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* ''[[3: The Dale Earnhardt Story]]'' (2004) – television film about the life and death of legendary [[NASCAR]] driver [[Dale Earnhardt]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Writer |first=Robert Bell Staff |title=EARNHARDT'S '3' SPINS ITS WAY INTO COURTROOM A LAWSUIT FILED IN FEDERAL COURT IN GREENSBORO CHARGES ESPN WITH COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. |url=/proxy/https://greensboro.com/earnhardts-3-spins-its-way-into-courtroom-a-lawsuit-filed-in-federal-court-in-greensboro/article_f6f402c9-1524-5b03-aa32-80098905a4e7.html |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=Greensboro News and Record |date=23 March 2005 |language=en}}</ref> |
* ''[[3: The Dale Earnhardt Story]]'' (2004) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] about the life and death of legendary [[NASCAR]] driver [[Dale Earnhardt]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Writer |first=Robert Bell Staff |title=EARNHARDT'S '3' SPINS ITS WAY INTO COURTROOM A LAWSUIT FILED IN FEDERAL COURT IN GREENSBORO CHARGES ESPN WITH COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. |url=/proxy/https://greensboro.com/earnhardts-3-spins-its-way-into-courtroom-a-lawsuit-filed-in-federal-court-in-greensboro/article_f6f402c9-1524-5b03-aa32-80098905a4e7.html |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=Greensboro News and Record |date=23 March 2005 |language=en}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The 7th Day]]'' (Spanish: ''El 7º día'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Spain|Spanish]]-[[Cinema of France|French]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on the [[Puerto Hurraco massacre]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=/proxy/https://www.elperiodicoextremadura.com/cultura/2005/03/30/7o-dia-saura-abreel-festival-45561855.html|website=[[El Periódico Extremadura]]|date=30 March 2005|title=´El 7º día´, de Saura, abreel Festival deCine de París}}</ref> |
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* ''[[12 Days of Terror]]'' (2004) – based on true events that occurred in July 1916 in central and southern New Jersey; recounts 12 days during which people along the Jersey coast were subjected to attacks by a shark |
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* ''[[12 Days of Terror]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of South Africa|South African]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[horror film|horror]] film revolving around the [[Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916|1916 Jersey shark attacks]], as recounted in the [[Twelve Days of Terror|book of the same name]] by [[Richard Fernicola]], in which a juvenile [[great white shark]] begins a series of attacks that takes place of the course of 12 days in New Jersey<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=12 Days of Terror|url=/proxy/https://www.nytimes.com/tv/show/68988/12-Days-of-Terror/overview}}</ref> |
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* ''[[18-J]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Argentina|Argentine]] [[docudrama]] film. The film focuses on the [[AMIA bombing|18 July 1994, bombing of the AMIA Building]] in Buenos Aires, where 18 people were killed and 300 others wounded. The perpetrators were never caught |
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* ''[[18-J]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Argentina|Argentine]] [[anthology film|anthology]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film focusing on the [[1994 AMIA bombing|July 18, 1994, bombing of the AMIA Building]] in [[Buenos Aires]], where 86 people were killed and 300 others wounded<ref>[http://www.raicesdelcine.com.ar/Numero_08/notas_08/e_18j_01.htm ''Raices del Cine''] {{Webarchive|url=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20070222073410/http://www.raicesdelcine.com.ar/Numero_08/notas_08/e_18j_01.htm |date=2007-02-22 }} article, by Carlos Winston Albertoni.</ref> |
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* ''[[36 Quai des Orfèvres (film)|36 Quai des Orfèvres]]'' (2004) – French film based on a true story about two cops (Auteuil and Depardieu) are competing for the vacant seat of chief of the [[Direction Régionale de Police Judiciaire de Paris|Paris Criminal police]] while involved in a search for a gang of violent thieves |
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* ''[[36 Quai des Orfèvres (film)|36]]'' (French: ''36 Quai des Orfèvres'') (2004) – [[Cinema of France|French]] [[action film|action]] [[thriller film|thriller]] film loosely inspired from real events which occurred during the 1980s in France known as the [[gang des postiches#The final chapter|gang des postiches arrest]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=/proxy/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?page=&country=FR&id=_f36QUAIDESORFEVRE01|title = Quai des illusions}}</ref> |
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* ''[[A Bear Named Winnie]]'' (2004) – made-for-television [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] concerning one of the real-life inspirations behind A.A. Milne's ''[[Winnie The Pooh]]''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mattick |first=Lindsay |date=24 November 2015 |title=The story of how Winnie the Pooh was inspired by a real bear – in pictures |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=/proxy/https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/gallery/2015/nov/24/winnie-the-pooh-inspired-by-a-real-bear |access-date=2022-07-29 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> |
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* ''[[100 Minutes of Glory]]'' (Croatian: ''Sto minuta Slave'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Croatia|Croatian]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film telling the story of [[Slava Raškaj]], a turn-of-the-century artist, often described as Croatian [[Frida Kahlo]]<ref>{{cite web |
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* ''[[Against the Ropes]]'' (2004) – drama based on the life of American boxing manager [[Jackie Kallen]], the first woman to become a success in the sport |
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* ''[[The Alamo (2004 film)|The Alamo]]'' (2004) – about the [[Battle of the Alamo]] during the [[Texas Revolution]] |
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* ''[[Alexander (2004 film)|Alexander]]'' (2004) – based on the life of [[Alexander the Great]] |
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* ''[[The Aryan Couple]]'' (2004) – British/American film loosely based on the life events of Hungarian Jewish industrialist Manfred Weiss and his [[Manfréd Weiss Steel and Metal Works]] |
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* ''[[The Assassination of Richard Nixon]]'' (2004) – the story of would-be assassin [[Samuel Byck]], who plotted to kill [[Richard Nixon]] in 1974<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Assassination of Richard Nixon movie review (2005) {{!}} Roger Ebert |url=/proxy/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-assassination-of-richard-nixon-2005 |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=www.rogerebert.com/ |language=en}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]'' (2004) – the story of aviator [[Howard Hughes]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=American Cinematographer: The Aviator |url=/proxy/https://theasc.com/magazine/jan05/aviator/page1.html |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=theasc.com}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Ay Juancito]]'' (2004) – Argentine [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] about the life of Juan Duarte, [[Eva Perón]]'s brother and a political officer in [[Juan Perón|Juan Domingo Perón]]'s first presidency. |
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* ''[[Beautiful Boxer]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Thailand|Thai]] [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[sports film]] about [[kathoey]] (trans woman), [[Muay Thai]] fighter, actress and model [[Parinya Charoenphol]] |
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* ''[[Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels]]'' (2004) – made-for-television [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] documenting the success of the series ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'', as well as the interpersonal conflicts that occurred among its staff and cast |
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* ''[[A Bear Named Winnie]]'' (2004) – [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] concerning one of the real-life inspirations behind A.A. Milne's ''[[Winnie The Pooh]]''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mattick |first=Lindsay |date=24 November 2015 |title=The story of how Winnie the Pooh was inspired by a real bear – in pictures |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=/proxy/https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/gallery/2015/nov/24/winnie-the-pooh-inspired-by-a-real-bear |access-date=2022-07-29 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Bettie Page: Dark Angel]]'' (2004) – [[biographical film|biographical drama]] based on the career of [[Bettie Page]], a famous American 1950s [[pin-up]] and [[bondage model]] |
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* ''[[Against the Ropes]]'' (2004) – [[sports film|sport]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film depicting a fictionalized account of [[boxing]] manager [[Jackie Kallen]], the first woman to achieve success in the sport<ref>{{cite web|url=/proxy/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/against_the_ropes|title=Against the Ropes (2004)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandango Media]]|access-date=February 27, 2021|archive-url=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20200927083255/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/against_the_ropes|archive-date=September 27, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Beyond the Sea (2004 film)|Beyond the Sea]]'' (2004) – based on the life of singer [[Bobby Darin]] |
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* ''[[The Alamo (2004 film)|The Alamo]]'' (2004) – [[war film|war]] [[historical film|historical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film about the [[Battle of the Alamo]] during the [[Texas Revolution]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=/proxy/https://variety.com/2003/film/columns/thornton-takes-on-the-alamo-1117881752/amp/|title=Thornton takes on the Alamo |date=2003-03-05 |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=2022-04-07}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Black Friday (2004 film)|Black Friday]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of India|Indian]] Hindi film based on the [[1993 Bombay bombings]] |
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* ''[[Alexander (2004 film)|Alexander]]'' (2004) – [[epic film|epic]] [[historical film|historical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on the life of the [[Ancient Macedonians|ancient Macedonian]] general and king [[Alexander the Great]]<ref>{{cite journal |author-last=Carver |author-first=Terrell |date=Spring 2005 |title=Oliver Stone's ''Alexander'' |journal=[[Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies]] |publisher=Center for the Study of Film & History |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=83–84 |doi=10.1353/flm.2005.0033 |s2cid=191432461 |issn=0360-3695 |eissn=1548-9922 }}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Blue Butterfly]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Canada|Canadian]] [[adventure drama film]] based on the life of David Marenger and his trip with entomologist [[Georges Brossard]] in 1987<ref>{{Cite web |url=/proxy/https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/2005/04/04/story4.html |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=www.bizjournals.com}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Aryan Couple]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]]-American [[historical film|historical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film loosely based on the life events of Hungarian Jewish industrialist Manfred Weiss and his [[Manfréd Weiss Steel and Metal Works]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Scheib |first1=Ronnie |title=The Aryan Couple |url=/proxy/https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/the-aryan-couple-1200529120/ |access-date=20 November 2023 |agency=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=9 December 2004}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius]]'' (2004) – [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the life of golfer [[Bobby Jones (golfer)|Bobby Jones]], the only player in the sport to win all four of the [[men's major golf championships]] in a single season (1930) |
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* ''[[The Assassination of Richard Nixon]]'' (2004) – American-[[Cinema of Mexico|Mexican]] [[crime film|crime]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film depicting the story of would-be assassin [[Samuel Byck]], who plotted to kill [[Richard Nixon]] in 1974<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Assassination of Richard Nixon movie review (2005) {{!}} Roger Ebert |url=/proxy/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-assassination-of-richard-nixon-2005 |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=www.rogerebert.com/ |language=en}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss]]'' (2004) – television film about Hollywood madame [[Heidi Fleiss]] |
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* ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]'' (2004) – American-[[Cinema of Germany|German]] [[epic film|epic]] [[biographical film|biographical]] film depicting the story of aviator [[Howard Hughes]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=American Cinematographer: The Aviator |url=/proxy/https://theasc.com/magazine/jan05/aviator/page1.html |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=theasc.com}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Clearing (film)|The Clearing]]'' (2004) – [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] loosely based on the real life kidnapping of [[Gerrit Jan Heijn]] that took place in the [[Netherlands]] in 1987 |
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* ''[[Ay Juancito]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Argentina|Argentine]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film about the life of Juan Duarte, [[Eva Perón]]'s brother and a political officer during [[Juan Domingo Perón]]'s first presidency<ref>{{cite web |title=Ay Juancito (2004) |url=/proxy/https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/ay-juancito-2004 |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |access-date=18 November 2023}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Cazuza – O Tempo Não Pára]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Brazil|Brazilian]] biographical film about the life of Brazilian singer-songwriter [[Cazuza]] |
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* ''[[Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels]]'' (2004) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] documenting the success of the series ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'', as well as the interpersonal conflicts that occurred among its staff and cast<ref>{{cite magazine|url=/proxy/https://variety.com/2004/scene/markets-festivals/behind-the-camera-the-unauthorized-story-of-charlie-s-angels-1200534629/|title=Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|last=Lowry|first=Brian|date=March 7, 2004|accessdate=April 14, 2018}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Chorus (2004 film)|The Chorus]]'' (French: ''Les Choristes'') (2004) – [[Cinema of France|French]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] inspired by the origin of the boys' choir [[The Little Singers of Paris]] |
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* ''[[Bettie Page: Dark Angel]]'' (2004) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on the career of [[Bettie Page]], a famous American 1950s [[pin-up]] and [[bondage model]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Bettie Page: Dark Angel (2004) |url=/proxy/https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/bettie-page-dark-angel-2004 |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |access-date=17 November 2023}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Crutch (film)|Crutch]]'' (2004) – autobiographical [[coming of age]] film about writer-director Rob Moretti |
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* ''[[Beyond the Front Line]]'' (Finnish: ''Etulinjan edessä'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Finland|Finnish]] [[war film|war]] film based on the diaries of [[Swedish-speaking Finns|Swedish-speaking Finnish]] soldiers who served in the [[Continuation War]] in 1942–1944<ref>{{cite web |url=/proxy/http://www.ses.fi/dokumentit/Tilastot2004.pdf |title=Facts & Figures 2004 |work=ses.fi |publisher=The Finnish Film Foundation |accessdate=December 20, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20120328190216/http://www.ses.fi/dokumentit/Tilastot2004.pdf |archivedate=March 28, 2012 }}</ref> |
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* ''[[De-lovely]]'' (2004) – the story of the marriage of the songwriter [[Cole Porter]] and [[Linda Lee Thomas]] |
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* ''[[Beyond the Sea (2004 film)|Beyond the Sea]]'' (2004) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[musical film|musical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on the life of singer-actor [[Bobby Darin]]<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/beyond_the_sea/ | title = Beyond the Sea | work = [[Rotten Tomatoes]] | access-date = 2009-07-18}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Downfall (2004 film)|Downfall]]'' (German: ''Der Untergang'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Germany|German]] film based on the final twelve days of [[Adolf Hitler]]'s life in his Berlin bunker and Nazi Germany in 1945 |
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* ''[[Bittersweet Memories (film)|Bittersweet Memories]]'' (French: ''Ma vie en cinémascope'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Canada|Canadian]] [[French language|French-language]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film depicting the career of Quebec singer [[Alys Robi]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Bittersweet Memories (2004) |url=/proxy/https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/bittersweet-memories |website=[[Mubi (streaming service)|MUBI]] |access-date=18 November 2023}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Drum (2004 film)|Drum]]'' (2004) – based on the life of South African investigative journalist [[Henry Nxumalo]] |
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* ''[[Black Friday (2004 film)|Black Friday]]'' (Hindi: ''ब्लैक फ्राइडे'') (2004) – [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[Hindi language|Hindi-language]] [[crime film|crime]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film about the [[1993 Bombay bombings]], chronicling the events that led to the blasts and the subsequent police investigation<ref>{{cite news|url=/proxy/https://www.screendaily.com/controversial-black-friday-finally-cleared-for-release-in-india/4030691.article|title=Controversial Black Friday finally cleared for release in India|last=Jhunjhunwala|first=Udita|work=[[Screen International]]|access-date=13 October 2018|archive-url=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20180825041243/https://www.screendaily.com/controversial-black-friday-finally-cleared-for-release-in-india/4030691.article|archive-date=25 August 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Evilenko]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Italy|Italian]] English-language thriller loosely based on the real life Soviet serial killer [[Andrei Chikatilo]] |
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* ''[[The Blue Butterfly]]'' (French: ''Le papillon bleu'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Canada|Canadian]] [[adventure film|adventure]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on the life of David Marenger and his trip with entomologist [[Georges Brossard]] in 1987<ref>{{Cite web |url=/proxy/https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/2005/04/04/story4.html |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=www.bizjournals.com}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius]]'' (2004) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[sports film|sport]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on the life of golfer [[Bobby Jones (golfer)|Bobby Jones]], the only player in the sport to win all four of the [[men's major golf championships]] in a single season<ref>{{rotten-tomatoes|bobby_jones_stroke_of_genius|Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Finding Neverland (film)|Finding Neverland]]'' (2004) – the story of Sir [[J. M. Barrie|James Matthew Barrie]]'s friendship with a family who inspired him to create ''[[Peter Pan]]''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dargis |first=Manohla |date=12 November 2004 |title=A Never-Impolite Land Where One Never Grows Up |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=/proxy/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/12/movies/a-neverimpolite-land-where-one-never-grows-up.html |access-date=2022-07-29 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss]]'' (2004) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] about the life of [[Heidi Fleiss]]<ref>{{Citation |last=McDougall |first=Charles |title=Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss |url=/proxy/https://www.amazon.com/Call-Me-Rise-Heidi-Fleiss/dp/B0007PAM4W |language=English |access-date=2022-12-17}}</ref> |
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* ''[[First Love (2004 drama film)|First Love]]'' (Italian: ''Primo Amore'') (2004) – [[erotic film|erotic]] [[body horror]] drama film loosely based on the autobiographical novel by [[Marco Mariolini]] |
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* ''[[The Captives (film)|The Captives]]'' (2004) – [[historical film|historical]] [[war film|war]] film based on the true story of [[Mary Draper Ingles]] and her struggles during the [[French-Indian War]]<ref>[http://www.thecaptivesmovie.com] {{Webarchive|url=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20090325113607/http://www.thecaptivesmovie.com/ |date=2009-03-25 }}</ref> |
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* ''[[Friday Night Lights (film)|Friday Night Lights]]'' (2004) – adapted from ''[[Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream]]'' by [[H. G. Bissinger]], about the 1988 [[American football|football]] season of [[Permian High School]] in [[Odessa, Texas]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 October 2004 |title='Friday Night Lights' fumbles opportunity |url=/proxy/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-oct-18-et-counterpunch18-story.html |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Cazuza: O Tempo Não Pára|Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop]]'' (Portuguese: ''Cazuza: O Tempo Não Pára'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Brazil|Brazilian]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[musical film|musical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film about the life of singer [[Cazuza]]<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bayman |first1=Louis |url=/proxy/https://books.google.com/books?id=bKEZBAAAQBAJ |title=Directory of World Cinema: Brazil |last2=Pinazza |first2=Natália |date=2013 |publisher=Intellect Books |isbn=978-1-78320-009-2 |pages=114 |language=en}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Garden State (film)|Garden State]]'' (2004) – romantic [[Comedy-drama]] film centering on Andrew Largeman, a 26-year-old actor/waiter who returns to his hometown in [[New Jersey]] after his mother dies, director [[Zach Braff]] based the film on his real life experiences |
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* ''[[The Chorus (2004 film)|The Chorus]]'' (French: ''Les Choristes'') (2004) – [[Cinema of France|French]]-[[Cinema of Germany|German]]-[[Cinema of Switzerland|Swiss]] [[musical film|musical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film inspired by the origin of the boys' choir [[the Little Singers of Paris]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Les Choristes|url=/proxy/http://www.vegafilm.com/media/uploads/35/presstexts/les-choristes-press-texte-fr_.pdf|type=Press pack|publisher=[[Pathé]]|access-date=31 August 2013|language=fr}}{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref> |
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* ''[[Gracie's Choice]]'' (2004) – based on a story featured in ''[[Reader's Digest]]'', about a teenage girl trying to raise her three half-brothers and one half-sister on her own after their drug-addicted mother is sent to jail |
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* ''[[Kaya Taran|Chrysalis]]'' (Hindi: ''काया तारन'') (2004) – [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[Hindi language|Hindi-language]] [[action film|action]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film set against the backdrop of [[2002 Gujarat riots]] against Muslims and [[1984 anti-Sikh riots]]<ref>{{cite web|url=/proxy/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2004/08/23/stories/2004082302930400.htm|archive-url=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20040927144303/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2004/08/23/stories/2004082302930400.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 September 2004|title=When the big tree fell|date=23 August 2004|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=21 July 2015}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Hamburg Cell (film)|The Hamburg Cell]]'' (2004) – British/Canadian television film describing the creation of the [[Hamburg cell]], an Islamist and extremist group composed by the terrorists that piloted the airplanes hijacked during the [[September 11 attacks]] |
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* ''[[The Clearing (film)|The Clearing]]'' (2004) – [[thriller film|thriller]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film loosely based on the real life kidnapping of [[Gerrit Jan Heijn]] that took place in the [[Netherlands]] in 1987<ref>{{Citation |title=The Clearing |url=/proxy/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_clearing |publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |language=en |access-date=2022-03-20}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Megher Pore Megh|Clouds After Cloud]]'' (Bengali: ''মেঘের পরে মেঘ'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Bangladesh|Bangladeshi]] [[historical film|historical]] [[war film|war]] film based on the events of the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]<ref>{{cite news |url=/proxy/http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/04/02/d40402140198.htm |title=Cine-review Megher Pore Megh A rich tribute to the Liberation War |date=April 2, 2004 |work=[[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]] |author1=Faizul A Tanim |author2=Syed Tashfin Chowdhury |access-date=December 1, 2012}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Helter Skelter (2004 film)|Helter Skelter]]'' – made-for-television film based on the 1974 non-fiction book by [[Vincent Bugliosi]] and [[Curt Gentry]] about the murders of the [[Charles Manson|Manson]] Family<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stanley |first=Alessandra |date=14 May 2004 |title=TV WEEKEND; Manson Family's Summer of Death |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=/proxy/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/14/movies/tv-weekend-manson-family-s-summer-of-death.html |access-date=2022-07-29 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Colette, une femme libre|Colette, A Free Woman]]'' (French: ''Colette, une femme libre'') (2004) – [[Cinema of France|French]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[miniseries]] exploring the life of [[Colette]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Colette, une femme libre (2004) |url=/proxy/https://www.avclub.com/tv/reviews/colette-une-femme-libre-2004 |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |access-date=17 November 2023}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Hidalgo (film)|Hidalgo]]'' (2004) – the story of American distance rider [[Frank Hopkins]] and his mustang Hidalgo, recounting his racing his horse in Arabia in 1891 against [[Bedouin]] riding pure-blooded [[Arabian horse]]s |
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* ''[[Concrete (film)|Concrete]]'' (Japanese: ''コンクリート'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Japan|Japanese]] [[crime film|crime]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on the case of the [[murder of Junko Furuta]]<ref>{{cite web|url=/proxy/http://www.benten.org/concrete/cast.html|title=Cast|publisher=Concrete Official Website|accessdate=2020-03-29}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Hillside Strangler (film)|The Hillside Strangler]]'' (2004) – based on the true story of the [[Hillside Strangler]] serial killers, [[Kenneth Bianchi]] and [[Angelo Buono, Jr.]], who kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed girls and women in late 1977 to early 1978 in the hills above Los Angeles, California |
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* ''[[Crutch (film)|Crutch]]'' (2004) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film about a young man's struggle with [[Dysfunctional family|family problems]] and [[substance abuse]], based on the experiences of writer-director Rob Moretti<ref>{{cite news | url=/proxy/https://movies.nytimes.com/2004/09/17/movies/17CRUT.html | work=The New York Times| author=Anita Gates | date=2004-09-17 | title=Sixteen and Desperate, With No One to Lend an Ear}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Holy Lola]]'' (2004) – French drama film about a French couple's efforts to adopt an orphan baby in [[Cambodia]] |
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* ''[[De-Lovely]]'' (2004) – [[musical film|musical]] [[biographical film|biographical]] film based on the life and career of [[Cole Porter]], from his first meeting with his wife, [[Linda Lee Thomas]], until his death<ref>{{cite news| url=/proxy/https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2004-06-29-delovely-main_x.htm | work=USA Today | title='De-Lovely' examines unsanitized Porter | first1=Elysa | last1=Gardner | date=2004-06-30 | access-date=2010-05-01}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Hotel Rwanda]]'' (2004) – the story of [[Paul Rusesabagina]]'s experiences during the [[Rwandan genocide]] |
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* ''[[Downfall (2004 film)|Downfall]]'' (German: ''Der Untergang'') (2004) – [[historical film|historical]] [[war film|war]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film set during the [[Battle of Berlin]] in [[World War II]], when [[Nazi Germany]] is on the verge of defeat, and depicting the final days of [[Adolf Hitler]]<ref>{{cite web|url=/proxy/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/15/world/europe/the-alltoohuman-hitler-on-your-big-screen.html|title=The All-Too-Human Hitler, on Your Big Screen|work=[[The New York Times]]|last=Landler|first=Mark|date=15 September 2004|access-date=14 November 2018}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Hustle (2004 film)|Hustle]]'' (2004) – television film about the baseball player [[Pete Rose]] |
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* ''[[Drum (2004 film)|Drum]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of South African|South African]] [[biographical film|biographical]] film based on the life of [[South Africa]]n investigative journalist [[Henry Nxumalo]], who worked for ''[[Drum (South African magazine)|Drum]]'' magazine, called "the first black lifestyle magazine in Africa"<ref>{{cite news|url=/proxy/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001434701&anonymousId=-1702984527332281337&src=bchallenge|title=Drum Review|last=Wood|first=Sura|date=2005-11-04|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|access-date=2009-01-12|archive-date=2016-03-05|archive-url=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20160305075957/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/search?vnu_content_id=1001434701&anonymousId=-1702984527332281337&src=bchallenge|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Identity Theft (film)|Identity Theft]]'' (2004) – crime-drama television film about the true story of Michelle Brown who has her identity stolen and $50,000 purchased under her name |
