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The supposed true story of Shirley MacLaines experience with a spiritual awakening

Home movies, photographs, and recited poetry illustrate the life of Tupac Shakur, one of the most beloved, revolutionary, and volatile hip hop M Cs of all time

This thought provoking, sometimes troubling documentary examines the personal and ethical imperatives that drive abortion providers to continue in the face of often dangerous legal and personal harassment

Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatras tour of Australia When Sinatra calls a local reporter a two bit hooker, every union in the country black bans the star until he issues an apology

Fictional chronicle of Squantos life prior to and including the arrival of the Mayflower in 1620

The story of controversial pornography publisher Larry Flynt, and how he became a defender of free speech

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built

Following Alabama governor George Wallace through segregation, presidential elections, an assassination attempt and personal trauma

The story of immigrant Harry DeLeyer and the plow horse he rescued from slaughter

The story about Riphagen, a cunning Dutch traitor during WW2 who helped Nazi round up Jews, stealing their treasures for himself He destroyed Resistance groups, making many who pursued justice after the war look like fools

This documentary profiles an influential chef who played a pivotal role in the invention of a revolutionary new American cuisine

Set against a backdrop of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, Palestinian rapper Kareem and his singer girlfriend Manar struggle, love and make music in their crime ridden ghetto and Tel Avivs hip hop club scene

During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods

A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain

A chronicle of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another

Based on a true story of a drug addict who became a triathlon champion and a winner of Ironman competition

Documentary about veteran character actor Dick Miller, whose career in and outside of Hollywood has spanned almost 200 films across six decades, featuring a diverse range of interviews with directors, co stars, and contemporaries

Based on the life of rock promoterproducer Bob Marcucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian

Widow Frances Lacey is being sexually harassed by her boss while she tries to provide for her brood of six children Also, her oldest son, Shayne, is constantly in trouble When shes fired from her job, she decides to abandon Los An

Pat Patterson and those who will knew him best look back at his unlikely path to the top of sports entertainment From your growing up a poor kid in Montreal, to finding a fame in San

The rise and fall of confederate general Thomas Stonewall Jackson, as he meets with military success against the Union from 1861 to 1863, when he is accidentally killed by his own soldiers

In 1967, during the making of La Chinoise, film director Jean Luc Godard falls in love with 19 year old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her

Unprecedented access to Muhammad Alis personal archive of audio journals as well as interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends are used to tell the legends life story

The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept

The story of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, a brilliant and beautiful Southbern Belle who became the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant Jazz Age

Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa

Robbie Knievel, 52 and the owner of 20 world records and 350 jumps worldwide, life is uncovered through his personal pursuit of sobriety and the need of continuing his fathers legacy by jumping once again

The documentary Drachenmadchen Dragon Girls tells the story of three Chinese girls, training to become Kung Fu fighters, far away from their families at the Shaolin Tagou Kung Fu School, located right next to the Shaolin Monaster

In an unbelievable story of perseverance, free climber Tommy Caldwell and climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson attempt to scale the impossible 3000ft Dawn Wall of El Capitan

Yip Mans resistance against invading foreigners, along with his romantic relations while under the tutelage of three Wing Chun masters

The true story of a recently widowered lawman who befriends a boy dying of tuberculosis and a madam of the local brothel while their town is being politically and violently overtaken by a gang of reckless cattlemen from Texas

A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band

The true story of Richard Pimentel, a brilliant public speaker with a troubled past, who returns from Vietnam deafened, and finds a new purpose in his landmark efforts on the behalf of Americans with disabilities

Afshin Ghaffarian risks everything to start a dance company amidst his home country of Irans politically volatile climate and the nations ban on dancing

Meet John G Morris, 95, a legend of photojournalism, whose unerring eye for the best shot has moved and changed the world Morris, former Picture Editor of Life Magazine amp New York Times was instrumental in the early years of Magnum