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The Long Gray Line
The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.

- 1955
Deliver Us from Evil
Former Catholic priest Oliver O'Grady - Father Ollie in more familiar circumstances - talks about his life as priest, including what he saw as his many failings in that role. Although not stating it as one of those failings, he also speaks about the sexual abuse of minors, both girls and boys, in his role as a priest, where his victims number in the hundreds covering approximately two decades in Central California, with his youngest known victim being nine months old. He admits that he spent as much time planning his abuses, which included gaining the confidences of parents sometimes also in sexual means, than he did with actual ministering. A handful of his victims and their support networks speak of how the abuse was able to happen, how it has negatively affected their collective lives to this day (while Father Ollie walks seemingly happy a free man in his native Ireland), and how they are trying to regain their faith in a holistic manner. Experts talk about how items specific to the Catholic religious structure institutionalize such abuse where power rests in the hands of a small few, while the flock - the masses - are meant, as good Catholics, to be subservient to that power, and why the abuse of girls is treated differently by the church than that of boys. This documentary then opens up the discussion to the fact that clergy abuse within the Catholic church is not isolated only to Father Ollie, but is widespread, may be institutionalized psychologically, and efforts are still made at almost every step by those in positions of power, including the Pope, to protect the abusers at the expense of the victims. In Father Ollie's case, he was moved from parish to parish within his diocese (the Los Angeles Diocese) and often promoted, while his victims were told he would be moved not only into therapy but into positions where children could no longer be abused.

- Metascore86
- 2006
The Stranger Beside Me
While working at a Seattle clinic for women in the 1970s, aspiring crime writer, Ann Rule, unwittingly becomes friends with serial killer Ted Bundy.

- 2003
Soldier's Girl
The true story of the price a young soldier paid for falling in love with a transsexual night-club performer.

- 2003
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie
A feature film version of America's hit comedy concert tour, Blue Collar Comedy Tour - The Movie stars renowned comedians Jeff Foxworthy and Bill Engvall and fellow Blue Collar comics Ron White and Larry The Cable Guy. The movie features live stand-up performances filmed at Phoenix's Dodge Theater as well as behind-the-scenes sequences highlighting the individual comedians.

- Metascore70
- 2003
The Gift
The Gift documents the phenomenon of deliberate HIV infection. The film follows the stories of two "bug chasers" who sought out "the gift" of HIV infection. Also interviewed are AIDS activist and author, Walt Odets, PhD, and HIV+ and HIV- men. The film explores the normalization and glamorization of HIV/AIDS and discusses the isolation and division caused by HIV status in the gay community.

- 2003
Man on Wire
On August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit, a French wire walker, juggler, and street performer days shy of his 25th birthday, spent 45 minutes walking, dancing, kneeling, and lying on a wire he and friends strung between the rooftops of the Twin Towers. Uses contemporary interviews, archival footage, and recreations to tell the story of his previous walks between towers of Notre Dame and of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, his passions and friendships, and the details of the night before the walk: getting cable into the towers, hiding from guards, and mounting the wire. It ends with observations of the profound changes the walk's success brought to Philippe and those closest to him.

- Metascore89
- 2008
Being Evel
The real story behind the myth of American icon Robert 'Evel' Knievel and his legacy.

- Metascore72
- 2015
Mystify: Michael Hutchence
A documentary feature about the troubled heart and soul of Michael Hutchence, lead singer and songwriter of INXS.

- Metascore73
- 2019
Girl, Interrupted
In 1967, Susanna Kaysen has a headache and chases a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. This lands her in the mental institution Claymoore, where Dr. Melvin Potts diagnoses her with borderline personality disorder. When she arrives at Claymoore Nurse Valerie Owens greets her and shows her around the women's ward where she meets Georgina Tuskin, a pathological liar fixated on "The Wizard of Oz"; Polly Clark, a childish schizophrenic; Janet Webber, a sardonic anorexic patient; Daisy Randone who won't let anyone into her room and only eats her father's chicken; and Lisa Rowe, a sociopath who controls the other patients and makes the Claymoore nurses' lives hell. Through the movie, Lisa gains and loses control over Susanna and shows how bad she can be. How long will Susanna last at Claymoore and how does she take back control of her life? This movie battles subjects such as mental heath, abuse, self-harm and suicide.

