Browse Movies : N : "true story"

They broke everything but her spirit. They took everything but her dream. Noble is the incredible true story of a fearless Irish heroine driven by her daring vision who escapes the slums of Ireland and risks everything on the streets of Vietnam.

The remarkable true story of marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, who, at the age of 64, became the first person to complete the “Everest of swims," a 53-hour, 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida through dangerous open ocean without a shark cage.

A Northeastern University student creates Napster, a program that allows his fellow students to swap music files on the internet. He later drops out of school to launch Napster as an online business, prompting lawsuits from the Recording Industry Assn. of America, Dr. Dre and Metallica.

In 1980, Ted Bundy was sentenced to death by electrocution. In the years that followed, he agreed to disclose the details of his crimes, but only to one man. NO MAN OF GOD is based on the true story of the strange and complicated relationship that developed between FBI agent Bill Hagmaier and an incarcerated Ted Bundy in the years leading to Bundy's execution.

Set in the 1980s, the Coca-Cola Company perceives a threat by No. 2 rival Pepsi when they release a clever "Pepsi Challenge" marketing campaign. This leads Coke to corporate panic, even though Coke is outselling its rival 2-to-1. They release a so-called improved formula but its summarily rejected by Coke drinkers.

Based on a true story, when Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, facing international pressure, calls for a referendum on his presidency in 1988, opposition leaders persuade a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra (Gael García Bernal), to spearhead their campaign. With scant resources and constant scrutiny by the despot’s watchmen, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and free their country from oppression.

Four friends are on a fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico when their boat capsizes, stranding the four men at sea. In the days that follow, the men fight to survive as they await to see if help will come.

Nuts recounts the mostly-true story of John Romulus Brinkley, a Kansas doctor who in 1917 discovered that he could cure impotence by transplanting goat testicles into men. From there, the story only gets more bizarre.

6’10” writer Connor Toole successfully poses as an NBA draft and attends the NBA Draft day in New York. He convinces people that he is a second-round selection of the Utah Jazz.

True story of Audie Murphy, a man who enlisted in 1942 as a 16-year-old and became one of America’s most decorated combat veterans after seeing intense action in Italy and France. He then went on to star as himself in the 1955 hit “To Hell and Back” and appeared in more than 40 other films.

On February 28, 1997, robbers exit a North Hollywood Bank of America branch and are confronted by police, who have no idea the firepower they are about to face. In the end, both suspects are killed, 12 officers and eight bystanders are injured, and bullet holes from about 2,000 rounds of ammo pocket nearby buildings and parked cars.

In Monroe, NC, civil rights hero Robert F. Williams battles with the KKK and local, state and federal Government, which ultimately forces his exile to Cuba, where he continues to inspire the civil rights movement with his worldwide radio show, broadcasting until his signal is jammed by the US Government.

A father and son look into the true story behind a long-lost horror film from the golden era of monster movies. They risk unleashing the very thing the supposedly destroyed film had meant to keep hidden.

A jaded reporter is demoted to a rural news station, but her cynicism is slowly transformed when she befriends a recovering addict as she works a news story about a church struggling to purchase a motel for homeless families.

French aristocrat-turned-anti-Nazi-Saboteur Robert de la Rochefoucauld joins the British Special Operations Executive and is trained in every manner of dark arts before being sent back to France to help organize the resistance, blowing up train stations and munitions factories, enduring months of torture and escaping his own execution.

Based on the true story of a Manhanttan family that attempts to use as few resources as possible. Not to be confused with the 2009 documentary on the same subject.

True story of Rebecca Alexander who was born with a rare genetic mutation that caused her to lose her sight and hearing over time. She beat the odds and expectations of her prognosis.