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

Set during World War I, two British officers escape from a remote Turkish P.O.W. camp by means of a Ouija board.

During WWII, Desmond Doss, an Army medic, is ostracized by his fellow soldiers because of his refusal to kill or even carry a gun. He proves his courage, saving 75 men at the Battle of Okinawa. He later becomes the first conscientious objector in American history to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Biopic of Nicky Barnes, the Harlem-based mobster who was dubbed "Mr. Untouchable." The Council will aim to tell the story of an organized crime syndicate run by seven black mobsters who operated in Harlem in the 1970s.

Donny Herbert, a 34-year-old Buffalo, NY, firefighter, is trapped for six minutes without oxygen before he is rescued. Herbert survives but only in a non-responsive state. When doctors try a drug that normally is for attention deficit or Parkinson’s disease, he wakes up and he spends the day reuniting with his family. After 15 hours though, Herbert becomes unresponsive again, and dies a year later.

In the early 20th century, Amy Archer-Gilligan runs a nursing home that plays host to a curiously high number of fatalities between 1907 and 1917. Most of the deaths are found to be caused by poisoning, and bulk arsenic buyer "Sister Amy" is eventually found guilty of murder.

Three daredevil World War I pilots are held in Germany's most infamous POW prison until there is a mass prison escape and the pilots flee to freedom.

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.

In 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden, a gang of brazen robbers use a stolen Bell 206 Jet Ranger to land on the roof of the G4S cash service depot, where they steal more than $5 million. The robbers place decoy bombs around the area to prevent police from closing in on them.

The Irish members of five-a-side soccer team travel to the "The Homeless World Cup Foundation" tournament in Paris. The Foundation helps itinerant people worldwide change their lives through soccer.

An American couple abandons civilization to build a peaceful retreat on a deserted island. Their plans are disrupted when a European countess and her lovers arrive, aiming to take over the island and construct a luxury hotel, leading to conflicts and challenges for the couple.

The search for the last surviving member of an Amazon tribe from the perspective of the government agents charged with both verifying his existence and preserving his way of life.

A young Midwesterner transforms from a shy kid into a sex symbol with rugged good looks, but he is forced to keep secret his homosexuality. Henry Willson, an agent, discovers Hudson and beyond changing the actor's name, Willson becomes adept at keeping secrets. When the showbiz tabloid "Confidential" threatens to publish rumors that Hudson is leading a secret life in 1955, Willson arranges for Hudson to marry his secretary, Phyllis Gates. They do a good job of keeping Hudson’s private life private right up until he dies in 1985, when he becomes the first major movie star to pass away from complications relating to AIDS.

Follows an American mercenary brought to the Peruvian Andes to recover stolen gold where he balances a burgeoning romance with his translator-turned-partner, a female cop, and a deepening web of conspiracy and intrigue.

The hunt for the anthrax killer who terrorized America in the days that followed the 9/11 attacks.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, an American diplomat in Kazakhstan discovers a massive stock of enriched uranium, and it's a race against time to get it out of the country before potential terrorists get to it first.

In the 1950s, three boys — one white, one Latino and one black — attend the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys — a reformatory in Florida opened in 1900. The "work farm" is known for allegations of torture, beatings, rapes and even murder at the hand of some of the staff. There is a place called the "white house" and the staff take the boys and beat the them in a contest to see who can draw blood first.

A woman spends her entire life as a man so she can study and practice medicine. She becomes a prominent surgeon who spends her groundbreaking career championing the rights of the lower classes and pushing for medical reforms and better sanitary conditions. Her true gender is not discovered until her death in 1865.

Robert Peace, a young African-American man, leaves the crime-ridden streets of Newark to attend Yale. There, he studies molecular biochemistry and biophysics and excels at school, but the troubles from his upbringing continued to plague him until his violent and all-too-soon end.

During World War II, Noor Inayat Khan, under the code name Madeleine, is trained by Britain’s Special Operations Executive and becomes the first female wireless operator to be flown into occupied France. She infiltrates the Paris area, where within days of her arrival almost her entire circuit is arrested by the Gestapo, making ‘poste-Madeleine’ the last radio link between France and England.

Hakeem Oluseyi grows up in Louisiana. When his parents divorce, he has to find his own way through life. Through pure will and perseverance, Hakeem ends up becoming a NASA astrophysicist.