Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018), One Day in September (1999), Bigger, Stronger, Faster (2008), The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987), Sound and Fury (2000), Up the Yangtze (2007), Comrades in Dreams (2006), Amy (2015) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best True Story movies.
Storyline: Filmmaker Morgan Neville examines the life and legacy of Fred Rogers, the beloved host of the popular children's TV show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, education, kindness, social impact, american history, personal growth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Kevin MacDonald documents terrorism against Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Narrated by Michael Douglas.
Plot Keywords: documentary, olympics, terrorism, hostage, political, historical, tragedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary presents the pervasive use of steroids in sports as an indication of the American obsession with winning at all costs. The Bell brothers have been sucked into the world of performance-enhancing drugs, thinking this is their ticket to realizing the American dream. Interviews with politicians, doctors, bodybuilders and coaches raise the question: Do the ends really justify the means? Because in the mad dash to win, an entire culture may be poised to lose.
Plot Keywords: documentary, sports, usa, family, brothers, health, ethics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jobless and desperate, World War I veteran Robert Eliot Burns (Val Kilmer) is arrested for theft and sentenced to work on a prison chain gang. Eager to get away from brutal Warden Hardy (Charles Durning), Burns busts out of jail. Suddenly free, he woos foxy stranger Emily Del Pino Pacheco (Sonia Braga). Soon, though, the romance sours, and, without cover from Emily, Burns is left with nowhere to hide. To his dismay, he might just find himself making a return journey to Hardy's chain gang.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, crime, history, prison, true story, social injustice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cousins Heather and Peter Artinian -- ages 6 and almost 2, respectively -- are deaf. Their condition could be changed by a cochlear implant, a device that stimulates hearing. The benefits are obvious, but this documentary focuses on why the children's families face a tough decision. There are concerns about how the device will change the recipient's relationship with deaf culture and whether there can ever be a true connection between those who hear sounds and those who hear only silence.
Plot Keywords: documentary, usa, family, cultural conflict, medical ethics, social issues, controversy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary examine China's rapidly changing economy by focusing on the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. For the government, the dam stands as a symbol of progress; but it displaces hundreds of families during its creation. Following local teenagers Chen Bo Yu and Yu Shi, who work on one of the Western cruise lines that sails up the Yangtze near the dam, the film details the friction in Chinese society as its citizens struggle with the realities of its new consumer capitalism.
Plot Keywords: documentary, china, displacement, social change, modernization, poverty, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This 2006 documentary looks at diverse people from various countries around the world who share a common passion for movies. The film follows independent theater owners, chronicling their struggles to discover and share cinematic gems with audiences. Featured venues include an Indian circus tent, an old Wyoming barn, and an open-air theater in West Africa. All face the familiar problems of booking, marketing and financing present in larger theaters, but persevere because of their passions.
Plot Keywords: documentary, cross-cultural, independent film, social observation, filmmaking, true story, art film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Archival footage and personal testimonials present an intimate portrait of the life and career of British singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse.
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, biography, singer, uk, jazz, soul ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Storyboard artist Harold Michelson and his wife, film researcher Lillian Michelson, were once considered the heart of Hollywood.
Plot Keywords: documentary, hollywood, love story, biography, film industry, marriage, cinematography ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this film, documentarian Pearl Gluck chronicles her Hasidic Jewish upbringing and her subsequent, more secular life as a Manhattanite. Gluck then documents her return trip to her old neighborhood, where she tries to reconcile with her devout father, who hopes that she will move back to Brooklyn. Gluck strikes an on-camera compromise with her dad, and agrees to trek to Hungary in order to find a long-lost family heirloom -- a couch that many notable rabbis have crashed on.
Plot Keywords: documentary, jewish culture, family, tradition, immigration, identity, poland ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A homeless musician's life is transformed after he discovers a flock of wild South American parrots living in San Francisco. How they got there is a mystery, but Mark Bittner forms a bond with the exotic birds through his music and his patient, attentive care. Over time he comes to appreciate their individual identities and makes a case for humans to reevaluate their relationship to animals. When he is forced to leave them, he despairs over the birds' fate.
Plot Keywords: documentary, nature, birds, san francisco, wildlife, environmental, human-animal bond ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow Lewis stirs controversy for her views on serial killers and the death penalty.
Plot Keywords: documentary, psychology, criminal psychology, interview, true story, mental illness, human nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A film producer (Andy Lau) helps care for his family's lifelong servant (Deanie Ip) after she suffers a stroke and must move into a nursing home.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, elderly, family bond, life, touching, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Members of a 1996 expedition cross paths with an ill-fated group while planting scientific equipment and ascending to the summit. Liam Neeson narrates.
Plot Keywords: adventure, mountain climbing, survival, disaster, true story, teamwork, extreme challenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Problems early in life fuel the actor's (James Franco) rapid ascent to legend status in spite of the brevity of his career.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, history, usa, hollywood, actor, legend ...
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