Based On True Story Movies

Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment...

The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous...

When twelve-year-old Donn Fendler gets tired of waiting for his father and brothers to join him on the summit of Maine's highest peak, he decides to...

Tab Hunter’s first-person account of his struggle to come to terms with his sexual orientation in 1950s Hollywood, an era in which being openly...

An aspiring actress makes a pact with her fiancé to start stripping to foot her dad’s cancer bills but learns that fast money comes with...

Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and...

In 1909, several years after Korea is forced into becoming a Japanese colony, freedom fighters plot the daring assassination of Japan's prime...

Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of...

Actor Micke and director Thommy try to create a one-man show together. With two weeks to go until the premiere, they still have no material. A...

The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

An amateur filmmaker, struggling to turn his passion into a career, returns with friends to Loveland, Ohio, the location of his first, notorious...

In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through...

A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.

When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect...

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of...

Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back....

A stadium-filling rock star, Elijah Peel is at the top of the world … until his addiction leads to a heart attack that could cost him...

A dad moves into a new house with his son and girlfriend. When he's out of town working, the son makes a new "friend" next doors.

Magnus Carlsen, widely regarded as the greatest chess player of all time, is challenged by Hans Niemann, a rising star who capitalizes on the...

A mother's worst nightmare comes true when her teenage daughter goes missing.