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1990-1999
Movies inspired by and based on true stories.
View trailers, reviews, films, and facts behind the stories.
Most films are highly rated on Rotten Tomatoes and the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). They have at least a 70% or 7/10 rating from critics and audiences alike, many with 80% or 8/10 or above. Enjoy the best true story films of the 1990s!
Best True Story Films of 1999
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R | Biography, Drama, Journalism, Law, Thriller | Lowell Bergman is the producer of the TV show 60 Minutes who pursues a story from Jeffrey Wigand, a research chemist reluctant to share his knowledge of Big Tobacco's industry secrets as the corporations and courts stand in the way of exposing the truth.
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The original 1996 interview "Jeffrey Wigand: The big tobacco whistleblower" on the show 60 Minutes on YouTube, the inspiration for the film
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R | Biography, Drama, Medical | In the 1960s, Susanna is a directionless teenager who is rushed to Claymoore, a renowned mental institution, after a supposed suicide attempt, where she befriends a group of troubled women, facing a choice between the world on the inside or the difficult world outside.
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Girl, Interrupted book by Susanna Kaysen on Amazon
Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
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Unrated | Biography, Drama, History | The story of the accomplishments of visionaries Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and the creation of the computer age in the 20th century.
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Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer (Second Edition) book by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine on Amazon
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Steve Jobs biography on biography.com
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The Founding of Apple Computer, Inc. article on The Library of Congress website
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Bill Gates biography on biography.com
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The History of Microsoft video series with timelines on Microsoft Learn Challenge
PG | Biography, Drama, Education, Family | Homer Hickam is a coal miner's son who becomes fascinated with rocket science after seeing Sputnik 1 cross the sky. Despite his father's disapproval, Homer begins building rockets with support from his friends and teacher.
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Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1) memoir by Homer Hickam that inspired the film
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
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R | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War | The film dramatizes the story of Joan of Arc, a teenage peasant girl, mystic, maiden, and martyr who, in 1429, announced that she would defeat the English army and liberate France.
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Joan of Arc on History.com
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7 Surprising Facts About Joan of Arc on History.com
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY | JANUARY 06 Joan of Arc is born on History.com
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Joan of Arc on Biography.com
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R | Biography, Drama, Sport, Survival | Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, but a few people aide in his fight to prove his innocence.
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Separating Truth From Fiction in 'The Hurricane' by Selwyn Raab in The New York Times
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Rubin Carter biography on Biography.com
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Rubin Carter on The National Registry of Exonerations
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Bob Dylan's "The Hurricane" song on YouTube with lyrics
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Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom autobiography by Rubin Carter and Ken Klonsky on Amazon
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"To every human being in prison, guilty or innocent, I would say that everything depends upon attitude. The physical body is the vehicle in which we traverse life, but our attitude is our steering wheel. In prison, people find themselves at the bottom of human existence. What a prisoner must say is, OK, whatever I’ve done in life has led me to where I am today. Therefore, if I want to get out of prison and stay out, I’ve got to turn around and go back the other way."- Rubin Carter, Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom
PG | Drama, Education, Music | Roberta Guaspari is abandoned by her husband and depressed, but she lands a job teaching violin to underprivileged children at Central Park East School in Harlem, New York, where she meets challenges from the principal, students, and budget cuts.
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Best True Story Films of 1998
R | Biography, Drama, History | The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.
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History Buffs: Elizabeth the Golden Age video on YouTube
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PG-13 | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Medical, Romance | Hunter "Patch" Adams struggles with depression in a mental hospital, followed by deciding to become a doctor. Disillusioned by his school's clinical perspective on patient care, Adams opens his own medical clinic for patients without insurance.
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Is Patch Adams a True Story? article by Noor Malhotra on TheCinemaholic
TV-PG | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Education, Family | At the age of six, Ruby Bridges is one of the first black children to attend an all-white school in the deep south in New Orleans.
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Ruby Bridges biography on National Women's History Museum, biography.com, and National Park Service.
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Let's Read About...Ruby Bridges autobiographical third person narrative children's book by Ruby Bridges and Grace Maccarone, part of Scholastic First Biographies, on Internet Archive, where eBooks are free to borrow with a free account
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Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story autobiographical first person narrative children's book by Ruby Bridges, free eBook on FlipHTML5
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Ruby Bridges Free Lessons: Teach with Movie educational materials for teachers, parents, and students from True Story Movies on Pinterest
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PG-13 | Drama | In 1980s Woburn, Massachusetts, personal injury lawyer Jan Schlichtmann takes on an environmental pollution case at the risk of bankrupting his firm and career. The case is against two companies responsible for several children being diagnosed with leukemia, due to contamination of the town's water supply.
