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1958
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Bigger Than Life
1956
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The Slender Thread
1965
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NYAD
2023
Athlete Diana Nyad sets out at 60 to achieve a nearly impossible lifelong dream: to swim from Cuba to Florida across more than 100 miles of open ocean.
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Tigertail
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
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