Based On or Inspired By a True Story, a list by HD Movie Lists

7.2

/162172/

73

/8191/

70

/4407/

3.5

/173931/

88

/408/

Audience

74

/12642/

83

/51/

3.0

age 13+

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.

69

6.8

/90983/

70

/5084/

64

/2184/

3.2

/51700/

79

/261/

Audience

66

/6775/

72

/47/

3.0

age 16+

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

72

7.5

/311279/

79

/17631/

78

/9110/

3.4

/545450/

57

/265/

Audience

86

/27349/

48

/43/

3.5

age 10+

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

80

7.5

/242631/

75

/10898/

74

/5592/

3.9

/717605/

90

/388/

Audience

88

/13033/

77

/47/

3.5

age 16+

Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

79

7.4

/220638/

76

/9885/

73

/4909/

3.5

/173990/

84

/317/

Audience

82

/14503/

75

/50/

4.0

age 13+

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

74

7.0

/28640/

75

/2023/

72

/826/

3.6

/29142/

87

/181/

Audience

77

/5438/

68

/38/

3.0

age 16+

The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941.

65

7.1

/29824/

76

/1652/

70

/800/

3.3

/20061/

64

/179/

Audience

71

/7118/

54

/28/

2.0

age 10+

The behind the scenes story of the life of A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin.

75

6.9

/49622/

72

/2593/

70

/1424/

3.4

/49341/

91

/196/

Audience

81

/13120/

76

/41/

3.0

age 15+

A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 helps the police track down the killers while struggling to recover from devastating trauma.

57

6.7

/10787/

70

/448/

67

/236/

3.1

/5607/

30

/88/

Audience

64

/861/

46

/30/

2.0

age 13+

The life of celebrated but reclusive author J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel The Catcher in the Rye.

67

6.8

/38220/

73

/2072/

69

/1124/

3.1

/18569/

66

/198/

Audience

68

/9612/

58

/36/

3.0

age 11+

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

69

7.1

/208065/

73

/15724/

68

/4319/

3.4

/121464/

85

/270/

Audience

79

/26701/

65

/50/

2.0

age 15+

The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.

63

7.1

/38500/

74

/2120/

72

/781/

3.3

/31172/

52

/165/

Audience

70

/8885/

56

/40/

2.0

age 14+

A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.

72

7.3

/55932/

75

/3268/

73

/1577/

3.6

/48186/

82

/305/

Audience

79

/18128/

77

/49/

2.0

age 16+

A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.

82

7.8

/739667/

75

/29985/

74

/15942/

3.8

/1149437/

92

/473/

Audience

81

/70767/

94

/53/

3.5

age 14+

The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

62

6.7

/63598/

71

/4855/

66

/1850/

3.2

/33810/

61

/54/

Audience

59

/3419/

48

/14/

2.5

age 16+

In 1981, an enthusiastic young adventurer follows his dreams into the Bolivian Amazon jungle with two friends and a guide with a mysterious past. Their journey quickly turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wilderness lead to an all-out fight for survival.

62

6.4

/18386/

71

/1642/

65

/737/

3.1

/5110/

67

/9/

Audience

46

/300/

With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhardt Heydrich, head of the SS, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.

82

7.5

/143544/

75

/8364/

73

/2326/

3.8

/214107/

98

/307/

Audience

88

/33289/

86

/47/

3.5

age 15+

Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.

71

6.6

/99434/

67

/8131/

64

/2762/

3.4

/88359/

86

/250/

Audience

58

/21815/

78

/44/

3.5

age 14+

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

84

8.3

/210598/

82

/2073/

79

/917/

3.9

/40836/

89

/18/

Audience

93

/2405/

age 12+

Dangal is an extraordinary true story based on the life of Mahavir Singh and his two daughters, Geeta and Babita Phogat. The film traces the inspirational journey of a father who trains his daughters to become world class wrestlers.

83

7.8

/255117/

83

/22926/

80

/9272/

3.8

/359757/

93

/325/

Audience

93

/59192/

74

/47/

3.5

age 10+

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

81

8.0

/250990/

82

/13235/

80

/6365/

3.9

/239412/

84

/270/

Audience

91

/40069/

69

/45/

3.5

age 13+

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

67

6.8

/30113/

74

/2344/

67

/725/

3.4

/20623/

71

/143/

Audience

69

/8918/

62

/34/

2.5

age 16+

The inspirational story of World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza, who after a near fatal car crash, which left him not knowing if he'd ever walk again, made one of sports most incredible comebacks.