- Metascore51
- 1999
Reversal of Fortune
Alan Dershowitz a brilliant professor of law is hired by wealthy socialite Claus von Bulow to attempt to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife. Based on a true story the film concentrates not on the trial like other legal thrillers, but on the preparatory work that Dershowitz and his students put in as they attempt to disprove the prosecution's case and achieve the Reversal of Fortune of the title.

- Metascore93
- 1990
Carter High
During the 1980s Carter High School in Dallas, Texas was a football powerhouse. This is the story of four of the student athletes who's off the field activities cost them their future.

- 2015
The Abused
Thousands of women across Britain live in fear of their partner. Brutal attacks happen every day, and two women are murdered every week by their partners. The Abused is a journey inside the lives of two victims of domestic abuse. It tells the story of two women, Hazel and Kelly, who were attacked in the same week in Norfolk.

- 2019
Missing 411: The Hunted
Hunters have disappeared from wildlands without a trace for hundreds of years. David Paulides presents the haunting true stories of hunters experiencing the unexplainable in the woods of North America.

- 2019
The Trump Prophecy
The Trump Prophecy is the story of Fireman Mark Taylor and what he heard God tell him about America, Israel and the world. The event seeks to answer the question “What does MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN really mean?” A story of prayer and hope, this event inspires and uplifts as it reminds us of the privilege and blessings we enjoy as Americans "One Nation under God.”

- 2018
Chasing Evel: The Robbie Knievel Story
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 father's legacy by jumping once again.

- 2017
Joni
Based on Joni Eareckson's autobiography. She becomes paralyzed after breaking her neck in a swimming accident at age 17. Trying to cope with her new life, she learns to paint using her mouth and finds strength in her new Christian faith.

- 1979
Hercules
For his enemies, the sword! For his princess, devotion! Hercules the mighty descended from the heavens, half-god and half-mortal, unleashed against the forces of evil as he quests to find the woman he loves. Lou Ferrigno is Hercules, in the epic odyssey of the gods.

- 1983
Stronger
Jeff Bauman is a well-intention-ed but underachieving Boston native who works at the deli counter of a Costco and lives in a small two-bedroom apartment with his alcoholic mother, Patty. One day at the local bar, Jeff runs into his ex-girlfriend Erin, who is attracted to his kindness and charm but finds herself constantly frustrated by his lack of commitment. After learning that Erin is running in the Boston Marathon to raise money for the hospital she works at, Jeff asks every patron in the bar to donate and then promises Erin he'll wait at the finish line for her with a big sign. The day of the Marathon, Jeff scrambles to make it to the finish line on time but reaches it just before Erin reaches the finish line. As she approaches a bomb goes off right where Jeff is standing. After being rushed to a hospital, both of Jeff's legs are amputated above the knee. When he regains consciousness, Jeff tells his brother that he saw the bomber before the explosion. Patty calls the FBI, and Jeff is able to give them a description of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Local authorities capture Dzhokhar Tsarnaev days later, and Jeff is hailed as a hero.

- Metascore76
- 2017
Buffalo Boys
Two brothers named Jamar and Suwo came back to the land of Java to avenge their father, who was a Sultan, after years of exile in America.

- Metascore48
- 2018
Spirit of the Game
In the lead up to the 1956 Olympic games, a group of missionaries are tasked with helping the fledgling Australian basketball team compete in their first ever Olympics, and in doing so, unite a nation still coming to grips after the war.

- 2016
A Street Cat Named Bob
Based on the international bestselling book. The true, feel-good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.

- Metascore54
- 2016
The Last Princess
Princess Deokhye (Son Ye-Jin) was the last princess of Korea. Under Japanese colonial rule, she is taken to Japan as a hostage. With the era's harsh conditions, she struggles to maintain the hope of the Korean people. Jang-Han (Park Hae-Il) is a fighter for Korean independence. His mission is to bring Princess Deokhye back to South Korea and he also loves her.

- 2016
Bullied
Every day, thousands of gay and lesbian students are verbally and physically harassed in schools. Bullied centers on the powerful story of Jamie Nabozny, a gay teenage boy, tormented for years by classmates in his middle and high schools. Jamie fought back, not with his fists but in a courtroom. His historic federal case established that gay and lesbian students have a constitutional right to be free from harassment and bullying.
- 2010