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In With The Devil

The project is the true story of James Keene, a handsome football player turned big-time drug dealer and sentenced for ten years. The FBI offered him a quick release, in exchange, however, he had to go undercover as a patient in a sanatorium where he had to befriend a serial killer and get him to admit to his crimes.

Proof of Heaven

A neurosurgeon, who teaches at Harvard Medical School and other universities, believes in science over faith. Despite being a Christian, he does not embrace religious theories of the afterlife until he contracts a rare bacterial meningitis that penetrates his cerebro-spinal fluid and attacks his brain. He lies near death, comatose for seven days. He awakes with a clear recollection of what he describes as a journey to heaven.

Empty Mansions

Huguette Clark is the youngest daughter of W.A. Clark, who was born in a log cabin but becomes a powerful mining and banking magnate after discovering copper in Montana following the Civil War. He rises to such wealth and prominence that he helps to found Las Vegas. Huguette is born in Paris and lives a very interesting life. She grows up in the largest house in New York City — a mansion of 121 rooms for a family of four. She owns paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, and a vast collection of antique dolls and beautifully crafted dollhouses. Huguette lives out the last two decades of her life in the Beth Israel Hospital, dishing out $400,000 per year to live there but is never in the VIP section. She is a generous woman who appreciates art and the simple acts of giving. Huguette is often taken advantage of because of her kindness. She dies in 2011 at 104, leaving behind an over $310 million fortune.

Love and Glory

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.

Once Upon a Time in Russia

The "Godfather of the Kremlin," Boris Berezovsky, a former mathematician's first entrepreneurial venture is an automobile reselling business. Roman Abramovich, his young protege, builds a multibillion-dollar empire on oil and aluminum.

The Professor, the Biki...

Paul Frampton, a divorced theoretical particle physicist, meets Denise Milani, a Czech bikini model, on the online dating site Mate1.com. Milani's pictures on the site show a dark-haired, dark-eyed beauty with a supposedly natural DDD breast size. The two begin to correspond and plan their perfect life together, but first, the woman asks the British professor if he would deliver a special package to her, setting him on a course of danger.

Untited Amityville Preq...

Will connect the demonic evil in the Amityville Horror house to the murders of the DeFeo family in the same house two years earlier.

Drunk Mom: A Memoir

Three years after giving up drinking and following the birth of her first child, a woman returns to be an alcoholic. She goes on binges, has blackouts, lies and suffers humiliations. She ultimately fights toward recovery.

Fairyland

Set against San Francisco's vibrant cultural scene in the 1970s and 1980s, both before and after the AIDS epidemic, the crisis claims the life of Alysia Abbot's father, Steve Abbott, a widowed poet and gay activist.

Running A Thousand Mile...

Married in 1846, William and Ellen Craft flee slavery in 1848 when Ellen, the daughter of her slave master who because of her light complexion could pass, disguises herself as a man and poses as William's white slave owner.

Sarge

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.

The Nazi and the Psychi...

Surrounded by the postwar ruins of the Third Reich, 22 top Nazi prisoners await trial at the 1945-46 International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, who studied the essence of evil and the anatomy of the Nazi personality, is among the few people allowed regular contact with the prisoners. There, he develops a complex and close relationship with Nazi war criminal and Hitler’s right hand man, Hermann Goering, a clever and manipulative prisoner who was the highest-ranking Nazi in Allied hands. As the psychiatrist tests and interviews Goering and the other prisoners, he reaches conclusions that shake his assumptions and sows the seeds of his own downfall.

The True History of the...

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.

Wildlife Wars: My Fight...

Nairobi-born paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey's conservationist efforts to stop elephant poaching in the Kenyan National Parks put his life in danger. In 1993, Leakey flies a small propeller-driven plane that crashes, crushing his lower legs, both of which are later amputated. Sabotage is suspected but never proven.

An Honest Liar

James "The Amazing" Randi enlists two fake psychics, Steve Shaw (aka Banachek) and Michael Edwards, and fools researchers for two years, making them think the duo has legitimate psychic powers such as spoon bending and moving objects in a sealed transparent container.

Barbie and Ruth

Ruth Handler turns the toy industry upside down by creating a grown-up doll for girls after watching her daughter at play.

Captain of the Gate

Winston Churchill is U.K. prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. He rises to power as he stands against parliament to defend Britain and the world from Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.