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Tag: based on true story

  • The Invisible Wall

    June 27, 1980: a DCā€“9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on board. The official version blames the “structural failure” of the plane, but a young journalist smells a cover-up and starts to uncover the truth out of the ‘invisible wall’ of lies built by politicians and air force higher-ups.

  • Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes

    The real-life case based on the horrific crimes of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the mother and son duo who specialized in theft, fraud and murder.

  • Mockingbird Don’t Sing

    The tragic true story of one of the worst cases of child abuse ever documented (in which a girl was locked in a room without social contact for nearly thirteen years) and what happened when she was finally rescued.

  • Just Ask My Children

    Based on the true story of a modern-day witch hunt, in which a couple is falsely accused and imprisoned for molesting their own children.

  • Bus 44

    On the outskirts of a small town, a bus driver and her passengers encounter highway robbers.

  • We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company

    Over a period of two years, Mark Cowen and his crew travelled to thirty U.S. states and ten European cities, to interview the veterans of Easy Company. The stories told by the veterans themselves, create a history of the Second World War from the point of view of this heroic company of men, made famous in the mini-series Band of Brothers.

  • What Makes a Family

    Janine and Sandy are a lesbian couple who decide to have a baby, but after a few years Sandy dies. This tragedy is exploited by Sandy’s parents to snatch the girl from Janine’s care. But then, and despite having the laws against her, Janine decides to fight in order to regain custody of her daughter.

  • The Legend of Suriyothai

    During the 16th century, as Thailand contends with both a civil war and Burmese invasion, a beautiful princess rises up to help protect the glory of the Kingdom of Ayothaya. Based on the life of Queen Suriyothai.

  • The Lost Battalion

    Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.

  • Riding in Cars with Boys

    In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.