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* ''[[Edelweiss Pirates (film)|Edelweiss Pirates]]'' (German: ''Edelweisspiraten'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Germany|German]] [[historical film|historical]] [[war film|war]] film telling the story of a group of rebellious teenage German boys opposed to [[World War II|the war]] and [[Nazism]], based on actual events<ref>{{cite web|author=Holocaust Teacher Resource Center |url=/proxy/http://www.holocaust-trc.org/faces-of-courage-children-who-resisted/faces-of-courage-the-edelweiss-pirates/ |title=Faces of Courage, The Edelweiss Pirates – Holocaust Teacher Resource Center |publisher=Holocaust-trc.org |date=1938-12-08 |accessdate=2016-10-21}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Ike: Countdown to D-Day]]'' (2004) – made-for-television [[historical drama|historical]] [[war film|war]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] deals with the difficult decisions [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] made leading to up to [[D-Day]] |
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* ''[[Evel Knievel (2004 film)|Evel Knievel]]'' (2004) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on the life and career of [[Evel Knievel]]<ref>{{cite web|url=/proxy/http://people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-review-evel-knievel-vol-62-no-5/ |title=Picks and Pans Review: Evel Knievel |publisher=People.com |date=2004-08-02 |accessdate=2017-12-05}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Iron Jawed Angels]]'' (2004) – follows [[Alice Paul]] and the [[National Woman's Party]]'s attempts to force President Wilson to grant American women the right to vote during World War I |
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* ''[[Evilenko]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Italy|Italian]] [[crime film|crime]] [[horror film|horror]] film loosely based on the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[serial killer]] [[Andrei Chikatilo]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=/proxy/http://www.crime-mystery.info/crime-mystery-movies/evilenko |title=''crime-mystery.info'' |access-date=29 June 2017 |archive-url=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20180215023523/http://www.crime-mystery.info/crime-mystery-movies/evilenko |archive-date=15 February 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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* ''[[It's All Gone Pete Tong]]'' (2004) – British/Canadian [[mockumentary]]-drama film about a DJ who goes completely [[deaf]] |
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* ''[[Father of Mercy]]'' (Italian: '' Don Gnocchi - L'angelo dei bimbi'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Italy|Italian]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[television film]] based on real life events of [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] priest and then [[Beatification|Blessed]] [[Carlo Gnocchi]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sergio Perugini|title=Testimoni di fede, trionfatori di audience|date=November 2011|publisher=Effata Editrice IT, 2011|isbn=978-8874027323}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Judas (2004 film)|Judas]]'' (2004) – Biblical television drama film depicting the intertwined lives of [[Judas Iscariot]] and Jesus of Nazareth |
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* ''[[Fighter in the Wind]]'' (Korean: ''바람의 파이터'') (2004) – [[Cinema of South Korea|South Korean]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film depicting a fictionalized account of [[karate]] competitor [[Mas Oyama|Choi Yeung-Eui]] who went to [[Japan]] during [[World War II]] to become a fighter pilot but found a very different path instead<ref>{{cite news|title= Fighter in the Wind |publisher= [[DVD Talk]]|url= http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/41757/fighter-in-the-wind/|accessdate=2011-01-19}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Kaadhal]]'' (2004) – Indian Tamil romantic drama based on a true love story |
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* ''[[Finding Neverland (film)|Finding Neverland]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]]-American [[biographical film|biographical]] [[fantasy film|fantasy]] film depicting the story of Sir [[J. M. Barrie|James Matthew Barrie]]'s friendship with a family who inspired him to create ''[[Peter Pan]]''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dargis |first=Manohla |date=12 November 2004 |title=A Never-Impolite Land Where One Never Grows Up |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=/proxy/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/12/movies/a-neverimpolite-land-where-one-never-grows-up.html |access-date=2022-07-29 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Kamaraj (film)|Kamaraj]]'' (2004) – Indian Tamil biographical film based on the life of Indian politician [[K. Kamaraj]], known as the "Kingmaker" during the 1960s in India |
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* ''[[First Love (2004 Italian film)|First Love]]'' (Italian: ''Primo Amore'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Italy|Italian]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film loosely based on the autobiographical novel by Marco Mariolini<ref>Kevin Thomas, "Capsule Reviews: 'Primo Amore,' 'The Man Who Copied' and 'The Painting'" ''Los Angeles Times'' April 29, 2005</ref> |
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* ''[[Kaya Taran]]'' (2004) – Indian [[Bollywood|Hindi film]] based on the backdrop of the [[2002 Gujarat riots]] against Muslims and [[1984 anti-Sikh riots]] |
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* ''[[Friday Night Lights (film)|Friday Night Lights]]'' (2004) – [[sports film|sport]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film adapted from ''[[Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream]]'' by [[H. G. Bissinger]], about the 1988 [[American football|football]] season of [[Permian High School]] in [[Odessa, Texas]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 October 2004 |title='Friday Night Lights' fumbles opportunity |url=/proxy/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-oct-18-et-counterpunch18-story.html |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Kekexili: Mountain Patrol]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of China|Chinese]] film inspired by the ''Wild Yak Brigade'', a real-life volunteer group that patrolled the [[Tibetan Plateau]] during the 1990s, and events that took place between 1993 and 1996 |
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* ''[[Garden State (film)|Garden State]]'' (2004) – [[comedy film|comedy]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on [[Zach Braff]]'s real life experiences<ref>[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/garden_state/ "Garden State (2004)"]. [[Rotten Tomatoes]]. Retrieved December 18, 2013.</ref> |
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* ''[[Khuni Shikder]]'' (Bengali: ''খুনী শিকদার'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Bangladesh|Bangladeshi]] [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[crime thriller film]] based on the biography of the Bangladeshi notorious murderer [[Ershad Sikder]] |
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* ''[[Gracie's Choice]]'' (2004) – [[crime film|crime]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] about a teenage girl who trues to raise her four siblings after their [[Addiction#Drug addiction|drug-addicted]] mother is sent to jail, inspired by a true story<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Russell III | first1 = William Benedict | last2 = Waters | first2 = Stewart | title = Reel Character Education: A Cinematic Approach to Character Development (Google eBook) | publisher = Information Age Publishing | year = 2010 | location = Charlotte, NC | page = 101 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=cnlhdnfeY_cC&q=%22Gracie%27s+choice%22&pg=PA101 | isbn = 978-1-61735-127-3}}</ref> |
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* ''[[King Arthur (2004 film)|King Arthur]]'' (2004) – British-American [[Historical drama|historical]] [[adventure film]] about [[King Arthur]] |
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* ''[[Gunpowder, Treason & Plot]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]] [[historical film|historical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] based upon the lives of [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] and her son [[James VI of Scotland]]<ref>{{cite web | url=/proxy/https://variety.com/2004/tv/reviews/gunpowder-treason-and-plot-1200534198/ | title=Gunpowder, Treason and Plot | date=4 April 2004 }}</ref> |
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* ''[[Kinsey (film)|Kinsey]]'' (2004) – a look at the life of [[Alfred Kinsey]], a pioneer in human sexuality research |
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* ''[[The Hamburg Cell (film)|The Hamburg Cell]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]]-[[Cinema of Canada|Canadian]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] describing the creation of the [[Hamburg cell]], Islamist and extremist group composed by the terrorists that piloted the airplanes hijacked during the [[September 11 attacks]]<ref>[http://www.cinnection.com/cronologia-11s-cine-peliculas-atentados-torres-gemelas/ Cronología: 11S y el cine. Peliculas sobre los atentados de las Torres Gemelas]</ref> |
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* ''[[The Last Shot]]'' (2004) – [[action comedy film]] loosely based on the true story of an FBI sting operation code-named Dramex |
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* ''[[Hawking (2004 film)|Hawking]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] chronicling [[Stephen Hawking]]'s early years as a PhD student at the [[University of Cambridge]], following his search for the [[beginning of time]], and his struggle against [[Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis|motor neuron disease]]<ref>{{cite web|author=Dickey, Josh |url=/proxy/http://mashable.com/2014/09/08/when-benedict-cumberbatch-played-stephen-hawking-its-all-on-youtube/ |title=When Benedict Cumberbatch Played Stephen Hawking: It's All on YouTube |publisher=Mashable.com |date=2014-09-08 |access-date=2016-10-29}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Libertine (2004 film)|The Libertine]]'' (2004) – British-Australian [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] about [[John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester]], a notorious [[Rake (stock character)|rake]] and [[libertine]] poet in the court of [[Charles II of England|King Charles II]] of England |
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* ''[[Helter Skelter (2004 film)|Helter Skelter]]'' – [[crime film|crime]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] based on the 1974 non-fiction book by [[Vincent Bugliosi]] and [[Curt Gentry]] about the murders of the [[Charles Manson|Manson]] Family<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stanley |first=Alessandra |date=14 May 2004 |title=TV WEEKEND; Manson Family's Summer of Death |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=/proxy/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/14/movies/tv-weekend-manson-family-s-summer-of-death.html |access-date=2022-07-29 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Life and Death of Peter Sellers]]'' (2004) – British-American television film about the life of English comedian [[Peter Sellers]] |
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* ''[[Hidalgo (film)|Hidalgo]]'' (2004) – American-[[Cinema of Morocco|Moroccan]] [[epic film|epic]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[Western film|Western]] based on the legend of the American distance rider [[Frank Hopkins]] and his [[Mustang (horse)|mustang]] Hidalgo<ref>[http://www.thelongridersguild.com/myth.pdf Basha O'Reilly, "Hidalgo – from myth to movie"], The Longriders Guild</ref> |
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* ''[[The Long Shot]]'' (2004) – drama film about a woman who moves with her husband and seven-year-old daughter from Colorado to California and finds solace while working at a horse farm and decides to enter her beloved horse in a high-stakes riding competition |
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* ''[[The Hillside Strangler (film)|The Hillside Strangler]]'' (2004) – [[horror film|horror]] film based on the true story of [[Kenneth Bianchi]] and [[Angelo Buono Jr.]], the [[Hillside Strangler]] [[serial killer]]s<ref>{{cite news|title=Cousins in the Killing Business|first=Dana|last=Stevens|date=October 8, 2004|url=/proxy/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/08/movies/08HILL.html?_r=0|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> |
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*''[[The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess]]'' (2004) – Canadian drama film loosely based on the real-life story of [[Gillian Guess]], who was convicted of [[obstruction of justice]] in 1998 after she became romantically involved with an accused murderer while serving as a juror at his trial |
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* ''[[Hotel Rwanda]]'' (2004) – American-[[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]]-[[Cinema of Italy|Italian]]-[[Cinema of South Africa|South African]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on the [[Rwandan genocide]], which occurred during the spring of 1994, documenting [[Paul Rusesabagina]]'s efforts to save the lives of his family and more than 1,000 other refugees by providing them with shelter in the besieged [[Hôtel des Mille Collines]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Burr|first=Ty|date=7 January 2005|title=Hotel Rwanda Movie Review: Cheadle brings quiet power to 'Rwanda'|url=/proxy/https://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=7112|url-status=dead|journal=[[Boston Globe]]|archive-url=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20080430050749/http://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=7112|archive-date=April 30, 2008|access-date=9 April 2007}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Love in Thoughts]]'' (German: ''Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken'') (2004) – German film about the so-called "Steglitz school tragedy" that occurred in 1927, when Günther Scheller and Paul Krantz founded a "suicide club" |
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* ''[[Hours of Light]]'' (Spanish: ''Horas de luz'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Spain|Spanish]] [[romance film|romantic]] [[prison film|prison]] film tracking the real life romantic relationship established in 1991 between prison nurse María del Mar "Marimar" Villar and {{ill|Juan José Garfia|es}}, imprisoned because of the cold-blood murder of three in 1987<ref>{{Cite web|url=/proxy/https://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2004/secciones_y_peliculas/seccion_oficial/7/520597/es|publisher=[[San Sebastián International Film Festival]]|access-date=2 October 2022|title=Horas de luz / Hours of Light}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story]]'' (2004) – Canadian-American made-for-television [[Biographical film|biographical]] film about American pop star [[Michael Jackson]], and follows his rise to fame and subsequent events |
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* ''[[Hustle (2004 film)|Hustle]]'' (2004) – [[sports film|sport]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] about the [[baseball]] player [[Pete Rose]], following as he [[gambling|gambled]] on [[Major League Baseball]] while managing the [[Cincinnati Reds]], got caught and was banned from baseball for life<ref>Bogdanovich, Peter, "Rose in shades of gray", ''The Sporting News'', St. Louis, vol. 228, issue 35, August 30, 2004: 8.</ref> |
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* ''[[Miracle (2004 film)|Miracle]]'' (2004) – the story of [[Herb Brooks]] and the U.S. Olympic hockey team leading up to, and during, the [[1980 Winter Olympics]] |
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* ''[[Identity Theft (film)|Identity Theft]]'' (2004) – [[crime film|crime]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] based on the true story of Michelle Brown who has her identity stolen and $50,000 purchased under her name<ref>{{cite web|title=Identity Theft in TV and Film|url=/proxy/https://www.allclearid.com/blog/identity-theft-in-tv-and-film|publisher=AllClearID.org|accessdate=30 January 2014|year=2013}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Miracle Run]]'' (2004) – drama film about a mom parenting her fraternal twin sons after they're diagnosed with autism |
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* ''[[Ike: Countdown to D-Day]]'' (2004) – [[historical film|historical]] [[war film|war]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] dramatizing the 90 days leading up to [[Operation Overlord]]<ref>{{cite news |agency=[[United Press]] |date=December 4, 1944 |title=Officer Who Talked Too Much Retired From Army |url=/proxy/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104629254/officer-talked/ |work=[[The San Bernardino Sun]] |location=San Bernardino, CA |page=1}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Modigliani (film)|Modigliani]]'' (2004) – [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the life of the Italian artist [[Amedeo Modigliani]] |
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* ''[[Innocent Voices]]'' (Spanish: ''Voces inocentes'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Mexico|Mexican]]-[[El Salvador|Salvadorian]] [[war film|war]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film set during the [[Salvadoran Civil War]], and based on writer Óscar Torres's [[childhood]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Voces inocentes, (Innocent Voices) - Rotten Tomatoes|url=/proxy/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/innocent_voices/|work=Rotten Tomatoes|publisher=Flixster|access-date=30 May 2013}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Motorcycle Diaries (film)|The Motorcycle Diaries]]'' (Spanish: ''Diarios de motocicleta'') (2004) – biographical film about the early life of [[Che Guevara]] |
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* ''[[Iron Jawed Angels]]'' (2004) – [[historical film|historical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film focusing on the [[Women's suffrage in the United States|American women's suffrage]] movement during the 1910s and follows women's suffrage leaders [[Alice Paul]] and [[Lucy Burns]] as they use peaceful and effective [[Nonviolence|nonviolent]] strategies, tactics, and dialogues to revolutionize the American feminist movement to grant women the right to vote<ref>{{cite web|url=/proxy/http://www.filmmonthly.com/Behind/Articles/Sundance2004/Sundance2004.html|title=Interview with Paul Fischer at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004|website=Film Monthly|access-date=2006-09-04|archive-url=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20060902063530/http://www.filmmonthly.com/Behind/Articles/Sundance2004/Sundance2004.html|archive-date=2006-09-02|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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* ''[[My Nikifor]]'' (Polish: ''Mój Nikifor'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Poland|Polish]] drama film based on the life of [[Nikifor]], a [[folk art|folk]] and [[Naïve art|naïve]] painter |
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* ''[[Judas (2004 film)|Judas]]'' (2004) – [[Christian television film|Christian]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[miniseries]] depicting the intertwined lives of [[Judas Iscariot]] and [[Jesus]] of Nazareth<ref>Peter Malone, ''Screen Jesus: Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film'' (2012), p. 152.</ref> |
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* ''[[Kamaraj (film)|Kamaraj]]'' (Tamil: ''காமராஜ்'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Italy|Italian]] [[Tamil language|Tamil-language]] [[biographical film|biographical]] film about the life of the Indian politician [[K. Kamaraj]] from [[Tamil Nadu]], widely acknowledged as the "Kingmaker" in Indian politics during the 1960s<ref>{{cite web|url=/proxy/http://www.hindu.com/2004/03/09/stories/2004030914270600.htm|archive-url=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20040708122207/http://www.hindu.com/2004/03/09/stories/2004030914270600.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 July 2004|title=Call for entertainment tax waiver|first=By P.|last=Oppili|date=3 September 2004|pages=06|access-date=27 June 2016|work=[[The Hindu]]|via=The Hindu (old)}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Nero (2004 film)|Nero]]'' (2004) – Italian-British-Spanish made-for-television [[Historical drama|historical]] film about [[Roman emperor]] [[Nero]] |
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* ''[[Kekexili: Mountain Patrol]]'' (Mandarin: ''可可西里''; Tibetan: ''ཨ་ཆེན་གངས་རྒྱབ།'') (2004) – [[Cinema of China|Chinese]] [[action film|action]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film depicting a moving true story about volunteers protecting [[antelope]] against poachers in [[Hoh Xil|the severe mountains of Tibet]]<ref>{{cite web |title=''Mountain Patrol (Kekexili)'' (2006) |url=/proxy/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kekexili/ |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]] |access-date=20 May 2018}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero]]'' (2004) – Indian [[Epic film|epic]] [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[war film]]. The film depicts the life of the Indian independence leader [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] in [[Nazi Germany]]: 1941–1943, and in Japanese-occupied Asia 1943–1945, and the events leading to the formation of [[Indian National Army|Azad Hind Fauj]] |
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* ''[[Khuni Shikder|Killer Shikder]]'' (Bengali: ''খুনী শিকদার'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Bangladesh|Bangladeshi]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[thriller film|thriller]] film based on the life of the Bangladeshi notorious murderer [[Ershad Sikder]]<ref>{{cite web|date=2019-08-28|script-title=bn:সত্য ঘটনা অবলম্বনে নির্মিত ১০টি বাংলাদেশি সিনেমা |url=/proxy/https://www.sylhetmail24.com/%e0%a6%b8%e0%a6%a4%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%af-%e0%a6%98%e0%a6%9f%e0%a6%a8%e0%a6%be-%e0%a6%85%e0%a6%ac%e0%a6%b2%e0%a6%ae%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%ac%e0%a6%a8%e0%a7%87-%e0%a6%a8%e0%a6%bf%e0%a6%b0%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%ae/4602/|archive-url=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20190904201608/https://www.sylhetmail24.com/%e0%a6%b8%e0%a6%a4%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%af-%e0%a6%98%e0%a6%9f%e0%a6%a8%e0%a6%be-%e0%a6%85%e0%a6%ac%e0%a6%b2%e0%a6%ae%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%ac%e0%a6%a8%e0%a7%87-%e0%a6%a8%e0%a6%bf%e0%a6%b0%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%ae/4602/|archive-date=2019-09-04|access-date=2019-09-04|website=sylhetmail24.com|language=bn}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Ninth Day]]'' (German: ''Der neunte Tag'') (2004) – German [[Historical film|historical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] about a [[Holy Orders|Catholic priest]] from [[Luxembourg]] who is imprisoned in [[Dachau concentration camp]], but released for nine days, based on a portion of ''[[Pfarrerblock 25487]]'', the diary of [[Father Jean Bernard]] (1907–1994) |
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* ''[[Kinsey (film)|Kinsey]]'' (2004) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film describing the life of [[Alfred Kinsey|Alfred Charles Kinsey]], a pioneer in the area of [[sexology]]<ref>{{cite web |url=/proxy/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kinsey |title=Kinsey (2004) |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]] |access-date=December 12, 2019}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Nobody Knows (2004 film)|Nobody Knows]]'' (Japanese: ''Dare mo Shiranai'') (2004) – Japanese [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the 1988 [[Sugamo child abandonment case]] |
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* ''[[The Last Shot]]'' (2004) – [[action film|action]] [[comedy film|comedy]] film loosely based on the true story of an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] sting operation code-named Dramex which was run by FBI agent Garland Schweickhardt, who recruited aspiring screenwriters Dan Lewk and Gary Levy to participate unwittingly in a sting operation aimed at ensnaring mobsters and [[Teamsters]] union officials in a bribery scheme<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.projo.com/movies/content/projo_20040923_lshot23.294b0a.html | title = Providence-based FBI sting now a movie | author = Paul Edward Parker | date = September 23, 2004 | publisher = Providence Journal | accessdate = October 26, 2008 }}</ref> |
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* ''[[Not Only But Always]]'' (2004) – British TV film telling the story of the working and personal relationship between the comedians [[Peter Cook]] and [[Dudley Moore]], a hugely popular duo in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s |
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* ''[[The Libertine (2004 film)|The Libertine]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]]-[[Cinema of Australia|Australian]] [[historical film|historical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] film chronicling the life of the decadent but brilliant [[[[John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester|Earl of Rochester]], who is asked by [[Charles II of England|King Charles II]] to write a play celebrating his reign, while simultaneously training [[Elizabeth Barry]] to improve her acting<ref>{{cite web|url=/proxy/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/libertine|title=The Libertine (2005)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]]|access-date={{RT data|access date|df=dmy}}}}{{RT data|edit}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Olga (2004 film)|Olga]]'' (2004) – Brazilian biographical film about German-Brazilian communist militant [[Olga Benário Prestes]] |
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* ''[[The Life and Death of Peter Sellers]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]]-American [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] about the life of English comedian [[Peter Sellers]]<ref>[https://aux.avclub.com/roger-lewis-the-life-and-death-of-peter-sellers-1798193196 Roger Lewis: The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers|AV Club]</ref> |
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* ''[[The Passion of the Christ]]'' (2004) – [[List of films based on the Bible|biblical]] drama film about Jesus of Nazareth |
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* ''[[Kaadhal|Love]]'' (Tamil: ''காதல்'') (2004) – [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[Tamil language|Tamil-language]] [[romance film|romantic]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on a true love story<ref>{{Cite web |title=Premiste – Telugu cinema Review – Bharath, Sandhya |url=/proxy/http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-premiste.html |url-status=live |archive-url=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20220120103518/http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-premiste.html |archive-date=20 January 2022 |access-date=2022-05-29 |website=[[Idlebrain.com]]}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story]]'' (2004) – made-for-television [[crime film]] based on the [[murder of Laci Peterson]] |
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* ''[[The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Canada|Canadian]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] loosely based on the real-life story of [[Gillian Guess]], who was convicted of [[obstruction of justice]] in 1998 after she became romantically involved with an accused murderer while serving as a juror at his trial<ref>"Film hard to watch, but worth the effort". ''[[Saskatoon Star-Phoenix]]'', January 6, 2006.</ref> |
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* ''[[The Preacher (film)|The Preacher]]'' (Dutch: ''De Dominee'') (2004) – Dutch [[thriller (genre)|thriller]] film based on [[Bart Middelburg]]'s biography of [[drug lord]] [[Klaas Bruinsma (drug lord)|Klaas Bruinsma]] (named Klaas Donkers in the film) |
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* ''[[Love in Thoughts]]'' (German: ''Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Germany|German]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] film inspired by the Steglitz school tragedy of 1927<ref>{{cite news |last1=Harvey |first1=Dennis |title=Love in Thoughts |url=/proxy/https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/love-in-thoughts-1200536715/ |access-date=18 November 2023 |agency=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=1 February 2004}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story]]'' (2004) – Canadian television film based on the 2002 court case ''[[Marc Hall v. Durham Catholic School Board]]'' |
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* ''[[Luisa Sanfelice (2004 film)|Luisa Sanfelice]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Italy|Italian]] [[historical film|historical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] film about the life of [[Luisa Sanfelice]], a young member of the Neapolitan nobility who is in love with a republican, Salvato Palmieri<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Marrone |first1=Gaetana |url=/proxy/https://books.google.com/books?id=csVcAgAAQBAJ |title=Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies |last2=Puppa |first2=Paolo |date=2006-12-26 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-45529-3 |pages=1847 |language=en}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Ray (film)|Ray]]'' (2004) – biographical film about singer [[Ray Charles]] |
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* ''[[Machuca]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Chile|Chilean]]-[[Cinema of Spain|Spanish]]-[[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]]-[[Cinema of France|French]] [[Coming-of-age story|coming-of-age]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] film depicting the months leading up to the [[1973 Chilean coup d'état|1973 coup d'état]] led by General [[Augusto Pinochet]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=/proxy/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2005/11/18/machuca-coming-of-age-amid-the-chaos/eb66488f-7820-41e1-9d84-a88dec543269/|author-link=Ann Hornaday|first=Ann|last=Hornaday|website=[[The Washington Post]]|date=18 November 2005|title='Machuca': Coming of Age Amid the Chaos}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story]]'' (2004) – made-for-television [[biographical film|biographical]] [[crime film|crime]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] about the life of [[Stanley Tookie Williams]], the co-founding member of the [[Crips]] street [[gang]], principally his life in the streets and his life in prison |
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* ''[[Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story]]'' (2004) – American-[[Cinema of Canada|Canadian]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] about American pop star [[Michael Jackson]], and following his rise to fame and subsequent events<ref>[https://www.popmatters.com/man-in-the-mirror-dvd-2496226050.html PopMatters]</ref> |
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* ''[[The Remains of Nothing]]'' (Italian: ''Il resto di niente'') (2004) – Italian [[Historical drama]] film about [[Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel|Eleonora Pimentel]] |
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* ''[[Miracle (2004 film)|Miracle]]'' (2004) – [[sports film|sport]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film about the [[United States men's national ice hockey team|United States men's ice hockey team]], led by head [[coach (ice hockey)|coach]] [[Herb Brooks]] who won the gold medal in the [[1980 Winter Olympics]]<ref>Turan, Kenneth (February 6, 2004). [http://articles.latimes.com/2004/feb/06/entertainment/et-kenny6 "Do you believe?"]. ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''. Retrieved November 5, 2016.</ref> |
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* ''[[Rikidōzan (film)|Rikidōzan]]'' (Korean: ''Yeokdosan'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Japan|Japanese]]/[[Cinema of South Korea|South Korean]] [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[Sports film|sports drama]] film based on the life of [[Rikidōzan]], a legendary ethnic Korean professional wrestler who became a national hero in Japan in the 1950s |
