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The story follows the government’s failed attempts to stop Holiday from performing her human rights-focused hit song, “Strange Fruit,” amid the war on drugs in the 1940s.
Based on the non-fiction novel “A Long Way Home” by Saroo Brierley, “Lion” tells the story of Saroo, portrayed by Dev Patel, who gets lost on a train and ends up thousands of miles away ...
A Call to Spy (2019) – historical drama film inspired by the true stories of three women who worked as spies in World War II [7] [8] A Girl from Mogadishu (2019) – Irish - Belgian semi-biographical film based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed , who having escaped war-torn Somalia , emerged as one of the world's foremost international ...
The Last Bell (Bengali: ছুটির ঘণ্টা) (1980) – Bangladeshi Bengali-language drama film based on the true story of a twelve-year-old school boy named Khokon in Bangladesh, who starved to death after the washroom he was in was mistakenly closed by the caretaker the day before the Muslim vacation Eid-ul-Azha started [35]
These 79 best movies based on true stories prove that truth really can be stranger than fiction. ... She published a book about her own family—The Story of the Trapp Family Singers back in 1949 ...
He was cast as the character Harold Lauder in the 2020 CBS miniseries The Stand. [2] According to Teague, The Stand had been a favorite book of his since the age of 13. He noted he tried to draw directly from Lauder's psychology in The Stand novel. [2] As Harold Lauder, he plays a sociopathic teenager being tempted by evil during a pandemic. [18]
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]
1776 (1972) – historical musical drama film depicting a fictionalized account of the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence [72]; Aguirre, the Wrath of God (German: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) (1972) – West German-Mexican-Peruvian epic historical drama film about Spanish soldier Lope de Aguirre, who lead a group of conquistadores down the Amazon River in South ...