“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.” – Albert Camus
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January 5, 2021
The extraordinary career and devastating life of T.S. Eliot. In the midst of the roaring twenties, Eliot, an obscure bank clerk, intervenes to save a gay man being badly beaten and is thrust into a journey of sexual awakening. But even as love opens the floodgates for his poetry, he is set on a crash course with the homophobic society he will do anything to join.
September 20, 2022
A world-famous playwright becomes obsessed with Emily Dickinson, believing she has left clues in her writing of traumatic sexual abuse. He is forced to come to terms with his own difficult past as he begins losing his grip on reality.
February 4, 2025
Inspired by a true story, BELLE is the dark, comedic tale of one of America’s most prolific female serial killers.
June 2, 2026
Based on the true story of Edith Cavell. As Germany occupies Belgium during WWI, a British nurse finds the courage to defy the Germans and save both German and Allied lives. But even as she becomes a symbol of non-partisanship and morality, she secretly builds a vast spy network to smuggle Allied soldiers to safety.
June 2, 2026
Inspired by the true story. During the Great Depression, a struggling young woman gets swept up by the fervor for the hugely popular Catholic radio priest, Father Coughlin, until his pro-fascist, anti-Jewish message becomes too much for her (and the U.S. government) to take.
June 2, 2026
When Germany invades France during WWII, a world-famous nightclub performer uses her celebrity to secretly help the French Resistance pave the way for the Normandy Invasion. A thrilling tale of espionage based on the true story of American expat Josephine Baker.
[Josephine Baker's secret war against Hitler.]
[Josephine Baker's secret war against Hitler.]
June 2, 2026
The true story of the last woman tried and convicted of witchcraft. With England losing WWII, when a spiritualist accurately describes the highly classified sinking of a British destroyer, a Navy Admiral must find a way to stifle her, or risk her possible disclosure of the D-Day invasion plans.
June 2, 2026
An inspiring story, in the spirit of Field of Dreams, about one of our nation’s most eccentric and important athletes, star pitcher Satchel Paige. When Black handyman Rudy discovers a valuable trunk of items that belonged to Paige, he is magically transported back to 1936 and baseball’s “Negro Leagues.”
June 2, 2026
Inspired by the amazing true story of Nellie Bly. After Jules Verne writes Around the World in 80 Days, a female journalist embarks on a harrowing and fantastical race around the world to beat Verne’s fictional male protagonist. But as she meets the world’s most inspiring women, powerful adversaries line up to make sure she doesn’t make it home in time.
June 2, 2026
Inspired by one of America’s most astounding David and Goliath stories. In 1900, at a time when the richest man in the world was John D. Rockefeller, and his company, Standard Oil, controlled 90% of the world’s oil supply, Ida Tarbell, whose father was destroyed by Rockefeller, takes on Standard Oil and wins, breaking up the world’s biggest monopoly and changing anti-trust laws forever.