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* ''[[Miracle Run]]'' (2004) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] about a single mother whose [[Fraternal twin|fraternal twin sons]] are both diagnosed with [[autism]], based on a true story<ref>{{cite web |title=Miracle Run |url=/proxy/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/miracle_run |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=18 November 2023}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Modigliani (film)|Modigliani]]'' (2004) – [[Co-production (media)|international co-production]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on the life of the Italian artist [[Amedeo Modigliani]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-15 |title=The Strange Story Behind the Modigliani Movie (and Al Pacino's Doomed Attempt to Get it Made) |url=/proxy/https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a29955277/scorsese-al-pacino-modigliani-story/ |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=Esquire |language=en-GB}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Rocket Post]]'' (2004) – British drama film very loosely based on experiments in 1934 by the German inventor [[Gerhard Zucker]] to provide a postal service to the island of [[Scarp, Scotland|Scarp]] by [[rocket mail]] |
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* ''[[The Motorcycle Diaries (film)|The Motorcycle Diaries]]'' (Spanish: ''Diarios de motocicleta'') (2004) – [[Co-production (media)|international co-production]] [[biographical film|biographical]] film about the journey and written [[memoir]] of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would several years later become internationally known as the [[Marxism|Marxist]] [[guerrilla warfare|guerrilla]] leader and [[revolutionary]] leader [[Che Guevara]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Durbin |first=Karen |date=2004-09-12 |title=THE NEW SEASON/FILM -- SCENE STEALERS: Rodrigo de la Serna; The Performances to Watch |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=/proxy/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/arts/movies/the-new-seasonfilm-scene-stealers-rodrigo-de-la-serna-the.html |access-date=2008-03-23}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Romasanta]]'' (2004) – Spanish/Italian/British horror film about [[Manuel Blanco Romasanta]], Spain's first documented serial killer |
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* ''[[My Nikifor]]'' (Polish: ''Mój Nikifor'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Poland|Polish]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on the life of [[Nikifor]], a [[folk art|folk]] and [[Naïve art|naïve]] painter<ref>{{cite magazine|url=/proxy/https://www.timeout.com/movies/my-nikifor|last=Hammond|first=Wally|title=My Nikifor|magazine=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]|date=10 September 2007}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Saint John Bosco: Mission to Love]]'' (Italian: ''Don Bosco'') (2004) – Italian television film based on real life events of [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] priest [[John Bosco]] |
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* ''[[The Mystery of Natalie Wood]]'' (2004) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[miniseries]] chronicling the life and career of actress [[Natalie Wood]] from her early childhood in the 1940s until her death in 1981<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Fallen Star |url=/proxy/http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2004/03/fallen_star.html|date=March 2, 2004|magazine=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|accessdate=2012-09-24}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Saint Rita (film)|Saint Rita]]'' (Italian: ''Rita da Cascia'') (2004) – Italian television film based on real life events of [[Augustinian nuns|Augustinian nun]] and Saint [[Rita of Cascia]] |
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* ''[[Nero (2004 film)|Nero]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]]-[[Cinema of Italy|Italian]]-[[Cinema of Spain|Spanish]] [[historical film|historical]] [[television film]] about Emperor [[Nero]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Nero (2004) |url=/proxy/https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/imperium-nero |website=[[Mubi (streaming service)|MUBI]] |access-date=18 November 2023}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Sea Inside]]'' (Spanish: ''Mar adentro'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Spain|Spanish]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the real-life story of [[Ramón Sampedro|Ramón Sampredro]], who was left [[Tetraplegia|quadriplegic]] after a diving accident, and his 28-year campaign in support of [[euthanasia]] and the [[Right to die|right to end his life]] |
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* ''[[Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[English language|English-language]] [[epic film|epic]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[war film|war]] film depicting the life of the [[Indian Independence Movement|Indian Independence]] leader [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] in [[Nazi Germany]]: 1941–1943, and In Japanese-occupied Asia 1943–1945, and the events leading to the formation of [[Azad Hind Fauj]]<ref>{{cite web|url=/proxy/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2005/05/20/stories/2005052003670300.htm|archive-url=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20050523213203/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2005/05/20/stories/2005052003670300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2005-05-23|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=2005-05-20|title=Entertainment Chennai / Film Review : Celluloid tribute to a national hero}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Soba (film)|Soba]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Mexico|Mexican]] independent [[drama film|drama]]/[[crime film]] based on the true story of three girls raped by a group of cops in [[Tláhuac]], Mexico City |
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* ''[[The Ninth Day]]'' (German: ''Der neunte Tag'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Germany|German]] [[historical film|historical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film about a [[Holy Orders|Catholic priest]] from [[Luxembourg]] who is imprisoned in [[Dachau concentration camp]], but released for nine days, loosely based on [[Jean Bernard (priest)|Jean Bernard]]'s prison diary<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Ninth Day - Rotten Tomatoes |url=/proxy/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ninth_day |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=www.rottentomatoes.com |language=en}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Something the Lord Made]]'' (2004) – made-for-television [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] about the black cardiac pioneer [[Vivien Thomas]] (1910–1985) and his complex and volatile partnership with white surgeon [[Alfred Blalock]] (1899–1964), the "Blue Baby doctor" who pioneered modern heart surgery |
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* ''[[Nobody Knows (2004 film)|Nobody Knows]]'' (Japanese: ''誰も知らない'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Japan|Japanese]] [[crime film|crime]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on the 1988 [[Sugamo child abandonment case]]<ref>{{cite web|url=/proxy/http://cinema.pia.co.jp/title/s-9861|title=Pia cinema Plot Summary|publisher=PIA Corporation|access-date=31 May 2011|language=ja}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Stage Beauty]]'' (2004) – romantic [[Historical drama|period drama]] based on 17th-century English actor [[Edward Kynaston (actor)|Edward Kynaston]] |
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* ''[[Not Only But Always]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[television film]] telling the story of the working and personal relationship between the comedians [[Peter Cook]] and [[Dudley Moore]], a hugely popular duo in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s<ref>{{cite web |title=Not Only... but Always |url=/proxy/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/not_only_but_always |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=18 November 2023}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Suburban Madness]]'' (2004) – crime drama television film loosely based on the true story of 44-year-old Clara Harris, a successful Texas dentist and mother of young twins, who hired private investigator [[Bobbi Bacha]], and eventually [[Murder of David Lynn Harris|killed her husband]] |
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* ''[[Olga (2004 film)|Olga]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Brazil|Brazilian]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film chronicling the German Jew [[Olga Benário Prestes]]' life and times<ref>{{cite web|url=/proxy/http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2004/04.10.22.html |title=50 Countries in Competition for Oscar |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |date=2004-10-22 |access-date=2008-07-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20070611123725/http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2004/04.10.22.html |archive-date=June 11, 2007 }}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Terminal]]'' (2004) – [[comedy-drama]] film partially inspired by the true story of the 18-year stay of [[Mehran Karimi Nasseri]] in Terminal 1 of [[Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport]], France, from 1988 to 2006 |
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* ''[[The Overture]]'' (Thai: ''โหมโรง'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Thailand|Thai]] [[musical film|mmusical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on the life story of Thai palace musician [[Luang (title)|Luang]] Pradit Phairoh, from the late 19th century to the 1940s<ref>http://www.thaiticketmajor.com/performance/performance-detail.php?sid=2686&la=en</ref> |
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* ''[[The Passion of the Christ]]'' (2004) – [[Christian film industry|Christian]] [[epic film|epic]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film depicting the [[Passion of Jesus]] largely according to the gospels of [[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]], [[Gospel of Mark|Mark]], [[Gospel of Luke|Luke]], and [[Gospel of John|John]]<ref>{{cite magazine |last=O'Malley |first=John |title=A Movie, a Mystic, a Spiritual Tradition |magazine=[[America (Jesuit magazine)|America]] |date=March 15, 2004 |url=/proxy/http://americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id%3D3481%26comments%3D1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20111005193623/http://americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=3481&comments=1 |archive-date=October 5, 2011}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Voces inocentes]]'' ({{translation}} ''Innocent Voices'') (2004) – Salvadoran [[war film]] set during the [[Salvadoran Civil War]], and based on writer Óscar Torres's [[childhood]] |
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* ''[[The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story]]'' (2004) – [[crime film|crime]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] based on the [[murder of Laci Peterson]]<ref>{{cite web|title=The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story|url=/proxy/http://www.tvguide.com/movies/the-perfect-husband-the-laci-peterson-story/cast/292092/|website=TVGuide.com|accessdate=11 March 2017|ref=TV Guide|language=en}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Walking Tall (2004 film)|Walking Tall]]'' (2004) – action film, [[remake]] of the [[Walking Tall (1973 film)|1973 film of the same name]], about a former U.S. soldier who returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption |
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* ''[[The Preacher (film)|The Preacher]]'' (Dutch: ''De Dominee'') (2004) – [[Cinema of the Netherlands|Dutch]] [[thriller film|thriller]] film based on the life of real-life drug lord [[Klaas Bruinsma (drug lord)|Klaas Bruinsma]]<ref>{{cite web |title=De dominee (2004) |url=/proxy/https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/de-dominee-2004 |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |access-date=18 November 2023}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Canada|Canadian]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] about [[Marc Hall]], a [[gay]] Canadian teenager whose legal fight (''[[Marc Hall v. Durham Catholic School Board]]'') to bring a same-sex date to his [[Separate school|Catholic high school]] [[prom]] made headlines in 2002<ref>{{cite news |last1=MacDonald |first1=Gayle |title=Prom Queen offices trashed |url=/proxy/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/prom-queen-offices-trashed/article18265639/ |accessdate=8 February 2019 |date=27 May 2004}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Ray (film)|Ray]]'' (2004) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[musical film|musical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film focusing on 30 years in the life of [[rhythm and blues]] musician [[Ray Charles]]<ref>{{cite magazine |date=20 October 2004 |last=Travers |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Travers |title=Ray |url=/proxy/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/ray-124886/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] }}{{Rating|3.5|4}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story]]'' (2004) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[crime film|crime]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] dealing with the life of [[Stanley Tookie Williams]], the co-founding member of the [[Crips]] street [[gang]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kershaw |first=Sarah |date=2005-12-13 |title=Governor Rejects Clemency for Inmate on Death Row |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=/proxy/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/us/governor-rejects-clemency-for-inmate-on-death-row.html |access-date=2022-11-24 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Remains of Nothing]]'' (Italian: ''Il resto di niente'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Italy|Italian]] [[historical film|historical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film following the travails of [[Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel|an idealistic noblewoman]] who helps lead a daring revolution in Italy<ref>{{cite news|last=Deborah Young|title=Review: 'The Remains Of Nothing'|url=/proxy/https://variety.com/2004/film/reviews/the-remains-of-nothing-1200530370/|accessdate=24 February 2014|newspaper=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=October 11, 2004}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Rikidōzan (film)|Rikidōzan]]'' (Korean: ''역도산''; Japanese: ''力道山'') (2004) – [[Cinema of South Korea|South Korean]]-[[Cinema of Japan|Japanese]] [[sports film|sport]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on the life of [[Rikidōzan]], a legendary ethnic Korean professional wrestler who became a national hero in Japan in the 1950s<ref>{{cite web|last=Kim|first=Gab-sik|title=A Dialogue between Film Directors Song Hae-sung and Iwai Shunji|url=/proxy/http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=130000&biid=2004101419358|work=[[The Dong-a Ilbo]]|accessdate=2013-07-16|date=13 October 2004}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Riverman]]'' (2004) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[crime film|crime]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] following real life incidents around how convicted infamous serial killer [[Ted Bundy]] helps detectives [[Robert D. Keppel]] and [[Dave Reichert]] by providing insights into the mind of a psychopath killer to catch then active murderer [[Green River Killer|Green River Killer aka Gary Ridgway]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Fries |first=Laura |url=/proxy/https://variety.com/2004/scene/markets-festivals/the-riverman-1200531386/ |title=The Riverman |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=September 2, 2004 |accessdate=October 12, 2019}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Rocket Post]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film loosely based on experiments in 1934 by the German inventor [[Gerhard Zucker]] to provide a postal service to the island of [[Scarp, Scotland|Scarp]] by [[rocket mail]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=/proxy/https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/A17606540 |title=BBC - Film Network - Shauna Macdonald on the Rocket Post |access-date=25 December 2019 |archive-date=7 October 2007 |archive-url=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20071007124616/http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/A17606540 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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* ''[[Romasanta]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Spain|Spanish]]-[[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]]-[[Cinema of Italy|Italian]] [[horror film|horror]] film based on the true story of [[Manuel Blanco Romasanta]], Spain’s first documented [[serial killer]]<ref>Alfredo Conde ''The Uncertain Memoirs of a Galician Wolfman: Romasanta'' Antípodas Monographs 2006 {{ISBN|0-9775868-0-4}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Saint John Bosco: Mission to Love]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Italy|Italian]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[television film]] based on real life events of [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] priest [[John Bosco]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sergio Perugini|title=Testimoni di fede, trionfatori di audience|date=November 2011|publisher=Effata Editrice IT, 2011|isbn=978-8874027323|pages=187–188}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Saint Rita (film)|Saint Rita]]'' (Italian: ''Rita da Cascia'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Italy|Italian]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on real life events of [[Augustinian nun]] and Saint [[Rita of Cascia]]<ref>{{cite news|title= Rita Da Cascia versione fiction |url=/proxy/http://ricerca.gelocal.it/iltirreno/archivio/iltirreno/2003/12/03/LT6PO_LT609.html |access-date=5 July 2015|work= [[Il Tirreno]]|date=3 December 2003}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Sea Inside]]'' (Spanish: ''Mar adentro'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Spain|Spanish]] [[Psychological drama|psychological]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on the real-life story of [[Ramón Sampedro]], who was left [[Tetraplegia|quadriplegic]] after a diving accident, and his 28-year campaign in support of [[euthanasia]] and the [[Right to die|right to end his life]]<ref>{{cite web|title=The Sea Inside|url=/proxy/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sea_inside|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandango Media]]|accessdate=17 July 2021}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Shegavicha Rana Gajanan]]'' (Marathi: ''शेगावीचा राणा गजानन'') (2004) – [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[Marathi language|Marathi-language]] [[biographical film|biographical]] film about the Indian [[Hindu]] guru, saint and mystic, [[Gajanan Maharaj]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Shegavicha Rana Gajanan |url=/proxy/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shegavicha_rana_gajanan |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=18 November 2023}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Soba (film)|Soba]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Mexico|Mexican]] [[crime film|crime]] film based on the true story of three girls raped by a group of cops in [[Tláhuac]], [[Mexico City]]<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Coronel |first=Carlos |date=August 2005 |title=Violencia del DF al cine |magazine=Huellas de México |location=Mexico City |issue=312 |pages=50–53 |publisher=Editorial Huellas de México S.A. de C.V. }}</ref> |
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* ''[[Something the Lord Made]]'' (2004) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] about the black cardiac pioneer [[Vivien Thomas]] and his complex and volatile partnership with white surgeon [[Alfred Blalock]], the "Blue Baby doctor" who pioneered modern heart surgery<ref>{{cite news|last1=McCabe|first1=Katie|title=Like Something the Lord Made|url=/proxy/http://reprints.longform.org/something-the-lord-made-mccabe|access-date=8 November 2014|publisher=The Washingtonian|date=August 1989}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Spartacus (miniseries)|Spartacus]]'' (2004) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[historical film|historical]] [[miniseries]] about the life of [[Thracians|Thracian]] [[gladiator]] [[Spartacus]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Spartacus (2004) |url=/proxy/https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/spartacus-2004 |website=[[Mubi (streaming service)|MUBI]] |access-date=20 November 2023}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Stage Beauty]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Germany|German]]-[[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]]-American [[romance film|romantic]] [[historical film|historical]] film inspired by references to 17th-century actor [[Edward Kynaston (actor)|Edward Kynaston]] made in the detailed private diary kept by [[Samuel Pepys]]<ref>{{cite web|url=/proxy/https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117923780.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0|title=Stage Beauty|date=9 May 2004|accessdate=6 August 2009|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|last=Rooney|first=David}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Stauffenberg (film)|Stauffenberg]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Germany|German]]-[[Cinema of Austria|Austrian]] [[historical film|historical]] [[television film]] about [[Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg]] and the [[20 July plot|20 July 1944 plot]] to assassinate [[Adolf Hitler]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Stauffenberg (2004) |url=/proxy/https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/stauffenberg-2004 |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |access-date=17 November 2023}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Suburban Madness]]'' (2004) – [[crime film|crime]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] based on a true story of the [[Murder of David Lynn Harris]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Collins |first1=Dan |title='You Can't Make Up This Story' |url=/proxy/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/you-cant-make-up-this-story/ |access-date=24 May 2023 |agency=CBS News |date=29 September 2004}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Terminal]]'' (2004) – [[comedy film|comedy]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film inspired by the true story of the 18-year stay of [[Mehran Karimi Nasseri]] in Terminal 1 of [[Charles de Gaulle Airport|Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport]], France, from 1988 to 2006<ref>{{cite web|first=Ethan|last=Gilsdorf|title=Behind 'The Terminal,' a true story|url=/proxy/http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0621/p11s02-almo.html|work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]|date=June 21, 2004|access-date=December 5, 2010|archive-date=December 2, 2015|archive-url=/proxy/https://web.archive.org/web/20151202092352/http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0621/p11s02-almo.html|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Through My Eyes (miniseries)|Through My Eyes]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Australia|Australian]] [[crime film|crime]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[miniseries]] based upon the memoirs of [[Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton]], whose nine-week-old baby Azaria was taken by a dingo from her family's tent near [[Uluru]] in Australia's remote Northern Territory<ref>{{cite web |url=/proxy/http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AltLawJl/2004/93.html|title=Boehringer, Gill --- "The TV mini-series Through My Eyes" [2004] AltLawJl 93; (2004) 29(6) Alternative Law Journal 309|work=Alternative Law Journal|accessdate=12 December 2018}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow]]'' (Greek: ''Τριλογία: Το λιβάδι που δακρύζει'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Greece|Greek]] [[historical film|historical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film telling the story of Greek history, from 1919 to the aftermath of [[World War II]], through the sufferings of one family<ref>{{cite news|last=Lane|first=Anthony|author-link=Anthony Lane|date=19 September 2005|title=Unhappy Families|url=/proxy/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/09/19/unhappy-families-2|newspaper=[[The New Yorker]]|access-date=24 April 2015}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Troy (film)|Troy]]'' (2004) – American-[[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]]-[[Cinema of Malta|Maltese]] [[epic film|epic]] [[historical film|historical]] [[war film|war]] film following [[Trojan War|the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces]] and chronicling the fates of the men involved<ref>{{cite news |url=/proxy/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/troy-2004|title=Troy movie review & film summary (2004) |author-link=Roger Ebert|first=Roger|last=Ebert |newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |access-date=October 17, 2021 }}</ref> |
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* ''[[The Unburied Man]]'' (Hungarian: ''A temetetlen halott'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Hungary|Hungarian]]-[[Cinema of Slovakia|Slovak]]-[[Cinema of Poland|Polish]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on the life of former Prime Minister of Hungary, [[Imre Nagy]], who was executed following the failed [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Cockrell |first=Eddie |url=/proxy/https://variety.com/2005/film/reviews/the-unburied-man-1200527517/ |title=The Unburied Man |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=1 March 2005 |accessdate=2020-01-25 }}</ref> |
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* ''[[Utterly Alone]]'' (Lithuanian: ''Vienui Vieni'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Lithuania|Lithuanian]] [[historical film|historical]] film based on real events, about [[Juozas Lukša]] (code name Daumantas), a [[Lithuanian partisan]] who fought against the [[Soviet occupation of Lithuania]] in the years immediately following [[World War II]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Utterly Alone (2004) |url=/proxy/https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/utterly-alone |website=[[Mubi (streaming service)|MUBI]] |access-date=20 November 2023}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Virginia, la monaca di Monza|Virginia, The Nun of Monza]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Italy|Italian]]-[[Cinema of Spain|Spanish]] [[historical film|historical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] loosely based on real life events of Marianna de Leyva, better known as "[[The Nun of Monza]]", whose story was made famous by the [[Alessandro Manzoni]]'s novel ''[[The Betrothed (Manzoni novel)|The Betrothed]]''<ref>{{cite news|last1=Alessandra Vitali|title= Virginia, la monaca di Monza Una fiction da grande schermo |url=/proxy/http://www.repubblica.it/2004/i/sezioni/spettacoli_e_cultura/fictiontv/monaca/monaca.html?ref=search |accessdate=1 August 2015|work=[[La Repubblica]]|date=October 8, 2004}}</ref> |
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* ''[[Whisky Romeo Zulu]]'' (2004) – [[Cinema of Argentina|Argentine]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film based on the experiences of [[Enrique Piñeyro (actor)|Enrique Piñeyro]], former airline pilot turned whistle-blower, who became a film actor-director, and of the August 31, 1999 [[Líneas Aéreas Privadas Argentinas|LAPA]] (''Líneas Aéreas Privadas Argentinas'') airline accident<ref>[http://www.sfiff.org/fest05/titleDetail.asp?title_id=109 Troy, Pamela]. San Francisco Film Society, film review, April 2005.</ref> |
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* ''[[Zapata: el sueño del héroe|Zapata]]'' (Spanish: ''Zapata: el sueño del héroe'') (2004) – [[Cinema of Mexico|Mexican]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] film depicting a fictionalized portrayal of [[Emiliano Zapata]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Zapata - El sueño del héroe (2004) |url=/proxy/https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/zapata-el-sueno-del-heroe |website=[[Mubi (streaming service)|MUBI]] |access-date=18 November 2023}}</ref> |
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== 2005 == |
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Films based on actual events |
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This is a list of films and miniseries that are based on actual events. All films on this list are from American production unless indicated otherwise.
2000
- A Father's Choice (2000) – drama television film about two sisters who are accustomed with the fast-paced life in the big city being forced to live with their father in the country when their mother is killed, loosely based on a true story[1]
- Ali: An American Hero (2000) – biographical sport drama television film chronicling portions of the career of heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali[2]
- All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story (2000) – crime drama television film based on the real-life story of Mary Kay Letourneau's repeated rape of one of her sixth-grade students[3]
- Almost Famous (2000) – comedy drama film based on Cameron Crowe's early life, telling the coming-of-age story of a teenage journalist writing for Rolling Stone magazine while covering a fictitious rock band named Stillwater[4]
- American Tragedy (2000) – crime drama television film based on the O. J. Simpson murder case for the 1994 murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman[5]
- Angels of the Universe (Icelandic: Englar alheimsins) (2000) – Icelandic biographical drama film based on Einar Már Guðmundsson's 1995 novel of the same name, a semi-fictional story about Einar's brother Pálmi Örn Guðmundsson (named Páll in the book and movie)[6]
- April Captains (Portuguese: Capitães de Abril) (2000) – Portuguese historical drama film telling the story of the Carnation Revolution, the military coup that overthrew the corporatist dictatorship (known as the Estado Novo) in Portugal on 25 April 1974[7]
- The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000) – biographical drama television film based on the life of British actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn[8]
- Badding (2000) – Finnish biographical film about Finnish rock singer Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki[9]
- Bang Rajan (Thai: บางระจัน) (2000) – Thai historical drama film depicting the battles of the Siamese village of Bang Rachan against the Burmese invaders in 1767[10]
- Bawandar (Hindi: बवंडर) (2000) – Indian Hindi-language crime drama film based on the true story of Bhanwari Devi, a rape victim from Rajasthan, India, depicting the personal trauma, public humiliation and legal injustice that she went through[11]
- The Beach Boys: An American Family (2000) – biographical musical miniseries depicting a dramatization of the early years of The Beach Boys, from their formation in the early 1960s to their peak of popularity as musical innovators, through their late-1960s decline (and Brian Wilson's beginning battle with mental illness), to their re-emergence in 1974 as a nostalgia and "goodtime" act[12]
- Beat (2000) – biographical drama film focusing primarily on the last several weeks of writer Joan Vollmer's life in 1951 Mexico City, leading up to her accidental killing by her husband, the writer William S. Burroughs[13]
- Before Night Falls (2000) – biographical drama film depicting the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas[14]
- Best (2000) – British biographical drama film portraying the football career of the Northern Irish footballer George Best, particularly his years spent at Manchester United[15]
- Bharathi (Tamil: பாரதி) (2000) – Indian Tamil-language biographical film based on the life of Subramania Bharati[16]
- Bij ons in de Jordaan (2000) – Dutch biographical miniseries about the singer Johnny Jordaan[17]
- Bread and Roses (2000) – British-Spanish-German drama film based on the "Justice for Janitors" campaign of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)[18]
