87 stories
The Key to Tehran
Inspired by the extraordinary true events of the Iran–Contra affair. 1986. With America and Iran officially sworn enemies, a former White House adviser secretly lands in Tehran, carrying the promise of weapons, freed hostages, and an impossible diplomatic breakthrough. But behind the closed doors of a Tehran hotel, nothing goes according to plan. Arms dealers tell conflicting stories, intelligence operatives conceal their loyalties, and officials on both sides discover that nobody seems to be in control. As a bizarre secret mission collapses into confusion, its consequences threaten to expose an international scandal reaching from the Iranian capital to the jungles of Nicaragua—and the highest levels of the White House. A true story of secret deals, extraordinary misunderstandings, and a diplomatic gamble that spectacularly backfired.
The Dead Man’s Name
In 14th-century Persia, as the once-mighty Ilkhanate crumbles into chaos, a young nobleman, Hasan Kuchak, devises an audacious scheme to reclaim his family's lost power. He discovers Qara-Jari, a lowly servant bearing an uncanny resemblance to his executed father, and presents him to the world as the dead ruler miraculously returned. What begins as a carefully orchestrated deception soon reshapes the political landscape, drawing ambitious nobles, suspicious courtiers, and rival warlords into a dangerous game of loyalty and betrayal. But as Qara-Jari grows accustomed to his stolen identity, he begins to crave the authority that was never meant to be his. With the balance of power shifting and his creator becoming his greatest enemy, the impostor must confront a perilous question: how far can a man go to become someone he was never meant to be? Inspired by the extraordinary true story of one of medieval Persia's most audacious political deceptions.
27 Ghosts
27 GHOSTS Based on an extraordinary true story. In the shadows of World War II, Juan Pujol García, an ordinary Spaniard with no military intelligence experience, sets out on an improbable mission: to bring down Nazi Germany through deception. After being repeatedly rejected by British intelligence, Pujol infiltrates the German spy network and begins inventing agents who don’t exist, fabricating their identities, relationships, and intelligence reports from the safety of his small apartment in Lisbon. When British intelligence finally recognizes his extraordinary talent, Pujol joins forces with the brilliant but unconventional Tomás Harris, transforming his web of lies into one of the most elaborate deception operations in history. As his imaginary network expands to twenty-seven agents, the lines between truth and fiction begin to unravel, threatening his marriage, his sanity, and the lives of those who trust him. With the Allied invasion of Europe approaching, Pujol and his handlers must convince the Nazi high command to believe in an army that doesn’t exist—and make the greatest lie of the war its most consequential weapon. A story of extraordinary deception, impossible friendships, and the ordinary man who fooled an empire.
The Landlord’s Game
In early 20th-century America, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Magie, a fiercely independent inventor, creates a board game designed to expose the injustices of wealth and economic monopolies. But as her creation spreads across the country, it falls into the hands of Charles Darrow, an ambitious salesman who transforms it into a commercial sensation. While Darrow rises to fame and fortune, Lizzie watches her revolutionary idea become a symbol of the very capitalism she sought to criticize. Spanning decades of ambition, betrayal, and corporate opportunism, The Landlord's Game tells the remarkable true story of a woman whose invention conquered the world—while her name was nearly erased from its history.
If I Be Known Dead
Based on a true story, IF I BE KNOWN DEAD follows Ada Blackjack, a young Iñupiat woman who joins a doomed Arctic expedition in a desperate attempt to earn money for her sick son. Stranded on the remote and unforgiving Wrangel Island, Ada finds herself trapped among ambition, hunger, fear, and the slow collapse of the men around her. As the ice closes in and hope vanishes, she must transform from an unprepared outsider into the last line between life and death. In a land built to erase the weak, Ada’s fight to survive becomes a haunting story of endurance, grief, and an unbreakable will to return home.
The Backup City
Deep in the Nevada desert, a secretive corporation has constructed an exact replica of an American town, populated by thousands of employees hired to reenact the daily lives of its real inhabitants. Officially designed to predict disasters and human behavior, the experiment takes a disturbing turn when decisions made inside the replica begin manifesting in the original town days later. When Mara Velez, a former paramedic hired to impersonate a local doctor, discovers the connection, she uncovers a web of buried secrets, ethical compromises, and increasingly impossible inconsistencies. As both towns begin influencing one another, the line between imitation and reality collapses, raising a terrifying question: Which city is truly shaping the other’s future? A gripping, character-driven psychological thriller about free will, identity, and the unsettling possibility that our choices were never entirely our own.
The Extra Guest
In the bustling heart of London, Jamie Rook is a charming, quick-witted 34-year-old who can make anyone feel welcome—except himself. After losing his job, he launches One More Guest, an unconventional service that hires him out as an extra guest at parties, weddings, and awkward family gatherings. As Jamie becomes an unexpected fixture in the lives of eccentric strangers, professional boundaries blur into genuine friendships, complicated romances, and hilariously messy situations. But while he’s making everyone else feel less alone, Jamie must confront an uncomfortable truth: he’s spent years being the life of every party while barely showing up for his own life. A warm, sharply funny, and heartfelt comedy about unlikely connections, imperfect relationships, and finding where you truly belong.
Kingdom of Hell
For years, the name Lucifer Valentine existed somewhere between underground cinema, urban legend, and internet nightmare. His films provoked outrage, fascination, and disturbing questions about exploitation, consent, and the people who appeared before his camera. When an online investigation begins to uncover the man behind the pseudonym, a trail of former collaborators, witnesses, archived footage, contradictory testimonies, and hidden records slowly reveals a stranger truth: Lucifer Valentine may not be who anyone thought he was. Kingdom of Hell is a six-part investigative limited series about the search for a faceless filmmaker, the mythology he built around himself, and the unsettling reality waiting behind the name.
