Browse Movies : TBA Month : True Story (Page #4)

Lawrence Horn, a former record producer and Motown Records executive, is sentenced to life in prison for hiring Detroit-based hit man James Perry to murder his wife, quadriplegic son and the wealthy family's overnight nurse at their suburban home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Horn's son is the victim of medical malpractice and as the result of a subsequent lawsuit, has a trust worth nearly $2 million, which his father stands to inherit in the wake of his death. Detectives discovers that Perry used how-to book "Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors" as a guide to execute the murders. The families of the victims go on to file a class-action lawsuit against the Colorado-based publisher Paladin Press. The attorneys representing the families then hire Rodney Smolla, a First Amendment attorney and professor at William & Mary Law School, to consult on the historic case, which takes five years to settle amidst a series of shocking and bizarre developments.

A counter-espionage officer defies orders and embarks on a compromising mission to clear the name of a French-Jewish officer who was unfairly accused of spying for Germany and imprisoned on Devil’s Island in the late 1890s.

A PTA President named Kelli Peters is framed from drug possession by a set of parents. Peters is arrested and investigated but the truth eventually comes out and, after a five-year ordeal, she wins a $5.7 million-dollar civil judgment against the couple.

American fashion model, artist and war correspondent Elizabeth "Lee" Miller is a muse and collaborator to famous artists such as Pablo Picasso and Man Ray, an acclaimed photojournalist documenting some of the most important moments in history, a witness to wartime atrocities and one of the most glamorous women of her time.

A man writes short notes on napkins and puts them in his daughter's lunch when she is in kindergarten. It becomes a daily ritual, and a special way to connect with his young daughter. The practice takes on special meaning for him when he is diagnosed with kidney cancer. He is diagnosed with cancer four times and is given an 8% chance to live long enough to watch his daughter graduate from high school. He's determined to write a total of 826 notes, which will give his now-teenage daughter one note for each day through high school — no matter what happens.

Biopic of heroic lawyer Scipio Africanus Jones who risked his life and career to defend 87 men wrongfully accused of murder in the wake of the Elaine, AR massacre of 1919.

Follows Artur Samarin, a young Ukranian man who posed as a teenager so he could be adopted by a childless couple in a small Pennsylvania town and became the top student in his high school.

Set in the 19th, Sarah Grimke is gifted with a 10-year-old slave girl, Hetty, for her 11th birthday. Sarah attempts to reject the gift, she ultimately cannot nor can she free Hetty or even protect her. Sarah and Hetty's lives remain intertwined as they grow up into women.

A group of Canadian criminals rob North American banks in the 1980s without ever having to fire their guns. Lionel Wright is a meticulous introvert who could disappear in a room full of people. Paddy Mitchell is a charming and well-connected crook who sees an angle in everything and will go to any lengths to avoid the hell of being locked away. And Stephen Reid is a fearless point man who can find the weakness in any system and whose story — of addiction and descent into crime, of redemption and literary fame — is all prelude to a tragic but life-saving fall from grace. The men rob an estimated 100 banks, from which they steal roughly $10 million.

Deric Lostutter, a member of the hacker group Anonymous, helps expose a cover-up of the rape of a 16-year-old girl by two high school football players in Steubenville, Ohio. After releasing a video made by the football players, showing them with the rape victim, Lostutter's home is raided by the FBI and he is charged for obtaining tweets and social media posts that contain details about the rape and for threatening action against the rapists. He could spend more than a decade in prison -- while the rapists he helped catch spent only one year in jail.

A massive manhunt takes place to apprehend two men believed to be responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings.

Based on a true story, this war drama follows an all-black tank battalion's 183 days on the front lines of the Battle of the Bulge.

When an intelligence leak dangerously exposes a covert mission in Afghanistan, a grieving CIA operative and his translator must find their way out of the desert, outgunned and hunted by elite special forces.

Zoe Quinn, creator of such hip interactive games as Depression Quest, is targeted by a digital mob bent on upending her life when a blog post by her ex-boyfriend goes viral. It sparks the widely-discussed Gamergate controversy and takes a surprising turn when instead of running, she decides to fight back.

For over a decade, through the cyclist's recovery from deadly cancer to his capturing seven Tour de France titles, Lance Armstrong vehemently denies the allegations of doping. But he eventually falls on his sword and confesses in a January 2012 interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Marisa Lankester, a young beautiful woman, becomes an insider of the sports betting empire run by Ron "The Cigar" Sacco. She falls in love with his business partner, and moves the business with him from L.A. to Vegas and then the Dominican Republic, where gambling is legal. While she becomes a top model as well as a gambling mogul there, her existence devolves into a nightmare of incarceration and rape, before she finally escapes. She now lives in Switzerland.

A biopic about the identical twin sisters who wrote advice columns as Abigail Van Buren and Ann Landers.

The effort of Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP’s legal team to save the lives of four black men falsely accused of raping a white woman in Florida in 1949.