78

8.1

/593689/

83

/30271/

81

/13202/

3.9

/488934/

84

/280/

Audience

91

/56856/

71

/47/

2.5

age 16+

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

73

7.1

/10073/

73

/360/

68

/150/

3.5

/3714/

83

/24/

Audience

84

/533/

64

/8/

3.0

On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal family's escape and King Haakon's difficult choice after Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway.

70

7.1

/182273/

75

/17346/

68

/4368/

3.4

/83723/

82

/267/

Audience

82

/1432/

68

/52/

2.0

age 13+

A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

78

7.4

/18675/

80

/1265/

72

/408/

3.6

/14016/

94

/189/

Audience

86

/296/

73

/40/

3.0

age 10+

A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.

68

7.3

/162918/

76

/14398/

71

/4205/

3.2

/91396/

61

/263/

Audience

70

/28901/

58

/43/

3.0

age 16+

CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

73

7.2

/177118/

75

/14266/

71

/4695/

3.4

/231073/

81

/248/

Audience

82

/32943/

66

/47/

3.0

age 13+

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

76

7.4

/297962/

77

/20265/

71

/6928/

3.4

/188323/

85

/348/

Audience

84

/49007/

74

/46/

3.0

age 12+

On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 souls aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.

58

6.6

/17552/

73

/1561/

65

/381/

3.0

/5707/

45

/110/

Audience

52

/5304/

54

/31/

2.0

age 16+

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

73

6.3

/10134/

71

/616/

57

/184/

3.2

/5109/

91

/163/

Audience

71

/294/

74

/42/

4.0

age 13+

Chronicles a single day in the summer of 1989 when the future president of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago's South Side.

66

7.2

/54204/

75

/3710/

71

/956/

3.5

/21166/

66

/107/

Audience

71

/6661/

59

/29/

2.0

age 17+

In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.

71

56

7.1

/2183/

76

/110/

68

/60/

3.5

/2843/

Audience

72

/58/

Under the oppressive Japanese colonial rule, Deok-hye, the last Princess of the declining Joseon Dynasty, is forced to move to Japan. She spends her days missing home, while struggling to maintain dignity as a princess. After a series of failed tries, Deok-hye makes her final attempt to return home with help of her childhood sweetheart, Jang-han.

68

7.0

/78782/

74

/7949/

66

/1609/

3.2

/20633/

71

/181/

Audience

71

/19154/

66

/38/

2.5

age 17+

A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.

62

6.9

/62418/

75

/5886/

67

/1435/

3.2

/20523/

48

/193/

Audience

64

/20979/

53

/38/

2.5

age 16+

In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history.

79

7.6

/21531/

78

/791/

77

/433/

3.7

/19466/

90

/153/

Audience

89

/7664/

65

/35/

3.5

age 13+

Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.

66

40

7.3

/5494/

74

/85/

76

/30/

3.4

/787/

33

/9/

Audience

72

/10/

Biopic of Sarabjit Singh, a farmer residing at Bhikiwind, Punjab, near the Indo-Pak border, crossed the border after having a couple of drinks. However, he was mistaken to be an Indian spy and was sentenced to capital punishment. The movie is about the Journey of a woman (Aishwarya Rai) who fights for 23 years to clear her brother's name after he is posthumously accused of terrorism.

59

7.1

/20978/

76

/1230/

73

/1041/

3.2

/11781/

32

/31/

Audience

69

/1596/

39

/11/

2.0

age 10+

The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.

65

7.2

/62095/

76

/3670/

72

/1340/

3.3

/19783/

63

/132/

Audience

71

/10997/

56

/26/

2.0

age 12+

Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.

68

46

6.9

/2933/

68

/139/

71

/125/

3.2

/825/

Two brothers start a sportswear company in the 1920s, hoping to make the best shoes in the world. Their relationship deteriorates until they become bitter rivals.

65

7.1

/28364/

80

/3339/

74

/1143/

2.8

/18467/

45

/93/

Audience

80

/22191/

44

/20/

3.0

age 10+

When Christy discovers her 10-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter’s healing as she searches for a solution. After Anna has a freak accident and falls three stories, a miracle unfolds in the wake of her dramatic rescue that leaves medical specialists mystified, her family restored and their community inspired.

68

7.3

/100178/

77

/6490/

71

/2036/

3.5

/78096/

82

/204/

Audience

82

/23018/

54

/34/

1.5

age 12+

The feel-good story of Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself—even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.

68

7.1

/40913/

77

/3265/

72

/1494/

3.3

/17206/

63

/160/

Audience

77

/15046/

56

/35/

2.5

age 12+

Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.

79

7.6

/23755/

75

/423/

73

/214/

3.5

/5490/

100

/12/

Audience

84

/1235/

Neerja is a portrayal on the life of the courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization.

73

7.0

/8228/

70

/447/

68

/708/

3.4

/5785/