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Believe: The Barack Obama Story
Believe: The Barack Obama Story is an intimate portrait of the life of Barack Obama that details his early life in Hawaii as well as his meteoric rise in politics culminating with his historic victory in the 2008 Presidential election.
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Lil Wayne: Non-Compliant
With an incredibly recognizable voice straight out of the Southern Delta, Lil Wayne is universally celebrated as one of the most prolific hip-hop artists. His playful wordplay and often radio-friendly songs have elevated him to heights unimaginable.
Nas: Time is Illmatic
The story behind Nas's groundbreaking debut album 'Illmatic,' and the early life of one of the most talented rappers of all time.
4th & Forever
The 2020 Alcoa Tornadoes football season is about to kick off with a quarterback controversy, a fierce first game opponent, and a global pandemic nearly halting their run at a sixth straight championship.
4th & Forever
The 2020 season gets off to a rocky start for Alcoa and a star senior defends his family legacy.
4th & Forever
Tensions rise between a star player and the head coach while the Tornadoes’ turnaround hangs in the balance.
4th & Forever
A Tornado player is the first to be infected with the COVID-19 virus and a David vs. Goliath matchup puts the team to the test.
4th & Forever
The playoffs have begun for the Tornadoes and their legendary coach returns to his humble beginnings.
4th & Forever
The playoffs 2 have begun for the Tornadoes and their legendary coach returns to his humble beginnings.
4th & Forever
A native son is named head football coach at legendary Pahokee High School, and a budding quarterback looks to make his father proud.
4th & Forever
A coach faces backlash after an embarrassing season opener and players get a major boost both on and off the field.
4th & Forever
Coach Boldin confronts his coaching staff about sensitive information leaking to fans, while a crew of Pahokee players scouts their arch-rivals.
4th & Forever
A beloved teacher struggles with cancer, an unsung academic talent emerges, and an all-around player switches positions and dominates the game.
4th & Forever
The annual sugar cane burn gives current players a chance to 'Rabbit Hunt,' and one former player a chance to lobby for a greener future.
4th & Forever
On the eve of the Muck Bowl, an eligibility issue deals Glades Central’s playoff hopes a serious setback, sparking tension between coaching staffs.
4th & Forever
A single playoff berth is on the line, and an NFL star returns to fire up both teams. But a tragic act casts a dark cloud over the Muck.
4th & Forever
A last-second score catapults one team to a surprising playoff run, while a heartbreaking loss spells the end for the coach of the other.
4th & Forever
Competition for the starting quarterback spot starts; a senior's future is uncertain after an injury; a brawl breaks out during a scrimmage.
4th & Forever
Problems arise after the team wins its season opener, as both quarterbacks struggle in the game against St. Bonaventure.
4th & Forever
The team struggles in its first game of the season against Bakersfield.
4th & Forever
After the loss to St. Bonaventure, coach Lara warns of position changes; the quarterbacks continue to struggle; a player has trouble with a switch from offense to defense.
4th & Forever
A coach faces backlash after an embarrassing season opener and players get a major boost both on and off the field.
4th & Forever
Coach Boldin confronts his coaching staff about sensitive information leaking to fans, while a crew of Pahokee players scouts their arch-rivals.
4th & Forever
A beloved teacher struggles with cancer, an unsung academic talent emerges, and an all-around player switches positions and dominates the game.
4th & Forever
The annual sugar cane burn gives current players a chance to 'Rabbit Hunt,' and one former player a chance to lobby for a greener future.
4th & Forever
On the eve of the Muck Bowl, an eligibility issue deals Glades Central’s playoff hopes a serious setback, sparking tension between coaching staffs.
4th & Forever
A single playoff berth is on the line, and an NFL star returns to fire up both teams. But a tragic act casts a dark cloud over the Muck.
4th & Forever
A last-second score catapults one team to a surprising playoff run, while a heartbreaking loss spells the end for the coach of the other.
4th & Forever
Competition for the starting quarterback spot starts; a senior's future is uncertain after an injury; a brawl breaks out during a scrimmage.
4th & Forever
Problems arise after the team wins its season opener, as both quarterbacks struggle in the game against St. Bonaventure.
4th & Forever
The team struggles in its first game of the season against Bakersfield.
4th & Forever
After the loss to St. Bonaventure, coach Lara warns of position changes; the quarterbacks continue to struggle; a player has trouble with a switch from offense to defense.
4th & Forever
A coach faces backlash after an embarrassing season opener and players get a major boost both on and off the field.
4th & Forever
Coach Boldin confronts his coaching staff about sensitive information leaking to fans, while a crew of Pahokee players scouts their arch-rivals.
4th & Forever
A beloved teacher struggles with cancer, an unsung academic talent emerges, and an all-around player switches positions and dominates the game.
