of spectators, the National Guard and journalists from across the country. A cub reporter for the "Louisville Courier-Journal" ventures into the cave and conducts a series of face-to-face interviews with Collins.

The story centers on the life of Mexican rock singer, songwriter and composer Gloria Trevi.

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.

John D. Rockefeller is ruthless in building Standard Oil, and spends 30 years dodging investigations into his business tactics until Teddy Roosevelt takes him on. Rockefeller also turns into a philanthropist who gives away most of his fortune.

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.