Browse Movies : TBA Month : D : "true story"

Moe Norman is injured in a sledding accident that turns him into a loner whose repetitive phrases and nervous laughter is off-putting. The repetitive behavior proves to be an asset when he develops an unorthodox short golf swing that enables him to place the ball with uncanny accuracy. Tiger Woods would later say that Norman and Ben Hogan were the two who truly "owned" their golf swings.

In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers bond in the Russian Ural Mountains before they mysteriously die on an elevation known as "Dead Mountain."

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.

True story of Martha Mitchell, the whistle-blowing wife of Nixon chief of staff John Mitchell, and the price she paid for speaking out.

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.

The life story of an illegal immigrant, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, who became the head of brain tumor surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Ben Moon adopts a rescue dog when he moves to Oregon and sees the pup in a shelter. He instantly feels a connection. The two of them set out on the road together, on an adventure that takes them across the American west and through some of the best years of their lives. But when Ben is diagnosed with colorectal cancer at age 29, he faces a difficult battle with the disease, and Denali never once leaves his side until they are back out surfing and climbing crags. It is only a short time later that Denali is struck by the same disease, and Ben has the chance to return the favor.

Ten-year-old Keith Byrne and his 13 year-old friend Noel Murray take a train to the ferry port of Dun Laoghaire, near Dublin, and travel to London via Holyhead in 1985. They manage to evade security to board an Air India flight to New York. They are arrested near JFK Airport, igniting an investigation that spanned several continents.

The younger brother of a high-level DEA official and former undercover agent is murdered in broad daylight in El Paso, Texas. After discovering the hit was ordered by the drug kingpin across the river in Juarez, Mexico, possibly as retribution for the agent’s past actions, the DEA official heads across the border for revenge — not only against the killers but the DEA as well.

The story of Russian dancer Rudolph Nureyev, who was born during WWII, defected at the age of 23 and became one of the best known dancers in the world before dying of AIDS in 1992.

After the sudden death of Sheri Hunter's husband, three of her closest friends decide to help her heal from her grief through extreme adventures that dare them all to face their greatest fears. From whitewater rafting to skydiving to race-car driving, the "dare divas" travel the globe and inspired thousands in the process.

A salvage crew tries to save a capsized Japanese cargo ship. The tightknit crew races to save the ship's dangerous cargo and claim its reward.

Through an unlikely pairing and tumultuous 19-year relationship, improv maestro Del Close and Charna Halpern own, run and teach at the Chicago's Improv Olympic theater. Together as friends, saviors and soulmates, the duo helps each other overcome his addiction, financial ruin, and their own personal demons to ultimately establish improv as an art form. As such A-list talent are cutting their teeth at IO, it isn’t unheard for Halpern to put a roof over their head, feed them and coach them through bad patches. Together they re-write the rules of improvisation, urging their students to bring intelligence to their art and justice to their characters. Close dies in March 1999.

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.

Jarred Weisfeld, a 22-year-old VH1-intern-turned-manager, has various misadventures with hip-hop artist Ol’ Dirty Bastard (real name: Russell Jones) leading up to the performer’s tragic death in 2004.

A young kid is arrested for putting out a hit on the clients of the Silk Road, the illegal online bazaar he created where one could buy illegal goods including drugs or services like contract killings.

True story of escape artist Harry Houdini's 1926 tour of Britain, and his passionate relationship with a woman he meets in Scotland.

True story of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old whose 1955 murder by Mississippi racists for whistling at a white woman became a catalyst for the civil rights movement. Story is told through the eyes of Till's mother.

After the courts forcibly put her into a retirement home in Charlottesville, Va., in 1983, Anna Anderson, who claims to be the Grand Russian Duchess Anastasia, is broken out by her American husband, Jack Manahan. Together they evade the authorities across rural Virginia to have the honeymoon they never had.