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Set in Depression-era Kentucky and rooted in true events, the story of a group of young women who defy the odds to bring knowledge to a remote mountain community.

A destitute and pregnant seventeen year old must make an impossible choice between love and honor.

In Ireland, show bands became popular across the country before the onslaught of TV. The bands played cover songs in the early days of rock 'n' roll and amassed large followings across the country. An aging show band singer, prone to drink and living in Vegas, finds his life turned on its head following the arrival of a mysterious stranger.

Focuses on the 2006 standardized test cheating scandal at Atlanta public schools. Michael B. Jordan will portray teacher Damany Lewis, who joined the effort in order to prevent his school from shutting down under provisions of the No Child Left Behind law. Eleven teachers were indicted on racketeering allegations.

A college student begins to investigate the murder of his father, uncovering a web of deceit that has left the city vulnerable to the sort of fire that breaks out when the Great Earthquake of 1906 hits San Francisco.

19-year-old Colton Harris-Moore commits scores of crimes, mostly in the Pacific Northwest and Canada, including allegedly stealing at least five small aircraft, a boat and two cars, as well as burglarizing at least 100 private residences. He earns the nickname "Barefoot Bandit" after being seen running barefoot from the scene of the crime.

A lovely young woman must go live in a castle owned by the "Beast," a hideous creature, and there she is treated to a life of luxury. The Beast asks her to marry him repeatedly but she refuses and she grows homesick for her family only to eventually realize she loves the Beast, who is actually handsome prince who was cursed.

An Israeli woman and a Palestinian man meet in New York and fall in love, hiding their romance from their friends and family as they struggle to come to terms with their relationship.

During the 1970s, FBI agents Jim Wedick and Jack Brennan infiltrate the world of Phillip Kitzer Jr, a Minnesota swindler who masterminds dozens of multimillion-dollar schemes, such as selling worthless securities from bogus offshore enterprises. His international network of associates is known as The Fraternity.

Lynsey Addari travels to war-torn countries like Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq and wins the MacArthur Fellowhip in 2008. Her work in dangerous locales include her being kidnapped by pro-Quaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war. She is part of the N.Y. Times team which wins a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for International Reporting for her work in Waziristan.

Linda Tripp, a White House aide, secretly records 22-year old White House intern Monica Lewinsky's revelations of sexual liasons with President Bill Clinton in the White House. Tripp leaks the tape to Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor who is investigating Whitewater.

Richard Branson goes from rags-to-riches as an entrepreneur with roots in the music business, as well as his love for death-defying stunts, including riding across the Atlantic Ocean in hot-air balloons.

In 1511, Gonzalo Guerrero is shipwrecked in a violent storm and finds himself cast away on an unknown shore in the New World. He and his Spaniard shipmates are enslaved by a Mayan tribe. With no hope of escape, the brilliant and pragmatic adventurer searches for a way to advance in a strange new culture.

A small-time operator named Norman Oppenheimer befriends a young politician at a low and lonely moment in his life. Three years later when that politician becomes an influential world leader, Norman's life dramatically changes. For better. And for worse.

Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school. But then Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal and they've barely spoken since. Until now, when Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for her help.

The story of Lillian Leitzel, a trapeze artist who in the early 20th century was one of the biggest stars in the world as she performed for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Two men team up to seek vengeance for their murdered sons in the face of intolerance and prejudice in the rural South and find redemption along the way.

An advertising executive uses his knowledge of the future to make a fortune and go after the woman of his dreams, instead of the woman he married.