Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley ...

These based on a true story movies are pretty accurate — aside from their fictionalized main characters. Does knowing that lead characters — and in some cases, the hero of the movie — were Hollywood ...

Steve on Netflix—which began streaming today—definitely seems like the kind of movie that would be based on a true story. This is in part because much of the movie is partially filmed in a documentary ...

These based on a true story movies actually hew fairly closely to the true story, taking the minimum number of creative liberties. Though most of these films are several years old, some have some very ...

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.

While film as an artform is most often associated with fictional storytelling, there has been a long and varied history of impactful adaptations of real-life events and stories on the big screen.

But every one of these movies is based on a true story, with sources like NASA, the FBI, and the BBC backing them up. They’re not just award winners or critical darlings but the kind of stories that ...