Jump to Content

U : "true story" Movies - Sort: Most Popular

Portrait of Amy Renner Amy Renner

Last modified: 2 weeks ago

Filter menu Filters Showing 1-20 of 41 movies

Despite being born with one leg to a single-parent family on the wrong side of the tracks, Anthony Robles overcomes every obstacle to become an undefeated collegiate wrestling star, three-time All-American, 2011 NCAA National Champion, two-time ESPY Award winner and a National Wrestling Hall of Fame inductee.

PG-13 Biography Sports 1 hr, 56 mins

  • 5 / 5

87%

13%

Under the Bridge is based on acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey’s book about the 1997 true story of 14-year old Reena Virk (Vritika Gupta) who went to join friends at a party and never returned home. Through the eyes of Godfrey (Riley Keough) and a local police officer (Lily Gladstone), the series takes us into the hidden world of the young girls accused of the murder — revealing startling truths about the unlikely killer.

Drama Crime

  • 5 / 5

90%

10%
ADVERTISEMENT

When David Smallbone’s successful music company collapses, he moves his family from Down Under to the States, searching for a brighter future. With nothing more than their seven children, suitcases, and their love of music, David (for KING + COUNTRY’s Joel Smallbone) and his pregnant wife Helen (Daisy Betts) set out to rebuild their lives. Based on a remarkable true story, Helen’s faith stands against all odds and inspires her husband and children to hold onto theirs. With their own dreams on hold, David and Helen begin to realize the musical prowess in their children, who would go on to become two of the most successful acts in Inspirational Music history: fivetime Grammy Award-winning artists for KING + COUNTRY and Rebecca St. James.

PG Drama True Story

  • 4.6 / 5

82%

18%

Bowe Bergdahl, an Army sergeant, is captured by the Taliban and held prisoner for five years after he leaves his base in Afghanistan.

Drama War

60%

40%
ADVERTISEMENT

Based on Laura Hillenbrand’s bestselling book, Unbroken: Path to Redemption begins where the hit movie Unbroken concludes, sharing the next amazing chapter of the unbelievable true story of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini.

Haunted by nightmares of his torment, Louie sees himself as anything but a hero. Then, he meets Cynthia, a young woman who captures his eye—and his heart.

Louie’s wrathful quest for revenge drives him deeper into despair, putting the couple on the brink of divorce. Until Cynthia experiences Billy Graham’s 1949 Los Angeles Crusade where she finds faith in God and a renewed commitment to her marriage and her husband. Now, her most fervent prayer is for God to help Louie find the peace and forgiveness he so desperately needs.

Drama True Story

  • 4.5 / 5

74%

26%

Two brothers murder the wife and infant daughter of their younger brother. The killers claimed they were acting on orders from God, consistent with their interpretation of a fundamentalist interpretation that goes back to the formation of Mormonism.

Drama Crime

  • 2.5 / 5

83%

17%
ADVERTISEMENT

When her brother, Henry, is killed during the battle of Antietam, his sister Grace returns home to take care of the family farm and Henry’s children. Life is hard, but fulfilling until Union soldiers invade their land burning the farm to the ground, wounding Grace, killing the adults and taking the children. With the help of a local woman, Virginia, Grace disguises herself as her dead brother, joins the Confederate ranks, becoming a fierce warrior hell bent on exacting revenge and rescuing the lone, surviving boy.

PG-13 Drama Action 2 hrs, 14 mins

  • 3 / 5

58%

42%

Based on the true story of two Philadelphia lawyers, Michael Banks and J. Gordon Cooney, who spent 15 years overturning a murder conviction.

Drama

91%

9%

An American takes a job in Hong Kong with an investment banker and realizes his boss is in cahoots with organized crime and is embezzling from the company -- the situation becomes even more precarious when he finds himself promoted to become his boss's right hand man.

Drama

90%

10%
Release Scope N/A

The Manassas Tigers football team from inner-city Memphis has been a perennial loser for so long that the school sells slots in its schedule to more affluent schools looking for an easy win. But the Tigers learn to "roar" with the help of a dogged head coach. They win games and the coach helps the players prepare for manhood and life after high school.

Drama Sports

50%

50%

In 1999, Jack Ma founds the Alibaba website from his garage. The site is a business-to-business portal to connect Chinese manufacturers with overseas buyers. In 2014, Ma eventually launches an IPO for Alibaba on the New York Stock Exchange and finishes the day with his company valued at $231 billion — more than Amazon and eBay combined — and making him the richest man in China and among the richest in the world with $26.5 billion.

Drama Biography

100%

0%

Derek Boogaard, a shy over-sized man, learns to use his fists to make it to the National Hockey League and becomes a renowned hockey enforcer. The hulking 6'7" and 270 pounds Boogaard becomes known as the Boogeyman, and rarely loses a fight while playing for the Minnesota Wild and the New York Rangers. He gets addicted to painkillers from years of damage, and is found dead at age 28 after mixing prescription drugs with booze.

Drama Biography

100%

0%

A biopic of Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, the doctor who gave up his medicine practice to buy a camper and hit the road with his wife and nine children. The family would go on to start up the first U.S. surfer camp.

Drama Adventure

100%

0%

Josh Hamilton’s rise from the depths of an addiction to crack to become the American League’s most feared slugger.

Drama Sports

100%

0%

Based on the true story of Laura Vikmanis, the oldest cheerleader in the NFL. At 39-years-old and surrounded by cheerleaders half her age, the single mom tried out for the Cincinnati Bengals squad, but didn't make the cut. For a year, she practiced and improved her moves. Despite the long odds, she returned to tryouts and made the squad.

Drama

89%

11%

True story of Marla Ruzicka, a 28-year-old American relief worker who was tragically killed in Iraq by a suicide bomber.

Drama War

96%

4%

A Little League coach, John Jennings, turns out to be a bank robber who robbed 13 banks while coaching a team of young boys. The coach does time for his crimes and dies of cancer after his release from prison.

Comedy

Former Olympic gold medalist and NCAA champion Tyler Hamilton is one of the first insiders to testify under oath about the doping charges against 7-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong. Hamilton comes forward publicly–on "60 Minutes"—to break the code of silence.

Drama True Story

100%

0%

After a teen reports being raped, then recants her story, two female detectives follow evidence that could reveal the truth. Based on a true story.

  • 3 / 5

80%

20%

A small farmhouse stands in Seattle perfectly fine for about 100 years as the city grows around it, until in 2006 when a big commercial development encroaches on it, buying all the homes in the neighborhood except the one holdout.

Drama Comedy

83%

17%

More to Explore

Find and discover more on Movie Insider.

30-Day Free Trial

Watch thousands of movies 24/7 on Amazon Prime.

Go now
Production Listings

Find and discover movies filming now.

Go now