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This is an index of articles that features lists of films based on real-life events. As new entries are produced, they should be included to ensure the list remains current and complete. List of films based on actual events (before 1940) List of 1940s films based on actual events; List of 1950s films based on actual events
True Life. True Life is an American documentary television series that aired on MTV from March 31, 1998 to June 21, 2017. Each episode follows a particular topic, such as heroin addiction as in the first episode – "Fatal Dose". The show is created by following a series of subjects by a camera crew through a certain part of their lives.
Red Joan, by Jennie Rooney. For most of her life, Melita Norwood got away with treason. The British civil servant provided Russian intelligence with private information before retiring and going ...
Hugh Glass (c. 1783 – 1833) [1][2][3] was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, trader, hunter and explorer. He is best known for his story of survival and forgiveness after being left for dead by companions when he was mauled by a grizzly bear. No records exist regarding his origins but he is widely said to have been born in Pennsylvania to ...
In the late 1940s, in the United States, priests of the Catholic Church performed a series of exorcisms on an anonymous boy, documented under the pseudonym " Roland Doe " or " Robbie Mannheim ". The 14-year-old boy was said to be a victim of demonic possession, and the events were recorded by the attending priest, Raymond J. Bishop.
29th Street (1991) – comedy drama film based on the true-life story of actor Frank Pesce, who won the first New York State Lottery in 1976 [83]; A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story (1991) – biographical drama television film recounting the life of Ricky Bell, a Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back sickened with dermatomyositis, and Ryan Blankenship, a physically impaired child [84]
Weight. 175 lb (79 kg) Cocaine Bear, also known as Pablo Eskobear (sometimes spelled Escobear) [2][3] or Cokey the Bear, [4] was a 175-pound (79-kilogram) female American black bear that fatally overdosed on cocaine in 1985. The cocaine had been dropped by a group of drug smugglers in the wilderness in Tennessee, United States.
True Life, a documentary series running on MTV since March 31, 1998, has covered over 140 topics from drug use, money issues, and sexual topics to simple social behavior like visiting the Jersey Shore.