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Uses accounts from family, friends, and acquaintances to tell the story of Natalie Wood and how she started young, acting in the spotlight, making the transition from a childhood actress to serious ac...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Mystery of Natalie WoodIn 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. What h...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The DukeIn this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent SelenaWhen Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent K-19: The WidowmakerFollowing the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Let Him GoAn account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent JackieEdward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities tha...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Good ShepherdA coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old girl who idolizes her troubled sixteen-year-old neighbor.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent That NightYale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strappe...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent ExperimenterThe story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful da...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The White Crow