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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)
Free the Nipple (2013) – comedy drama film based on true events of a mass movement of topless women, backed by First Amendment lawyers, graffiti installations, and national publicity stunts, who invade New York City to protest censorship hypocrisies and promote gender equality legally and culturally in the U.S [53]
The Eagle (2011) – British-American epic historical drama film based on the Ninth Spanish Legion's supposed disappearance in Britain [33] The Fields (2011) – thriller film loosely based on the life of screenwriter Harrison Smith as a boy growing up on a grandparents' farm on the outskirts of Easton, Pennsylvania [34]
Even the Rain (Spanish: También la lluvia) (2010) – Spanish-Mexican-French drama film based on real events in the year 2000, the Cochabamba Water War, when the population of one of the poorest nations in South America rose up against a powerful American company, Bechtel, and recovered a basic good: water [50]
When They See Us (2019) – crime drama miniseries based on events of the 1989 Central Park jogger case [194] While at War (Spanish: Mientras dure la guerra) (2019) – Spanish-Argentine historical drama film following the plight of philosopher and writer Miguel de Unamuno in Salamanca, a city controlled by the Rebel faction [195]
These 79 best movies based on true stories prove that truth really can be stranger than fiction. It can also be more heartwarming, shocking, and inspirational.
7 Days in Hell (2015) – sports mockumentary television film inspired by the Isner–Mahut marathon men's singles match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships [1]; 10 Days in a Madhouse (2015) – biographical film about undercover journalist Nellie Bly, a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World who had herself committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island to write an ...
1895 (Mandarin: 1895乙未) (2008) – Taiwanese historical film based on the Japanese Invasion of Taiwan in 1895, with emphasis on the Hakka fighters and their families in the conflict [3] A Frozen Flower (Korean: 쌍화점) (2008) – South Korean historical thriller film loosely based on the reign of Gongmin of Goryeo [4]