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8 Movies Based on True Stories
Real stories that were already cinematic before Hollywood got involved. Some details were inevitably dramatized, but the people and events behind these films are what make them hit differently.
About these picks
- Spotlight
- The true story of how The Boston Globe's 'Spotlight' team uncovered the massive scandal of child abuse within the Catholic Church.
- Moneyball
- Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane takes on the system by building a baseball team using sabermetrics, defying conventional wisdom.
- Apollo 13
- Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert face a desperate struggle for survival after an oxygen tank explodes en route to the Moon.
- The Big Short
- A group of investors bet against the housing market before the 2008 financial crisis, seeing its impending collapse.
- Ford v Ferrari
- American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and physics to build a revolutionary race car for Ford.
- Erin Brockovich
- An unemployed single mother takes on a powerful energy corporation responsible for polluting a town's water.
- Argo
- A CIA operative devises a dangerous plan to rescue six American diplomats during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis by faking a sci-fi film production.
- The Social Network
- Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates Facebook, becoming a billionaire but facing legal battles and betrayal from those closest to him.