The movie depicts the relationship between two medical pioneers, one celebrated, one overlooked: the black cardiac pioneer Vivien Thomas and his complex and volatile partnership with white surgeon Alfred Blalock, the world famous ‘Blue Baby doctor’ who pioneered modern heart surgery.
In 1971, a group of friends sail into a nuclear test zone, and their protest captures the world’s imagination. Filmmaker Jerry Rothwell examines the early days of Greenpeace and co-founder Bob Hunter’s commitment to environmental issues.
In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent J.B. Bernstein stages an unconventional recruitment strategy to find baseball’s next star pitchers in India and train them to play Major League Baseball.
The movie tells the story of Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, a a boxer whose dreams of winning the middleweight boxing title is destroyed when he’s wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
The movie is a re-creation of the troubled and controversial life of the master comedy filmmaker Charles Chaplin, from his humble beginnings in south London through his early days in British vaudeville, his silent movie career in America and his late masterpieces.
The movie tells the story of Aung San Suu Kyi, the daughter of a martyred Burmese general, who returns to her homeland and becomes the core of Burma’s democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
Young female-to-male transgender Brandon Teena leaves his hometown under threat when his ex-girlfriend’s brother discovers that he’s biologically female. In Nebraska, Brandon attempts to find himself and love.
Not all teen prenancies are unplanned. The movie is based on the allegedly true story of a 2008 media circus surrounding teenagers at Gloucester (Mass.) High School who agreed to get pregnant at the same time.
The documentary is about Curtis Duffy, one of the country’s most renowned chefs, who builds a restaurant and shows the exacting standards required for luxury dining. It’s a story about food, family, balance and sacrifice.
The movie centers on gymnast Gabby Douglas who makes personal sacrifices to train with coach Liang Chow and become the first African American woman in Olympic history to become the individual all-around champion.
Initially set on being a dairy farmer, the aristocratic Karen Blixen travels to Africa to join her womanizing husband, Bror, who instead spends their money on a coffee plantation. There Karen has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
Awarded a scholarship to the University of Texas at Austin, small but scrappy Freddie Steinmark gets a chance to play football for coach Darrell Royal and the Longhorns. But Freddie soon faces the toughest challenge of his life after leading his team to a championship season.
The movie is a look at Brian Clough’s 44-day reign as the coach of Leeds United. Previously managed by Clough’s bitter rival Don Revie, the Leeds team has just completed its most successful period ever as a football club.
Yankee Doodle Dandy is a nostalgic view of the golden era of show business and of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan, who made it glitter.
The movie depicts a sex scandal of a released sex tape featuring five senior members of the lacrosse team and a classmate that shook Massachusetts prep school, Milton Academy in 2004-05 school year.