Tag: based on true story

  • I Can Make You Love Me

    A beautiful young computer technician starting off her career in Silicon Valley during the Eighties, is stalked and harassed by a nerdy, dangerous and mentally-unstable colleague with a twisted obsession.

  • In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco

    Religious fanatics are barricaded in a building and surrounded by police. But they’re not going to surrender; they prefer to die.

  • Fire in the Sky

    After clearing brush for the government, a group of men return to town claiming their friend was abducted. Despite no apparent motive or evidence of foul play, no-one believes their story and his disappearance is treated as murder.

  • Crime Story

    A special agent is assigned to protect a wealthy business magnate. However, when the businessman is kidnapped in a daring ambush, he teams up with a seasoned detective to crack the case. But soon he discovers the case isn’t that simple.

  • Sommersby

    Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he suddenly returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart.

  • Schindler’s List

    The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

  • Open Fire

    Based on real events from 1983; DC Peter Finch is awarded a medal for the courage he showed in arresting a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile transvestite David Martin is released once again from prison – he’s provocative and aggressive and, when he’s caught again during a burglary, he shoots one of the police officers, leading to a nation wide manhunt. Innocent filmmaker Steven Waldorf is subsequently shot as a suspect by Finch, provoking a national scandal that rocks the police force.

  • Justice in a Small Town

    A civil service worker in Georgia places her family at risk when she agrees to help expose high-level corruption.

  • In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness

    After a very messy divorce, a man starts suspecting his ex-wife and her new boyfriend of various crimes.

  • Quiz Show

    Herbert Stempel’s transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, ‘Twenty-One.’ However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.