They say art imitates life, especially in the case of movies that are based on a true story. Whether you’re interested in historical events or iconic biopics, here are the best true story-based movies and shows to stream now.
In 2017, the New York Times published a groundbreaking report by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that detailed, for the…
The award-winning third feature by director Ava DuVernay, Selma, was released around the 50th anniversary of the historically significant marches…
The first things that grab your attention in Nickel Boys are its beauty and technicality. Director RaMell Ross, a large-format…
Based on a true story, The Whistleblower is the biography of a once Nebraskan police officer who volunteers for the U.N. peacekeeping…
Given the original real-life story behind it, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that The Girl with the Needle was so…
With the anonymity of the internet, it’s hard to trust that the stranger on the other side would be a…
Continuing her fight to tell the world the truth about her sexual assault case, journalist Shiori Ito released Black Box…
Produced by National Geographic, A Small Light is a ten-part miniseries that tells the incredible true story of Miep Gies…
As a crime thriller, Holy Spider is taut and terrifying, a modern noir that manages to unnerve despite the familiar…
Frida Kahlo is an iconic Mexican painter, not just because of her outstanding art, but also because of her outlook…
Abel Ferrara’s protagonists have always searched for higher meaning in a flawed, messed-up world of pain and violence. If 1992’s…
In this documentary about John Allen Chau — the American Christian missionary reportedly killed when he tried to preach the…
In both documentaries and films, adoptees meeting their biological parents for the first time is an event often painted in…
This Oscar-nominated drama tells the story of the events leading up to the Srebrenica massacre, in which 8372 Bosnian Muslims…
This stagelike historical drama is about a meeting between Malcolm X, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and Muhammad Ali, the night…
While named as a “how-to”, How to Have Sex is less of an instruction manual, and more of a collection…
Belfast stars Outlander’s Caitríona Balfe as the mother of a working-class Northern Irish family during The Troubles. Religious tension and…
On September 5, 1972, at the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, Palestinian terrorists held members of the Israeli Olympic team…
Who knew that behind the puzzle Tetris lies a political thriller of a backstory that is just as fun and…
The Last Duel propped high expectations as the Closing Film at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, but its theatrical release…
After the likes of The Favourite six years ago, modern historical portrayals have now become more interested in the salacious…
Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s new movie is about an arrogant European artist who tattoos a Syrian man’s back, essentially…
In The Promised Land, director Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair) and Mads Mikkelsen reunite to create another intense, enjoyable drama…
There is so much power to this story based actor Shia Laboeuf’s life. As a kid, he lived with his…
Given that this is based on a recent, real life case, and the defendant has chosen to remain behind the…
We all learned that it’s good to have a free press, but most of us rarely consider why it’s good,…
As one of the biggest political scandals in recent memory, Watergate has had its fair share of film and TV…
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