4th & Forever
The annual sugar cane burn gives current players a chance to 'Rabbit Hunt,' and one former player a chance to lobby for a greener future.
4th & Forever
On the eve of the Muck Bowl, an eligibility issue deals Glades Central’s playoff hopes a serious setback, sparking tension between coaching staffs.
4th & Forever
A single playoff berth is on the line, and an NFL star returns to fire up both teams. But a tragic act casts a dark cloud over the Muck.
4th & Forever
A last-second score catapults one team to a surprising playoff run, while a heartbreaking loss spells the end for the coach of the other.
4th & Forever
Competition for the starting quarterback spot starts; a senior's future is uncertain after an injury; a brawl breaks out during a scrimmage.
4th & Forever
Problems arise after the team wins its season opener, as both quarterbacks struggle in the game against St. Bonaventure.
4th & Forever
The team struggles in its first game of the season against Bakersfield.
4th & Forever
After the loss to St. Bonaventure, coach Lara warns of position changes; the quarterbacks continue to struggle; a player has trouble with a switch from offense to defense.
4th & Forever
A coach faces backlash after an embarrassing season opener and players get a major boost both on and off the field.
4th & Forever
Coach Boldin confronts his coaching staff about sensitive information leaking to fans, while a crew of Pahokee players scouts their arch-rivals.
4th & Forever
A beloved teacher struggles with cancer, an unsung academic talent emerges, and an all-around player switches positions and dominates the game.
4th & Forever
The annual sugar cane burn gives current players a chance to 'Rabbit Hunt,' and one former player a chance to lobby for a greener future.
4th & Forever
On the eve of the Muck Bowl, an eligibility issue deals Glades Central’s playoff hopes a serious setback, sparking tension between coaching staffs.
4th & Forever
A single playoff berth is on the line, and an NFL star returns to fire up both teams. But a tragic act casts a dark cloud over the Muck.
4th & Forever
A last-second score catapults one team to a surprising playoff run, while a heartbreaking loss spells the end for the coach of the other.
4th & Forever
Competition for the starting quarterback spot starts; a senior's future is uncertain after an injury; a brawl breaks out during a scrimmage.
4th & Forever
Problems arise after the team wins its season opener, as both quarterbacks struggle in the game against St. Bonaventure.
4th & Forever
The team struggles in its first game of the season against Bakersfield.
4th & Forever
After the loss to St. Bonaventure, coach Lara warns of position changes; the quarterbacks continue to struggle; a player has trouble with a switch from offense to defense.
4th & Forever
A coach faces backlash after an embarrassing season opener and players get a major boost both on and off the field.
4th & Forever
Coach Boldin confronts his coaching staff about sensitive information leaking to fans, while a crew of Pahokee players scouts their arch-rivals.
4th & Forever
A beloved teacher struggles with cancer, an unsung academic talent emerges, and an all-around player switches positions and dominates the game.
Baselines
Set in Los Angeles, this series follows Jamiel Chambers, a blue chip high-schooler on the brink of escaping the desperate poverty that has berated inner city America. After his junior year ends with him leading his team to a second place finish in the state's regional tournament, Jamiel is hand-picked to play in the city's annual summer league All-Star game. With college recruits swarming and pro agents hedging, the media circus leans in, peddling the question mark around his future like rabid bookies. It is this exposure that gets the attention of Nick Collins, a derelict from a disreputable family from neighboring Irvine. After his doomed-from-the-start plan to capitalize on Jamiel's notoriety ends in with fatal results, family members from both sides are pulled into a series of events which will not only effect Jamiel's trajectory, but will set up one of the most intense family feuds the city has ever witnessed.
Baselines
Set in Los Angeles, this series follows Jamiel Chambers, a blue chip high-schooler on the brink of escaping the desperate poverty that has berated inner city America. After his junior year ends with him leading his team to a second place finish in the state's regional tournament, Jamiel is hand-picked to play in the city's annual summer league All-Star game. With college recruits swarming and pro agents hedging, the media circus leans in, peddling the question mark around his future like rabid bookies. It is this exposure that gets the attention of Nick Collins, a derelict from a disreputable family from neighboring Irvine. After his doomed-from-the-start plan to capitalize on Jamiel's notoriety ends in with fatal results, family members from both sides are pulled into a series of events which will not only effect Jamiel's trajectory, but will set up one of the most intense family feuds the city has ever witnessed.
