based on true story

Freedom Writers | Germany| United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.5 (64100 votes)
Budget
21,000,000.00$
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

Boys Don't Cry | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.5 (89459 votes)
Budget
2,000,000.00$
Female born, Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.

Genre
IMDB
7.6 (255428 votes)
Budget
52,000,000.00$
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.

Genre
IMDB
7.0 (34047 votes)
Budget
3,000,000.00$
Lexington, Kentucky, 2004. Four young men attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in the history of the United States.

When the Game Stands Tall | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.7 (14817 votes)
Budget
15,000,000.00$
A young coach turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons.

23 | Germany
Genre
IMDB
7.3 (6303 votes)
The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, R.A. Wilson's "Illuminatus", but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl's rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking - he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB.

Crown Heights | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.5 (1672 votes)
When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.

Sid & Nancy | United Kingdom
Genre
IMDB
7.0 (28386 votes)
Budget
4,000,000.00$
In January 1978, after their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates and their manager to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York only after a traumatic event. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction and co-dependency, a last journey with no return.

Fighting for Freedom | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
5.7 (96 votes)
Two intertwined families, one American, one Mexican, and their fight to save three year old illegal Angelina from deportation.

Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story
Genre
IMDB
6.8 (11691 votes)
Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the mare and save it from being sacrificed by the owner.

Genre
IMDB
7.4 (167400 votes)
Budget
85,000,000.00$
A biopic about Elvis Presley, with focus on his early years.

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi | United States of America| Morocco| Malta
Genre
IMDB
7.3 (110318 votes)
Budget
50,000,000.00$
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

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