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A Thai youth soccer team and their assistant coach are trapped within Tham Luang Cave, prompting a global rescue effort. Inspired by true events.

Russia, 1959. A KGB major investigates the mysterious deaths of a group of nine student hikers in the Ural Mountains. Troubled by his past as a WWII veteran, he has a sixth sense and death seems to follow him around as he digs deeper into the mysterious incident. The more he learns, the more it becomes clear: the reason the students died will never see the light of day.

On June 20, 1994, five members of the Bain family were found dead in their Dunedin home. The atrocity captured the nation, and it remains one of New Zealand's most controversial cases. This dramatised version tells the story of each of the family members in the months leading up to their deaths.

The lives of the people of Allende, a Mexican border town, are overtaken by a powerful cartel's operations, leading to tragedy. Inspired by true events.

Sheridan Smith will play the titular character of Cilla Black in this re-telling of the story of her becoming a UK household name.

Aurelio Casillas (Rafael Amaya) is about to claim his place as Mexico's wealthiest and most powerful kingpin since the notorious Pablo Escobar. Armed with ruthless ambition and animal-like instincts, Aurelio outsmarts the law and, most importantly, his cartel rivals with a fleet of drug smuggling airplanes - earning him the nickname "El Señor de los Cielos" (The Lord of the Skies). But when revenge-seeking Special Forces police officer Marco Mejía (Gabriel Porras) demands personal retribution, Aurelio's guarded anonymity and rising empire fall under attack. The two men plunge into a life-or-death battle of drugs, raw passion, and betrayal that can only end in blood. Inspired by true events, the smash hit El Señor de los Cielos uncovers the looming dangers of the drug underworld in an action-filled drama.

Corleone follows the long and bloody ascent of Salvatore "Toto" Riina in the Mafia, starting with his childhood in Corleone, to the violent war that he led in the '80s and '90s against both rival gangs and law enforcement.

This is the New Zealand story of the real Mr Asia, Marty Johnstone, and New Zealand's first ever drug cartel, The Syndicate.

This is a drama series which is set in 1984 and based on true events based on the Milperra Massacre which left seven people dead. It is about how bike club loyalty and friendship turned to bikie club war.

A haunting depiction of two young lives plagued by tragedy and trauma, this six-part limited drama series chronicles the disappearance of 18-year-old Laetitia Perrais in western France. Left to reconstruct the teenager's final hours for answers, investigators clue in on the deeply troubling upbringing of Laetitia and her twin sister, Jessica.

Mrs Biggs is a drama series which tells the true story of the woman behind Britain's most famous villain, Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs.

South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh becomes the prime suspect in the double homicide of his wife and son.

In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge men are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Based on true events.

A powerful drama set in 1980s Copenhagen, Pia and Mackerel's passionate love story unfolds against the high-octane backdrop of the "Bullshit" biker gang. Inspired by actual events, Bullshit tells the dramatic story of a group of lost youth in late 70s and early 80s Copenhagen. They find community and belonging in the biker gang 'Bullshit' - but end up in brutal conflict. Pia is only sixteen when she finds the courage to leave her family. All she takes with her is 100 Kroner and a desire to be part of a community. Henning, eighteen, known as "Mackerel", has also turned his back on the acceptable society of the late 70s. He dreams of brotherhood, freedom, and motorcycles. He fights his way into Bullshit, eventually becoming its President and Pia becoming his beloved wife. Life is good for a moment, but Mackerel finds himself in a bloody war against the Hells Angels, and there is no going back. The series is based on the Cavling award-winning non-fiction book 'Bullshit: The Story of a Family' by Camilla Stockmann and Janus Køster-Rasmussen.

The story of Saverio Barone, a young prosecutor who in the early nineties became the protagonist of the "caccia alla Mafia" (Mafia-hunt) immediately following the Capaci and Via D'Amelio bombings. Inspired by the true story of the anti-Mafia magistrate Alfonso Sabella.

A compelling documentary series that tells stories of the biggest crimes to hit the country, through the eyes of the people placed right at the heart of the tragedies. Featuring stories of the most brutal and shocking crimes, this series will explain the detailed events leading up to the crime, the crime itself and the aftermath. Through gripping interviews, dramatic reconstructions, and archive footage; this series pieces together the murders that shocked the nation. Hosted by Stan Grant and based on the successful series from the UK.

Anne Frank started to write her diary on her 13th birthday in June 1942, just two weeks before she and her family were forced to go into hiding in Nazi occupied Holland. Written from the cramped conditions of an annexe in her father's spice warehouse, Anne's poignant, feisty and often very funny account of her life over a two-year period has become the most widely read piece of non-fiction.

Follow the incredible journey of Louisa Leyton, a kitchen maid who becomes the most famous cook in England in this captivating period drama. Set in the early 1900s, The Duchess of Duke Street is a tale of ambition, love, and betrayal, as Louisa navigates through the complex world of high society and strives to achieve her dreams.

This series explores the life of the legendary mountaineer, from his lonely childhood, to the man he became - Hillary the climber - a man that conquered Mt Everest, a man loved by a nation.

Within a few weeks, two murdered lovers were found in the Göhrde state forest in Lower Saxony in the summer of 1989. The popular local recreation area was quickly given the name "Totenwald" in public. When another woman later disappears, in contrast to the previous murders, the police quickly have a suspect on hand: the husband of the disappeared. His brother-in-law, a high-ranking criminal investigator, does not believe in his guilt. The investigation is said to drag on for decades and only after his retirement does he come across revealing inconsistencies in the investigation in the early 1990s. Could this reveal the entire secret of the "forest of the dead"?

The true life story of Carlos Tevez, an Argentine soccer player who rose from a difficult childhood to Boca Juniors stardom.

Based on the True Story of a Prolific American Serial Killer, Viewers Will Discover and Piece Together Details of the Case Alongside the Investigators Over the Course of Three Chilling Installments.

Aracy de Carvalho is a young clerk at the Brazilian Consulate. For two years, she has been secretly issuing passports to Jews without the dreaded "J" stamp, which not only won't allow them to travel, but will doom them to the horrors of concentration camps. When newly appointed diplomat, João Guimarães Rosa, arrives in Hamburg, the two fall madly in love. Aracy would later be honored by the Yad Vashem with the Righteous Among the Nations Award. João would be known as the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century.

The Legend of Bruce Lee is a Chinese biographic television series based on the life story of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee following him from Hong Kong to America and back again, leading up to his tragic death at the age of 32. The 50 episodes long series was produced and broadcast by CCTV and had been aired since 12 October 2008. It starred Hong Kong actor Danny Chan as Bruce Lee and American actress Michelle Lang as Linda Lee Cadwell. The production period spanned nine months, with filming taking place in China, Hong Kong, Macau, the United States, Italy and Thailand, with a budget of 50 million yuan (US$7.3 million). Lee's daughter, Shannon Lee was credited as the executive producer.[1] Other martial artists such as Mark Dacascos, Ray Park, Gary Daniels, Ernest Miller and Michael Jai White are also featured in the series as well, playing the roles of familiars throughout Bruce Lee's life and career.

Social and musical chronicle on the beginnings of a cultural revolution, this fiction in 6 episodes retraces the beginnings of the group NTM formed by Kool Shen and JoeyStarr and the emergence of the French hip hop scene in the 80s. characters of Dee Nasty, the first importer and DJ of rap music in France, and the dancer and graffiti artist Lady Five.