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...s saved by a rude, foul-mouthed "hero," who promptly disappears into the night...offers a million dollars to the mystery hero, a gentle Vietnam vet appears to claim...is complicated by the fact that the real hero is a small time crook whom nobody believes...

...finds himself at an extraordinary crossroads: He has a chance to be a hero--and make a difference against incredible odds--or he can play it safe...befriends the world’s biggest sports superstar, and reveals the hero within.

...fame quickly goes to Liam's head, and when he becomes infatuated with a beautiful young bank teller, he decides to act the hero again in a set-up job. But his scheme has unexpectedly tragic consequences. Wracked with guilt over the part he played in...

A teenage boy's unfulfilling life takes a strange turn when he gets sucked into an action film and teams up with its hero, Jack Slater.

...liar, and via omissions, allusions and a great deal of study, reinvents himself as a remarkably respected French Resistance hero. His entry into the corridors of power leads this youth along a suspensefully delicate path as he attempts to maintain a balancing...

During Stalin's reign, twelve year-old Pavlik Morozov became a legendary hero for betraying his father to the secret police as an "enemy of the state," a act which became a symbol of Stalin's monolithic...

A young man goes to Rome to see his opera idol and falls victim to a theft that changes his life.

At the height of China’s Warring States period, the country was divided into seven kingdoms: Qin, Zhao, Han Wei, Yan, Chu and Qi. For years, the separate kingdoms fought ruthlessly for supremacy. As a…

Citizens of Angola struggle to piece themselves back together after the end of the country's thirty year civil war.

Every day, Virgil Kidder takes deadly risks protecting riders from raging bulls. And every night, he tries to forget his troubled past. But his past catches up to him when he returns to Waco, Texas to…