- Britannic (2000) – American-British spy television film depicting a fictional account of the sinking of the ship of the same name off the Greek island of Kea in November 1916[19]
- Burnt Money (Spanish: Plata quemada) (2000) – Argentine-French-Spanish-Uruguayan action thriller film inspired by the true story of a notorious 1965 bank robbery in Buenos Aires[20]
- The Captain's Daughter (Russian: Капитанская дочка) (2000) – Russian drama film portraying a romanticized account of Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773–1774[21]
- Cheaters (2000) – biographical television film chronicling the story of the 1994–1995 Steinmetz High School team that cheated in the United States Academic Decathlon[22]
- Chopper (2000) – Australian crime drama film based on the autobiographical books by criminal turned author Mark "Chopper" Read, following Read's life and time in prison[23]
- The Color of Friendship (2000) – biographical family drama television film based on actual events about the friendship between two girls; Mahree & Piper, one from the United States and the other from apartheid South Africa, who learn about tolerance and friendship[24]
- The Courage to Love (2000) – historical television film about Henriette Delille, a free woman of color, who was born in 1813 into one of New Orleans' most prominent families[25]
- The Crossing (2000) – historical drama television film about George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River and the Battle of Trenton[26]
- Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000) – horror war television film about Vlad III Dracula, "the Impaler", the historical figure who gave Bram Stoker's Dracula his name[27]
- Daydream Believers: The Monkees' Story (2000) – biographical drama television film about the rock and pop band the Monkees[28]
- Dirty Pictures (2000) – biographical drama television film focusing on the 1990 trial of Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center director Dennis Barrie, who was accused of promoting pornography by presenting an exhibit of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe that included images of naked children and graphic displays of homosexual sadomasochism[29]
- The Dish (2000) – Australian historical comedy drama film telling the story of the Parkes Observatory's role in relaying live television of humanity's first steps on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969[30]
- Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar (Hindi: डॉ बाबासाहेब अम्बेडकर) (2000) – Indian Hindi-language biographical film telling the story of B. R. Ambedkar, known mainly for his contributions in the emancipation of the downtrodden and oppressed castes, and as a result, the oppressed classes in India and shaping the Constitution of India, as the chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constituent Assembly[31]
- Empire Under Attack (Russian: Империя под ударом) (2000) – Russian historical miniseries about the confrontation of the Security Department and the SR Combat Organization at the beginning of the 20th century[32]
- Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble (2000) – biographical drama television film depicting the life of British actress and abolitionist Fanny Kemble, who sees first-hand the horrors of slavery when she marries an American plantation owner[33]
- Erin Brockovich (2000) – biographical legal drama film dramatizing the true story of Erin Brockovich who initiated a legal case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) over its culpability for the Hinkley groundwater contamination incident[34]
- Essex Boys (2000) – British crime drama film based loosely around events in December 1995 that culminated in the Rettendon murders of three drug dealers in Rettendon, Essex, UK[35]
- The Farewell (German: Abschied - Brechts letzter Sommer) (2000) – German drama film depicting the last hours of Bertolt Brecht's life[36]
- The Filth and the Fury (2000) – British musical drama film following the story of punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols from their humble beginnings in London's Shepherd's Bush to their fall at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco[37]
- The Final Days (2000) – comedy short film depicting Bill Clinton's last days in the White House[38]
- For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000) – biographical drama television film about jazz musician Arturo Sandoval[39]
- Freedom Song (2000) – biographical drama television film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s, telling the story of the struggle of African Americans to register to vote[40]
- Getting Away with Murder: The JonBenet Ramsey Story (2000) – biographical crime drama television film based on the 1996 killing of JonBenét Ramsey[41]
- Gojoe (Japanese: 五条霊戦記) (2000) – Japanese action martial arts film about Benkei, a Japanese warrior monk (sōhei) who lived in the latter years of the Heian Period (794–1185)[42]
- Gostanza da Libbiano (2000) – Italian historical drama film based on the original 1594 trial records of the eponymous nun accused of witchcraft in Tuscany[43]
- Greenfingers (2000) – British comedy film loosely based on the true story about the award-winning prisoners of HMP Leyhill, a minimum-security prison in the Cotswolds, England[44]
- Gripsholm (2000) – Swiss biographical film following a summer adventure of Kurt Tucholsky[45]
- Growing Up Brady (2000) – biographical television film about the production of the 1969–1974 ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch[46]
- Harlan County War (2000) – biographical television film inspired by the labor dispute of the same name in 1931[47]
- Hendrix (2000) – biographical television film about the life of Jimi Hendrix[48]
- Hey Ram (Hindi: हे राम!; Tamil: ஹே ராம்) (2000) – Indian Hindi and Tamil-language crime drama film depicting India's Partition and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by Nathuram Godse[49]
- His Wife's Diary (Russian: Дневник его жены) (2000) – Russian biographical drama film about the last love affair of Ivan Bunin[50]
- Hoover (2000) – biographical drama film based on the life of J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial figure who founded and headed the Federal Bureau of Investigation[51]
- I Dreamed of Africa (2000) – biographical drama film based on the autobiographical novel I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann, an Italian writer who moved to Kenya and became involved in conservation[52]
- In His Life: The John Lennon Story (2000) – biographical television film about John Lennon's teenage years[53]
- In the Light of the Moon (2000) – American-British crime horror film based on the crimes of Ed Gein, an American murderer who killed at least two women in Plainfield, Wisconsin during the 1950s[54]
- Innocents (2000) – British medical crime drama television film based upon the Bristol heart scandal of the 1980s and 90s[55]
- The Iron Ladies (Thai: สตรีเหล็ก) (2000) – Thai comedy film following the true events of a men's volleyball team, composed mainly of gay and kathoey (transgender) athletes[56]
- Is It Clear, My Friend? (Croatian: Je li jasno, prijatelju?) (2000) – Croatian prison drama film based on real events about a man who gets life sentence for committed crime in a Yugoslavian prison[57]
- Isn't She Great (2000) – biographical comedy drama film presenting a fictionalized biography of author Jacqueline Susann[58]
- Joe Gould's Secret (2000) – drama film based on the magazine article Professor Sea Gull and the book Joe Gould's Secret by Joseph Mitchell[59]
- Joseph: King of Dreams (2000) – animated Christian drama film telling the story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis in the Bible[60]
- Joseph of Nazareth (Italian: Giuseppe di Nazareth) (2000) – Italian Christian drama television film dramatizing the life of Joseph of Nazareth[61]
- The King Is Dancing (French: Le Roi danse) (2000) – French-German-Belgian historical drama film presenting libertine and pagan Jean-Baptiste Lully as a natural ally of the early Enlightenment figure Louis XIV of France in his conflicts with the Catholic establishment, focusing on Lully's personal relationship with the King, as well as his camaraderie with Molière and rivalry with Robert Cambert[62]
- King of the World (2000) – biographical drama television film depicting the early stages of the career of heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali[63]
- The King's Daughters (French: Saint-Cyr) (2000) – French historical drama film about Louis XIV’s final wife Madame de Maintenon who wishes to set up a boarding school for young daughters of noble families that have fallen on hard times, the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, a school where girls receive a pious but liberal education[64]
- Leak (Dutch: Lek) (2000) – Dutch thriller film based on a real-life Dutch police scandal from 1994[65]
- Leftenan Adnan (2000) – Malaysian biographical war film chronicling the actions of Adnan bin Saidi who had been involved as a Lieutenant of the Malay Regiment fending against the invasion of the Japanese army during the Second World War[66]
- The Legend of Rita (German: Die Stille nach dem Schuss) (2000) – German drama film focusing on collusion between the East German secret police, or Stasi, and the West German terrorist group Red Army Faction[67]
- The Libertine (French: Le Libertin) (2000) – French comedy film about philosopher Denis Diderot, one of the modernists of the French 18th-century Age of Enlightenment movement[68]
- The Linda McCartney Story (2000) – British-American biographical drama television film presenting the life story of Linda McCartney and her romance and marriage to Beatles member Paul McCartney[69]
- Little Richard (2000) – biographical television film chronicling the rise of American musical icon Little Richard from his poor upbringing in Macon, Georgia to achieving superstardom as one of the pioneers of rock and roll music[70]
- Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story (2000) – biographical drama television film about the life of R&B singer Natalie Cole[71]
- Longitude (2000) – British drama miniseries about John Harrison, an 18th-century clockmaker who created the first clock (chronometer) sufficiently accurate to be used to determine longitude at sea—an important development in navigation[72]
- Lumumba (2000) – French-Belgian-German-Haitian biographical film depicting the rise and fall of Patrice Lumumba, and is set in the months before and after Congo-Léopoldville achieved independence from Belgium in June 1960[73]
- Markova: Comfort Gay (2000) – Filipino biographical drama film based loosely on the life of Walter Dempster Jr., the last surviving Filipino "comfort gay" (male sex slaves for Imperial Japanese Army) from World War II[74]
- Marlene (2000) – German biographical film following the life of the German actress Marlene Dietrich and her success in Hollywood[75]
- Men of Honor (2000) – drama film based on Master Chief Petty Officer Carl Brashear the first African-American Master Diver of the U.S. Navy[76]
- Mermaid (2000) – drama television film based on the real-life story of Desiree Leanne Gill as she learns to accept her father's death[77]
- The Middle Passage (French: Passage du milieu) (2000) – French-Senegalese historical drama film about the trans-Atlantic voyage of black slaves from the West Coast of Africa to the Caribbean, a part of the triangular slave trade route called the Middle Passage[78]
- Miracle in Lane 2 (2000) – biographical family drama television film based on the life of Justin Yoder, who was the first person with a disability to compete in the All American Soapbox Derby[79]
- The Miracle Worker (2000) – biographical drama television film based on the life of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan's struggles to teach her[80]
- Monarch (2000) – British historical drama film about Henry VIII[81]
- Murderous Maids (French: Les blessures assassines) (2000) – French biographical drama film telling the true story of two French maids, Christine and Lea Papin[82]
- My Dog Skip (2000) – comedy drama film telling the story of a 9-year-old Willie Morris as he is given a Smooth Fox Terrier for his birthday, and how the dog fundamentally changes several aspects of his life[83]
- Nora (2000) – biographical drama film examining the relationship between James Joyce and Nora Barnacle[84]
- Noriega: God's Favorite (2000) – biographical television film telling the story of the rise of general Manuel Noriega from utter poverty to military dictator of Panama[85]
- Nuremberg (2000) – Canadian-American biographical drama miniseries telling the story of the Nuremberg trials[86]
- Odd Little Man (Norwegian: Da jeg traff Jesus... med sprettert) (2000) – Norwegian biographical family drama film based on one of the biographic memoirs of Odd Børretzen[87]
- One Hundred Steps (Italian: I cento passi) (2000) – Italian biographical film about the life of Peppino Impastato, a left-wing political activist who opposed the Mafia in Sicily[88]
- Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth (Italian: Padre Pio - Tra cielo e terra) (2000) – Italian biographical drama television film based on real life events of Roman Catholic friar and later Saint, Padre Pio[89]
- Padre Pio: Miracle Man (Italian: Padre Pio) (2000) – Italian biographical drama television film depicting real life events of Roman Catholic friar and later Saint Pio of Pietrelcina[90]
- Pandaemonium (2000) – British historical biographical film based on the early lives of English poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, in particular their collaboration on the Lyrical Ballads (1798), and Coleridge's writing of Kubla Khan[91]
- Perfect Murder, Perfect Town (2000) – crime drama miniseries covering in great detail what was considered a botched investigation into the murder of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey, whose body was found in the basement of her Boulder, Colorado home on December 26, 1996[92]
- The Perfect Storm (2000) – biographical disaster film telling the story of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing vessel that was lost at sea with all hands after being caught in the Perfect Storm of 1991[93]
- Pollock (2000) – biographical drama film centring on the life of American painter Jackson Pollock, his struggles with alcoholism, as well as his troubled marriage to his wife Lee Krasner[94]
- Possessed (2000) – horror television film inspired by the exorcism case of Roland Doe[95]
- The Prince's Manuscript (Italian: Il manoscritto del Principe) (2000) – Italian biographical drama film recounting the later life of writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa[96]
- Quills (2000) – American-British-German historical film inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade, re-imagining the last years of the Marquis's incarceration in the insane asylum at Charenton[97]
- Rated X (2000) – biographical drama television film chronicling the story of the Mitchell brothers, Jim and Artie, who were pioneers in the pornography and strip club businesses in San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s[98]
- Remember the Titans (2000) – biographical sport drama film based on the true story of coach Herman Boone and his attempt to integrate the T. C. Williams High School (now Alexandria City High School) football team in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971[99]
- The Replacements (2000) – American-British sport comedy film loosely based on the 1987 NFL strike, specifically the Washington Redskins, who won all three replacement games without any of their regular players and went on to win Super Bowl XXII[100]
- Ricky 6 (2000) – American-Mexican-Canadian biographical crime film based on the life of Ricky Kasso, a suburban teenager accused of Satanism and murder in the 1980s[101]
- The Romanovs: An Imperial Family Russian: Романовы. Венценосная семья) (2000) – Russian historical drama film about the last days of Tsar Nicholas II and his family[102]
- Sade (2000) – French historical drama film about French writer, libertine, political activist and nobleman Marquis de Sade[103]
- Saint Mary (Persian: مریم مقدس) – Iranian religious drama film depicting the life of Mary mother of Jesus based on the Quran and Islamic tradition[104]
- Seven Songs from the Tundra (Finnish: Seitsemän laulua tundralta) (2000) – Finnish drama film based on Anastasia Lapsui's own experiences telling stories of the indigenous nomadic people of the Russian tundra under modern Communist rule[105]
- Shadow Magic (Mandarin: 西洋鏡) (2000) – Chinese historical drama film about the introduction of motion pictures to China during the early 20th century[106]
- Shadow of the Vampire (2000) – historical mystery film depicting a fictionalized account of the making of the classic vampire film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens[107]
- Spring of Life (Czech: Pramen života) (2000) – Czech historical drama film depicting a little-known operation of the Nazi SS, started just before the outbreak of World War II[108]
- St. Patrick: The Irish Legend (2000) – British historical drama television film about the life of Saint Patrick (AD 387–463) who was born in Wales and who brought Christianity to Ireland[109]
- The Stalking of Laurie Show (2000) – crime drama television film based on the true-life murder of Lancaster native Laurie Show[110]
- Steal This Movie! (2000) – biographical film following Abbie Hoffman's relationship with his second wife Anita and their "awakening" and subsequent conversion to an activist life[111]
- Thirteen Days (2000) – historical political thriller film set during the two-week Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, centering on how President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and others handled the explosive situation[112]
- This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper (2000) – British crime drama miniseries depicting a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had on the health and career of Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield who led the enquiry[113]
- The Three Stooges (2000) – biographical television film about the slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges[114]
- Too Late (Portuguese: Tarde Demais) (2000) – Portuguese [Drama (film and television)|drama]] film depicting the tragic real life story of a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river and struggle to survive[115]
- Track Down (2000) – crime thriller film about the manhunt for computer hacker Kevin Mitnick[116]
- Two of Us (2000) – drama television film depicting a dramatized account of April 24, 1976, six years after the break-up of the Beatles and the day in which Lorne Michaels made a statement on Saturday Night Live offering the Beatles $3,000 to reunite on his program[117]
- Vatel (2000) – French-British historical drama film based on the life of 17th-century French chef François Vatel[118]
- Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion (Portuguese: Villa-Lobos - Uma Vida de Paixão) (2000) – Brazilian drama film about Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, portraying him at various ages[119]
- The Weight of Water (2000) – American-French mystery thriller film based on the Smuttynose Island murders, which took place in 1873[120]
- When Andrew Came Home (2000) – crime drama television film about a woman who is reunited with her kidnapped son after five years, based on a true story[121]
- When the Sky Falls (2000) – American-British-Irish biographical crime film centring on reporter Veronica Guerin, who wrote about drug-related crime for the Sunday Independent, and her eventual murder[122]
- Who Killed Atlanta's Children? (2000) – biographical war drama television film about the Atlanta child murders[123]
- The Widow of Saint-Pierre (French: La veuve de Saint-Pierre) (2000) – French historical drama film telling the story of a disillusioned army officer whose love for his wife in her efforts to save a convicted murderer leads him to disobey orders, inspired by an actual case[124]
- Word and Utopia (Portuguese: Palavra e Utopia) (2000) – Portuguese historical biographical film telling the story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery[125]
2001
- 61* (2001) – sport drama television film about Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle's on their quest to break Babe Ruth's 1927 single-season home run record of 60 during the 1961 season of the New York Yankees[126]
- A Beautiful Mind (2001) – biographical drama film based on the life of the American mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics and Abel Prize winner[127]
- A Glimpse of Hell (2001) – American-Canadian disaster drama film about the 1989 turret explosion incident on USS Iowa and its aftermath[128]
- A Huey P. Newton Story (2001) – biographical drama film creating a representation of the activist Huey P. Newton's life and time as a person, a citizen and an activist[129]
- The Affair of the Necklace (2001) – historical drama film based on what became known as the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an incident that helped fuel the French populace's disillusionment with the monarchy and, among other causes, eventually led to the French Revolution[130]
- The Afternoon of a Torturer (Romanian: După-amiaza unui torționar) (2001) – Romanian biographical film recounting an interview with Franț Țandără, a parricide and a torturer in the Communist jails, who openly confesses to the terrible crimes he committed in his youth[131]
- Ali (2001) – biographical sport drama film focusing on ten years in the life of the boxer Muhammad Ali from 1964 to 1974, featuring his capture of the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston, his conversion to Islam, criticism of the Vietnam War, and banishment from boxing[132]
- Almost a Woman (2001) – biographical television film about Esmeralda Santiago and her family who move to New York from a rural area of Puerto Rico and the challenges she and her family face[133]
- An American Rhapsody (Hungarian: Amerikai rapszódia) (2001) – Hungarian biographical drama film telling the story of a 15-year-old girl from a Hungarian-American family, based on Éva Gárdos' life story[134]
- Anatomy of a Hate Crime (2001) – biographical television film based on the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard[135]
- Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) – American-British-Czech biographical war miniseries based on the life of the Holocaust diarist Anne Frank[136]
- Another Life (2001) – British crime drama film based on the true story of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters of a prominent 1920s adultery–murder case, in which the pair of lovers were convicted of murdering Edith Thompson's husband[137]
- Anybody's Nightmare (2001) – British crime drama television film based on the true story of the imprisonment of Sheila Bowler, who was accused of murdering her aunt[138]
- As White as in Snow (Swedish: Så vit som en snö) (2001) – Swedish drama film loosely inspired by the life of Elsa Andersson, the first woman aviator in Sweden[139]
- Aśoka (2001) – Indian Hindi-language epic historical drama film about the early life of emperor Asoka, of the Maurya dynasty, who ruled most of the Indian subcontinent in the 3rd century BCE[140]
- Attila (2001) – historical miniseries set during the waning days of the Western Roman Empire and following Attila the Hun (reigned 434–453) during his rise to power[141]
- Band of Brothers (2001) – war drama miniseries dramatizing the history of "Easy" Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, from jump training in the United States through its participation in major actions in Europe, up until Japan's capitulation and the end of World War II[142]
- Behind Enemy Lines (2001) – war drama film loosely based on the 1995 Mrkonjić Grad incident that occurred during the Bosnian War[143]
- The Believer (2001) – drama film loosely based on the true story of Dan Burros, a member of the American Nazi Party and the New York branch of the United Klans of America who died by suicide after being revealed as Jewish by a reporter from The New York Times[144]
- The Big Heist (2001) – crime drama television film telling the story of the 1978 Lufthansa heist[145]
- Black Hawk Down (2001) – American-British war drama film documenting efforts by the Unified Task Force to capture Somali faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid in 1993, and the resulting battle in Mogadishu between United States forces and Aidid's militia[146]
- Blonde (2001) – biographical drama television film depicting the life of Marilyn Monroe[147]
- Blow (2001) – biographical crime drama film based on the real-life stories of U.S. drug trafficker George Jung and his connections including narcotics kings Pablo Escobar and Carlos Lehder Rivas, and the Medellín Cartel[148]
- Bojangles (2001) – biographical drama television film chronicling the life of entertainer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson[149]
- Boss of Bosses (2001) – biographical crime drama television film about the life of former Gambino crime family boss Paul Castellano[150]
- Boycott (2001) – biographical drama television film telling the story of the 1955–1956 Montgomery bus boycott[151]
- Brian's Song (2001) – biographical sport drama television film telling the story of Brian Piccolo, a white running back who meets, clashes with and befriends fellow Chicago Bears running back Gale Sayers[152]
- Bride of the Wind (2001) – British-German-Austrian historical drama film loosely based on the life of Alma Mahler, recounting her marriage to the composer Gustav Mahler and her romantic liaisons[153]
- Bully (2001) – American-French crime drama film based on the murder of Bobby Kent[154]
- Bus 44 (Mandarin: 車四十四) (2001) – American-Hong Kong drama short film telling the story of a bus driver and her passengers' encounter with highway robbers, based on an amalgamation of supposed true events[155]
- Camarate (2001) – Portuguese crime drama film about the investigation of the 1980 Camarate air crash[156]
- The Cat's Meow (2001) – American-German-British mystery drama film inspired by the mysterious death of film mogul Thomas H. Ince that occurred on William Randolph Hearst's yacht during a weekend cruise celebrating Ince's birthday in November 1924[157]
- Chūshingura 1/47 (2001) – Japanese historical drama film based on the story of the Forty-seven Ronin[158]
- Conspiracy (2001) – war drama television film dramatizing the 1942 Wannsee Conference[159]
- The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001) – drama television film loosely based on events surrounding the Reagan assassination attempt on March 30, 1981 by John Hinckley Jr.[160]
- The Days of Sadat (Arabic: أيام السادات) (2001) – Egyptian biographical film about the third President of Egypt Anwar Al Sadat[161]
- Dhyaas Parva (Marathi: ध्यास पर्व) (2001) – Indian Marathi-language biographical drama film about Raghunath Dhondo Karve[162]
- The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2001) – Australian drama film about Vaslav Nijinsky, based on the premier danseur's published diaries[163]
- Druids (French: Vercingétorix: La Légende du druide roi) (2001) – French-Belgian-Canadian epic historical film telling the story of the Gallic chieftain Vercingetorix, from his childhood through to his battle to save Gaul from Roman domination at the hands of Julius Caesar[164]
- Enemy at the Gates (2001) – American-British-French-German-Irish war drama film describing the events surrounding the Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942–1943[165]
- The Experiment (German: Das Experiment) (2001) – German drama thriller film inspired by the events of the Stanford prison experiment in the US[166]
- February 15, 1839 (French: 15 février 1839) (2001) – Canadian French-language historical drama film about the incarceration at the Pied-du-Courant Prison and the execution by hanging there of Patriote participants of the Lower Canada Rebellion[167]
- From Hell (2001) – American-British-Czech historical horror film about the Jack the Ripper murders[168]
- The Grey Zone (2001) – historical war drama film telling the story of the Jewish Sonderkommando XII in the Auschwitz death camp in October 1944[169]
- H3 (2001) – Irish biographical drama film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland, the events leading up to it, and subsequent developments in the prisoners' struggle for Prisoner of War status[170]
- Hot Money (2001) – British crime drama television film inspired by the Loughton incinerator thefts[171]
- In the Time of the Butterflies (2001) – American-Mexican drama film depicting a fictionalized account of the lives of the Mirabal sisters, Dominican revolutionary activists, who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were assassinated on November 25, 1960[172]
- Inch'Allah Dimanche (Arabic: إن شاء الله الأحد) (2001) – French-Algerian drama film about the life of an Algerian immigrant woman in France, largely based on Yamina Benguigui's experience moving to France and the struggles for autonomy Algerian women continue to face even today[173]
- Inside the Osmonds (2001) – biographical musical drama film about the personal lives and professional careers of The Osmonds, and how the stresses and strains of their careers and the turbulent 1970s and 1980s affected their relationships with each other and their families[174]
- Invincible (German: Unbesiegbar) (2001) – American-British-Irish-German drama film based on the story of Zishe Breitbart[175]
- Iris (2001) – biographical drama film about novelist Iris Murdoch and her relationship with her husband John Bayley[176]
- Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot (2001) – biographical drama miniseries about the eponymous Kennedys; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Ethel Kennedy and Joan Bennett Kennedy[177]
- James Dean (2001) – biographical drama television film based on the life of the American actor James Dean[178]
- Judas (Italian: Gli amici di Gesù - Giuda) (2001) – Italian-German Christian drama television film telling the story of Judas Iscariot[179]
- Just Ask My Children (2001) – historical drama television film recounting the true story of the Kern County child abuse cases[180]
- Kandahar (Dari: قندهار) (2001) – Iranian drama film based on a partly true, partly fictionalized story of Nafas, a successful Afghan-Canadian woman, set in Afghanistan during the rule of the Taliban[181]
- The Lady and the Duke (French: L'Anglaise et le Duc) (2001) – French-German historical romantic drama film about Grace Elliott, a Scottish royalist caught up in the political intrigue following the French Revolution[182]
- The Legend of Suriyothai (Thai: สุริโยไท) (2001) – Thai biographical drama film portraying the life of Queen Suriyothai, who is regarded by Thai people as the "great feminist"[183]
- Leo & Claire (German: Leo und Claire) (2001) – German historical drama film depicting the story behind the Katzenberger Trial[184]
- Let's Get Skase (2001) – Australian comedy film based on the life of failed Australian businessman Christopher Skase, who after the collapse of his Qintex business fled to Majorca, Spain[185]
- Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001) – biographical miniseries chronicling Judy Garland's life from her first public performance in 1924 until her death in 1969[186]
- The Lost Battalion (2001) – war drama television film about the US 77th Division's Lost Battalion during World War I, which was cut off and surrounded by German forces in the Argonne Forest during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of 1918[187]
- Mad Love (Spanish: Juana la Loca) (2001) – Spanish-Italian-Portuguese historical drama film following the tragic fate of Queen Joanna of Castile, madly in love with an unfaithful husband, Philip the Handsome, Archduke of Austria[188]
- The Manns – Novel of a Century (German: Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman) (2001) – German biographical drama miniseries telling the story of the Mann family[189]
- The Marriage of Gustav III (Swedish: Gustav III:s äktenskap) (2001) – Swedish historical miniseries built upon a period in the life of King Gustav III of Sweden[190]
- The Miracle of the Cards (2001) – biographical drama television film based on the true story of English youngster Craig Shergold, who in 1988 is diagnosed with a brain tumor[191]
- Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001) – biographical film based on the true story of Genie, a modern-day feral child[192]
- The Moonhunter (Thai: 14 ตุลา สงครามประชาชน) (2001) – Thai biographical film depicting the 1973 Thai popular uprising by Seksan Prasertkul, a student leader[193]
- The Moving True Story of a Woman Ahead of Her Time (West Frisian: Nynke) (2001) – Dutch historical drama film about the lives of Nienke van Hichtum and Dutch socialist and politician Pieter Jelles Troelstra[194]
- My Sassy Girl (Korean: 엽기적인 그녀) (2001) – South Korean romantic comedy film based on a true story told in a series of blog posts written by Kim Ho-sik[195]
- Nowhere in Africa (German: Nirgendwo in Afrika) (2001) – German drama film based on the 1995 autobiographical novel of the same name by Stefanie Zweig, describing her German-Jewish family's experiences living in Kenya having emigrated there in 1938 to escape persecution in Nazi Germany[196]
