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Based on the true story of the Buddha: The battles of a Prince who rejects riches and power, risking insanity and death, in a quest to find ultimate freedom.
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(Posted: 11/23/2007; Updated: 08/27/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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An American slave joins Mexico's struggle for independence led by a village priest who writes the first law against slavery in North America. Based on the true story of the birth of the Republic of Mexico.
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(Posted: 05/11/2007; Updated: 08/30/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A black lawyer risks his life to save twelve black sharecroppers from Death Row when they are wrongfully convicted of killing two white men. Based on the true story of Scipio Africanus Jones and the Elaine Twelve.
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(Posted: 05/28/2009; Updated: 09/20/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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When a noted Boston journalist is diagnosed as terminally ill, she embarks on an extraordinary journey that alters her fate and leaves an indelible mark on humanity. This is her celebrated true story.
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(Posted: 01/20/2009; Updated: 04/19/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Duped by his rival and betrayed by Elizabeth Barry, a seventeen-year-old actress he made the first true star of the London stage, the infamous Earl of Rochester (28) plots a theatrical revenge to restore his reputation as the man of mode. A real life pygmalion story; American Idol in 1675 London. "Dangerous Liaisons" with "Stage Beauty" leads to "Shakespeare in Love."
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(Posted: 09/23/2001; Updated: 01/28/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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The TRUE story of how a woman's desire for wealth, political power and social status creates a tragedy of enormous consequence, which in turn produces one of the most famous murder mysteries of the 20th Century.
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(Posted: 09/19/2008; Updated: 02/14/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Logline: In 1888 France, an asylum warden accepts Vincent Van Gogh into his care and learns, through their difficult friendship, to see beyond the confines of his own tragic life.
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(Posted: 02/14/2005; Updated: 09/11/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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China, 1050 BC. The epic true story of the exiled revolutionary who created the "I Ching" and used its powers of divination to lead a forty-year rebellion against his cousin, the Emperor of China.
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(Posted: 10/08/2012; Updated: 10/08/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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William Clark recalls the perilous Lewis & Clark Expedition and its aftermath, casting a startling new perspective on the impetuous life and mysterious death of fellow explorer Meriwether Lewis.
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(Posted: 03/04/2009; Updated: 02/04/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Anne Bonny is the most illustrious female pirate from the Golden Age of Piracy. Her life is legendary, but no one agrees on the details of her story -- not even on her death. Maybe she can set the record straight? Finalist, 2009 Charleston International Film Festival; Gold Remi winner, 2009 Worldfest, Second Place, SkyFest II, 2009; Finalist, Beaufort International Film Festival, 2010, Semi-finalist, Screenplay Festival, 2009.
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(Posted: 03/07/2009; Updated: 07/14/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Emilie lays the foundation for the theory of relativity, but also has a way with the "science of seduction." A true and timeless love story of the witty Voltaire and the love of his life, Emilie du Chatelet. WINNER: Wildsound, Toronto: Reading- EXCERPT filmed: tllewis.net/beyond-reason.
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(Posted: 09/20/2006; Updated: 03/31/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Amidst the backdrop of the American civil rights movement, Canadian Willie O'Ree overcomes racial prejudice and a career-threatening injury to become "the Jackie Robinson of hockey," the first black man to play in the National Hockey League.
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(Posted: 08/26/2004; Updated: 02/11/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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The inspirational, true tale of brilliant gypsy pianist, who survives many struggles, including the front lines of World War II, in the name of love, passion and above all, his music
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(Posted: 08/22/2010; Updated: 08/31/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Dublin, Ireland 1803. Amid escalating violence that threatens the well being of her family, a twenty-two year old woman, Anne Devlin, chooses to fight against the British government by joining the United Irishmen in a planned uprising.
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(Posted: 02/14/2010; Updated: 06/26/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Ed always wanted to act or direct in theatre. Infant epilepsy, a lifelong battle with booze, or the bizarre hallucinations of van Gogh, Barrymore and spiders the size of dogs were not going to stop him. Living in reality was another matter. This is a physiological journey where a man struggles to find peace between the worlds of the real and the imaginary.
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(Posted: 04/26/2004; Updated: 09/03/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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The incredible true story of baseball's comic-tragic hero, eccentric Hall of Famer Rube Waddell.
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(Posted: 06/16/2011; Updated: 09/22/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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The true story of an up-and-coming young artist in 1870's Paris -- Berthe Morisot -- her ill-fated love affair with the renowned Edouard Manet, and her eventual emergence as one of the leaders of the rebellious French Impressionist movement.
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(Posted: 08/05/2008; Updated: 08/30/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Before Elvis. Before Morrison. Before Cobain. There was Byron.
Lord Byron was the Elvis of his time – a charismatic dark prince rocking the 19th century with outrageous poetry and a notorious love triangle with his sister and his wife.
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(Posted: 01/05/2006; Updated: 10/27/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Standjing in the shadow of his revolutionary grandfather
(Ben Franklin), a young man emerges to forge a Second American Revolution.
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(Posted: 03/18/2013; Updated: 03/18/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Desperate to obtain land rights, the intractable captain of the buffalo hunt commands indigenous people in an epic struggle for survival -- the true story of the Northwest Rebellion.
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(Posted: 01/31/2012; Updated: 08/17/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Alice Ramsey is on a mission to become the first woman to drive an automobile across the United States, but a vengeful bank president, whose wife becomes a suffragette, isn't about to let that happen.
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(Posted: 04/30/2011; Updated: 01/26/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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True Story. Donaldina (Dolly) Cameron, 25, arrives in 1895 San Francisco, begins a lifelong battle against Chinese slave-girl trade, saving more than 3000 girls -more than Schindler. An incredible feat in face of era prejudices, and shining proof that women can change the world, too. 105 Pages.
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(Posted: 09/06/2008; Updated: 07/26/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A man relentlessly pursues his childhood dream -- discovering the legendary city of Troy. This is the true story of a remarkable, but little-known person: Heinrich Schliemann.
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(Posted: 02/02/2001; Updated: 09/11/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Why did Yael put the tentpin through the head of her husband's best friend? Based on the award winning Biblical romance, Lightning and Fire is the story of Deborah, the Prophetess, Judges 4/5 and her romance with the Hebrew people and the captain of her guard.
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(Posted: 09/07/2011; Updated: 09/08/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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