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Some of the best movies ever made are based on true stories. These films have brought to life some of the most extraordinary moments in history, making excellent use of real-life inspiration to craft ...

A man balances on a wire stretched between the Twin Towers. A pilot safely lands an airliner on a river with 155 people still on board. A CIA team escapes Tehran by pretending to shoot a sci-fi film.

Discover What’s Streaming On: Hit Man on Netflix—the new Glen Powell movie that began streaming today—tells the true story of a fake hit man. But a lot of parts of this “fake hit man true story” movie ...

Life may imitate art, but sometimes art imitates life right back. True stories have served as fodder for media for decades across television, films, and even podcasts. Major moments in history have ...

War movies have always tapped into our morbid curiosity, perhaps largely because war, to most of the Westernized world, has become somewhat of an alien concept. There is a detachment, a disconnect, ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Angelina Jolie’s new Netflix movie, Maria—which began streaming today—marks the third based-on-a-true-story movie from director Pablo Larraín about a famous, tragic woman ...