American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson. Poster of the 2016 TV series and cover of the 1996 book, The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson
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The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson
Jeffrey Toobin, 1996
TV series vs book
Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, Tom Rob Smith, 2016

A look at the O.J. Simpson trial told from the perspective of the lawyers. It explores the chaotic behind-the-scenes dealings and maneuvering on both sides of the court, and how a combination of prosecution overconfidence, defense shrewdness, and the LAPD’s history with the city’s African-American community gave a jury what it needed: reasonable doubt.


Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story. Poster of the 2009 movie and cover of the 1992 book
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Ben Carson, Cecil Murphey, 1992
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Thomas Carter, 2009

The true story of Ben Carson, a renowned brain surgeon who overcame obstacles to change the course of medicine forever. Young Ben didn’t have much of a chance. Growing up in a broken home amongst poverty and prejudice, his grades suffered and his temper flared. And yet, his mother never lost her faith in him. That faith would be his gift – the thing that would drive him to follow his dream of becoming one of the world’s leading neurosurgeons.


Lee Daniels' The Butler. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 2013 book, The Butler: A Witness to History
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The Butler: A Witness to History
Wil Haygood, 2013
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Lee Daniels, 2013

In 2009, an elderly Cecil Gaines recounts his life story while waiting at the White House to meet the newly inaugurated president. Cecil was a sharecropper’s son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family. Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history.


Men of Honor. Poster of the 2000 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Men of Honor
David Robbins, 2000
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George Tillman Jr., 2000

A biographical drama film. The true story of Carl Brashear, the first African American U.S. Navy diver, and his remarkable journey to overcome racial discrimination and physical challenges to achieve his dreams.


What Dreams May Come. Poster of the 1998 movie and cover of the 1978 book
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What Dreams May Come
Richard Matheson, 1978
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Vincent Ward, 1998

While vacationing in Switzerland, pediatrician Chris Nielsen meets artist Annie Collins. Chris awakens in a Heaven that he has created with his imagination; his surroundings are a mountainous landscape that resembles a painting created by his wife, and is similar to a place where the two desired to spend their old age.


Outbreak. Poster of the 1995 movie and cover of the 1994 book, The Hot Zone
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The Hot Zone
Richard Preston, 1994
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Wolfgang Petersen, 1995

In 1967, during the Kisangani Mutinies, a virus called Motaba, which causes a deadly fever, is discovered in the African jungle. Twenty-eight years later, Colonel Sam Daniels, a USAMRIID virologist, is sent to investigate an outbreak in Zaire. He and his crew—Lieutenant Colonel Casey Schuler and new recruit Major Salt—gather information and return to the United States.


Outbreak. Poster of the 1995 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Outbreak
Robert Tine, 1995
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Wolfgang Petersen, 1995

In 1967, during the Kisangani Mutinies, a virus called Motaba, which causes a deadly fever, is discovered in the African jungle. Twenty-eight years later, Colonel Sam Daniels, a USAMRIID virologist, is sent to investigate an outbreak in Zaire. He and his crew—Lieutenant Colonel Casey Schuler and new recruit Major Salt—gather information and return to the United States.


Instinct. Poster of the 1999 movie and cover of the 1992 book, Ishmael
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Ishmael
Daniel Quinn, 1992
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Jon Turteltaub, 1999

In a high-security facility for the criminally insane, the disturbed anthropologist Ethan Powell is scheduled for evaluation by a talented young psychiatrist named Theo Caulder. Fueled by his ambition and an insatiable thirst for the truth, Caulder will ultimately endanger everything, including his own life, in a courageous effort to comprehend the perplexing behaviors of this lunatic.


Pearl Harbor. Poster of the 2001 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Pearl Harbor
Randall Wallace, 2001
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Michael Bay, 2001

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan’s devastating attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.


Red Tails. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 1997 book, Red Tails, Black Wings
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Red Tails, Black Wings
John Holway, 1997
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Anthony Hemingway, 2012

In 1944, as the air war over Europe enters a deadly phase with increasing losses of Allied bombers, the 332d Fighter Group consisting of young African-American USAAF fighter pilots, after enduring racism throughout their recruitment and training in the Tuskegee training program, are sent into combat in Italy. A.J. Bullard, face a white military bureaucracy still resistant to accepting black flyers as equals.