- One Night the Moon (2001) – Australian musical drama film based on the true story of a young girl who went missing in the Australian outback in 1932[197]
- The Other Side of Heaven (2001) – adventure drama film showcasing John H. Groberg's experiences as a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Tongan islands in the 1950s[198]
- Pearl Harbor (2001) – war drama film depicting a heavily fictionalized version of the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941[199]
- Piñero (2001) – biographical drama film about the troubled life of Nuyorican poet and playwright Miguel Piñero[200]
- The Princess and the Marine (2001) – romantic drama television film based on the true story of American Marine Jason Johnson and Bahraini Princess Meriam Al-Khalifa[201]
- The Profession of Arms (Italian: l mestiere delle armi) (2001) – Italian historical drama film depicting the life and death of Giovanni delle Bande Nere[202]
- Prozac Nation (2001) – American-German psychological drama film based on Elizabeth Wurtzel's 1994 memoir of the same name, which describes Wurtzel's experiences with atypical depression[203]
- Quitting (Mandarin: 昨天) (2001) – Chinese drama film based on the true life story of Jia Hongsheng, an actor and former drug addict who battled his addiction to marijuana and heroin for five years from 1992 to 1997[204]
- Race to Space (2001) – family drama film about the 1960s space race between the United States and the Soviet Union[205]
- Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) – biographical drama film based on the autobiography of the same name by Beverly Donofrio, about a woman who overcame difficulties, including being a teen mother, and who later earned a master's degree[206]
- Roberto Succo (2001) – French biographical drama film based on the true story of the eponymous Italian serial killer Roberto Succo[207]
- Rock Star (2001) – musical comedy drama film inspired by the real-life story of Tim "Ripper" Owens, a singer in a Judas Priest tribute band who was chosen to replace singer Rob Halford when he temporarily left the band[208]
- The Rose of the Rascal (Finnish: Rentun Ruusu) (2001) – Finnish biographical drama film based on the life of Antti Yrjö Hammarberg[209]
- Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow (Japanese: 聖の青春) (2001) – Japanese drama film portraying the life of Satoshi Murayama, who was a professional shogi player[210]
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII (2001) – British historical drama miniseries about the wives of Henry VIII[211]
- Sword of Honour (2001) – British drama television film loosely based on Evelyn Waugh's experiences in the Second World War[212]
- Taking Sides (German: Der Fall Furtwängler) (2001) – German-Austrian-French-British biographical drama film based on the real interrogations that took place between a U.S. Army investigator and the musical conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had been charged with serving the Nazi regime[213]
- Taurus (Russian: Телец) (2001) – Russian biographical drama film about former Russian politician Vladimir Lenin[214]
- There Is a Secret in My Soup (Cantonese: 人頭豆腐湯) (2001) – Hong Kong crime horror film based on the Hello Kitty murder[215]
- Things Behind the Sun (2001) – biographical drama film based on an early adolescent experience of Allison Anders[216]
- Thomas (Italian: Gli amici di Gesù - Tommaso) (2001) – Italian Christian drama television film telling the story of Thomas the Apostle[217]
- Time Out (French: L'Emploi du temps) (2001) – French drama film loosely based on the life story of Jean-Claude Romand[218]
- To End All Wars (2001) – war drama film based on Through the Valley of the Kwai, an autobiography of Ernest Gordon, then a Scottish Captain, later the Presbyterian Dean of the Princeton University Chapel[219]
- Tomorrow (Italian: Domani) (2001) – Italian disaster drama film about the aftermath of the 1997 Umbria and Marche earthquake[220]
- The Tunnel (German: Der Tunnel) (2001) – German drama television film based on true events in Berlin following the closing of the East German border in August 1961 and the subsequent construction of the Berlin Wall[221]
- Uprising (2001) – war drama television film about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during the Holocaust[222]
- Varian's War (2001) – Canadian-British-American drama television film based on the life and wartime exploits of Varian Fry who saved more than 2,000 Jewish artists from Vichy France, the conquered ally of Nazi Germany[223]
- Veer Savarkar (Hindi: वीर सावरकर) (2001) – Indian Hindi-language biographical film based on the life of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar[224]
- Vera Brühne (2001) – German drama miniseries about Vera Brühne who was convicted of murder[225]
- Victoria & Albert (2001) – British historical miniseries focusing on the early life and marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert[226]
- What Makes a Family (2001) – drama television film about a lesbian couple living in Florida who choose to have a child, based on a true story[227]
- When Billie Beat Bobby (2001) – sport comedy drama film detailing the historic 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs and what led up to it[228]
- Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders (2001) – British biographical crime drama film dramatizing the crimes committed by John Duffy and David Mulcahy, commonly known as the Railway Rapists or Railway Killers[229]
- Zubeidaa (Hindi: ज़ुबैदा; Urdu: زبیدہ) (2001) – Indian Hindi- and Urdu-language biographical drama film based on the life of the ill-fated actress Zubeida Begum, who married Hanwant Singh of Jodhpur and was the mother of the film's writer, Khalid Mohamed[230]
2002
- 23rd March 1931: Shaheed (Hindi: शहीद) (2002) – Indian Hindi-language historical biographical film about Bhagat Singh, depicting the events leading up to the hanging of Singh and his companions Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar on 23 March 1931[231]
- 24 Hour Party People (2002) – British biographical comedy drama film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records[232]
- 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002) – biographical drama television film following union activist A. Philip Randolph's efforts to organize the black porters of the Pullman Company in 1920s America, known as the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters[233]
- A Is for Acid (2002) – British crime television film based on the life of the serial killer John Haigh, known as the Acid Bath Murderer, because he dissolved the bodies of six people in sulphuric acid[234]
- A Journey Called Love (Italian: Un viaggio chiamato amore) (2002) – Italian romantic drama film telling the tormented relationship between the writer Sibilla Aleramo and the poet Dino Campana[235]
- Adaptation (2002) – comedy drama film based on Charlie Kaufman's struggles to adapt Susan Orlean's 1998 nonfiction book The Orchid Thief while suffering from writer's block[236]
- The Adversary (French: L'Adversaire) (2002) – French drama film inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand[237]
- AKA (2002) – British drama film telling the story of a disaffected youth's search for love, status, and identity in late 1970s Britain, largely based on Duncan Roy's early life[238]
- Amen. (2002) – historical war drama film examining the political and diplomatic relationship between the Vatican and Nazi Germany during World War II[239]
- Anita and Me (2002) – British comedy drama film depicting a semi-autobiographical account of Meera Syal's childhood[240]
- Antwone Fisher (2002) – biographical drama film based on the life of Antwone Fisher[241]
- Auto Focus (2002) – biographical drama film telling a dramatized story of the actor Bob Crane, an affable radio show host and amateur drummer who found success on Hogan's Heroes, a popular television sitcom, and his dramatic descent into the underbelly of Hollywood after the series was cancelled and he formed a friendship with John Henry Carpenter[242]
- Baader (2002) – German biographical drama film about revolutionary Andreas Baader of the notorious Red Army Faction ("the Baader-Meinhof Gang") which operated mainly in West Germany during the 1970s[243]
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Mandarin: 巴爾扎克與小裁縫; French: Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse Chinoise) (2002) – Chinese-French romantic drama film revolving around two young Chinese boys of bourgeois background who were sent to a remote village in Sichuan province for three years of re-education during the Cultural Revolution, based on the 2000 semi-autobiographical novel of the same title by Dai[244]
- The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair (Italian: I banchieri di Dio) (2002) – Italian drama film telling the story of the scandal of Banco Ambrosiano, mainly related to the figure of Roberto Calvi[245]
- Benjamin Franklin (2002) – biographical drama miniseries about American polymath Benjamin Franklin[246]
- Bertie and Elizabeth (2002) – British biographical drama television film exploring the relationship between King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth from their first meeting to the King's death in the winter of 1952[247]
- Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) – crime drama film drawing inspiration from several sources, including the Columbine shootings and the murder of Stuart Tay, a teenager from Orange County, California[248]
- Black and White (2002) – Australian biographical drama film telling the story of Max Stuart, a young aboriginal man who was sentenced to death after being found guilty of the murder of a nine-year-old girl on what was considered questionable evidence[249]
- Bloody Sunday (2002) – British-Irish historical war drama film based around the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" shootings in Derry, Northern Ireland[250]
- Bolívar, That's Me! (Spanish: Bolívar soy yo) (2002) – Colombian-French historical film detailing the story of an actor who is known for his interpretation of "El Libertador", Simón Bolívar[251]
- Callas Forever (2002) – biographical drama film centring on the making of a movie of Georges Bizet's Carmen[252]
- Catch Me If You Can (2002) – biographical crime drama film about Frank Abagnale Jr. who successfully performed cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor, and a Louisiana parish prosecutor[253]
- Champion (Korean: 챔피언) (2002) – South Korean sport drama film about South Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim[254]
- Chicago (2002) – musical black comedy crime film loosely based on two unrelated 1924 court cases involving two women, Beulah Annan (the inspiration for Roxie Hart) and Belva Gaertner (the inspiration for Velma), who were both suspected and later acquitted of murder, whom Maurine Dallas Watkins had covered for the Chicago Tribune as a reporter[255]
- Chopin: Desire for Love (Polish: Chopin. Pragnienie miłości) (2002) – Polish biographical film based on the life story of the Polish pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin[256]
- City by the Sea (2002) – crime drama film based on the story of Vincent LaMarca[257]
- City of God (Portuguese: Cidade de Deus) (2002) – Brazilian epic crime film depicting the growth of organized crime in the Cidade de Deus suburb of Rio de Janeiro, between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1980s, loosely based on real events[258]
- The Clay Bird (Bengali: মাটির ময়না) (2002) – Bangladeshi war drama film about Tareque Masud's childhood experiences against the backdrop of 1969 Mass uprising in East Pakistan on the eve of Bangladesh Liberation War[259]
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) – biographical spy film depicting the fictional life of game show host and producer Chuck Barris[260]
- Conviction (2002) – American-Canadian biographical television film about Carl Upchurch, a hardcore felon who managed to educate himself and developed a spiritual awakening during one of his numerous stints inside prison[261]
- Copenhagen (2002) – British drama television film concerning a meeting between the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen in 1941 to discuss their work and past friendship, and also revolving around Heisenberg's role in the German atomic bomb program during World War II[262]
- Crossed Over (2002) – Canadian drama television film telling the true story of the deep and healing friendship between a grieving mother, Beverly Lowry, and death row inmate, Karla Faye Tucker[263]
- Dahmer (2002) – crime drama film based on the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer, a serial killer, who killed seventeen young men and boys in Bath, Ohio and Milwaukee, Wisconsin between 1978 and 1991[264]
- Door to Door (2002) – drama television film about Bill Porter, an inspiring and successful door-to-door salesman with cerebral palsy[265]
- Double Teamed (2002) – family sport drama television film based on the life stories of identical twin professional basketball players Heather and Heidi Burge[266]
- Drunk on Women and Poetry (Korean: 치화선) (2002) – South Korean biographical drama film about Jang Seung-eop (commonly known by his pen name, Owon), a nineteenth-century Korean painter who changed the direction of Korean art[267]
- The Embalmer (Italian: L'imbalsamatore) (2002) – Italian film noir drama film about a solitary embalmer meets a charming and unemployed waiter who becomes his assistant, based on real events[268]
- The Enclave (Dutch: De Enclave) (2002) – Dutch biographical miniseries about the fall of Srebrenica and the Dutch government's failure to protect the town from attackers[269]
- Evelyn (2002) – Irish drama film based on the true story of Desmond Doyle and his fight in the Irish courts to be reunited with his children[270]
- Facing the Truth (Danish: At kende sandheden) (2002) – Danish drama film based on the real life of Nils Malmros' father[271]
- The Falklands Play (2002) – British war drama television film depicting the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War[272]
- Fidel (2002) – biographical drama miniseries describing the Cuban revolution and political career of Fidel Castro[273]
- Frida (2002) – biographical drama film depicting the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican artist Frida Kahlo[274]
- Führer Ex (2002) – German historical drama film based on former neo-nazi Ingo Hasselbach's autobiographical experiences[275]
- Gada Meilin (Mandarin: 嘎達梅林) (2002) – Chinese adventure drama film telling the story of Inner Mongolian hero Gada Meiren, who led a failed rebellion at the beginning of the 1930s against dispossession of Mongol banner lands by Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Xueliang[276]
- Gangs of New York (2002) – historical drama film detailing the rise and fall of 19th century gangs in New York City, prior to the domination of the Italian-American Mafia during Prohibition in the 1920s[277]
- The Gathering Storm (2002) – American-British biographical television film about Winston Churchill in the years just prior to World War II[278]
- Gerry (2002) – drama film inspired by the events surrounding the death of David Coughlin, who was killed after he and a friend became lost in Rattlesnake Canyon in New Mexico[279]
- Gleason (2002) – American-Canadian biographical television film following the life of Jackie Gleason[280]
- Gotta Kick It Up! (2002) – family drama television film based on a true story of a middle school dance team[281]
- Harold Shipman: Doctor Death (2002) – British crime drama television film about the life and crimes of serial killer Harold Shipman[282]
- Hason Raja (Bengali: হাছন রাজা) (2002) – Bangladeshi biographical drama film about poet and philosopher of Bangladesh Hason Raja[283]
- Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay (2002) – American-Canadian biographical comedy drama television film based on the true story of a corporate war in the mid-1990s between cosmetics queen Mary Kay Ash and an ambitious newcomer, Jinger Heath, who launches a rival company[284]
- House of Fools (Russian: Дом дураков) (2002) – Russian biographical drama film about psychiatric patients and combatants during the First Chechen War[285]
- Jean Duceppe (2002) – Canadian French-language biographical miniseries telling the story of Jean Duceppe, a Canadian actor, and chronicled his life, in particular his work in theatre and struggle for Quebec independence[286]
- Jeffrey Archer: The Truth (2002) – British comedy drama television film based on the life of Jeffrey Archer[287]
- Joe and Max (2002) – American-German sport drama film based on the true story of the two boxing matches between American Joe Louis and German Max Schmeling[288]
- John XXIII: The Pope of Peace (Italian: Papa Giovanni - Ioannes XXIII) (2002) – Italian biographical drama television film based on real life events of Roman Catholic Pope John XXIII[289]
- Julius Caesar (2002) – American-Italian-Dutch-German historical miniseries dramatizing the life of Julius Caesar from 82 BC to his death in 44 BC[290]
- The Junction Boys (2002) – sport drama television film about the Junction Boys, the "survivors" of Texas A&M Aggies football coach Bear Bryant's brutal 10-day summer camp in Junction, Texas, beginning September 1, 1954[291]
- K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) – American-British-German-Canadian historical submarine film about the first Soviet ballistic missile nuclear submarine, the K-19[292]
- Kedma (Hebrew: קדמה) (2002) – Cinema of Israel historical film set during the opening stages of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, following the fate of a group of refugees from the Holocaust who are illegally brought to Israel by the Palmach[293]
- Kumamoto Stories (Japanese: 熊本物語) (2002) – Japanese historical anthology film containing three short films produced between 1998 and 2002 presenting legends about the history of Kumamoto Prefecture[294]
- Lapu-Lapu (2002) – Filipino historical drama film based on the 1521 encounter of Lapu-Lapu and other pre-Hispanic Philippine natives with explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew, who were serving the Spanish Empire[295]
- The Laramie Project (2002) – crime drama film telling the story of the aftermath of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming[296]
- Last Call (2002) – American-Canadian biographical drama film about the last months of F. Scott Fitzgerald's life[297]
- The Legend of Bhagat Singh (Hindi: द लेजेंड ऑफ़ भगत सिंह) (2002) – Indian Hindi-langauge biographical historical film about Bhagat Singh, a revolutionary who fought for Indian independence along with fellow members of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association[298]
- The Life of Aleksis Kivi (Finnish: Aleksis Kiven elämä) (2002) – Finnish biographical drama film telling the story of Aleksis Kivi, the national writer of Finland[299]
- Lilya 4-ever (2002) – Swedish-Danish crime drama film loosely based on the true case of Danguolė Rasalaitė[300]
- Live from Baghdad (2002) – war drama television film about CNN producer Robert Wiener's experiences before the Persian Gulf War, which lasted from August 1990 to February 1991[301]
- Madame Satã (2002) – Brazilian-French biographical drama film telling the story of Madame Satã[302]
- The Magdalene Sisters (2002) – British-Irish biographical drama film about three teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene asylums (also known as Magdalene laundries), homes for women who were labelled as "fallen" by their families or society[303]
- The Man Who Saved Christmas (2002) – family biographical drama film based on the true story about the efforts of toymaker Alfred Carlton Gilbert of the A. C. Gilbert Company to continue making toys during World War I[304]
- Martin and Lewis (2002) – biographical television film exploring the lives of the comedy team of Martin and Lewis[305]
- Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story (2002) – American-Canadian biographical television film based on the story of Robert Hanssen, who was charged with and convicted of selling American secrets to the Soviet Union[306]
- The Matthew Shepard Story (2002) – American-Canadian biographical crime television film based on the true story of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay youth who was murdered in 1998[307]
- Monday Night Mayhem (2002) – drama television film about the origin of ABC's television series Monday Night Football[308]
- Mondays in the Sun (Spanish: Los lunes al sol) (2002) – Spanish-French-Italian drama film depicting the degrading effects of unemployment on a group of men left jobless by the closure of the shipyards in Vigo, Galicia[309]
- The Mothman Prophecies (2002) – supernatural horror film claiming to be based on actual events that occurred between November 1966 and December 1967 in Point Pleasant[310]
- Muhammad: The Last Prophet (2002) – American-Egyptian-Lebanese animated religious epic focusing on the early days of Islam and Muhammad[311]
- Murder in Greenwich (2002) – crime television film telling the story of Martha Moxley, a 15 year old girl who was murdered in Greenwich, Connecticut in the 1970's[312]
- Napoléon (2002) – French-Canadian historical miniseries exploring the life of Napoleon Bonaparte[313]
- Nightstalker (2002) – crime horror film about American serial killer, serial rapist, and burglar Richard Ramirez[314]
- Our America (2002) – drama television film depicting the true story of two African-American teen radio reporters and their documentary investigation of a notorious child murder[315]
- Paid in Full (2002) – crime drama film based on the 1980s Harlem drug dealers Azie "AZ" Faison, Rich Porter, and Alpo Martinez[316]
- Path to War (2002) – biographical television film dealing directly with the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson and his cabinet members[317]
- The Pennsylvania Miners' Story (2002) – biographical drama television film based on the real events occurred at the Quecreek Mine[318]
- Perlasca, an Italian Hero (Italian: Perlasca – Un eroe Italiano) (2002) – Italian biographical drama film about Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian businessman working in Hungary for his government[319]
- The Pianist (2002) – biographical war drama film about the life of Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman, a Holocaust survivor[320]
- Point of Origin (2002) – biographical crime television film detailing an account of the true story of the convicted serial arsonist John Leonard Orr[321]
- Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) – Australian drama film loosely based on a true story concerning Doris Pilkington Garimara's mother Molly Craig, as well as two other Aboriginal girls, Daisy Kadibil and Gracie, who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth, Western Australia, to return to their Aboriginal families, after being placed there in 1931[322]
- RFK (2002) – historical drama television film taking place through the eyes of Robert F. Kennedy after his brother John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963[323]
- The Road from Coorain (2002) – biographical drama television film based on Australian writer Jill Ker Conway's celebrated autobiography about a heroic and ambitious woman's struggle for independence, and her complex relationship with her mother[324]
- The Rookie (2002) – sport drama film based on the true story of Jim Morris who debuted in Major League Baseball at age 35[325]
- The Rosa Parks Story (2002) – biographical drama television film about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955[326]
- Safe Conduct (French: Laissez-passer) (2002) – French historical drama film based on the memories of the veteran French director Jean Devaivre, active in the film industry and the resistance during the Second World War[327]
- Savage Messiah (French: Moïse, l’affaire Roch Thériault) (2002) – Canadian thriller drama film dramatizing the real-life story of Roch "Moïse" Thériault, a cult leader who was arrested in Burnt River, Ontario, in 1989[328]
- Shackleton (2002) – British historical drama film telling the true story of Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition on the ship Endurance[329]
- Shaheed-E-Azam (Hindi: शहीद-ए-आजम) (2002) – Indian Hindi-language biographical film based upon the life of Shaheed Bhagat Singh[330]
- Sightings: Heartland Ghost (2002) – drama television film based on the TV series Sightings and inspired by true events[331]
- Silent Night (2002) – Canadian war drama television film set on Christmas Eve in 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge of World War II, loosely based on true events[332]
- Sins of the Father (2002) – crime drama television film based on an article by Pamela Colloff published in the April 2000 issue of Texas Monthly, chronicling the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, in which four young African-American girls were killed while attending Sunday school[333]
- Song of the Miraculous Hind (Hungarian: Ének a csodaszarvasról) (2002) – Hungarian animated historical film telling the story of the Hungarian people, from the creation of the first humans to the time of Prince Géza, when the nation was Christianized[334]
- The Soul Keeper (Italian: Prendimi l'anima; French: L'âme en jeu) (2002) – Italian-French-British romantic drama film loosely based on real life events of Russian psychoanalyst and physician Sabina Spielrein and notably on her therapeutic and sentimental relationship with fellow psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung[335]
- St. Francis (Italian: Francesco) (2002) – Italian drama television film based on real life events of Roman Catholic Friar and then Saint Francis of Assisi[336]
- The Star (Russian: Звезда) (2002) – Russian historical war film about a group of Soviet scouts working behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration in World War II[337]
- Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story (2002) – Canadian drama television film based on a true story about Jonathan Wamback who, in 1999, was beaten by a group of teenagers and left to die near his Newmarket home[338]
- Ted Bundy (2002) – American-British biographical crime thriller film dramatizing the crimes of Ted Bundy, an American serial killer who raped and murdered dozens of women and girls throughout the United States during the 1970s[339]
- Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story (2002) – Canadian crime thriller television film based on the 1946-47 murder trial of Evelyn Dick that remains a lurid murder case in Canadian history[340]
- Trudeau (2002) – Canadian biographical drama miniseries dramatizing the life of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau[341]
- Two Men Went to War (2002) – British war comedy drama film based on a true World War II story, from Raymond Foxall's book Amateur Commandos which describes the adventures of two army dental corps soldiers who sneak off on their own personal invasion of France[342]
- Vampire Clan (2002) – horror drama film based on the horrific true story of the 1996 "Vampire Killings" in Florida[343]
- Video Voyeur (2002) – drama television film based on the real-life story of Susan Wilson, a Louisiana woman, who was videotaped in her own home by a neighbor[344]
- Warning: Parental Advisory (2002) – drama television film based on the formation of the Parents Music Resource Center and its impact on music during 1985[345]
- We Were Soldiers (2002) – American-German-French war film dramatizing the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965[346]
- When the Last Sword Is Drawn (Japanese: 壬生義士伝) (2002) – Japanese historical drama film telling the story of two Shinsengumi samurai, loosely based on real historical events[347]
- Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story (2002) – biographical drama television film telling the true story of Clarence Brandley, who was wrongly convicted for the rape and murder of Cheryl Dee Fergeson in 1981[348]
- Windtalkers (2002) – war drama film based on the real story of Navajo code talkers during World War II[349]
- Yossi & Jagger (Hebrew: יוסי וג'אגר) (2002) – Israeli romantic drama film about soldiers at the Israel–Lebanon border who try to find some peace and solace from the daily routine of war[350]
2003
- 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003) – crime action television film depicting a dramatization of the 1997 North Hollywood shootout[351]
- A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster (2003) – drama television film based on a true story about criminal Andrew Luster[352]
- Alltag (2003) – Turkish-German drama film depicting life in the neighborhood of Kreuzberg[353]
- America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story (2003) – biographical television film about John F. Kennedy Jr.[354]
- American Splendor (2003) – biographical comedy drama film about Harvey Pekar, the author of the American Splendor comic book series[355]
- An Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was a God (Polish: Stara baśń: Kiedy słońce było bogiem) (2003) – Polish historical film about the legendary 9th-century ruler of two proto-Polish tribes (the Goplans and West Polans), Popiel[356]
- Anastasia Slutskaya (Belarusian: Анастасія Слуцкая) (2003) – Belarusian historical film about Princess Anastasia Slutskaya[357]
- And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003) – Western drama television film about Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution[358]
- Autumn in Warsaw (Japanese: ワルシャワの秋) (2003) – Japanese drama television film based on actual events of 1922, when the cooperation of the Polish Committee of Rescue of Children from the Far East, and the Japanese Red Cross Society led to the transportation of Polish orphans from Russian Siberia to Japan, before they could have been relocated to Poland[359]
- Baadasssss! (2003) – biographical drama film based on the struggles of Melvin Van Peebles, as he attempts to film and distribute Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, a film that was widely credited with showing Hollywood that a viable African-American audience existed, and thus influencing the creation of the Blaxploitation genre[360]
- Bad Boys (Finnish: Pahat pojat) (2003) – Finnish crime drama film based on the story of a notorious real-life family of criminals known as "the Daltons of Eura"[361]
- Beautiful Boxer (Thai: บิวตี้ฟูล บ๊อกเซอร์) (2003) – Thai biographical sports film telling the life story of Parinya Charoenphol, a famous kathoey, Muay Thai fighter, actress and model[362]
- Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company (2003) – comedy drama television film documenting the success of the sitcom Three's Company, as well as the interpersonal conflicts that occurred among its staff and cast[363]
- Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor (2003) – historical drama television film portraying the career of Benedict Arnold in the American Revolutionary War and his dramatic switch in 1780 from fighting for American Independence to being a Loyalist trying to preserve British rule in America[364]
- Blind Flight (2003) – British prison drama film based on the true-life story of the kidnapping and imprisonment of the Irish academic Brian Keenan and the English journalist John McCarthy, two of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis[365]
- Bolívar the Hero (Spanish: Bolívar el héroe) (2003) – Colombian animated biographical film about the life of Simon Bolivar[366]
- Boudica (2003) – British historical television film about the queen of the Iceni tribe, Boudica[367]
- The Brides in the Bath (2003) – British crime television film based on the life and trial of British serial killer and bigamist George Joseph Smith, the "Brides in the Bath Murderer"[368]
- Byron (2003) – British biographical television film based on the adult life of English poet Lord Byron[369]
- Calendar Girls (2003) – British comedy film based on a true story of a group of middle-aged Yorkshire women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for Leukaemia Research (now Blood Cancer UK) under the auspices of the Women's Institutes in April 1999 after the husband of one of their members dies from cancer[370]
- Cambridge Spies (2003) – British historical miniseries based on the true story of four brilliant young men at the University of Cambridge who are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in 1934[371]
- Catharisis (Japanese: カタルシス) (2003) – Japanese crime drama television film about a 14-year-old boy murders a young girl in the suburbs of Tokyo, based on a true story[372]
- Charles II: The Power and the Passion (2003) – British historical miniseries covering the life of Charles II – beginning just before his Restoration to the throne in 1660[373]
- Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death (2003) – British historical television film which tells the true story of Verus, a gladiator who fought at the Colosseum in Rome[374]
- Conspiracy of Silence (2003) – British drama film challenging celibacy and its implication for the Catholic Church in the 21st century, inspired by real events[375]
- The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003) – biographical drama television film depicting the rise and fall of the Enron company, as seen from the perspective of employee Brian Cruver, based on his book[376]
