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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
If the plot feels like it could have really happened, that's because the movie is actually based on a true story. In real life, a man named John Kapoor founded a company called Insys Therapeutics ...
These real-life stories are stranger than fiction. ... Below, find 30 must-see films based on true stories about sports, scammers, and everything in between. Each one is available to stream right ...
Shirley Ardell Mason (January 25, 1923 – February 26, 1998) was an American art teacher [1] who was reported to have dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder). Her life was purportedly described, with adaptations to protect her anonymity, in 1973 in the book Sybil, subtitled The True Story of a Woman ...
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 ...
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]
An alleged demonic possession occurred in May 1953 when Clarita Villanueva, a 17-year-old girl incarcerated at the Manila City Jail in the Philippines was said to have been bitten [1] and tormented by two demonic entities and their followers. American pastor Lester Sumrall was building a church in Manila, when the news broke of Clarita's ...
Fair question given the show's main character, Charlie Croker, feels like a thinly-veiled nod to any number of real-life business moguls featured in the headlines of grocery-store tabloids.