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Dec 21, 2020 · On Tuesday, a new documentary about Sabathia will be released on HBO Max: “Under the Grapefruit Tree.”. Named in honor of the tree where Sabathia first grew to love pitching in his grandmother ...
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The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed. 20. Into the White. World War II: After an aerial battle over Norway, British and German airmen find themselves stranded in the wilderness.
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Gritty director Danny Boyle served up the story a one Aron Ralston who was alone and wedged between a boulder and a canyon wall. He was stuck. So, over 127 hours he comes to grips with his situation. His only option is to hack off his arm. Try sitting and watching that scene. The movie was true to the actual event, down to getting Ralston's psychol...
In the late 60s and early 70s, a serial killer dubbed "The Zodiac Killer" stalked and terrorized the San Francisco Bay area. He was never caught. A journalist by the name of Robert Graysmith (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) became obsessed with the case. In 1986, he wrote a book of the same name on which the film is based. The filmmakers conducted exten...
Forget the 1997 film Titanic as far as accuracy goes, A Night to Remember is largely regarded as the of all the most accurate of all the Titanic films. Firstly, it was based on a historian's researched account of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. Secondly, the filmmakers recruited actors who resembled the actual passengers. And thirdly, they lovingl...
The story of the Apollo 13, the failed 1970 lunar mission was brought to life by director Ron Howard. Of the movie, astronaut Dave Scotthas gone on record saying it is "a source of accurate data". In fact, he advised Howard on the film. Howard studied video footage and transcripts in an effort to be as accurate as cinematically possible. Of course,...
Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman are Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the doggedly determined Washington Post reporters who helped uncover the truth behind the NixonnWhitehouse's part in the Watergate Conspiracy. Redford and Hoffman spent time with Woodward and Bernstein and the director Alan J. Pakula insisted on an accurate rendering of the news...
Another investigative journalism movie, director Tom McCarthy's story of the Boston Globe's dogged investigation into the Catholic Church's sweeping sexual abuse by priests under the proverbial carpet focuses on the course of the investigation itself. Of course, it is broad-brush in places, but the course of the investigation and the dynamics betwe...
The Grey Zone is hard to watch some of the time. It tells the story of the Sonderkommandos, Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz whose job it was to recover dead bodies from the gas chambers at the camp during World War II. Says Roger Ebert"I have seen a lot of films about the Holocaust, but I have never seen one so immediate, unblinking and painful in it...
The tail of Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York who is abducted and sold into slavery is a gripping tale of loss and survival, against all the odds. It is based on Northup's 1853 autobiography. And, ignoring boring details about cotton farming, it is true to the overview of his story. But it takes a broader view and is true to the real ...
The Guardian gave Selma an "A" for its history. The movie, of course, tells the story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery (the Alabama State Capital) Civil Rights march. It also tells the story of the dynamic between King and PresidentLyndon B. Johnson. King wants to push forward with voting rights. Johnson wanted to atta...
Frank Abagnale will go down in the annals of crime as one of the greats. He was multi-talented, turning his hand to cons, forging, and just pretending to be somebody he wasn't. Put him in a pilot's uniform and he is co-piloting a plane for Pan Am. He had a turn at being a resident in a hospital, practicing law and being a college sociology professo...
- All the President's Men (1976) Film. Drama. Wait, you’re telling us Watergate is an actual thing that happened, and in 1974 two reporters really did take down a sitting US president?
- In Cold Blood (1967) Film. Before true crime podcasts and Dateline NBC marathons, there was Truman Capote, whose account of the 1959 massacre of a family in rural Kansas shocked a nation not yet desensitised to random acts of unspeakable violence.
- Hustlers (2019) Film. Drama. A rare depiction of a r ecession that’s neither a teary drama about farmers losing their homes nor a political screed against greedy one-percenters, Hustlers is instead a hyperkinetic story of economic survival, set in a world hit particularly hard by the 2008 financial crisis: New York strip clubs.
- Argo (2012) Film. Drama. It’s one of those stories too far-fetched for even the most inventive screenwriter to make up. At the onset of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, a movie-loving CIA agent hatched a plot to smuggle six diplomats out of the country by pretending to be a Canadian film crew shooting a fake Star Wars-alike sci-fi flick there.
Feb 24, 2017 · February 24, 2017 10:00 AM EST. Though only a couple of the movies up for the Best Picture prize at this Sunday’s Academy Awards are based on a true story from history, real events have long ...
Nov 19, 2020 · Based on the memoir of the real Maria, the movie tells the story of a free-spirited nun sent to become a governess for seven musical children, just before the start of World War II. As in the film ...
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Jan 3, 2024 · The 2014 film “Selma” is based on the famous Alabama marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. These protest marches were directed by civil rights leader James Bevel and led by Martin Luther ...