- The Cruelest Day (Italian: Ilaria Alpi - Il più crudele dei giorni) (2003) – Italian drama film dramatizing the last days of life of RAI journalist Ilaria Alpi and of her cameraman Miran Hrovatin before they were killed in Mogadishu, Somalia, on March 20, 1994[377]
- Danielle Cable: Eyewitness (2003) – British crime drama television film based upon the murder of Stephen Cameron by Kenneth Noye in a road rage incident in 1996[378]
- Danny Deckchair (2003) – Australian comedy film inspired by the story of the Lawnchair Larry flight[379]
- D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear (2003) – crime drama television film based on the Beltway sniper attacks of 2002[380]
- DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (2003) – biographical drama television film re-enacting the events of the September 11 attacks in 2001 as seen from the point of view of the President of the United States and his staff[381]
- Deacons for Defense (2003) – drama television film loosely based on the activities of the Deacons for Defense and Justice in 1965 in Bogalusa, Louisiana[382]
- The Deal (2003) – British political drama television film depicting the Blair–Brown deal, a well-documented pact that Tony Blair and Gordon Brown made, whereby Brown would not stand in the 1994 Labour leadership election so that Blair could have a clear run at becoming leader of the party and later Prime Minister[383]
- El Cid: The Legend (Spanish: El Cid, la leyenda) (2003) – Spanish animated historical drama film based on the story of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, also known as El Cid[384]
- Elephant (2003) – psychological drama film chronicling the events surrounding a school shooting, based in part on the 1999 Columbine High School massacre[385]
- The Elizabeth Smart Story (2003) – crime drama television film about the high-profile Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case[386]
- Eroica (2003) – British historical television film dramatizing the first performance of Beethoven's third symphony, the Eroica[387]
- Escape from Taliban (Hindi: तालिबान से बचो; Urdu: طالبان سے فرار) (2003) – Indian Hindi- and Urdu-language biographical war film based on the story A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife by Sushmita Banerjee, who fled Afghanistan in 1995 after six years of living there with her Afghan husband[388]
- Evil (Swedish: Ondskan) (2003) – Swedish drama film based on Jan Guillou's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name[389]
- Ferrari (2003) – Italian biographical drama film depicting Enzo Ferrari's rise from a successful race driver to one of the most famous entrepreneurs of all time[390]
- Flying Saucers (Spanish: Platillos volantes) (2003) – Spanish comedy drama film based on a true story of how two decapitated corpses are found on the train tracks near Terrassa together with a note reading "The extraterrestrials are calling us. We belong to infinity"[391]
- Frankie and Johnny Are Married (2003) – comedy film chronicling the troubles a producer has trying to mount a production of the Terrence McNally play Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune[392]
- Full-Court Miracle (2003) – family sport drama television film inspired by the true story of University of Virginia Cavaliers basketball star Lamont Carr[393]
- Gacy (2003) – crime thriller film based on the crimes of John Wayne Gacy, an American serial killer who raped, tortured, and murdered at least thirty-three men and boys in Chicago, Illinois during the 1970s[394]
- Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) – British-American-Luxembourgian historical drama film presenting a fictional account of Johannes Vermeer, the model and the painting[395]
- Godforsaken (Dutch: Van God Los) (2003) – Dutch drama film based on the real life of the “Gang from Venlo”, that left a trail of death and destruction in the North-Middle Limburg area from 1993 till 1994[396]
- Gods and Generals (2003) – epic war drama film following the story of Stonewall Jackson from the beginning of the American Civil War to his death at the Battle of Chancellorsville[397]
- Going for Broke (2003) – Canadian-American crime drama television film based on the true story of former Juvenile Diabetes Foundation charity director Gina Garcia, who from 1993 to 1997 fraudulently issued cheques from the charity to herself in order to funnel money into her bank account for her compulsive gambling addiction, after which she was arrested, resulting in legislation that required that casinos and other gaming establishments in the state of Nevada have a telephone number posted for gambling addiction services[398]
- The Good Pope: Pope John XXIII (Italian: Il Papa Buono) (2003) – Italian biographical television film based on real life events of Pope John XXIII[399]
- The Gospel of John (2003) – British-Canadian-American Christian epic drama film recounting the life of Jesus according to the Gospel of John[400]
- Grand Theft Parsons (2003) – American-British comedy drama film based on the true story of country rock musician Gram Parsons, who died of an overdose in 1973[401]
- Haggard: The Movie (2003) – comedy film based on the story of how reality television personality Ryan Dunn's girlfriend may have cheated on him[402]
- Henry VIII (2003) – British historical biographical miniseries chronicling the life of Henry VIII of England from the disintegration of his first marriage to an aging Spanish princess until his death following a stroke in 1547, by which time he had married for the sixth time[403]
- High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story (2003) – biographical drama film focusing on the life of American professional poker and gin player Stu Ungar[404]
- Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003) – Canadian war drama miniseries exploring Adolf Hitler's rise and his early consolidation of power during the years after the First World War and focusing on how the embittered, politically fragmented and economically buffeted state of German society following the war made that ascent possible[405]
- Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003) – biographical drama television film based on the true story of Liz Murray who is notable for having been accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years[406]
- I Accuse (2003) – Canadian crime drama film based on the case of John Schneeberger, a Canadian doctor convicted of using drugs to rape two patients[407]
- Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole (2003) – biographical survival television film telling the true story of the cancer-stricken physician Dr. Jerri Nielsen who was stranded at a South Pole research station who the help of co-workers, had to treat her own illness[408]
- Imperium: Augustus (2003) – British-Italian historical television film telling the life story of Octavian and how he became Augustus[409]
- In Search of Janáček (Czech: Hledání Janáčka) (2003) – Czech biographical film about the life of composer Leoš Janáček[410]
- Jagged Harmonies: Bach vs. Frederick II (German: Mein Name ist Bach) – German-Swiss historical biographical film about how a battle of egos ensued when Johann Sebastian Bach and Frederick the Great met[411]
- Jasper, Texas (2003) – crime drama television film based on a true story and focusing on the aftermath of a crime in which three white men from the small town of Jasper, Texas, killed African American James Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind their pickup truck[412]
- The Lion in Winter (2003) – historical drama television film depicting the personal and political conflicts of Henry II of England, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, their children and their guests during Christmas 1183[413]
- LOC: Kargil (Hindi: एलओसी: कारगिल) (2003) – Indian Hindi-language historical war film based on the Indian Army's successful Operation Vijay that was launched in May 1999 in the wake of the Pakistani intrusion and occupation of the strategic heights in the Kargil sector to flush out the Pakistani intruders from the Indian side of the Line of Control[414]
- Looking for Victoria (2003) – British historical drama television film based on the life of Queen Victoria[415]
- The Lost Prince (2003) – British historical drama miniseries about the life of Prince John – youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary – who died at the age of 13 in 1919[416]
- Lucy (2003) – biographical drama television film based on the life and career of actress and comedian Lucille Ball[417]
- Luther (2003) – historical drama film dramatizing the life of Protestant Christian reformer Martin Luther[418]
- Maria Goretti (2003) – Italian biographical drama television film based on real life events of Catholic virgin martyr and saint Maria Goretti[419]
- Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart (2003) – biographical drama television film depicting the life of Martha Stewart starting from her life in New Jersey to the scandal behind her arrest[420]
- Memories of Murder (Korean: 살인의 추억) (2003) – South Korean crime thriller film loosely based on the Hwaseong serial murders, which took place between 1986 and 1991 in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi[421]
- The Middle of the World (Portuguese: O Caminho das Nuvens) (2003) – Brazilian drama film based on the true story of Cícero Ferreira Dias, a former truck driver who took his family from Paraíba to Rio de Janeiro in search of a "R$1,000 job"[422]
- The Miracle of Bern (German: Das Wunder von Bern) (2003) – German sport drama film about the unexpected West German miracle victory in the 1954 World Cup Final in Bern, Switzerland[423]
- Monsieur N. (2003) – British-French historical drama film telling the story of the last years of the life of the Emperor Napoléon, who was imprisoned by the British on St Helena[424]
- Monster (2003) – biographical crime drama film following serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a street prostitute who murdered seven of her male clients between 1989 and 1990 and was executed in Florida in 2002[425]
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Italian: Madre Teresa) (2003) – Italian biographical television film based on the life of Mother Teresa, the founder of the Missionaries of Charity religious institute[426]
- Naked Ambition (Cantonese: 豪情) (2003) – Hong Kong comedy film set in the world of Hong Kong's pornography and prostitution business and based on a true story[427]
- Ned Kelly (2003) – Australian bushranger film dramatizing the life of Ned Kelly, a legendary bushranger and outlaw who was active mostly in the colony of Victoria[428]
- The Night We Called It a Day (2003) – Australian-American comedy drama film based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's 1974 tour in Australia[429]
- Open Water (2003) – survival thriller film loosely based on the true story of Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who in 1998 went out with a scuba diving group, Outer Edge Dive Company, on the Great Barrier Reef, and were accidentally left behind because the dive-boat crew failed to take an accurate headcount[430]
- Osama (Dari: اُسامه) (2003) – Afghan drama film following a preteen girl living in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime who disguises herself as a boy, Osama, to support her family, inspired by a news story Siddiq Barmak read while in Peshawar, Pakistan[431]
- The Other Boleyn Girl (2003) –British biographical drama television film centring around courtier Mary Boleyn and her sister Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII, King of England, and their competition for his affections[432]
- Out of the Ashes (2003) – biographical drama television film depicting a dramatization of the life of Holocaust concentration camp survivor Gisella Perl[433]
- Owning Mahowny (2003) – Canadian biographical crime film based on the true story of Brian Molony, a Toronto bank employee who embezzled more than $10 million to feed his gambling addiction[434]
- Paanch (Hindi: पाँच) (2003) – Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film loosely based on the 1976–77 Joshi-Abhyankar serial murders in Pune[435]
- Paradise Found (2003) – biographical drama film based on the life of post-impressionist painter Paul Gauguin[436]
- Party Monster (2003) – biographical crime drama film telling the story of the rise and fall of the infamous New York City party promoter Michael Alig[437]
- The Pentagon Papers (2003) – historical drama television film about Daniel Ellsberg and the events leading up to the publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971[438]
- Pompeii: The Last Day (2003) – British historical drama television film dramatizing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius towards the end of August , 79 AD[439]
- Poor Poor Paul (Russian: Бедный, бедный Павел) (2003) – Russian historical drama film about Czar Paul I of Russia[440]
- The Postcard Bandit (2003) – Australian crime drama television film loosely based on the life of a convicted bank robber Brenden James Abbott[441]
- The Private Life of Samuel Pepys (2003) – British historical comedy film portraying historical diarist Samuel Pepys[442]
- Radio (2003) – biographical sport drama film based on the true story of T. L. Hanna High School football coach Harold Jones and a young man with an intellectual disability, James Robert "Radio" Kennedy[443]
- The Reagans (2003) – biographical drama television film about U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his family[444]
- Remake (2003) – Bosnian war film about a father living in Sarajevo during World War II and his son living through the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, based on incidents which occurred in the life of Zlatko Topčić[445]
- Right on Track (2003) – family sport drama film based on Courtney and Erica Enders, two sisters who get into junior drag racing and make it all the way to the top[446]
- Rosenstrasse (2003) – German historical drama film dealing with the Rosenstrasse protest of 1943[447]
- Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (2003) – biographical drama television film depicting the life of Rudy Giuliani, focusing primarily on his mayoral career and response to the September 11 attacks[448]
- Saints and Soldiers (2003) – war drama film loosely based on events that took place after the Malmedy massacre during the Battle of the Bulge[449]
- Salem Witch Trials (2003) – American-Canadian historical drama miniseries depicting a dramatization of the Salem witch trials[450]
- Saving Jessica Lynch (2003) – biographical drama television film beginning with the ambush of Jessica Lynch's convoy in the middle of an Iraqi city and following a version of events that credits an Iraqi citizen, Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief, with being responsible for helping to arrange a daring rescue by US special operations forces[451]
- Seabiscuit (2003) – sport drama film based on the life and racing career of Seabiscuit, an undersized and overlooked Thoroughbred race horse, whose unexpected successes made him a hugely popular media sensation in the United States during the Great Depression[452]
- Secret File (Italian: Segreti di Stato) (2003) – Italian historical drama film depicting a fictional investigation about the Portella della Ginestra massacre[453]
- Shattered Glass (2003) – American-Canadian biographical drama film about journalist Stephen Glass and his scandal at The New Republic[454]
- Sibelius (2003) – Finnish biographical drama film about Jean Sibelius[455]
- Silmido (Korean: 실미도) (2003) – South Korean action drama film based on the true story of Unit 684[456]
- Singing Behind Screens (Italian: Cantando dietro i paraventi) (2003) – Italian adventure drama film loosely inspired to real life events of Chinese pirate Ching Shih[457]
- Soldier's Girl (2003) – biographical drama film based on a story of the relationship between Barry Winchell and Calpernia Addams and the events that led up to Barry's murder by a fellow soldier[458]
- Song for a Raggy Boy (2003) – Irish historical drama film telling the true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland[459]
- Spinning Boris (2003) – comedy film claiming to be based on the true story of three American political consultants who worked for the successful reelection campaign of Boris Yeltsin in 1996[460]
- Spy Sorge (Japanese: スパイ・ゾルゲ) (2003) – Japanese biographical film about the Soviet spy Richard Sorge[461]
- Stander (2003) – South African biographical drama film about Captain André Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber[462]
- Stealing Rembrandt (2003) – Danish crime comedy film relating to the 1999 theft of one of Rembrandt's paintings from the poorly protected Nivaagaard Samlingen in Nivå in Denmark[463]
- Stealing Sinatra (2003) – drama television film telling the story of the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra, Jr. by Barry Keenan[464]
- Swimming Upstream (2003) – Australian biographical drama film showing the life of Tony Fingleton from childhood to adulthood, and dealing with a topsy-turvy family[465]
- Sylvia (2003) – British biographical romantic drama film based on the real-life romance between prominent poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes[466]
- Tere Naam (Hindi: तेरे नाम) (2003) – Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film based on a real-life incident of a friend of Bala's, who had fallen in love, lost his mind and ended up at a mental asylum[467]
- To Kill a King (2003) – British historical drama film centring on the relationship between Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax in the post-war period from 1648 until the former's death, in 1658[468]
- Touching the Void (2003) – British survival drama film concerning Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' near-fatal descent after making the first successful ascent of the West Face of Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes, in 1985[469]
- Veronica Guerin (2003) – American-Irish-British biographical crime film focusing on Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her murder in 1996, at the age of 37[470]
- Wonderland (2003) – crime drama film based on the real-life Wonderland Murders that occurred in 1981[471]
2004
- 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (2004) – biographical drama television film about the life and death of legendary NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt[472]
- The 7th Day (Spanish: El 7º día) (2004) – Spanish-French drama film based on the Puerto Hurraco massacre[473]
- 12 Days of Terror (2004) – South African biographical horror film revolving around the 1916 Jersey shark attacks, as recounted in the book of the same name by Richard Fernicola, in which a juvenile great white shark begins a series of attacks that takes place of the course of 12 days in New Jersey[474]
- 18-J (2004) – Argentine anthology drama film focusing on the July 18, 1994, bombing of the AMIA Building in Buenos Aires, where 86 people were killed and 300 others wounded[475]
- 36 (French: 36 Quai des Orfèvres) (2004) – French action thriller film loosely inspired from real events which occurred during the 1980s in France known as the gang des postiches arrest[476]
- 100 Minutes of Glory (Croatian: Sto minuta Slave) (2004) – Croatian biographical drama film telling the story of Slava Raškaj, a turn-of-the-century artist, often described as Croatian Frida Kahlo[477]
- A Bear Named Winnie (2004) – drama television film concerning one of the real-life inspirations behind A.A. Milne's Winnie The Pooh[478]
- Against the Ropes (2004) – sport drama film depicting a fictionalized account of boxing manager Jackie Kallen, the first woman to achieve success in the sport[479]
- The Alamo (2004) – war historical drama film about the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution[480]
- Alexander (2004) – epic historical drama film based on the life of the ancient Macedonian general and king Alexander the Great[481]
- The Aryan Couple (2004) – British-American historical drama film loosely based on the life events of Hungarian Jewish industrialist Manfred Weiss and his Manfréd Weiss Steel and Metal Works[482]
- The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) – American-Mexican crime drama film depicting the story of would-be assassin Samuel Byck, who plotted to kill Richard Nixon in 1974[483]
- The Aviator (2004) – American-German epic biographical film depicting the story of aviator Howard Hughes[484]
- Ay Juancito (2004) – Argentine biographical drama film about the life of Juan Duarte, Eva Perón's brother and a political officer during Juan Domingo Perón's first presidency[485]
- Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels (2004) – biographical drama television film documenting the success of the series Charlie's Angels, as well as the interpersonal conflicts that occurred among its staff and cast[486]
- Bettie Page: Dark Angel (2004) – biographical drama film based on the career of Bettie Page, a famous American 1950s pin-up and bondage model[487]
- Beyond the Front Line (Finnish: Etulinjan edessä) (2004) – Finnish war film based on the diaries of Swedish-speaking Finnish soldiers who served in the Continuation War in 1942–1944[488]
- Beyond the Sea (2004) – biographical musical drama film based on the life of singer-actor Bobby Darin[489]
- Bittersweet Memories (French: Ma vie en cinémascope) (2004) – Canadian French-language biographical drama film depicting the career of Quebec singer Alys Robi[490]
- Black Friday (Hindi: ब्लैक फ्राइडे) (2004) – Indian Hindi-language crime drama film about the 1993 Bombay bombings, chronicling the events that led to the blasts and the subsequent police investigation[491]
- The Blue Butterfly (French: Le papillon bleu) (2004) – Canadian adventure drama film based on the life of David Marenger and his trip with entomologist Georges Brossard in 1987[492]
- Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004) – biographical sport drama film based on the life of golfer Bobby Jones, the only player in the sport to win all four of the men's major golf championships in a single season[493]
- Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss (2004) – biographical drama television film about the life of Heidi Fleiss[494]
- The Captives (2004) – historical war film based on the true story of Mary Draper Ingles and her struggles during the French-Indian War[495]
- Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop (Portuguese: Cazuza: O Tempo Não Pára) (2004) – Brazilian biographical musical drama film about the life of singer Cazuza[496]
- The Chorus (French: Les Choristes) (2004) – French-German-Swiss musical drama film inspired by the origin of the boys' choir the Little Singers of Paris[497]
- Chrysalis (Hindi: काया तारन) (2004) – Indian Hindi-language action drama film set against the backdrop of 2002 Gujarat riots against Muslims and 1984 anti-Sikh riots[498]
- The Clearing (2004) – thriller drama film loosely based on the real life kidnapping of Gerrit Jan Heijn that took place in the Netherlands in 1987[499]
- Clouds After Cloud (Bengali: মেঘের পরে মেঘ) (2004) – Bangladeshi historical war film based on the events of the Bangladesh Liberation War[500]
- Colette, A Free Woman (French: Colette, une femme libre) (2004) – French biographical miniseries exploring the life of Colette[501]
- Concrete (Japanese: コンクリート) (2004) – Japanese crime drama film based on the case of the murder of Junko Furuta[502]
- Crutch (2004) – biographical drama film about a young man's struggle with family problems and substance abuse, based on the experiences of writer-director Rob Moretti[503]
- De-Lovely (2004) – musical biographical film based on the life and career of Cole Porter, from his first meeting with his wife, Linda Lee Thomas, until his death[504]
- Downfall (German: Der Untergang) (2004) – historical war drama film set during the Battle of Berlin in World War II, when Nazi Germany is on the verge of defeat, and depicting the final days of Adolf Hitler[505]
- Drum (2004) – South African biographical film based on the life of South African investigative journalist Henry Nxumalo, who worked for Drum magazine, called "the first black lifestyle magazine in Africa"[506]
- Edelweiss Pirates (German: Edelweisspiraten) (2004) – German historical war film telling the story of a group of rebellious teenage German boys opposed to the war and Nazism, based on actual events[507]
- Evel Knievel (2004) – biographical drama film based on the life and career of Evel Knievel[508]
- Evilenko (2004) – Italian crime horror film loosely based on the Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo[509]
- Father of Mercy (Italian: Don Gnocchi - L'angelo dei bimbi) (2004) – Italian biographical television film based on real life events of Roman Catholic priest and then Blessed Carlo Gnocchi[510]
- Fighter in the Wind (Korean: 바람의 파이터) (2004) – South Korean biographical drama film depicting a fictionalized account of karate competitor Choi Yeung-Eui who went to Japan during World War II to become a fighter pilot but found a very different path instead[511]
- Finding Neverland (2004) – British-American biographical fantasy film depicting the story of Sir James Matthew Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan[512]
- First Love (Italian: Primo Amore) (2004) – Italian biographical drama film loosely based on the autobiographical novel by Marco Mariolini[513]
- Friday Night Lights (2004) – sport drama film adapted from Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger, about the 1988 football season of Permian High School in Odessa, Texas[514]
- Garden State (2004) – comedy drama film based on Zach Braff's real life experiences[515]
- Gracie's Choice (2004) – crime drama television film about a teenage girl who trues to raise her four siblings after their drug-addicted mother is sent to jail, inspired by a true story[516]
- Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004) – British historical drama television film based upon the lives of Mary, Queen of Scots and her son James VI of Scotland[517]
- The Hamburg Cell (2004) – British-Canadian biographical drama television film describing the creation of the Hamburg cell, Islamist and extremist group composed by the terrorists that piloted the airplanes hijacked during the September 11 attacks[518]
- Hawking (2004) – British biographical drama television film chronicling Stephen Hawking's early years as a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, following his search for the beginning of time, and his struggle against motor neuron disease[519]
- Helter Skelter – crime drama television film based on the 1974 non-fiction book by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry about the murders of the Manson Family[520]
- Hidalgo (2004) – American-Moroccan epic biographical Western based on the legend of the American distance rider Frank Hopkins and his mustang Hidalgo[521]
- The Hillside Strangler (2004) – horror film based on the true story of Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr., the Hillside Strangler serial killers[522]
- Hotel Rwanda (2004) – American-British-Italian-South African biographical drama film based on the Rwandan genocide, which occurred during the spring of 1994, documenting Paul Rusesabagina's efforts to save the lives of his family and more than 1,000 other refugees by providing them with shelter in the besieged Hôtel des Mille Collines[523]
- Hours of Light (Spanish: Horas de luz) (2004) – Spanish romantic prison film tracking the real life romantic relationship established in 1991 between prison nurse María del Mar "Marimar" Villar and Juan José Garfia , imprisoned because of the cold-blood murder of three in 1987[524]
- Hustle (2004) – sport drama television film about the baseball player Pete Rose, following as he gambled on Major League Baseball while managing the Cincinnati Reds, got caught and was banned from baseball for life[525]
- Identity Theft (2004) – crime drama television film based on the true story of Michelle Brown who has her identity stolen and $50,000 purchased under her name[526]
- Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004) – historical war drama television film dramatizing the 90 days leading up to Operation Overlord[527]
- Innocent Voices (Spanish: Voces inocentes) (2004) – Mexican-Salvadorian war drama film set during the Salvadoran Civil War, and based on writer Óscar Torres's childhood[528]
- Iron Jawed Angels (2004) – historical drama film focusing on the American women's suffrage movement during the 1910s and follows women's suffrage leaders Alice Paul and Lucy Burns as they use peaceful and effective nonviolent strategies, tactics, and dialogues to revolutionize the American feminist movement to grant women the right to vote[529]
- Judas (2004) – Christian drama miniseries depicting the intertwined lives of Judas Iscariot and Jesus of Nazareth[530]
- Kamaraj (Tamil: காமராஜ்) (2004) – Italian Tamil-language biographical film about the life of the Indian politician K. Kamaraj from Tamil Nadu, widely acknowledged as the "Kingmaker" in Indian politics during the 1960s[531]
- Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (Mandarin: 可可西里; Tibetan: ཨ་ཆེན་གངས་རྒྱབ།) (2004) – Chinese action drama film depicting a moving true story about volunteers protecting antelope against poachers in the severe mountains of Tibet[532]
- Killer Shikder (Bengali: খুনী শিকদার) (2004) – Bangladeshi biographical thriller film based on the life of the Bangladeshi notorious murderer Ershad Sikder[533]
- Kinsey (2004) – biographical drama film describing the life of Alfred Charles Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of sexology[534]
- The Last Shot (2004) – action comedy film loosely based on the true story of an FBI sting operation code-named Dramex which was run by FBI agent Garland Schweickhardt, who recruited aspiring screenwriters Dan Lewk and Gary Levy to participate unwittingly in a sting operation aimed at ensnaring mobsters and Teamsters union officials in a bribery scheme[535]
- The Libertine (2004) – British-Australian historical drama film chronicling the life of the decadent but brilliant [[Earl of Rochester, who is asked by King Charles II to write a play celebrating his reign, while simultaneously training Elizabeth Barry to improve her acting[536]
- The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) – British-American biographical drama television film about the life of English comedian Peter Sellers[537]
- Love (Tamil: காதல்) (2004) – Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film based on a true love story[538]
- The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (2004) – Canadian drama television film loosely based on the real-life story of Gillian Guess, who was convicted of obstruction of justice in 1998 after she became romantically involved with an accused murderer while serving as a juror at his trial[539]
- Love in Thoughts (German: Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken) (2004) – German drama film inspired by the Steglitz school tragedy of 1927[540]
- Luisa Sanfelice (2004) – Italian historical drama film about the life of Luisa Sanfelice, a young member of the Neapolitan nobility who is in love with a republican, Salvato Palmieri[541]
- Machuca (2004) – Chilean-Spanish-British-French coming-of-age drama film depicting the months leading up to the 1973 coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet[542]
- Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story (2004) – American-Canadian biographical drama television film about American pop star Michael Jackson, and following his rise to fame and subsequent events[543]
- Miracle (2004) – sport drama film about the United States men's ice hockey team, led by head coach Herb Brooks who won the gold medal in the 1980 Winter Olympics[544]
- Miracle Run (2004) – biographical drama television film about a single mother whose fraternal twin sons are both diagnosed with autism, based on a true story[545]
- Modigliani (2004) – international co-production biographical drama film based on the life of the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani[546]
- The Motorcycle Diaries (Spanish: Diarios de motocicleta) (2004) – international co-production biographical film about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would several years later become internationally known as the Marxist guerrilla leader and revolutionary leader Che Guevara[547]
- My Nikifor (Polish: Mój Nikifor) (2004) – Polish biographical drama film based on the life of Nikifor, a folk and naïve painter[548]
- The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004) – biographical drama miniseries chronicling the life and career of actress Natalie Wood from her early childhood in the 1940s until her death in 1981[549]
- Nero (2004) – British-Italian-Spanish historical television film about Emperor Nero[550]
- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (2004) – Indian English-language epic biographical war film depicting the life of the Indian Independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose in Nazi Germany: 1941–1943, and In Japanese-occupied Asia 1943–1945, and the events leading to the formation of Azad Hind Fauj[551]
