A black boy, called Little Onion, is mistaken for a child by the legendary abolitionist John Brown and ends up traveling with him and meeting other prominent figures in African American history, such as Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass...
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February 25, 1964. Cassius Clay has just won the title of heavyweight champion at the Miami Beach Convention Center, and to celebrate he joins his “brother” Malcolm X, who is waiting for him in a motel along with two other excellences of the African American community. era: American football champion Jim Brown and singer Sam Cooke. Malcolm X is leaving the Muslim nation and wants to call Cassius Clay to him for the new movement he is about to form. Clay has not yet become Mohammed Ali but he is 22 and considers Malcolm his spiritual mentor, so he is tempted to follow him. Jim Brown, on the other hand, has fought his battle against racism on his own, and Sam Cooke is winning the admiration of the Caucasian audience and the top 100 record companies...
Read More ...Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler is trying to survive the bloody classrooms of Blissfield High and the cruelty of the popular crowd. But when he becomes the new target of the Butcher, his city’s infamous serial killer, his senior year becomes the least of his worries. When the butcher’s ancient mystical dagger causes him and Millie to wake up in each other’s body, Millie discovers that she has only 24 hours to get her body back before the exchange becomes permanent and she is trapped forever in the body of a middle-aged maniac. The only problem is that he now looks like a massive psychopath, the subject of a citywide manhunt, while the Butcher has his own appearance and has brought his craving for carnage to Homecoming. With the help of her super-cute friend Nyla, super-cool Joshua and her flame Booker, Millie races against time to lift the curse, while the Butcher discovers that having a teen’s body is the perfect cover for a little madness...
Read More ...In a small American town in the late 1950s, Maja sees her serenity shatter at the simple sound of a whistle. Romanian who moved to the United States after meeting a doctor her betrothed in Greece during the war, Maja has never told the truth about herself. She is in fact a Roma who escaped a concentration camp in the last stages of the war, but her family was the victim of terrible violence in the flight...
Read More ...When Edna, the elderly matriarch and widow of the family, goes missing, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam go to their remote family home to look for her...
Read More ...Akeem discovers that he has a long-lost son in the United States and must return to America to meet the unlikely heir to the throne of Zamunda...
Read More ...In the not too distant future, a space flight leaves on a high-risk mission. Destination: Mars. The astronaut experts on board come from the United States, Russia, China, India and Great Britain. They know they have to part with their home and their loved ones for three years, as long as everything goes according to plan. This period will put a strain on close ties on Earth and in space, as the crew will do what they can to survive and reach the most ambitious milestone for all of humanity...
Read More ...A new science fiction comedy set in a technologically advanced future where hologram phones, 3D food printers and automated supermarkets are the norm. But the most special thing is that humans can choose to be “loaded” into a virtual afterlife as they approach death. The series follows the adventures of a young app developer, Nathan Brown (Robbie Amell), who ends up in hospital for an accident in a self-driving car and must quickly decide his fate. After a quick thought, taken with his superficial girlfriend Ingrid (Allegra Edwards), he decides to be loaded on the luxurious afterlife of his Horizen Company’s “Lakeview” parents...
Read More ...A young couple of Shirley Jackson and Bennington College professor Stanley Hyman decide to move in to start a new life...
Read More ...Based on Asher Kravitz’s award-winning Israeli novel “The Jewish Dog,” it stars Kaleb, a beloved German shepherd, who is separated from his Jewish family when the Nuremberg Laws were enacted in Berlin in World War II. He is adopted by an SS officer who trains him to attack and rally Jews in a concentration camp. Kaleb is well cared for and good at his job until one day he is distracted by a familiar scent. His original young master arrives as a prisoner of the camp. Kaleb has not lost his loyalty to Joshua, who finds comfort in secretly visiting his dog at night. Joshua’s life is at risk...
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