Sculpting In Time
In Soviet Russia, a fiercely uncompromising filmmaker turns memory, faith, and personal loss into some of cinema’s most haunting images. But as Andrei Tarkovsky’s vision grows more radical, so does the pressure around him—censorship, fractured relationships, exile, and the painful separation from his own family. Haunted by the absence of his poet father and consumed by the need to create without compromise, Tarkovsky risks everything for his art. Years later, far from home and racing against illness, he begins one final film—while the life he left behind threatens to remain forever out of reach. SCULPTING IN TIME is a portrait of an artist who spent his life searching for truth, even when the cost was almost everything.
The Emperor
In postwar Japan, a fiercely ambitious filmmaker named Akira Kurosawa finds his perfect screen alter ego in the wild, magnetic Toshiro Mifune. Together, they conquer Japanese cinema and change filmmaking around the world. But as success turns into obsession, their legendary partnership begins to fracture—and Kurosawa finds himself abandoned by an industry that once called him a master. Haunted by loss and pushed to the brink of self-destruction, he must decide whether there is anything left worth creating. Years later, a new generation of filmmakers raised on his work offers him an unexpected path back. THE EMPEROR is the story of a man who changed cinema, lost nearly everything, and returned to create his greatest battles one last time.
Into the Rafters
At the end of a legendary four-decade career, Steve Borden prepares to step into the ring as Sting for the final time. As the roar of the crowd echoes beyond the curtain, memories of a life spent constantly reinventing himself begin to surface — from the colorful hero who became the face of WCW to the silent, black-and-white vigilante who watched an empire collapse from the rafters. Behind the face paint, however, is a man struggling to separate himself from the icon the world refuses to let go. Moving through triumph, betrayal, faith, family, failure and unlikely resurrection, Into the Rafters is the story of how Steve Borden created Sting — and how, before the final bell, he must finally learn to live without him.
The Observer
For more than four decades, Dave Meltzer has watched professional wrestling from the outside—and changed it from within. From the mimeographed beginnings of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter to becoming one of the most influential and controversial voices in the industry, The Observer follows Meltzer’s obsessive pursuit of truth, credibility, and the perfect match. As wrestling evolves from smoke-filled arenas to global spectacle, his words begin to shape reputations, careers, and entire generations of fans. But the closer he gets to the business he documents, the harder it becomes to remain only an observer. A story about obsession, journalism, influence, and the strange power of one man’s opinion in a world built on illusion.
One Point Perspective
At the height of his fame, Stanley Kubrick retreats from Hollywood and turns filmmaking into an obsession with absolute control. From the abandoned dream of Napoleon to the punishing perfectionism of The Shining and the secrecy surrounding Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick pushes actors, studios, and himself beyond their limits in pursuit of something flawless. As his legend grows, so does the distance between the man, his family, and the world outside his carefully constructed frame. One Point Perspective is an intimate psychological portrait of a filmmaker who spent his life controlling every image—while slowly discovering that some things cannot be directed.
DANGEROUSLY
In 1990s Philadelphia, a brilliant and reckless promoter transforms a struggling wrestling company into a violent underground revolution. As Paul Heyman pushes ECW from a cult phenomenon toward national fame, his greatest creation begins to collapse beneath ambition, loyalty, and a mountain of debt.
AUTEUR
A young Japanese dreamer enters the video game industry after abandoning his hopes of becoming a filmmaker, only to discover a new medium for telling stories. From the unlikely creation of Metal Gear to worldwide fame, corporate conflict, and the collapse of everything he built, Hideo Kojima risks starting over from nothing—determined to prove that games can become something the world has never seen before.
All Caps
After tragedy shatters his life and derails his rising career, Daniel Dumile disappears from hip-hop—only to return years later behind a metal mask. Reborn as MF DOOM, he transforms grief, isolation, and rejection into one of the most mysterious and influential personas in music history.
The King: A Jack Kirby Story
In the golden age of American comics, Jack Kirby rises from the streets of New York to become one of the most influential artists in the medium’s history. As he helps create gods, heroes, and entire universes, Kirby finds himself fighting a more personal battle—over recognition, ownership, and the true cost of building worlds that may never fully belong to him.
One Winged Angel
From a small-town dreamer in Canada to a wrestling icon in Japan, Kenny Omega sacrifices comfort, certainty, and pieces of himself in pursuit of perfection. Through friendship, rivalry, reinvention, and pain, he discovers that becoming the best in the world may demand more than any championship can repay. ONE WINGED ANGEL is the story of a man who turned wrestling into art—and nearly destroyed himself trying to make it immortal.
The Final Countdown
From small independent wrestling halls to the brightest stages in the world, Bryan Danielson spends his life fighting to prove that passion can outweigh size, politics, and pain. But when the career he loves begins to destroy the body carrying it, he is forced to confront the one opponent he cannot outwrestle: time itself. The Final Countdown is an intimate, visceral story of ambition, sacrifice, family, and the impossible need to keep fighting—even when walking away may be the bravest victory of all.
Human After All
In 1990s Paris, two quiet teenagers, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, turn their shared obsession with music into something the world has never seen before. From underground clubs and homemade machines to global superstardom, the pair reinvent themselves as mysterious robots, hiding their faces while transforming electronic music forever. But behind the chrome helmets are two friends navigating fame, artistic obsession, technology, isolation, and the increasingly blurred line between the humans they are and the icons they have created. Spanning nearly three decades, Human After All is the story of Daft Punk — their music, their friendship, their mythology, and the final decision to let the robots disappear.