- The Ninth Day (German: Der neunte Tag) (2004) – German historical drama film about a Catholic priest from Luxembourg who is imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp, but released for nine days, loosely based on Jean Bernard's prison diary[552]
- Nobody Knows (Japanese: 誰も知らない) (2004) – Japanese crime drama film based on the 1988 Sugamo child abandonment case[553]
- Not Only But Always (2004) – British biographical television film telling the story of the working and personal relationship between the comedians Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, a hugely popular duo in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s[554]
- Olga (2004) – Brazilian biographical drama film chronicling the German Jew Olga Benário Prestes' life and times[555]
- The Overture (Thai: โหมโรง) (2004) – Thai mmusical drama film based on the life story of Thai palace musician Luang Pradit Phairoh, from the late 19th century to the 1940s[556]
- The Passion of the Christ (2004) – Christian epic drama film depicting the Passion of Jesus largely according to the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John[557]
- The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story (2004) – crime drama television film based on the murder of Laci Peterson[558]
- The Preacher (Dutch: De Dominee) (2004) – Dutch thriller film based on the life of real-life drug lord Klaas Bruinsma[559]
- Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story (2004) – Canadian biographical drama television film about Marc Hall, a gay Canadian teenager whose legal fight (Marc Hall v. Durham Catholic School Board) to bring a same-sex date to his Catholic high school prom made headlines in 2002[560]
- Ray (2004) – biographical musical drama film focusing on 30 years in the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles[561]
- Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004) – biographical crime drama television film dealing with the life of Stanley Tookie Williams, the co-founding member of the Crips street gang[562]
- The Remains of Nothing (Italian: Il resto di niente) (2004) – Italian historical drama film following the travails of an idealistic noblewoman who helps lead a daring revolution in Italy[563]
- Rikidōzan (Korean: 역도산; Japanese: 力道山) (2004) – South Korean-Japanese sport drama film based on the life of Rikidōzan, a legendary ethnic Korean professional wrestler who became a national hero in Japan in the 1950s[564]
- The Riverman (2004) – biographical crime drama television film following real life incidents around how convicted infamous serial killer Ted Bundy helps detectives Robert D. Keppel and Dave Reichert by providing insights into the mind of a psychopath killer to catch then active murderer Green River Killer aka Gary Ridgway[565]
- The Rocket Post (2004) – British drama film loosely based on experiments in 1934 by the German inventor Gerhard Zucker to provide a postal service to the island of Scarp by rocket mail[566]
- Romasanta (2004) – Spanish-British-Italian horror film based on the true story of Manuel Blanco Romasanta, Spain’s first documented serial killer[567]
- Saint John Bosco: Mission to Love (2004) – Italian biographical television film based on real life events of Roman Catholic priest John Bosco[568]
- Saint Rita (Italian: Rita da Cascia) (2004) – Italian biographical drama film based on real life events of Augustinian nun and Saint Rita of Cascia[569]
- The Sea Inside (Spanish: Mar adentro) (2004) – Spanish psychological drama film based on the real-life story of Ramón Sampedro, who was left quadriplegic after a diving accident, and his 28-year campaign in support of euthanasia and the right to end his life[570]
- Shegavicha Rana Gajanan (Marathi: शेगावीचा राणा गजानन) (2004) – Indian Marathi-language biographical film about the Indian Hindu guru, saint and mystic, Gajanan Maharaj[571]
- Soba (2004) – Mexican crime film based on the true story of three girls raped by a group of cops in Tláhuac, Mexico City[572]
- Something the Lord Made (2004) – biographical drama television film about the black cardiac pioneer Vivien Thomas and his complex and volatile partnership with white surgeon Alfred Blalock, the "Blue Baby doctor" who pioneered modern heart surgery[573]
- Spartacus (2004) – biographical historical miniseries about the life of Thracian gladiator Spartacus[574]
- Stage Beauty (2004) – German-British-American romantic historical film inspired by references to 17th-century actor Edward Kynaston made in the detailed private diary kept by Samuel Pepys[575]
- Stauffenberg (2004) – German-Austrian historical television film about Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler[576]
- Suburban Madness (2004) – crime drama television film based on a true story of the Murder of David Lynn Harris[577]
- The Terminal (2004) – comedy drama film inspired by the true story of the 18-year stay of Mehran Karimi Nasseri in Terminal 1 of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, from 1988 to 2006[578]
- Through My Eyes (2004) – Australian crime drama miniseries based upon the memoirs of Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, whose nine-week-old baby Azaria was taken by a dingo from her family's tent near Uluru in Australia's remote Northern Territory[579]
- Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (Greek: Τριλογία: Το λιβάδι που δακρύζει) (2004) – Greek historical drama film telling the story of Greek history, from 1919 to the aftermath of World War II, through the sufferings of one family[580]
- Troy (2004) – American-British-Maltese epic historical war film following the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicling the fates of the men involved[581]
- The Unburied Man (Hungarian: A temetetlen halott) (2004) – Hungarian-Slovak-Polish biographical drama film based on the life of former Prime Minister of Hungary, Imre Nagy, who was executed following the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956[582]
- Utterly Alone (Lithuanian: Vienui Vieni) (2004) – Lithuanian historical film based on real events, about Juozas Lukša (code name Daumantas), a Lithuanian partisan who fought against the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in the years immediately following World War II[583]
- Virginia, The Nun of Monza (2004) – Italian-Spanish historical drama television film loosely based on real life events of Marianna de Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza", whose story was made famous by the Alessandro Manzoni's novel The Betrothed[584]
- Whisky Romeo Zulu (2004) – Argentine drama film based on the experiences of Enrique Piñeyro, former airline pilot turned whistle-blower, who became a film actor-director, and of the August 31, 1999 LAPA (Líneas Aéreas Privadas Argentinas) airline accident[585]
- Zapata (Spanish: Zapata: el sueño del héroe) (2004) – Mexican biographical drama film depicting a fictionalized portrayal of Emiliano Zapata[586]
2005
- A Friend of the Family (2005) – Canadian TV film based on Alison Shaw's 1998 book of the same name, about the true story of David Snow, the "Cottage Killer"
- Ambulance Girl (2005) – made-for-television film based on the memoir by Jane Stern, Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself by Becoming an EMT
- An American Haunting (2005) – horror film based on the novel The Bell Witch: An American Haunting by Brent Monahan, about the legend of the Bell Witch
- Aurore (2005) – biographical drama based on the murder of Aurore Gagnon, a Canadian child abuse victim
- Capote (2005) – biographical film about Truman Capote who, during his research for his book In Cold Blood, an account of the murder of a Kansas family, develops a close relationship with murderer Perry Smith
- Cinderella Man (2005) – based on the story of James J. Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who comes back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s
- Coach Carter (2005) – based on the Richmond High School basketball team led by coach Ken Carter
- Code Breakers (2005) – television film following the Heisman Trophy presentation, based on the first three chapters of the 2000 novel A Return to Glory, chronicling the 1951 cheating scandal at West Point and its impact on Army's football team, which was forced to cut loose virtually its entire squad
- David & Layla (2005) – independent film inspired by a true story of a Jew and a Muslim falling in love in New York
- Dawn Anna (2005) – television film based upon real events surrounding the Columbine High School massacre
- Devaki (2005) – Indian Hindi film based on a real-life incident where a tribal woman named Devakibai was sold in an open auction in Pandhana, a sub-division of Khandwa district in Madhya Pradesh, in January 2003
- Domino (2005) – inspired by Domino Harvey, the English daughter of stage and screen actor Laurence Harvey, who became a Los Angeles bounty hunter
- Dreamer (2005) – loosely inspired by the story of the mare Mariah's Storm, a promising filly who was being pointed towards the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies in 1993
- Duma (2005) – family drama adventure film about a young South African boy's friendship with an orphaned cheetah, based on How It Was with Dooms by Carol Cawthra Hopcraft and Xan Hopcraft
- Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure (2005) – made-for-television biographical film based on the creation and behind the scenes production of the 1980s prime time soap opera Dynasty
- End of the Spear (2005) – drama film that recounts the story of Operation Auca, in which five American Christian missionaries attempted to evangelize the Huaorani (Waodani) people of the tropical rain forest of Eastern Ecuador
- The Exonerated (2005) – television film that dramatizes the true stories of six people who have been wrongfully convicted of murder and other offenses, placed on death row, and later exonerated and freed after serving varying years in prison
- The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) – supernatural horror crime drama film loosely based on the story of Anneliese Michel and follows a self-proclaimed agnostic who acts as defense counsel representing a parish priest, accused by the state of negligent homicide after he performed an exorcism
- Faith of My Fathers (2005) – television film based on the 1999 memoir of the same name by United States Senator and former United States Navy aviator John McCain (with Mark Salter), about John McCain's experiences as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years during the Vietnam War
- Fateless (Hungarian: Sorstalanság) (2005) – Hungarian film based on the semi-autobiographical novel Fatelessness by Imre Kertész, about the story of a teenage boy who is sent to Auschwitz and Buchenwald
- Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story – television film based on Marilyn Gambrell
- Firecracker (2005) – thriller film about a young boy from a dysfunctional home who went to a carnival and met a singer, after which a murder took place
- The Game of Their Lives (2005) – based on the true story of the 1950 U.S. soccer team which, against all odds, beat England 1–0 in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil during the 1950 FIFA World Cup
- Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) – biographical film about rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson
- Gie (2005) – Indonesian biopic film about the story of Soe Hok Gie, a graduate from University of Indonesia who was known as an activist and nature lover
- Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) – chronicles Edward R. Murrow's opposition to senator Joseph McCarthy during the anti-Communist senate hearings of the mid-1950s
- The Great Raid (2005) – the story of the raid at Cabanatuan on the Philippine island of Luzon during World War II
- The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) – based on the life of golfer Francis Ouimet
- Green River Killer (2005) – based on real-life serial killer Gary Ridgway
- Heart of the Beholder (2005) – drama film based on Ken Tipton's experiences as the owner of a chain of videocassette rental stores in the 1980s
- Jarhead (2005) – based on the Gulf War memoir of Anthony Swofford
- Joyeux Noël (transl. Merry Christmas) (2005) – French/German/British/Belgian/Romanian epic war drama film based on the Christmas truce of December 1914, depicted through the eyes of French, Scottish, and German soldiers
- Kingdom of Heaven (2005) – epic historical drama film set during the Crusades of the 12th Century, a French village blacksmith goes to the aid of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in its defense against the Ayyubid Muslim Sultan, Saladin, who is fighting to claim the city from the Christians; this leads to the Battle of Hattin
- Kinky Boots (2005) – British/American comedy-drama film based on the true story of a struggling British shoe factory's young, strait-laced owner, Charlie, who forms an unlikely partnership with Lola, a drag queen, to save the business
- Knights of the South Bronx (2005) – television film based on the true story of David MacEnulty, who taught schoolchildren of the Bronx Community Elementary School 70 to play at competition level, eventually winning New York City and the New York State Chess Championships
- Last Days (2005) – drama film, a fictionalized account of the last days of a musician, loosely based on Kurt Cobain
- The Last Hangman (2005) – based on the life and career of British executioner Albert Pierrepont, from early 1933 through the end of his career in 1955, during which he executed some 608 people, including the Nuremberg war criminals and Ruth Ellis, the last women to be executed in Britain
- Lies My Mother Told Me (2005) – Canadian television movie based on the real life murder of Larry McNabney by his wife, Elisa McNabney, with the help of a college student
- Loggerheads (2005) – independent film about the story of an adoption "triad"—birth mother, child, and adoptive parents—each in three interwoven stories in the days leading up to Mother's Day, and each in one of the three distinctive geographical regions of North Carolina: Appalachian Mountains, Piedmont (a broad, gently hilly plateau) and Atlantic Coastal Plain
- Lord of War (2005) – crime drama film, inspired by the stories of several real-life arms dealers and smugglers
- Lords of Dogtown (2005) – biographical film based on the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys about an influential group of skateboarders who revolutionized the sport
- Mozart and the Whale (2005) – romantic comedy-drama film about the love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, based on the lives of Jerry Newport and Mary Newport
- Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005) – British/American biographical musical film telling the true story of Laura Henderson, an eccentric British socialite who opened the Windmill Theatre in London in 1931
- Mrs. Harris (2005) – American/British made-for-television drama film based on the book Very Much a Lady by Shana Alexander, focusing on the tempestuous relationship between Herman Tarnower, noted cardiologist and author of The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet, and headmistress Jean Harris
- Munich (2005) – loosely based on Operation Wrath of God following the aftermath of the Munich massacre
- Murder in the Hamptons (2005) – Canadian television film based on the events leading to the murder of multi-millionaire Ted Ammon and the conviction of Ted's estranged wife's lover Daniel Pelosi
- Murder Unveiled (2005) – Canadian television film based on the true story of the Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu murder
- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (2005) – Indian epic biographical war film depicting the life of the Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose in Nazi Germany: 1941–1943, and in Japanese-occupied Asia 1943–1945, and the events leading to the formation of Azad Hind Fauj
- The New World (2005) – depicts the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement, inspired by the historical figures Captain John Smith and Pocahontas
- North Country (2005) – drama film chronicling the case of Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co., which changed sexual harassment law
- Our Fathers (2005) – made-for-television drama film based on the book Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal by David France
- Parzania (2005) – Indian drama film inspired by the true story of a ten-year-old Parsi boy, Azhar Mody (named Parzaan Pithawala in the film) who disappeared after the 28 February 2002 Gulbarg Society massacre during which 69 people were killed and which was one of many events in the communal riots in Gujarat in 2002
- The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005) – biographical film based on the book by Terry Ryan, about the true story of housewife Evelyn Ryan, who helped support her husband, Kelly, and their 10 children by winning jingle-writing contests
- Romanzo criminale (2005) – Italian film based on Giancarlo De Cataldo's 2002 novel, which is in turn inspired by the Banda della Magliana true story
- Sehar (2005) – Indian Hindi film depicting organized crime in the late 1990s in India, loosely based on real-life gangster and hired killer Shri Prakash Shukla
- Shooting Dogs (Beyond the Gates in the United States) (2005) – British/German film based on events during the early days of the Rwandan genocide
- Sins (2005) – Bollywood film based on the true story of a Catholic priest from Kerala who was hanged due to his sexual relationship with a married woman
- Sometimes in April (2005) – made-for-television historical drama film about the Rwandan genocide
- Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (German: Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage) (2005) – German historical drama film about the last days in the life of Sophie Scholl, a 21-year-old member of the anti-Nazi non-violent student resistance group the White Rose, part of the German Resistance movement
- Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story (2005) – Canadian independent film based on the real life campaign by Spirit Bear Youth Coalition founder Simon Jackson to save the habitat of the Kermode bear
- Stoned (2005) – British biographical drama film about Brian Jones, the founder and original leader of the English rock band The Rolling Stones
- Syriana (2005) – geopolitical thriller film loosely based on the book See No Evil by Robert Baer, a former FBI agent, based on his experiences
- Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story (2005) – Indian historical drama film about Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, who commissioned the built of the Taj Mahal in 1632
- Two Sons of Francisco (Portuguese: 2 Filhos de Francisco) (2005) – Brazilian drama film about the lives of the musicians Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano
- Virginia, la monaca di Monza (2005) – Italian/Spanish television film loosely based on real life events of Marianna de Leyva
- Walk the Line (2005) – based on two autobiographies of American singer Johnny Cash, Man in Black and Cash: The Autobiography
- Wallis & Edward (2005) – British television film, dramatizing the events of the Edward VIII abdication crisis
- The White Masai (German: Die weiße Massai) (2005) – German film based on an autobiographical novel of the same name by the German born writer Corinne Hofmann
- Wolf Creek (2005) – inspired by the Backpacker murders by Ivan Milat
- The World's Fastest Indian (2005) – the life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle, a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967
- Yamato (2005) – Japanese war film based on the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship Yamato, concentrating on the ship's demise during Operation Ten-Go.
- You Are My Sunshine (Korean: Neoneun nae unmyeong) (2005) – South Korean film about a farmer who falls in love with a local dabang delivery girl, Eun-ha, who, shortly after their marriage tests positive for HIV/AIDS
- The Zodiac (2005) – about the Zodiac Killer
2006
- 10th & Wolf (2006) – based on a true story of a mob war in South Philadelphia
- 300 (2006) – fictionalized account of the Battle of Thermopylae, based on the comic series written by Frank Miller
- A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story (2006) – biographical drama television film dramatizing the events surrounding the 2002 murder of Gwen Araujo, a transgender teenager
- A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) – drama film based on a 2001 memoir of the same name by author, director, and musician Dito Montiel, which describes his youth in Astoria, New York during the 1980s
- A Little Thing Called Murder (2006) – made-for-television drama film based on a true story of convicted murderer Sante Kimes
- After Thomas (2006) – British drama film, about the severely autistic child Kyle Graham and the progress he makes when his parents adopt Thomas, a golden retriever, based on the true story of Scottish child Dale Gardner and his dog Henry
- Alpha Dog (2006) – crime drama based on the kidnap and murder of 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz and surrounding events in 2000, organized mainly by Jesse James Hollywood, a young middle-class drug dealer in California
- Amazing Grace (2006) – the story of William Wilberforce's fight to outlaw the slave trade in the British parliament
- The Amazing Grace (2006) – British-Nigerian historical drama film telling the reformation story of British slave trader John Newton sailing to what is now Nigeria to buy slaves. Later, increasingly shocked by the brutality of slavery, he gave up the trade and became an Anglican priest
- The Art of Crying (Danish: Kunsten at Græde i Kor) (2006) – Danish tragicomedy about an 11-year-old boy's struggle to hold intact his bizarre family with its abusive father, mother in denial, and rebellious sister during the social unrest of the early 1970s, based upon an autobiographical novel by Erling Jepsen
- Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006) – British made-for-television biographical film about the life of Beau Brummell
- Black Book (Dutch: Zwartboek) (2006) – Dutch film loosely based on the story of Esmée van Eeghen (named Rachel Stein in the film), a young Jewish girl, who started an affair with a German officer
- The Black Dahlia (2006) – based loosely on the true story of the unsolved Black Dahlia homicide in January 1947
- Bobby (2006) – based on speculated events leading to the shooting of Robert F. Kennedy at The Ambassador Hotel in 1968
- The Borgia (Spanish: Los Borgia) (2006) – Spanish-Italian biographical film depicting the story of the Borgia dynasty
- Buenos Aires, 1977 (a.k.a. Chronicle of an Escape) (Spanish: Crónica de una fuga) (2006) – Argentinian political thriller film which tells the true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of a military death squad during the Argentine Dirty War in the 1970s
- Cannibal (2006) – German direct-to-video horror film based on the true story of Armin Meiwes who killed and ate a man whom he met on the Internet
- Catch a Fire (2006) – based on the experiences of former migrant worker turned Umkhonto we Sizwe member Patrick Chamusso during apartheid in the 1980s
- Christmas at Maxwell's (2006) – independent drama film based upon director William C. Laufer's real-life experiences
- Color of the Cross (2006) – Christian film telling the story of Jesus as a black man, and portrays Jesus' persecution as the result of racism
- Copying Beethoven (2006) – biographical film depicting the last years of German composer and pianist Ludwig van Beethoven
- The Death of Poe (2006) – biographical film that tells the tragic story of the mysterious disappearance and death of the American author Edgar Allan Poe
- Dresden (2006) – German film depicting a romance story during the historical attack against the city of Dresden in February 1945
- Eduart (2006) – Greek drama film about Eduart, a young man raised in a cruel and oppressive family environment, who leaves Albania with the dream of becoming a rock star and living a better life
- Eight Below (2006) – survival drama film, an American remake based on the 1983 Japanese film Antarctica about 15 Sakhalin Husky sled dogs who were abandoned when an Antarctica expedition team was unable to return to the base
- El Benny (2006) – Cuban film depicting a fictionalized version of the life of the famous Cuban musician Benny Moré
- El Cantante (2006) – biographical film based on the life of the late salsa singer Héctor Lavoe
- Factory Girl (2006) – biographical film based on the rapid rise and fall of 1960s underground film star and socialite Edie Sedgwick known for her association with the artist Andy Warhol
- Faith like Potatoes (2006) – South African biographical drama film based on the 1998 book of the same name written by Angus Buchan, following Buchan and his family's move from Zambia to South Africa and chronicles his Christian faith throughout that time
- Fearless (Chinese: 霍元甲) (2006) – martial arts film loosely based on the life of Huo Yuanjia, a Chinese martial artist who challenged foreign fighters in highly publicized events, restoring pride and nationalism to China at a time when Western imperialism and Japanese manipulation were eroding the country in the final years of the Qing Dynasty before the birth of the Republic of China
- Find Me Guilty (2006) – based on the trial of mobster Giacomo "Jackie" DiNorscio, which became the longest Mafia trial in American history
- Flags of Our Fathers (2006) – based on the book Flags of Our Fathers, about the Battle of Iwo Jima and the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima
- Flight 93 (2006) – based on the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 on 9/11
- Flyboys (2006) – war drama film loosely based on the enlistment, training, and combat experiences of a group of young Americans who volunteer to become fighter pilots in the Lafayette Escadrille, the 124th air squadron formed by the French in 1916
- The Flying Scotsman (2006) – British drama film based on the life and career of Scottish amateur cyclist Graeme Obree
- For One Night (2006) – television film based on the true story of Gerica McCrary, who made headlines in 2002 by getting Taylor County High School in her hometown of Butler, Georgia, to integrate the prom after thirty-one years of segregation
- Fur (2006) – largely fictionalized biography of iconic American photographer Diane Arbus, who was known for her strange, disturbing images
- Ghosts (2006) – British drama film based on the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster
- Glory Road (2006) – based on the story of the 1965–66 Texas Western Miners basketball team and its march to the national championship, although some liberties were taken
- The Good Shepherd (2006) – spy film, a fictional film loosely based on real events, but advertised as telling the untold story of the birth of counter-intelligence in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Goya's Ghosts (2006) – biographical drama film loosely based on Francisco Goya, a renowned painter who did portraits as the Official Court Painter to Spain's royalty, among others, during the French Revolution
- Gridiron Gang (2006) – based on real incidents involving youth gang members in a youth jail named "Killpatrick Camp" who played for a football team led by coach Sean Porter
- Grimm Love (German: Rohtenburg) (2006) – German psychological horror film inspired by the Armin Meiwes cannibal murder case
- The Hands (Spanish: Las manos) (2006) – Argentinean/Italian film inspired by the life and work of Catholic priest Mario Pantaleo
- Heavens Fall (2006) – based on the Scottsboro Boys incident of 1931
- The Hoax (2006) – recounting Clifford Irving's elaborate hoax on publishing an autobiography of Howard Hughes in the early 1970s
- Hollywoodland (2006) – based on the suspicious death of actor George Reeves on 16 June 1959
- Housewife, 49 (2006) – television film based on the wartime diaries of Nella Last
- Infamous (2006) – while researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith
- Invincible (2006) – based on the story of Vince Papale, who played for the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1970s as a walk-on
- Karla (2006) – based on the true story of serial killers Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
- The Killing of John Lennon (2006) – the story of Mark Chapman's plot to kill John Lennon
- Klimt (2006) – Austrian art-house biographical film about the life of the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt
- Kokoda (2006) – Australian war film based on the experiences of Australian troops fighting Japanese forces during the 1942 Kokoda Track campaign
- The Last King of Scotland (2006) – based on factual events during Idi Amin's rule of Uganda
- Life Is Not A Fairy Tale: The Fantasia Barrino Story (2006) – made-for-television biographical film based on the life of American singer Fantasia Barrino
- Lonely Hearts (2006) – loosely based on the investigation of homicide detective Elmer C. Robinson into the Lonely Hearts Killers, directed by his own grandson Todd Robinson
- Marie Antoinette (2006) – based on the life of Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI to her reign as queen to the French Revolution
- Milarepa (2006) – Bhutanese Tibetan-language film about the life of the most famous Tibetan tantric yogi, the eponymous Milarepa
- Miss Potter (2006) – British-American biographical film about children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter
- Mysterious Creatures (2006) – British indie drama about the true story of a married couple struggling to cope with the demands of their daughter with Asperger syndrome
- Not Like Everyone Else (2006) – made-for-television based on a true story of events that happened to Brandi Blackbear in 1999–2000
- One Night with the King (2006) – historical epic film, a dramatization of the Biblical story of Esther, who risked her life by approaching the King of Persia to request that he save the Jewish people
- Only the Brave (2006) – the story of the rescue of the Lost Battalion by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II
- Open Water 2: Adrift (2006) – German/American psychological thriller inspired by the short story Adrift by Japanese author Koji Suzuki, from which it took its original title, but promotional posters claimed the film is based on actual events. The film has no connection to Open Water (2003)
- Out of the Blue (2006) – New Zealand crime drama film based on the Aramoana massacre
- Pacquiao: The Movie (2006) – Filipino action-drama film based on a true story of Filipino boxer Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao
- Peaceful Warrior (2006) – American/German drama film based on the part-fictional, part-autobiographical 1980 novel Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
- Pinochet in Suburbia (2006) – drama film about former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and the attempts to extradite him from Great Britain during his visit there in 1998 for medical treatment
- Provoked (2006) – based on the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, who murdered her abusive husband
- The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) – based on the true story of Chris Gardner's nearly one-year struggle with homelessness
- The Queen (2006) – after the death of Princess Diana, HM Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted
- Raising Jeffrey Dahmer (2006) – drama film based on the case of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer
- Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders (2006) – direct-to-video crime thriller about the Hillside Strangler murders
- Rapid Fire (2006) – action television film based on the 1980 Norco shootout
- Requiem (2006) – German drama film focusing on the medical condition (epilepsy) as seen in the real-life events of Anneliese Michel (named Michaela Klingler in the film), a German woman who was allegedly possessed by six or more demons and died in 1976
- Rescue Dawn (2006) – based on the story of Dieter Dengler, a U.S. Navy pilot who was shot down in Laos during the Vietnam War
- The Ron Clark Story (2006) – television film based on the real-life educator Ron Clark
- Running with Scissors (2006) – comedy-drama film based on Augusten Burroughs' 2002 memoir of the same name
- Salvador (2006) – Spanish film based on the 2001 Francesc Escribano book Compte enrere. La història de Salvador Puig Antich, which depicts the time Salvador Puig Antich spent on death row prior to his execution by garrote (the last person to be executed by this method), under Franco's Francoist State in 1974
- See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006) – two-part British television series telling the story of the Moors murders, which were committed, between July 1963 and October 1965, by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady
- Take the Lead (2006) – based on the story of Pierre Dulaine, a well-known ballroom dancer and dance instructor, known for "Dancing Classrooms", as he teaches potential high school dropouts how to ballroom dance during detention in an attempt to raise their self-respect and confidence
- A Ton of Luck (2006) - Based on a true story, the plot follows a group of anti-guerrilla soldiers, whose lives are turned upside down after finding $45 million hidden in the jungle.
