Browse Movies : TBA Month : True Story (Page #5)

Sort by
81 – 100 of 346 movies

Brother Orange

BuzzFeed editor Matt Stopera has his iPhone stolen in 2014. Unbeknownst to him, the iPhone makes its way across the continent, across the Pacific and into China, and a year later, random pictures began appearing on his photo stream, including a number of photos of a serious-looking man in front of an orange tree. The story eventually goes viral.

Brothers in Arms

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.

Chasing Phil

During the 1970s, FBI agents Jim Wedick and Jack Brennan infiltrate the world of Phillip Kitzer Jr, a Minnesota swindler who masterminds dozens of multimillion-dollar schemes, such as selling worthless securities from bogus offshore enterprises. His international network of associates is known as The Fraternity.

Christy Martin

Story of world champion boxer Christy Martin who had to fight through a man’s world to gain success and later personally found herself fighting for her life.

Coach: Lessons on the G...

Set in the late 1970s, Coach Fitz teaches kids to fight "the natural instinct to run away from adversity" and to battle their way through all the easy excuses life offers for giving up.

Cold Comfort

An American civilian turned self-taught spy works with the FBI to bring down a Russian intelligence agent on American soil.

Crash Override

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.

Cycle of Lies: The Fall...

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.

Dangerous Odds

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.

Empty Mansions

Huguette Clark is the youngest daughter of W.A. Clark, who was born in a log cabin but becomes a powerful mining and banking magnate after discovering copper in Montana following the Civil War. He rises to such wealth and prominence that he helps to found Las Vegas. Huguette is born in Paris and lives a very interesting life. She grows up in the largest house in New York City — a mansion of 121 rooms for a family of four. She owns paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, and a vast collection of antique dolls and beautifully crafted dollhouses. Huguette lives out the last two decades of her life in the Beth Israel Hospital, dishing out $400,000 per year to live there but is never in the VIP section. She is a generous woman who appreciates art and the simple acts of giving. Huguette is often taken advantage of because of her kindness. She dies in 2011 at 104, leaving behind an over $310 million fortune.

Everest

In 1924, George Mallory makes an ascent of Mount Everest. But he and Andrew Irvine mysteriously never return from their climb. His legacy involves the possibility that he, and not Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953, was the first man to reach the summit.

Free Ride

Follows an abused single mother (Anna Paquin) who moves to Florida with her daughters amid the colorful yet turbulent culture of the late 1970s.
Location: US - Florida

He Wanted The Moon

In the 1920s, Dr. Perry Baird, who was born in Texas and educated at Harvard, begins his career ascent in the field of medicine. Over time, he grows more and more interested in the cause of manic depression. Sadly

Marching Powder

A British drug trafficker is arrested in Bolivia and jailed in La Paz's San Pedro prison. During his six-year stretch, the man serves as a tour guide in a prison that thrives under a capitalist system made possible by bribery of officials.

Running A Thousand Mile...

Married in 1846, William and Ellen Craft flee slavery in 1848 when Ellen, the daughter of her slave master who because of her light complexion could pass, disguises herself as a man and poses as William's white slave owner.

Ryan Wash Debate Project

Ryan Wash, an openly gay male debater from inner-city Kansas, emerges from personal turmoil that includes the death of his mother, to set out on a life-long search to re-find home in the electrifying world of competitive debating. It is a world that simultaneously inspires and betrays him, until he embraces his own identity and revolutionizes the debate establishment. Wash wins the 2013 Cross Examination Association and National Debate Tournament championships.

Speed Girl

Set in the 1970s, Janet Guthrie, a pilot turned racecar driver, makes a bid for the Indianapolis 500 in 1976 despite relentless opposition from the racing establishment and the men she hopes to race against. Janet qualifies for the race in 1978 where she finishes in the top ten, destroying many widely-held stereotypes about female drivers.