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A Civil Action book by Jonathan Harr
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Case Summary - Anne Anderson et al. v. W.R. Grace & Co. et al. from Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
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Considering A Civil Action by Jerome P. Facher
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Jan Schlichtmann, Three elements of our legal experience video on YouTube
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"A Civil Action" Attorney Jan Schlichtmann at Barry School of Law, April 2013 on YouTube. Jan begins speaking about the film and his law career at 3:21.
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R | Drama, War, History | After the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, a battalion of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve Private James Ryan, a paratrooper whose three brothers have been killed in action.
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History vs Hollywood article
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The Real Guy who Saved Private Ryan | True Story of Francis L. Sampson History vs Hollywood video on YouTube
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​History Buffs: Saving Private Ryan video on YouTube
PG-13 | Biography, Drama, Sport | "The life of renowned runner Steve Prefontaine and his relationship with legendary coach Bill Bowerman."
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TV-PG | Biography, Drama, Music | Biography of the singers who formed the famous Motown musical group, The Temptations, beginning with their early years in the 1950s to their rise to stardom.
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​Factual Errors in "The Temptations" Movie video on The Temptations History Channel on YouTube
Best True Story Films of 1997
FairyTale: A True Story (1997)
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PG | Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery | In 1917 England, young cousins Elsie and Frances experience family tragedies from World War I, followed by spending time together in rural Yorkshire, where they see fairies in a nearby meadow. They then snap pictures of the fairies, which suddenly gain international notoriety. The author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle announces he's a believer, but magician Harry Houdini is a skeptic. Both join a media circus to see if the pictures indeed are genuine and if fairies are real.
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Case of the Cottingley Fairies book by Joe Cooper on Amazon
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Coming of the Fairies 1922 original version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's book, the full text eBook available free on Internet Archive, containing all five photographs and Doyle's reasons for believing in fairies, which gave him a bad reputation during his time.
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Cottingley Fairies article on Wikipedia with sources
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R | Crime, Drama, History | On New Year's Day 1923, a racist lynch mob storms the small, peaceful town of Rosewood, Florida, an almost completely African-American community.
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PG-13 | Drama, History, Romance, Disaster & Survival | The Titanic is the "ship of dreams," the largest moving object ever built and the most luxurious liner of its time. The film follows the story of a seventeen-year-old aristocrat girl who falls in love with a kind but poor artist, who are passengers on board when the ship carries over 1,500 people to their death in the icy waters of the North Atlantic in 1912.
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R | Biography, Drama, History, Law | In 1839, the slave ship Amistad sets sail from Cuba to America, when the slaves aboard revolt. The courts in the USA decide whether those captured are slaves or free.
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The Amistad revolt at Cornell Law
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PG | Biography, Drama, Music | Selena is a young Tejano singer born into a musical Mexican-American family who rises to have albums topping the Latin music charts, but when she begins recording an English-language album, tragedy strikes.
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Top 10 Things Selena (1997) Got Factually Right & Wrong by MsMojo on YouTube
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Everything The J. Lo Movie Got Wrong About The Meteoric Rise And Tragic End Of Selena Quintanilla by Genevieve Carlton on Ranker
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Oprah Interviews Selena's Family and Jennifer Lopez in 1997 | The Oprah Winfrey Show on YouTube
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PG-13 | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War | An egocentric Austrian mountaineer gradually learns selflessness from the young Dalai Lama, becoming his friend at the time of China's takeover of Tibet.
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Dalai Lama's Tutor, Portrayed by Brad Pitt, Wasn't Just Roving Through the Himalayas - article in The New York Times
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PG | Drama, Medical | In 1932 rural Alabama, the U.S. government conducts the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment on African Americans, denying them necessary medical treatment.
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First, Do No Harm: a Nurse And the Deceived Subjects Of the Tuskegee Study by Michel Marriott on The New York Times
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The U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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The Syphilis Study at Tuskegee Timeline on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Best True Story Films of 1996
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PG | Adventure, Animals, Drama, Family | Amy stumbles upon abandoned Canada goose eggs, and when the eggs hatch, she and her dad work together to teach the motherless birds to fly south for the winter.
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PG | Biography, Drama, Romance | In 1930s Texas, young schoolteacher and aspiring author Novalyne Price meets the eccentric Robert E. Howard, author of the pulp stories Conan the Barbarian. They develop a unique friendship with the possibility for romance, but Howard is also obsessed with his work and dedicated to his sick mother.
