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Follows a group of Minnesota guys who set off to ride snowmobiles to the North Pole.

The story the USS Indianapolis in 1945 when it was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine.

Story of 1970s cult leader who was behind the Jonestown mass suicide on November 18, 1978.

Katharine Hepburn recreates herself from outsider into one of the greatest stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Kit Lambert discovers the rock band The Who while he is trying to make a film about the band, known then as the High Numbers. Instead, he decides to manage the band and to launch their musical career, and with Chris Stamp -- brother of Terence Stamp -- Lambert pushes Townshend to take The Who into more experimental avenues. The result is the seminal rock opera album "Tommy," which later becomes a Ken Russell film. Lambert also works with Jimi Hendrix and other artists, and is as known for self-destruction as they are.

Follows the transition of black and white women joining the Boston Police Department in the 1970s.

In real time, Secret Service agents try to protect President Ronald Regan (code name "Rawhide") from assassination, police officers investigate the shooter John Hinckley, and Cabinet members engage in a power struggle as they await Reagan's fate.

The story centers on the rise and fall of entrepreneur John DeLorean. After his arrest in 1982, DeLorean presses a defense that he was entrapped by the FBI and is eventually acquitted. Still, his company goes bankrupt after producing only 9,000 automobiles.

A silent film star and Mexican actress Lupita Tovar finds popularity starring in Spanish-language versions of Hollywood films.

During WWII, Desmond Doss, an Army medic, is ostracized by his fellow soldiers because of his refusal to kill or even carry a gun. He proves his courage, saving 75 men at the Battle of Okinawa. He later becomes the first conscientious objector in American history to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Jose Miguel Battle Sr. escapes to the United States, where he and other Cubans are trained by the CIA to invade the country in an ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion.

A true story about Billy Milligan, a man with 24 different personalities. Afflicted with multiple personalities due to a childhood filled with abuse, Billy Milligan, livesa nightmarishly schizoid life. Eventually, several of his personalities band together and commit a series of rapes, which results in Billy being put in a hospital for the criminally insane. Now well on the road to mental health, Billy hopes to be set free, but instead finds himself remanded to a hellhole of a mental hospital by a society that still fears him. Inevitably, though, justice prevails. As of this day, Billy leads a productive, sane, freelife.

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.

In the early 20th century, Amy Archer-Gilligan runs a nursing home that plays host to a curiously high number of fatalities between 1907 and 1917. Most of the deaths are found to be caused by poisoning, and bulk arsenic buyer "Sister Amy" is eventually found guilty of murder.

Denise White, a former Miss USA contestant, rises to the top of the male-dominated world of professional sports management by establishing herself as a tireless defender of her high-profile clients when their images are in serious peril.

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.

The Irish members of five-a-side soccer team travel to the "The Homeless World Cup Foundation" tournament in Paris. The Foundation helps itinerant people worldwide change their lives through soccer.