Baselines
Set in Los Angeles, this series follows Jamiel Chambers, a blue chip high-schooler on the brink of escaping the desperate poverty that has berated inner city America. After his junior year ends with him leading his team to a second place finish in the state's regional tournament, Jamiel is hand-picked to play in the city's annual summer league All-Star game. With college recruits swarming and pro agents hedging, the media circus leans in, peddling the question mark around his future like rabid bookies. It is this exposure that gets the attention of Nick Collins, a derelict from a disreputable family from neighboring Irvine. After his doomed-from-the-start plan to capitalize on Jamiel's notoriety ends in with fatal results, family members from both sides are pulled into a series of events which will not only effect Jamiel's trajectory, but will set up one of the most intense family feuds the city has ever witnessed.
Baselines
Season Finale! Mia confesses to Milk, as he discovers Jamiel was present during Nicky’s demise. Jamiel and Tareek visit an Ivy-prep League basketball coach who wants Jamiel to transfer for the betterment of his future.
Rucker50
The celebratory explosion of basketball history makers, legend shakers, and lawbreakers juxtaposed against important Civil & Human Rights events. The 50 years of The Rucker's ripples reverberate throughout Basketball, Hip-Hop, Harlem, and life.
Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in Pyongyang
After forging a friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Dennis Rodman wants to improve relations between DPRK and the US.
Gridlocked
Former NYPD SWAT leader David Hendrix (Dominic Purcell) has failed to receive medical clearance after taking a bullet on the job. As if things couldn’t get any worse, he’s forced to babysit Brody Walker (Cody Hackman), a hard partying celebrity that’s been sent on a mandatory ride-along as part of his probation. But all of that changes when a police training facility comes under attack by a team of ruthless mercenaries led by the mysterious Korver (Stephen Lang).
A Clear Shot
A hostage situation at an electronic store in California goes a wry when bullets start flying. Will law enforcement be able to come in and save the day or will the hostage takers win.
Axis
While driving through Los Angeles over a tense afternoon in real time, an Irish movie star with a rocky past confronts a series of devastating events that threaten his newfound sobriety, his loved ones, and potentially, his life.
Everything is Both
This thriller follows a girl who runs for her life and depends on a mysterious stranger to escape danger and pull off the biggest score of her life.
Skin In The Game
Abducted off the sidewalk of suburban America, fifteen year old Dani (Sammi Hanratty) finds herself submerged in a horrific human trafficking ring run by Eve (Angélica Celaya). With no initial assistance from the police, Dani's mother (Elisabeth Harnois) and an ex-prostitute (Erica Ash) take to the streets in an effort to find her before it is too late. First time director Adisa takes viewers on an intense journey of a horrific underground world and introduces us to characters from both sides of the street, some who survive … and others who are not so lucky.
The Next 8 Seconds
Neil talks about his journey from childhood struggles to a college graduate turned professional bull rider. Facing adversity, racial discrimination as well as countless life and death experiences in the sport of bull riding, Neil has becomes one of the best professional Bull Riders in a sport traditionally known for white bull riders. After 12 years in the sport deemed 'the most dangerous sport on dirt', Neil has decided to hang up his rope to pursue other opportunities. Neil is set to retire in front of his home crowd at Rodeo Houston where he will once again thrill the crowd for 'The Next 8 Seconds'
Baselines
Set in Los Angeles, this series follows Jamiel Chambers, a blue chip high-schooler on the brink of escaping the desperate poverty that has berated inner city America. After his junior year ends with him leading his team to a second place finish in the state's regional tournament, Jamiel is hand-picked to play in the city's annual summer league All-Star game. With college recruits swarming and pro agents hedging, the media circus leans in, peddling the question mark around his future like rabid bookies. It is this exposure that gets the attention of Nick Collins, a derelict from a disreputable family from neighboring Irvine. After his doomed-from-the-start plan to capitalize on Jamiel's notoriety ends in with fatal results, family members from both sides are pulled into a series of events which will not only effect Jamiel's trajectory, but will set up one of the most intense family feuds the city has ever witnessed.
Baselines
Set in Los Angeles, this series follows Jamiel Chambers, a blue chip high-schooler on the brink of escaping the desperate poverty that has berated inner city America. After his junior year ends with him leading his team to a second place finish in the state's regional tournament, Jamiel is hand-picked to play in the city's annual summer league All-Star game. With college recruits swarming and pro agents hedging, the media circus leans in, peddling the question mark around his future like rabid bookies. It is this exposure that gets the attention of Nick Collins, a derelict from a disreputable family from neighboring Irvine. After his doomed-from-the-start plan to capitalize on Jamiel's notoriety ends in with fatal results, family members from both sides are pulled into a series of events which will not only effect Jamiel's trajectory, but will set up one of the most intense family feuds the city has ever witnessed.
