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This is an index of articles that features lists of films based on real-life events. As new entries are produced, they should be included to ensure the list remains current and complete. List of films based on actual events (before 1940)
29th Street (1991) – comedy drama film based on the true-life story of actor Frank Pesce, who won the first New York State Lottery in 1976 [84]; A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story (1991) – biographical drama television film recounting the life of Ricky Bell, a Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back sickened with dermatomyositis, and Ryan Blankenship, a physically impaired child [85]
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The Miracle of Kathy Miller (1981) – sport drama television film based on the real-life story of a Scottsdale, Arizona teenager who was critically injured in a 1977 car accident [99] Miracle on Ice (1981) – sport drama television film about the United States men's national ice hockey team , led by head coach Herb Brooks , that won the gold ...
Based on the biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the three-hour masterpiece that all but swept the 2024 Oscars delves into the life and work of physicist J. Robert ...
Arcadia scored highly with critics, and played to sold out theaters at the Berlin Film Festival. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote: "Ms. Silver’s ability to translate the liminal into cinematic terms, to catch those moments between innocence and knowing, childhood and adulthood, unforgiving and forgiving, makes her someone to watch".
Corbari (1970) – Italian war drama film based on real life events of Italian partisan Silvio Corbari [11] Cromwell (1970) – British historical drama film based on the life of Oliver Cromwell, who rose to lead the Parliamentary forces during the later parts of the English Civil War and, as Lord Protector, ruled Great Britain and Ireland in ...
"Arcadia" was inspired by life in planned communities. Daniel Arkin, a first year staff writer for the show, was inspired to write "Arcadia" based on an incident that had occurred several years prior: In 1991, he had moved into an "uptight planned communit[y]" in Greenwich Village. Unfortunately, his movers showed up late, forcing him to begin ...