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One Who Walked Alone: Robert E. Howard: The Final Years by Novalyne Price Ellis - memoir that inspired the film
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PG-13 | Drama, History, Law & Crime | A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of black activist and murder victim Medgar Evers struggle to finally bring a white racist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.
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PG-13 | Biography, Drama, Music, Romance | David Helfgott is a child piano prodigy with an abusive father, but when he moves to London on a music scholarship, his career flourishes. With pressure from his newfound fame, his difficult childhood, and schizoaffective disorder, he has a breakdown and spends years in mental institutions.
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Love You to Bits and Pieces: Life with David Helfgott 1997 book by Gillian Helfgott and Alissa Tanskaya on Amazon. Book description: "The wife of Australian pianist David Helfgott discusses the pianist's life story, from child musical prodigy, through his mental breakdown, and to a triumphant recovery."
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Love You to Bits and Pieces: Life with David Helfgott free eBook in full text with a free account on Internet Archive
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Out of Tune: David Helfgott and the Myth of Shine 1998 book by Margaret Helfgott on Amazon. From the back cover: "The Academy Award winning film Shine made pianist David Helfgott a household name. While purporting to be a true story, the movie is actually full of fabrications. Now for the first time, Margaret, David Helfgott's eldest sister, who knows him better than anyone from their early years, sets the record straight. Dispelling the many untruths propogated by the movie, Margaret tells the real story of her extraordinary brother, of a life, a career, and a legacy that will remain forever...Out Of Tune."
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R | Biography, Drama, Thriller, War | Irish revolutionary Michael Collins led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.
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Michael Collins is 30 seconds from the truth about Irish history article on The Guardian
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This Day In History: August 22, 1922, Michael Collins assassinated article on history.com
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Michael Collins (1890 - 1922) biography on the BBC
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Michael Collins:The Man Who Made Ireland biographyby Tim Pat Coogan on Amazon
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R | Biography, Drama, History, Musical | This musical dramatizes Eva Duarte Peron's rise from poverty to become an Argentinian actress and the wife of powerful President Juan Peron.
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Eva Perón on biography.com
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Evita: Whose Narrative Is It Anyway? from An Historian Goes to the Movies
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The Truth Behind… Evita on Breaking Character
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R | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport | Sports agent Jerry Maguire has a moral epiphany he expresses in a heartfelt company memo that gets him fired. He then starts his own sports management firm with only one coworker, single mother Dorothy Boyd, and one client, football player Rod Tidwell.
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Jerry Maguire: The Real Agent Who Inspired The Movie (& What Happened Next) article by Quinn Hough on Screen Rant
Best True Story Films of 1995
R | Biography, Drama, History, War | 13th century Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in the first War of Scottish Independence to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.
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History Buffs: Braveheart video on YouTube
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Braveheart: A Historical Fact Check article by Graeme Johncock on Scotland's Stories
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Everything ‘Braveheart’ Gets Wrong About the True Story It's Based On article by Lloyd Farley on Collider
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William Wallace and Robert The Bruce article by Ben Johnson on Historic UK
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The Wars of Independence on The Scottish History Society. Quote from the web page: "The film Braveheart is almost entirely fictional. Wallace was no commoner. His father and brother were knights who followed a great noble, James Stewart. It was, however, unprecedented for someone of Wallace’s status to lead a kingdom."
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R | Biography, Drama | An ex-Marine turned teacher, Louanne Johnson, struggles to connect with her students in an inner city high school and turns to unconventional methods.
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PG | Adventure, Drama, History | NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
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The Transcript From The Apollo 13 Disaster Will Give You Chills by Dina Spector on Business Insider
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Apollo 13 Transcription from NASA. You can do a keyword search (ctrl + f) for "problem" or "we've had a problem." The film dialogue differs from the real dialogue in a key scene, as the director, Ron Howard, stated that the present tense, "We have a problem," would create more dramatic tension in the film. ​
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This website lets you relive Apollo 13 in real time through historical transcripts, footage, and audio article on The Verge
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Apollo 13 in Real Time: "A real-time journey through the third lunar landing attempt." This website is a multimedia project with historical material entirely from the original 1970 mission. You can relive the mission as it occurred.
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History Buffs: Apollo 13 video on YouTube
Best True Story Films of 1994
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R | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | In Christchurch, New Zealand, 1954, when teenage girls Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme become friends, their parents become concerned that their intense relationship is unhealthy, but the girls plan to take revenge and run away to prevent their separation.