Baselines
Set in Los Angeles, this series follows Jamiel Chambers, a blue chip high-schooler on the brink of escaping the desperate poverty that has berated inner city America. After his junior year ends with him leading his team to a second place finish in the state's regional tournament, Jamiel is hand-picked to play in the city's annual summer league All-Star game. With college recruits swarming and pro agents hedging, the media circus leans in, peddling the question mark around his future like rabid bookies. It is this exposure that gets the attention of Nick Collins, a derelict from a disreputable family from neighboring Irvine. After his doomed-from-the-start plan to capitalize on Jamiel's notoriety ends in with fatal results, family members from both sides are pulled into a series of events which will not only effect Jamiel's trajectory, but will set up one of the most intense family feuds the city has ever witnessed.
Baselines
Season Finale! Mia confesses to Milk, as he discovers Jamiel was present during Nicky’s demise. Jamiel and Tareek visit an Ivy-prep League basketball coach who wants Jamiel to transfer for the betterment of his future.
American Violet
After an overzealous district attorney's drug bust lands her in jail, single mother Dee Roberts must face an agonizing choice: Plead guilty and go home a convicted felon, or fight the charges and risk a lengthy prison sentence. Despite her mother's advice and risking everything, innocent Dee chooses to fight the criminal justice system, joined by an ACLU attorney and a former narcotics cop.
Back Then
Gavin Miller left the trauma of his teenage years long ago, but his world is turned upside down when one of the sexiest and most popular girls from high school walks back into his life.
Country Love
Kambili returns home after fifteen years when his sister, Nneka, writes him a heartfelt letter of reconciliation to amend their estranged past.
Death by a Thousand Cuts
DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS, the murder investigation of a Dominican park ranger by a Haitian charcoal producer reveals the complex, growing conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti in the battle for natural resources.
Buster's Mal Heart
In this bold thriller spiked with dark humor, Rami Malek (Mr. Robot) is a family man whose chance encounter with a conspiracy-obsessed drifter leaves him on the run from the police and an impending event known as The Inversion.
Robin Harris: Live from the Comedy Act Theater
This never before released Live Show of Robin Harris as the host and his comedy friends at The Comedy Act in Los Angeles 1987. As master of ceremonies at the Comedy Act, Robin Harris took verbal potshots at anything that moved, including customers.
Kevin Hart
Superstar Kevin Hart performs hilarious live stand-up at the Laff House in Philadelphia, where it all began. Shot in 2006, before he was a worldwide star.
Deon Cole
Deon Cole (Deon Cole's Black Box, Conan O'Brien) performs at the Laff House in Philadelphia before he was a star.
George Wallace: Large and in Charge
George Wallace brings his distinct style of humour to this jam-packed casino comedy concert.
Periodt
A businesswoman seeks spiritual guidance from being promiscuous. Her friend's pastor prays for her, leading to an unexpected turn in her romantic life. Starring Robert Ri'chard, Nicole Hoopz Alexander, Patrice Lovely, is known as Ma, and Ms. Hattie.
Recession Proof
Regina Holloway is a Wall Street executive that loses her entire lifesavings in a Ponzi scheme and is forced to move back home with her mama in the hood and find a whole new way of life.
The Chemo Club
The Chemo Club is a feature film which follows strong-willed Lulu and humble Faith as they embark on a heist to recover their stolen funds from a corrupt retirement pensions boss.†
2 Days In New York
Hip talk-radio host and journalist Mingus (Chris Rock) and his French photographer girlfriend, Marion (Julie Delpy), live cozily in a New York apartment with their cat and two young children from...
A Second Chance
When best friends Daniella and Cheyann both start to have feelings for Cheyann's best guy friend Darius, something unexpected happens. Faced with the possibility of losing Darius to Daniella makes Cheyanne realize that she really loves him causing the friends to be caught in a triangle of confusion, deceit and decisions.
Exit Strategy
James gets evicted from his apartment and has no choice but to move in with his girlfriend Kim. He quickly discovers that she is not what he wants and needs an exit strategy fast. But for Kim, breaking up just isn't an option.
Domino: Battle of the Bones
Domino: Battle of the Bones is a feel-good comedy about an elderly black man who teams up with his awkward, white step-grandson to defeat his rival in a domino tournament.
Pump
After scandal tears down his health supplements empire, TV fitness guru Sean Ford (Ray J) goes back to the modest LA gym where he began, desperate to rebuild his life.
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After scandal tears down his health supplements empire, TV fitness guru Sean Ford (Ray J) goes back to the modest LA gym where he began, desperate to rebuild his life.
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After scandal tears down his health supplements empire, TV fitness guru Sean Ford (Ray J) goes back to the modest LA gym where he began, desperate to rebuild his life.
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After scandal tears down his health supplements empire, TV fitness guru Sean Ford (Ray J) goes back to the modest LA gym where he began, desperate to rebuild his life.