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Tells the story of the passionate love affair and tumultuous marriage between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, following the adventurous writers through all the great conflicts of their time.

In 1959, Miami journalist and aspiring writer Ed Myers travels to Havana to meet his idol, Ernest Hemingway. A fascinating and unexpected friendship develops as the legendary author mentors young Myers in deep-sea fishing, drinking, and finding his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them. The first U.S. movie filmed in Cuba in more than half a century, it offers an extraordinary glimpse into the life of a uniquely American...

Ernest Hemingway's extraordinary life and career has been exhaustively, but less thoroughly examined is his fascinating friendship with film icon Gary Cooper. The liberal, best-known writer of the 20th century and the tight-lipped, all-American 'common man' were complete opposites and yet the best of friends for over 20 years. An unprecedented look at the bond between two of the most iconic artists of the 20th century.

A Farewell to arms: Based on the Hemingway novel about a wounded American soldier who falls in love with his beautiful English nurse during World War I. Fighting caravans: A Missouri guide is journeys across the country with his freight wagon. On the way, he fights Indians and evil traders while his old companions try and keep him from falling in love.

Melodramatic thrillers based on the Hemingway story about two hit men and their target, who accepts his fate as though he were already dead.