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Two teenagers face charge of killing woman article in Star-Sun, 23 August 1954, p.1 as reproduced on Christchurch City Council Libraries website
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Anne Perry, killer turned crime writer, dies aged 84 article in The Guardian​
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Quotes and interview with director Peter Jackson on the Heavenly Creatures website
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Parker/Hulme Case on the Heavenly Creatures website with biographies of Pauline and Juliet, diary excerpts, murder and trial facts, and more
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PG-13 | Biography, Drama, History, Law | A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates the game show "Twenty One" and show winner Charles Van Doren to examine the claim that winners were given the answers.
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Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties book by Richard N. Goodwin on Amazon. The content that inspired the film takes up a small part of the book.
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All the Answers 2008 article by Charles Van Doren in The New Yorker
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1950s Game Shows Were LAWLESS video on YouTube
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Title 47 U.S. Code § 509 - Prohibited practices in contests of knowledge, skill, or chance - the 1960 amendment to the Communications Act of 1934 on the Cornell Law School website. The amendment made rigging game shows unlawful.
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Herbert Stempel discusses being "prepped" for "Twenty-One" - video interview on YouTube
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Herbert Stempel discusses his loss on "Twenty-One" - video interview on YouTube
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PG | Drama, Family, Romance | This adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott classic book portrays the March sisters in growing pains, financial hardships, family tragedies, and romantic rivalries in mid-19th-century Massachusetts.
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The Real-Life Inspirations of Little Women on the PBS website, featuring side-by-side comparisons between the characters and real individuals. Excerpt: "Although the March family is fictional, the characters—including the four sisters whose stories have captivated generations of girls—are heavily based on Louisa May Alcott’s real-life family. Get acquainted (or re-acquainted) with the Marches and the Alcotts, two families with big hearts and incredible stories."​
Best True Story Films of 1993
PG | Biography, Drama, Sport | Rudy Ruettiger dreams of playing football for the University of Notre Dame, determined to leave the steel mill where he works. He has many obstales to overcome: he was told that he was too small for college football, plus he lacks the money for tuition, has dyslexia, and lacks the grades for a scholarship, but with perseverance and the help of a tutor, he is admitted to the university.
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R | Adventure, Biography, Drama | Uruguay's rugby team is stranded after a plane crash in the Andes mountains, and once all available food runs out, the group faces a terrible dilemma: eat their deceased teammates or die.
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors book by historian and biographer Piers Paul Read on Amazon
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15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The 1993 Film Alive on the Eighties Kids website​
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
PG | Biography, Drama, Education | Josh Waitzkin is a seven-year-old chess prodigy who learns speed chess at the park from a hustler named Vinnie, but his parents get him coaching from the renowned chess coach Bruce, whose methods are at odds with his earlier mentor, and Josh faces the stress of the game and the adults surrounding him.
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R | Biography, Drama, History | In German-occupied Poland, businessman Oskar Schindler aims to profit from World War II and staffs his factory with Jewish workers, but he gradually becomes concerned for them upon witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. The film takes place primarily between 1939-1945.
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R | Biography, True Crime, Drama, History, Western | Wyatt Earp is a lawman who plans to retire in Tombstone, Arizona by starting a business with his brothers, but when they become targets of the Cowboy gang, they and Wyatt's best friend, Doc Holliday, arm themselves to restore order to a lawless land.
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6 Things You Should Know About Wyatt Earp article by Elizabeth Nix on History.com
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Wyatt Earp article by History.com editors
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Doc Holliday article on Biography.com
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Tombstone: Hollywood Showdown with the Author of Tombstone the Book! video from Based on a True Story Podcast on YouTube
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Episode 26: Tombstone on History by Hollywood podcast
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Tombstone – Inspired by Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral on Inspired by a True Story podcast
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PG-13 | Drama, Law, Medical | Lawyer Andrew Beckett hides his homosexuality and HIV condition from his Philadelphia law firm, but he is fired when his secret is exposed, and he hires a homophobic lawyer, the only attorney who will represent him in a discrimination lawsuit.
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Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
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R | Comedy, Drama, Mystery | An affluent New York City couple finds their lives touched and intruded upon by a mysterious young black man who claims to be a friend of their Ivy League children and who is never quite who he says he is.
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The story behind Six Degrees of Separation’s other star article by Claude Solnik on Show Business Weekly
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PG | Adventure, Comedy, Family, History, Sport | Four Jamaicans who have never seen snow form their country's first bobsled team to compete in the upcoming 1988 Winter Olympics with the help of a former, disgraced Olympic gold medalist to coach them.
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In the Name of the Father (1993)
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R | Biography, Drama, Law & Crime | Gerry Conlon is a young Irishman whose coerced confession to an IRA bombing in Guildford, England results in his imprisonment and his father's imprisonment. He spends 15 years trying to clear their names with the help of a British lawyer.
