Explore Matinee Heroes biopic episodes featuring extraordinary lives, historical figures, powerful performances, recasting debates, interviews, and live convention panels.
Maria, Henry, and their three kids spend Christmas in Thailand, hoping for a warm, relaxing escape. Their dream vacation turns into a nightmare when a massive tsunami strikes without warning, wreaking havoc and tearing the family apart. In the aftermath,…
Dian Fossey travels from the United States to Africa to study gorillas in Rwanda and Uganda. As she bonds with the animals, she grows increasingly concerned about poachers threatening their survival. Determined to prevent their extinction, Fossey forms a defense…
During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing the atomic bomb. Their work comes to fruition…
Debauched King Henry II installs his longtime court facilitator Thomas Becket as the Archbishop of Canterbury, assuming that his old friend will be a compliant and loyal lackey in the King's ongoing battles with the church. But Becket unexpectedly finds…
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison launches a controversial investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Challenging the official "single assassin" and "magic bullet" theories that have long haunted the nation, Garrison becomes suspicious of the official explanation…
An American military officer is hired by the Emperor of Japan to train the country's first army in an attempt to eradicate the ancient Samurai warrior class in preparation for more Westernized and trade-friendly policies. The officer finds himself unexpectedly…
Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see "The Greatest Show on Earth." Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his own films at home, much to the delight of his supportive…
Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams, despite his lack of talent. Craig and Alan talk horrible movie makers, the Great Bela Lugosi, Johnny Depp's acting and the movie "Ed Wood"…
On Nov. 4, 1979, militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, taking 66 American hostages. Amid the chaos, six Americans manage to slip away and find refuge with the Canadian ambassador. Knowing that it's just a matter of time…
Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell Fred Haise and Jack Swigert find everything going according to plan after leaving Earth's orbit. However, when an oxygen tank explodes, their scheduled moon landing is called off. Tensions within the crew and…
