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

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.

Adolf Tolkachev, a senior engineer in a top-secret Soviet aerospace laboratory, becomes one of the most valuable spies ever for the U.S. during the Cold War.

A true story about Billy Milligan, a man with 24 different personalities. Afflicted with multiple personalities due to a childhood filled with abuse, Billy Milligan, livesa nightmarishly schizoid life. Eventually, several of his personalities band together and commit a series of rapes, which results in Billy being put in a hospital for the criminally insane. Now well on the road to mental health, Billy hopes to be set free, but instead finds himself remanded to a hellhole of a mental hospital by a society that still fears him. Inevitably, though, justice prevails. As of this day, Billy leads a productive, sane, freelife.

Max Mermelstein, a Jewish hotel engineer, transforms Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel from a small mom-and-pop drug organization into a billion-dollar enterprise.

In 1999, a drug bust in Tulia, Texas leads to 10% of the town's African American population being arrested. An attorney from the NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational Fund becomes involved. The arrests never produce neither drugs nor money and they end up causing prosecutors and civil rights groups to denounce the bust as racial profiling. The undercover agent who conducted the bust is indicted for perjury, and most of the 46 arrestees are pardoned by Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Derek Boogaard, a shy over-sized man, learns to use his fists to make it to the National Hockey League and becomes a renowned hockey enforcer. The hulking 6'7" and 270 pounds Boogaard becomes known as the Boogeyman, and rarely loses a fight while playing for the Minnesota Wild and the New York Rangers. He gets addicted to painkillers from years of damage, and is found dead at age 28 after mixing prescription drugs with booze.

Woman of the Hour is based on the stranger-than-fiction true story of Cheryl Bradshaw and Rodney Alcala. Bradshaw was a bachelorette on the hit 70s TV matchmaking show The Dating Game and chose handsome and funny bachelor number three, Rodney Alcala. But behind Alcala’s charming facade was a deadly secret: he was a psychopathic serial killer.

Focuses on the 2006 standardized test cheating scandal at Atlanta public schools. Michael B. Jordan will portray teacher Damany Lewis, who joined the effort in order to prevent his school from shutting down under provisions of the No Child Left Behind law. Eleven teachers were indicted on racketeering allegations.

In Guatemala, Rodrigo Rosenberg, a wealthy businessman who watched his wife-to-be get assassinated along with her father, is later gunned down while riding his bicycle. His murder stirs up an entire country frustrated by the endless waves of violence, sometimes involving corrupt government officials

A special ops soldier runs covert missions into Baghdad before the U.S. invasion. The unit is comprised of seven men from the Navy Seals, Green Berets, Army Rangers and Marine Recon who are conducting secret surveillance during the Saddam Hussein regime.

A biopic of Rock Hudson, the Hollywood screen icon who lived in fear of the discovery of his gay lifestyle.

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.

The film chronicles the journey taken by the family of a young boy, Miles Scott, who captured the world’s attention when the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted his request to be his favorite superhero for a day. Scott was diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia when he was 18 months old.

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

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.

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.

Sue Mengers crashes the boys club that is Hollywood agenting, brandishing an outsized personality to go with her famous client list.

Carrie Hamilton is the daughter of Carol Burnett, one of the most beloved figures on television and in film. Carrie journeys from teenage drug addiction to her sober adult life where she finds happiness and success as an actress and a writer before her untimely passing from cancer at age 38.

A biopic (in the vein of The Social Network) on Martin Cooper, referred to as “the father of the cell phone,” who is credited with inventing the first handheld cellular device at Motorola.

Dark Wire covers the unbelievable true story of how the FBI launched a fake telecom company and became the number one phone service provider to the world’s most notorious gangs, culminating in the arrest of more than a thousand international criminals.