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

Set in the 1990s, British-American astronaut Mike Foale overcomes a series of crises aboard the Mir space station to become one of NASA's most highly-respected astronauts to date.

Tamara Mellon, who had a troubled childhood, loses her job as an editor at Vogue. After a stint in rehab, Mellon partners with Malaysian-born cobbler Jimmy Choo whose footwear she develops into a billion-dollar brand in the late 1990s & early 2000s. As the company becomes a runaway success, private equity suits try to take over, undermine quality, boost sales, and ultimately sell the firm out from under her. Mellon fights back tooth-and-nail. She ultimately sells her shares for a reported $135M and exits the company in 2011.

Story of 1970s cult leader who was behind the Jonestown mass suicide on November 18, 1978.

Kit Lambert discovers the rock band The Who while he is trying to make a film about the band, known then as the High Numbers. Instead, he decides to manage the band and to launch their musical career, and with Chris Stamp -- brother of Terence Stamp -- Lambert pushes Townshend to take The Who into more experimental avenues. The result is the seminal rock opera album "Tommy," which later becomes a Ken Russell film. Lambert also works with Jimi Hendrix and other artists, and is as known for self-destruction as they are.

Story of a Connecticut nurse who found herself at the center of a political firestorm when the city of New London, Connecticut used the power of eminent domain to claim ownership of the working class Fort Trumbull neighborhood.

Between 1942 and 1945, Viktor Frankl labored in four different Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished.

Tells the true story of what happened when the PT boat captained by future president John F Kennedy was smashed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer.

In the early 1900s, two explorers try to be the first person to reach the last uncharterd territory on the planet, the South Pole. Englishman Robert Falcon Scott and Norwegian Roald Amundsen are explorers from antithetical countries. Their race, seen as heroic during a golden age of exploration, sparks international interest and galvanizes the world to see who will reach the Southernmost point first.

A woman flourishes in the male-dominated business of massage parlors and prostitution.

Story of how a Chinese ice-breaker on a scientific expedition rescued a group of 74 Australian, British, and Russian nationals on a chartered Russian vessel, which had become trapped in Antarctic ice.

John LeFevre shoots to prominence — anonymously — as the creator of the @GSElevator Twitter account, an inside look at the real world of international finance.

True life tale of a rag-tag investors from the Reddit page called "Wall Street Bets" who band together to put the squeeze on at least two hedge funds.

A two-year-old baseball prodigy begins sharing vivid memories of a life he never lived: that of a baseball player in the 1920s and 1930s. Distraught by her son’s uncanny revelations, his mother embarks on a sacred journey of discovery that shakes her Christian faith to the core and changes their lives forever.

What begins as a simple turf war escalates into an all-out ice cream offensive with price slashing, tailgating and even arson when ice cream vendors Dennis Roeper, considered an all-American family man, and Efrain Escobar, a Mexican immigrant and aspiring entrepreneur, find themselves on the verge of destroying the thing they love the most: the joy of ice cream.

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.

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.