Favorite Movies based on true stories/actual events/actual people

A working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders.

This inspirational saga follows the life of controversial pastor Vernon Johns - now known as the father of the civil rights movement.

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

The son of a plantation owner has a daughter named Queen, with a slave. As Queen grows, she is faced with the struggle of trying to fit in with the troubled world around her.

A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.

A chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.

Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.

After crash-landing in the snowswept Andes, a Uruguayan rugby team has no choice but to turn to desperate measures in order to survive.

True story of Mary Griffith, gay rights crusader, whose teenage son committed suicide due to her religious intolerance. Based on the book of the same title by Leroy Aarons.

Domestic violence victim Tracey Thurman winds up in an ongoing struggle to convince the police to take her seriously as her husband Buck's physical and emotional abuse escalates.

An account of early-1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who murdered his girlfriend and then fled the country.

The life of Audrey Marie Hilley, who, in order to start a new life, took drastic action.

Betty torments her husband with childish vandalism and verbal threats after he leaves her for another woman, but nobody anticipates what ends up happening as the games escalate.

Betty Broderick stands trial for shooting her ex husband and his new bride.

An American woman trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutal husband must find a way for her and her daughter to escape.

Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.

The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.

The story of singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner.

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him.

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.