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Proved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four autobiographical book by Gerry Conlon and David Pallister on Amazon
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Guildford Four: how the innocent were framed and the truth buried article by Alastair Logan, the solicitor who represented the Guildford Four and Maguire Seven
Best True Story Films of 1992
PG | Comedy, Drama, Sport | During World War II, the first professional female baseball league is established in the Midwest, USA, with two competitive sisters, Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller, who argue with each other and their grumpy coach, Jimmy Dugan.
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PG-13 | Biography, Comedy, Drama | The film dramatizes the life of comic genius Charlie Chaplin, from humble beginnings in England to silent movie fame, his later masterpieces, personal struggles with marriage, and exile from the United States.
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9 Things You May Not Know About Charlie Chaplin by Jesse Greenspan on history.com
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PG-13 | Biography, Drama, History | The biography of Malcolm X, who led a struggle for black liberation in the U.S., dramatizes his teenage years in the 1940s and career as a small-time gangster, his imprisonment in the 1950s when he became a Muslim, his membership in the Nation of Islam, and assassination in 1965.
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Malcolm X True Story: What Spike Lee's Movie Changes & How Accurate It Is article by Grace Bayliss on Screen Rant
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R | Drama, Law & Crime, Thriller | Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee and Liutenant Commander JoAnne Galloway are military lawyers who defend two U.S. Marines charged with killing another Marine at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.
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Can You Handle the True Story Behind Aaron Sorkin's 'A Few Good Men'? article by Shreejit Nair on Collider
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AFI CATALOG OF FEATURE FILMS: A Few Good Men (1992) History "Castle Rock Entertainment was sued for $10 million in damages by several Marines involved in the incident that inspired the film, as reported in a 26 Feb 1994 The Times (London) brief. The marines claimed they never gave permission for filmmakers to use their story, and pointed out key details that were taken from real life, including the stuffing of a poisoned rag down the victim’s throat. A Castle Rock executive responded that the lawsuit was without merit. . . . Less than two months after The Times (London) brief, a 7 Apr 1994 HR item reported that David V. Cox, one of the marines who had been acquitted and honorably discharged, was found shot to death on 2 Apr 1994."
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Best True Story Films of 1991
Not Without my Daughter (1991)
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PG-13 | Drama, Survival, Thriller | Based on the book of the same name, American housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanies her husband and their daughter to his Iranian homeland for a two-week vacation, where she and her daughter become virtual prisoners in a country her husband forbids her to leave.
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R | Drama, History, Thriller | New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison leads the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, facing government resistance when he doubts conventional thinking about the murder.
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JFK: Historical Fact/Historical Film journal article by Robert A. Rosenstone
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JFK: Sifting Fact from Fiction - How Accurate is Oliver Stone's Controversial Thriller? on Based on a True Story Podcast YouTube video
Best True Story Films of 1990
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PG-13 | Biography, Drama | In 1990s New York, a doctor performs extraordinary work with victims of an encephalitis epidemic who have been catatonic and languishing in a Bronx hospital. He faces skeptical superiors when seeking permission to treat them with L-dopa, a drug he speculates may give the patients a new chance at life.
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A Life Stranger Than the Movie, 'Europa, Europa,' Based on It by Stephen Engelberg on The New York Times website
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Europa, Europa: A Memoir of World War II book by Solomon Perel on Amazon​
PG-13 | Biography, Drama | The story of Vincent van Gogh, the painter who struggled in obscurity with mental illness, and his devoted brother Theodore, an art gallery owner who supported Vincent and who struggled with financial challenges.
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How Vincent van Gogh’s Tumultuous Friendship with Paul Gauguin Drove Him to Cut Off His Ear by Dave Roos on Biography.com
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"Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful." - Vincent van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo van Gogh, January 1874
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"Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way." - Vincent van Gogh in his Letter no. 155, June 1880
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"I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may." - Vincent van Gogh in a letter to Theo from Cuesmes, Belgium, July 1880
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Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (1990)
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PG-13 | Drama, History, War | The film dramatizes the aftermath of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945 during World War II by following the perspectives of multiple characters, including Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war, and more.
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes has eyewitness accounts at the end of the book
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Eyewitness Account of Hiroshima by Father John A. Siemes, professor of modern philosophy at Tokyo's Catholic University
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PG | Drama, History | In 1955 Montgomery Alabama, Odessa Carter needs transportation to work as a nanny in the home of the affluent Miriam Thompson, but she refuses to take the bus while participating in the Montgomery bus boycott as a protest against inequality between blacks and whites. Miriam offers Odessa rides to work, despite disapproval from Miriam's husband and community.
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Teach With Movies​​