Movies and TvShows featuring "overcoming" theme.

Theodore Roosevelt is bound for greatness—he's a Harvard graduate from a prominent family, a rising politician, and his wife, Alice, is pregnant. Then his promising future turns tragic. His mother succumbs to typhoid, and Alice dies in childbirth on the same day. Devastated, Teddy leaves his urban world of high rises and high society for the desolate Dakota Territory, where, by facing the harsh reality of surviving life on America’s frontier, he intends to remake himself into something greater.

In 'The Weight of Water', a visually impaired kayaker tackles the Grand Canyon, facing numerous obstacles and overcoming his disability. His journey is an inspiring and captivating tale of struggle, determination, and the power of the human spirit.

Talulah, pregnant with her first born, wrestles with the reality of motherhood as she is confronted with memories of her own, mentally unstable mother.

Directed by her brother Steven O' Riordan and narrated by Tony Award Winning actress Marie Mullen, this film follows Joanne's journey from her home in County Cork to the United Nations in New York, where she delivers a key-note speech and a challenge to the most influential women in technology: to build her a robot. Through touchingly candid interviews with her parents and moving use of old home movies, No Limbs No Limits demonstrates the incredible things one can achieve when motivated by love. It is a story of hope, triumph over adversity and is a story of how human resilience can conquer all by overcoming many obstacle to achieve what others would deem impossible.

When a gifted 9-year-old girl, Anuja (Sajda Pathan), who works in a garment factory in Delhi, India is offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance to attend school, she is forced to make a heart-wrenching decision that will determine her and her sister Palak’s (Ananya Shanbhag) fate.