- Traces of Love (Korean: Gaeulro ) (2006) – Korean film based on the Sampoong Department Store collapse of 1995
- United 93 (2006) – based on United Airlines Flight 93 and the passengers on board who prevented the hijackers from reaching their intended target
- Walkout (2006) – based on the true story of the 1968 East L.A. walkouts, also referred to as the Chicano blowouts
- We Are Marshall (2006) – the story of the aftermath of the 1970 plane crash that killed 5 members of flight crew, 25 boosters, 8 coaches and 37 players of the Marshall University football team
- White Palms (Hungarian: Fehér tenyér) (2006) – Hungarian film based partly on elements of the director's life and partly on events with other real people
- Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy (2006) – television film based on the memoir of the same name, written by Geralyn Lucas, depicting Lucas's fight with breast cancer
- Wild Romance (2006) – Dutch biographical about Dutch singer and artist Herman Brood
- Woh Lamhe... (transl. Those Moments) (2006) – Indian romantic drama film supposedly based on actress Parveen Babi's life, her battle with schizophrenia and her relationship with Mahesh Bhatt
- World Trade Center (2006) – based on the rescue of John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno, both freed from the wreckage of the collapsing World Trade Center towers
2007
- 26 Years Diary (Korean: Anata wo Wasurenai) (2007) – South Korean biographical film that tells the story of Lee Su-hyon's life and death
- 1612 (2007) – Russian epic historical drama film about the 17th century Time of Troubles and the Polish-Muscovite War with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- A Life Interrupted (2007) – made-for-television film depicting events in the life of sexual assault victim Debbie Smith, which led to the passage of the Debbie Smith Act
- A Mighty Heart (2007) – based on the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan
- A Secret (French: Un secret) (2007) – French film based on the 2004 autobiographical novel by Philippe Grimbert
- Alexandra (Russian: Aleksandra) (2007) – Russian film about the Second Chechen War
- American Gangster (2007) – based on the true life story of Frank Lucas, a former heroin dealer, and organized crime boss in Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s
- An American Crime (2007) – crime drama based on the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens by Indianapolis housewife Gertrude Baniszewski
- The Anna Nicole Smith Story (2007) – biographical film depicting the life of American model and actress Anna Nicole Smith
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) – based on the last year of Jesse James' life, leading up to his assassination by Robert Ford
- Bastard Boys (2007) – two-part Australian television miniseries telling the story of the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute
- Battle in Seattle (2007) – based on the protest activity at the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999
- Becoming Jane (2007) – biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman
- The Black Pimpernel (Swedish: Svarta nejlikan) (2007) – Swedish biographical film about Harald Edelstam, Sweden's ambassador to Chile, who after the military coup of Augusto Pinochet in 1973, managed to save the lives of more than 1,300 people by taking them to his embassy and transporting them to Sweden
- Black Water (2007) – Australian horror film inspired by the true story of a crocodile attack in Australia's Northern Territory in December 2003
- Borderland (2007) – loosely based on serial killer and cult leader Adolfo Constanzo
- Bordertown (2007) – drama film inspired by the true story of the numerous female homicides in Ciudad Juárez and tells the story of an inquisitive American reporter sent in by her American newspaper to investigate the murders
- Breach (2007) – based on the capture of Soviet spy Robert Hanssen
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007) – Western historical drama television film adapted from the 1970 non-fiction book of the same name
- California Dreamin' (Romanian: California Dreamin' (nesfârșit)) (2007) – Romanian film based on the true story of a train containing American radar equipment required in Kosovo that was stopped for four days in a small village on the Bărăgan Plain during the 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia[587][588]
- Caravaggio (2007) – Italian television film based on the real life events of Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio
- Chapter 27 (2007) – biographical film depicting the murder of John Lennon by Mark David Chapman
- Charlie Wilson's War (2007) – based on Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan to help launch Operation Cyclone, a program to organize and support the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War
- Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck (2007) – based on the notorious mass murderer Richard Speck, who systematically tortured, raped and murdered a group of student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital in 1966
- Colour Me Kubrick (2007) – British comedy-drama film loosely based on Alan Conway, a British con-man who had been impersonating director Stanley Kubrick since the early 1990s, the film follows the exploits of Conway as he goes from person to person, convincing them to give out money, liquor and sexual favours for the promise of a part in "Kubrick's" next film
- Control (2007) – based on the story of Ian Curtis, the singer of Joy Division, whose personal, professional and romantic life led him to commit suicide at the age of 23
- The Counterfeiters (German: Die Fälscher) (2007) – Austrian film based on Operation Bernhard
- Crazy (2007) – independent biographical musical drama film inspired by the life of Nashville guitarist Hank Garland
- Curse of the Zodiac (2007) – horror film based on the Zodiac killings in the San Francisco Bay area in the early 1970s
- Dark Matter (2007) – drama film loosely based on the University of Iowa shooting in 1991
- Death Defying Acts (2007) – British/Australian romance film about the life of Hungarian-American escapologist Harry Houdini at the height of his career in the 1920s
- Diana: Last Days of a Princess (2007) – made-for-television film depicting a semi-fictionalized account of the last two months in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, leading up to her death on 31 August 1997
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (French: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon) (2007) – French biographical drama based on the life of Jean-Dominique Bauby, depicting his life after suffering a massive stroke in December 1995 at the age of 43, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome
- Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny! (Italian: Lascia perdere, Johnny!) (2007) – Italian biographical comedy drama loosely based on real life events of musician Fausto Mesolella, a member of Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel
- Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007) – based on the crimes of Ed Gein
- Eichmann (2007) – British biographical drama detailing the interrogation of Adolf Eichmann
- Eight Miles High (German: Das wilde Leben) (2007) – German biographical motion picture, set in the 1960s and depicting the "wild life" of Uschi Obermaier, a West German sex symbol and icon of the era
- El Greco (2007) – Greek biographical film about the life of the Greek painter of the Spanish Renaissance, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known worldwide as El Greco
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) – sequel to the 1998 film Elizabeth, depicting a mature Queen Elizabeth I of England, who endures multiple crises late in her reign, including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments
- The Final Season (2007) – baseball film based on the true story of Kent Stock, who in 1991 becomes the head coach of the Norway High School Tigers baseball team
- Freedom Writers (2007) – based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Gruwell, based on Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Eastside, Long Beach, California
- Gandhi, My Father (2007) – Indian biographical drama film about the troubled relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and his son Harilal Gandhi
- Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea (Japanese: 蒼き狼 地果て海尽きるまで) (2007) – Japanese historical drama film depicting the life of Genghis Khan
- Georg (2007) – Estonian biographical drama film about Estonian singer Georg Ots
- The Girl Next Door (2007) – horror film loosely based on the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens by Indianapolis housewife Gertrude Baniszewski and based on the book The Girl Next Door, written by Jack Ketchum
- Goodbye Bafana (2007) – based on the relationship between Nelson Mandela and writer James Gregory
- Gracie (2007) – sports drama film partially based on the childhood experiences of Elisabeth Shue
- The Gray Man (2007) – biographical thriller film based on the actual life and events of American serial killer, rapist and cannibal Albert Fish
- The Great Debaters (2007) – the story of the efforts of debate coach Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington) at historically black Wiley College to place his team on equal footing with whites in the American South during the 1930s
- Guru (2007) – Indian bi-language (Hindi and Tamil) film loosely based on the life of Indian business tycoon Dhirubhai Ambani, who helped found Reliance Industries in Mumbai, India
- The Hoax (2007) – comedy-drama film recounting Irving's elaborate hoax of publishing an autobiography of Howard Hughes that he purportedly helped write, without ever having talked with Hughes
- The Home Song Stories (2007) – Australian film, an autobiographical account of Tony Ayres' (named Tom in the film) life at age eight
- Hwang Jin Yi (2007) – South Korean biographical drama film about the life of Hwang Jin Yi, the most famous courtesan (or "gisaeng") in Korean history
- I'm Not There (2007) – about the life of Bob Dylan, in which six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work
- Il Pirata: Marco Pantani (2007) – Italian television film depicting real life events of road racing cyclist Marco Pantani
- In the Valley of Elah (2007) – based loosely on the homicide of returning Iraq War veteran Richard T. Davis in 2003 by fellow soldiers from Baker Company
- Into the Wild (2007) – based on the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer about the adventures and travels of Christopher McCandless across North American and his life spent in the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s
- Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback (2007) – Australian/British television film based on the real life disappearance of Peter Falconio
- Jump! (2007) – Austrian/British drama film loosely based on the real-life Halsman murder case
- Kalloori (2007) – Indian Tamil movie based on a real-life incident in which three girls were burnt to death in Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu, India; directed by Balaji Shakthivel
- The Killing of John Lennon (2007) – biographical film about Mark David Chapman's plot to kill musician John Lennon
- The King (2007) – Australian television film examining the life of Australian entertainer Graham Kennedy
- The Kingdom (2007) – loosely based on the 1996 bombing of the Khobar housing complex and the 2003 bombing of the Riyadh compound
- Kings of South Beach (2007) – loosely based on a true story about the exploits of Chris Paciello, a transplanted New York Cityer who was involved with the Mafia back in his hometown
- La Vie en rose (2007) – French biographical musical film about the life of French singer Édith Piaf
- Las 13 rosas (2007) – Spanish film that follows the tragic fate of thirteen young women, fighting for their ideals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War
- Life Support (2007) – drama television film loosely based on the real-life story of Ana Wallace, an HIV-positive woman
- Lost Holiday (2007) – made-for-television film based on the true story of Jim and Suzanne Shemwell
- Lucky Miles (2007) – Australian drama film based on several true stories involving people entering Western Australia by boat to seek asylum
- The Man of Glass (Italian: L'uomo di vetro) (2007) – Italian crime drama film based on real life events of the first Sicilian Mafia's "pentito", Leonardo Vitale
- Manolete (2007) – biographical film about bullfighter Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez, better known as "Manolete"
- Maradona, the Hand of God (Spanish: Maradona – La mano de Dios) (2007) – Italian/Argentine biographical film based on real life events of footballer Diego Maradona
- Martian Child (2007) – comedy-drama film based on David Gerrold's 1994 novelette of the same name about a writer who adopts a strange young boy who believes himself to be from Mars
- Matters of Life and Dating (2007) – made-for-television based on the memoir Up Front by Linda Dackman as she re-enters the dating world after undergoing a mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery due to cancer
- Miss Austen Regrets (2007) – made-for-television biographical film based on the life of Jane Austen
- Molière (2007) – French historical drama film about French playwright and actor Molière
- Mongol (2007) – intended to be the first in a trilogy of films based on the life of Genghis Khan
- Music Within (2007) – biographical period drama film based on the life of Richard Pimentel, a respected public speaker whose hearing disability attained in the Vietnam War drove him to become an activist for the Americans with Disabilities Act
- My Boy Jack (2007) – British biographical television film based on David Haig's 1997 play of the same name which tells the story of Rudyard Kipling and his grief for his son, John, who died in the First World War
- My Father (Korean: 마이 파더) (2007) – South Korean biographical period drama film based on a true story of an adopted son who is searching for his biological parents in South Korea only to find that his real father is a condemned murderer on death row
- Nightwatching (2007) – biographical film about the artist Rembrandt and the creation of his 1642 painting The Night Watch
- Operace Silver A (2007) – Czech two-part television film inspired by a real war operation of the same name from the beginning of 1942
- Periyar (2007) – Indian Tamil biographical film based on the life of social reformer and rationalist Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
- Persepolis (2007) – adult animated biographical drama film based upon Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name
- Piano, solo (2007) – Italian drama film depicting the real life events of jazz pianist and composer Luca Flores
- The Pope's Toilet (Spanish: El Baño del Papa) (2007) – Uruguayan film about the 1988 visit of Pope John Paul II at Melo, a Uruguayan town on the Brazilian border
- Pride (2007) – based loosely on the true story of Philadelphia swim coach Jim Ellis and his African American swim team in 1974 Philadelphia
- Primeval (2007) – based on tales of a real man-eating crocodile named Gustave, still living in Burundi
- Protecting the King (2007) – drama film telling the story of David Stanley, the stepbrother and bodyguard of singer Elvis Presley
- PVC-1 (2007) – Colombian drama film inspired by a true story about a pipe bomb improvised explosive device (IED) that was placed around the neck of an extortion victim
- Redacted (2007) – war film, a fictional dramatization, loosely based on the 2006 Mahmudiyah killings in Mahmoudiyah, Iraq, when U.S. Army soldiers raped an Iraqi girl and murdered her along with her family
- Rise of the Footsoldier (2007) – British gangster film based on the true story of the Rettendon murders and the autobiography of Carlton Leach, a former football hooligan of the infamous Inter City Firm, who became a powerful figure of the English underworld
- Rogue (2007) – inspired by the true story of Sweetheart, a giant male saltwater crocodile that attacked boats in the late 1970s, although Sweetheart was never responsible for an attack on a human
- Romulus, My Father (2007) – Australian drama film based on the memoir by Raimond Gaita, the film tells the story of Romulus and his wife Christine, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to raise their son, Raimond
- Satham Podathey (2007) – Indian Tamil psychological thriller film based on a true story
- Savage Grace (2007) – French/Spanish/American drama film based on the book Savage Grace by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson, about the dysfunctional, allegedly incestuous relationship between heiress and socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland and her son, Antony
- Say It in Russian (2007) – American/French film about an American businessman who hooks up with a young Russian girl who turns out to be the daughter of a rich Russian mafia oligarch. The poster of the film claims it's a true story
- September Dawn (2007) – based on the 7–11 September 1857, Mountain Meadows massacre
- Shake Hands with the Devil (2007) – Canadian war drama film based on Roméo Dallaire's autobiography recounting his harrowing personal journey during the 1994 Rwandan genocide and how the United Nations failed to heed Dallaire's urgent pleas for further assistance to halt the massacre
- Shoot on Sight (2007) – British film based on Operation Kratos, and the shooting of an innocent Brazilian on 22 July 2005 whom police thought to be a Muslim terrorist about to detonate a suicide bomb
- Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007) – Hindi film based on the 1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout, a real-life gun battle between gangsters and Mumbai Police during an encounter with gangster Maya Dolas
- Sinners (2007) – true story about three young men who set off to avenge their sins
- The Sovereign's Servant (Russian: Sluga Gosudarev) (2007) – Russian swashbuckler film depicting the events of the Great Northern War, with a particular focus on the Battle of Poltava
- St. Giuseppe Moscati: Doctor to the Poor (Italian: Giuseppe Moscati – L'amore che guarisce) (2007) – Italian television film based on real life events of doctor and then Roman Catholic Saint Giuseppe Moscati
- The Staircase murders (2007) – television film telling the story of Michael Peterson, who was convicted in 2003 of killing his wife by beating her over the head
- Stuck (2007) – loosely based on the hit and run committed by Chante Jawan Mallard, who left her victim Gregory Glenn Biggs to die slowly in her garage
- Sybil (2007) – true story based on the life of Shirley Ardell Mason, who was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder
- Talk To Me (2007) – based on the life of Washington, D.C., radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene
- Theresa: The Body of Christ (Spanish: Teresa, el cuerpo de Cristo) (2007) – French/Spanish/British biographical film about Saint Teresa of Ávila
- Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot (also known as: American Loser,) (2007) – comedy-drama film based upon the autobiographical book The Little Yellow Bus by Jeff Nichols
- Václav (2007) – Czech drama film inspired by the true story of an autistic person
- Voice of a Murderer (Korean: Geunom moksori) (2007) – South Korean crime thriller-drama film, a fictionalized account of a real-life kidnapping case in 1991
- What We Do Is Secret (2007) – based on the 1970s Los Angeles punk band the Germs and their lead singer Darby Crash
- Zodiac (2007) – based on the story of the Zodiac Killer
2008
- 21 (2008) – inspired by the story of the MIT Blackjack Team
- Accidental Friendship (2008) – based on a true story of a homeless woman with her two pets as her only friends
- Admiral (Russian: Адмиралъ) (2008) – Russian biographical film about Alexander Kolchak, a vice-admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and leader of the anti-communist White Movement during the Russian Civil War
- Adoration (2008) – Canadian drama film based partly on the 1986 Hindawi affair
- The Alphabet Killer (2008) – thriller-horror film loosely based on the Alphabet murders that took place in Rochester, New York between 1971 and 1973
- Amália (2008) – Portuguese biographical film about legendary Portuguese fado singer Amália Rodrigues
- American Violet (2008) – based on Regina Kelly, a victim of Texas police drug enforcement tactics
- The Baader Meinhof Complex (German: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) (2008) – German/French/Czech production based on German militant group the Red Army Faction, retells the story of the early years of the RAF, concentrating on its beginnings in 1967 (at the time of the German student movement) up to the German Autumn (Deutscher Herbst) of 1977
- Baby Blues (2008) – based on Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in 2001 in a severe case of postpartum psychosis
- The Bank Job (2008) – based on a 1971 London Baker Street robbery allegedly concocted by MI5
- Billy: The Early Years (2008) – biographical film telling the story of the early life of evangelist Billy Graham
- Bloedbroeders (transl. Blood Brothers) (2008) – Dutch television film based on the Baarn murder case, which took place between 1960 and 1963
- Bottle Shock (2008) – comedy-drama film based on the 1976 wine competition termed the "Judgment of Paris", when California wine defeated French wine in a blind taste test
- Bronson (2008) – fictionalized and based on the life of Britain's most violent prisoner Michael Gordon Peterson, better known as Charles Bronson
- Cadillac Records (2008) – based on the life of influential Chicago-based record company executive Leonard Chess and the singers who recorded for Chess Records
- Camino (2008) – Spanish drama film inspired by the real story of Alexia González-Barros, a girl who died from spinal cancer at age 14 in 1985 and who is in process of canonization
- Cape No. 7 (Chinese: Hǎijiǎo Qī Hào) (2008) – Chinese film based on a report about a Taiwanese postman who successfully delivered a piece of mail addressed in the old Japanese style; the sender was the former Japanese employer of the recipient
- Cass (2008) – British crime drama film based on the true story of the life of Cass Pennant
- Changeling (2008) – loosely based on the real-life Wineville Chicken Coop murders, involving Christine Collins and the disappearance of her son
- Chapter 27 (2008) – biographical drama film depicting the murder of John Lennon by Mark David Chapman
- Che (2008) – a merged version of two films: The Argentine and Guerrilla, about the life of Marxist revolutionary, Che Guevara
- The Children of Huang Shi (2008) – Australian/Chinese/German historical war drama film centering on the true story of George Hogg and the sixty orphans that he led across China in an effort to save them from conscription during the Second Sino-Japanese war
- The Christmas Choir (2008) – American/Canadian made-for-television Christmas drama film based upon a true story of a man who volunteered to work at a homeless shelter and started a choir with its residents
- Clubbed (2008) – British drama film based on Geoff Thompson's autobiography Watch My Back
- Coco Chanel (2008) – biographical drama television film about Coco Chanel
- The Curse of Steptoe (2008) – made-for-television based on Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell's on- and off-screen relationship during the making of the BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son
- December Heat (Estonian: Detsembrikuumus) (2008) – Estonian historic action drama about the 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt
- Defiance (2008) – the story of the Bielski partisans
- The Duchess (2008) – based on the life of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
- The Easy Way (French: Sans arme, ni haine, ni violence) – French heist film based on the real life thief Albert Spaggiari, who organized a break-in into a Société Générale bank in Nice, France in 1976
- The Edge of Love (2008) – British biographical romantic drama film loosely based on Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife Caitlin Macnamara
- Everlasting Moments (Swedish: Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick) (2008) – Swedish drama based on the true story of Maria Larsson, a Swedish working-class woman in the early 20th century who wins a camera in a lottery and goes on to become a photographer
- The Express: The Ernie Davis Story (2008) – based on the life of "The Elmira Express" Ernie Davis, the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy
- Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal (2008) – teen drama television film based on real-life events that occurred at McKinney North High School in McKinney, Texas, in 2006, five teenage cheerleaders became notorious for truancies, violations of the school dress code, and general disrespect to the school community
- Felon (2008) – based on events at California State Prison, Corcoran in the 1990s
- Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008) – loose adaptation of Martin McGartland's 1997 autobiography of the same name
- Flame & Citron (Danish: Flammen & Citronen) (2008) – Danish film based on the lives of Bent Faurschou-Hviid and Jørgen Haagen Schmith, members of the Holger Danske, a Danish resistance group in Nazi-occupied Denmark
- Flash of Genius (2008) – the story of Robert Kearns, inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper and his claims and lawsuit against Ford Motor Company
- Forever Enthralled (Chinese: 梅蘭芳) (2008) – Chinese biographical film depicting the life of Mei Lanfang, one of China's premiere opera performers
- Forever the Moment (Korean: Uri saengae choego-ui sungan) (2008) – South Korean fictionalized account of the achievements of the South Korean women's national handball team at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Front of the Class (2008) – biographical drama film based on Brad Cohen's life with Tourette syndrome and how it inspired him to teach other students
- Frost/Nixon (2008) – the story of the 1977 televised Frost/Nixon interviews
- Gomorrah (2008) – Italian crime film based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Roberto Saviano, which documents Saviano's infiltration and investigation of various areas of business and daily life controlled or affected by criminal organization Camorra
- Haber (2008) – the work of Fritz Haber in developing chemical weaponry for the German army during World War I
- Hansie (2008) – South African film based on the true story of cricketer Hansie Cronje
- House of Saddam (2008) – British biographical miniseries about the rise and fall of Saddam Hussein
- How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) – British comedy film based upon Toby Young's 2001 memoir How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
- Hunger (2008) – based on Bobby Sands and the 1981 Irish hunger strike
- The Hurt Locker (2008) – Oscar-winning war film about a three-man explosive ordnance disposal team during the Iraq War
- Il divo (2008) – Italian biographical drama film based on the figure of former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
- Ip Man (2008) – Hong Kong film based on the life of "Ip Man", a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun and master of Bruce Lee
- Jodhaa Akbar (2008) – Indian epic historical romance film based on the life of Mughal emperor Akbar the Great
- John Adams (2008) – miniseries chronicling most of U.S. President John Adams's political life and his role in the founding of the United States
- The Kautokeino Rebellion (Norwegian: Kautokeino-opprøret) (2008) – Norwegian film based on the true story of the Kautokeino riots in Kautokeino, Norway in 1852 in response to the Norwegian exploitation of the Sami community at that time
- The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2008) – Australian-Irish biographical drama film following the final days of Irish convict and bushranger Alexander Pearce's life as he awaits execution
- Last Stop 174 (Portuguese: Última Parada 174) (2008) – Brazilian film relating a fictionalized account of the life of Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, a street kid in Rio de Janeiro that survived the Candelária massacre and, in 2000, hijacked a bus
- Lemon Tree (Hebrew: Etz Limon) (2008) – Israeli/German/French film partly based on a real-life incident of an Israeli Defense Minister who moves to the border within Israel and the occupied territories and security forces began cutting down the lemon trees beside his house, arguing that it could be used by terrorists as a hiding place
- Little Ashes (2008) – Spanish-British biographical drama film three of the era's most creative young talents, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca, meet at university and set off on a course to change their world
- Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story (2008) – based on the events surrounding the kidnapping and rescue of Delimar Vera, who was kidnapped just ten days after she was born
- Living Proof (2008) – based on the true life story of Denny Slamon, who helped develop the breast cancer drug Herceptin 2
- The Longshots (2008) – comedy-drama sports film based on the real life events of Jasmine Plummer, the first female to participate in the Pop Warner football tournament
- Love Exposure (Japanese: Ai no mukidashi) (2008) – Japanese comedy-drama art film about the true story of a love triangle between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist
- Machan (2008) – Italian/Sri Lankan comedy film inspired by the true story of a fake Sri Lankan national handball team that tricked its way into a German tournament, lost all of their matches, and subsequently vanished
- Mao's Last Dancer (2008) – Australian film based on professional dancer Li Cunxin's 2003 memoir of the same name
- Marley & Me (2008) – based on the memoir of the same title by journalist John Grogan
- Max Manus (2008) – Norwegian biographic war film based on real events in the life of resistance fighter Max Manus, who helped to save his country from the Germans during World War II
- Mesrine (2008) – French two-part biographical crime film on the life of French gangster Jacques Mesrine
- Meu Nome Não É Johnny (2008) – Brazilian biographical film based on the true story of João Guilherme Estrella, an upper-middle-class man from the State of Rio de Janeiro that would become the head of the drug traffic in the late 1980s and early 1990s
- Milk (2008) – based on the life of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in California
- Mogadischu (2008) – German made-for-TV thriller film chronicling the events surrounding the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1977
- North Face (German: Nordwand) (2008) – German film about the 1936 attempt by Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser to summit the Eiger via the north face
- The Ode (2008) – Indian/American adaptation of the novel, Ode to Lata, based on actual events
- The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) – based on the lives of sisters Anne and Mary Boleyn, who compete for the affection of King Henry VIII
- Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008) – Indian comedy film inspired by the real life shenanigans of Devinder Singh, alias Bunty, a real-life "super-chor", originally from Vikaspuri, Delhi
- Pattenrai!! ~ Minami no Shima no Mizu Monogatari (Japanese: パッテンライ!! ~南の島の水ものがたり) (2008) – Japanese anime biographical film portraying the career of Yoichi Hatta, a civil engineer active in Japanese Taiwan, and his interactions with the native Taiwanese
- The Poker House (2008) – based on director Lori Petty's own early life during the mid-1970s
- Portrait of a Beauty (Korean: 미인도) (2008) – South Korean fictionalized portrayal based on Joseon-era painter Shin Yun-bok (better known by his pen name, Hyewon) as being a woman disguised as a man
- Racing for Time (2008) – Lifetime television film based on the accomplishment of real life coach and prison guard Sergeant Noel Chestnut (later promoted to lieutenant) and the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility's track team he started
- Ramchand Pakistani (2008) – Pakistani drama film based on a true story of a boy who inadvertently crosses the border between Pakistan and India and the following ordeal that his family has to go through
- The Red Baron (German: Der rote Baron) (2008) – German/British biographical action war film about the World War I fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen, known as the "Red Baron"
- Red Cliff: Part I (Chinese: 赤壁) (2008) – Chinese epic war film, based on the Battle of Red Cliffs (208–209 AD) and the events at the end of the Han dynasty
- Rivals (French: Les Liens du sang) (2008) – French action film inspired by the story of the Bruno brothers; one a pimp and the other a cop
- Sagan (2008) – French biographical film about French author Françoise Sagan's road to fame, her drug abuse, alcoholism, and gambling, her hedonistic lifestyle spending too much and becoming poor, as well as several complex love affairs with both men and women
- Séraphine (2008) – French-Belgian biographical film based on Séraphine Louis's life
- Sex and Lies in Sin City (2008) – Lifetime Television film detailing the events surrounding the death of Las Vegas casino owner Ted Binion
- The Sicilian Girl (Italian: La siciliana ribelle) (2008) – Italian film inspired by the story of Rita Atria, a key witness in a major Mafia investigation in Sicily
- Silent Wedding (Romanian: Nunta mută) (2008) – Romanian comedy-drama film about a young couple who has to celebrate their marriage in silence because the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had died the night before
- Skin (2008) – British-South African biographical film about Sandra Laing, a South African woman born to white parents, who was classified as "Coloured" during the apartheid era, presumably due to a genetic case of atavism
- Stone of Destiny (2008) – the story of attorney Ian Hamilton, who helped recapture the Stone of Scone for Scotland
- The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008) – the story of Soraya Manutchehri, a victim of stoning in Iran
- Touching Home (2008) – drama film about two brothers who pursue a professional baseball career and their relationship with their father
- The Two Mr. Kissels (2008) – made-for-television true crime drama film chronicling the lives and murders of brothers Robert and Andrew Kissel
- Valkyrie (2008) – the story of the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country
- W. (2008) – based on the life and presidency of George W. Bush
- What Doesn't Kill You (2008) – crime drama loosely based on the true life story of the film's director Brian Goodman, detailing his own exploits involved with South Boston's Irish Mob
- The Wave (German: Die Welle) (2008) – German socio-political thriller film based on Ron Jones' social experiment The Third Wave and Todd Strasser's novel, The Wave
- Worlds Apart (Danish: To verdener) (2008) – Danish drama film based upon the true story of a 17-year-old Jehovah's Witness girl who struggles to reconcile her faith and her secret romance with a non-believer boy
2009
- 3 Acts of Murder (2009) – Australian television film based on the true life story of how author Arthur Upfield inadvertently inspired The Murchison murders[589]
- 12 Paces Without a Head (German: Zwölf Meter ohne Kopf) (2009) – German film based on the life of Klaus Störtebeker
- 12 Winter (German: Zwölf Winter) (2009) – German television film based on the true story of two bank robbers who robbed a series of small banks throughout Germany for more than 12 years before they were captured in August 2002
- Accident on Hill Road (2009) – based on Chante Mallard, a Texas, woman convicted and sentenced to 50 years' imprisonment for her role in the death of a 37-year-old homeless man[590]
- Agora (2009) – Spanish English-language historical drama film about Hypatia, a mathematician, philosopher and astronomer in late 4th-century Roman Egypt, who investigates the flaws of the geocentric Ptolemaic system and the heliocentric model that challenges it[591]
- Amelia (2009) – a look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe[592]
- An Englishman in New York (2009) – biographical film chronicling the years gay English writer Quentin Crisp spent in New York City
- April Showers (2009) – independent film inspired by the 1999 Columbine High School shooting and the days that followed[593]
- The Assailant (2009) – Brazilian action drama film about Besouro Mangangá, a Brazilian Capoeirista from the early 1920s, to whom were attributed some heroic and legendary deeds[594]
- Balibo (2009) – Australian war film that follows the story of the Balibo Five, a group of journalists who were captured and killed while reporting on activities just prior to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor of 1975[595]
- Barbarossa (2009) – Italian English-language film set primarily in northern Italy during the late 12th century, concerning with the struggle of the Lombard League, which struggled to maintain independence from the Holy Roman Empire, led by the legendary Guelph warrior Alberto da Giussano
- Berdella (2009) – horror film based on the crimes of Missouri serial killer Robert Berdella[596]
- Berlin 36 (2009) – German film telling the fate of Jewish track and field athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics[597]
- The Blind Side (2009) – adapted from the 2006 Michael Lewis book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, focusing on the life of future NFL player Michael Oher[598]
- The Boys Are Back (2009) – Australian/British drama film based on the 2000 book, The Boys Are Back in Town, by Simon Carr, about a sports writer who becomes a single parent in tragic circumstances[599]
- Bright Star (2009) – drama based on the three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, which was cut short by Keats' untimely death at age 25[600]
- Broken Promise (Slovak: Nedodržaný sľub) (2009) – Slovak/Czech/American drama film depicting the fate of a Jewish boy, Martin Friedmann, who has to avoid being transported to extermination camps in order to survive in World War II[601]
- Coco avant Chanel (2009) – about fashion designer Coco Chanel before she was famous[602]
- Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009) – French romantic drama film based on a rumoured affair between Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky in Paris in 1920, the year that Chanel No. 5 was created
- The Consul of Sodom (Spain: El Cónsul de Sodoma) (2009) – Spanish biographical film about the Catalan poet Jaime Gil de Biedma[603]
- The Countess (2009) – French-German historical crime thriller drama film based on the life of the notorious Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory[604]
- The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009) – television film based on the 2007 biography Die Mutter der Holocaust-Kinder: Irena Sendler und die geretteten Kinder aus dem Warschauer Ghetto, that focuses on Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children to safety during World War II[605][606]
- Creation (2009) – British biographical drama film about Charles Darwin's relationship with his wife Emma and his memory of their eldest daughter Annie, as he struggles to write On the Origin of Species[607][608]
- The Damned United (2009) – British sports film based on Brian Clough's tenure as Leeds United's manager[609]
- Deadliest Sea (2009) – Canadian television film about the crew of the Kodiak, Alaska-based scallop fishing vessel St. Christopher
- Desert Flower (2009) – German biographical film based on the Somali-born model Waris Dirie's autobiography[610]
- Don't Burn (Vietnamese: Đừng Đốt) (2009) – Vietnamese biographical film based on the diary of North Vietnamese doctor Đặng Thùy Trâm[611]
- The Donner Party (2009) – period Western drama film based on the true story of the Donner Party, an 1840s westward traveling group of settlers headed for California. Becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains, with food increasingly scarce, a small group calling themselves "The Forlorn Hope" turned to cannibalism[612]
- Endgame (2009) – British film dramatizing the final days of apartheid in South Africa
- Enid (2009) – British biographical made-for-television film based on the life of children's writer Enid Blyton
- Everyman's War (2009) – based on the Battle of the Bulge during World War II
- Farewell (French: L'affaire Farewell) (2009) – French espionage thriller film loosely based on the actions of the high-ranking KGB official, Vladimir Vetrov
- Felicitas (2009) – Argentine romantic drama film based on the life of Argentine actress, screenwriter, producer and film director Felicitas Guerrero
- Formosa Betrayed (2009) – political thriller which depicts the KMT government's intentional wipe-out of the Taiwan people's opposition voices in the 1980s, inspired by two actual events – one the death of Professor Chen Wen-chen of Carnegie Mellon University in 1981, and the other the 1984 assassination of (American-citizen) journalist Henry Liu in California
- Fort Apache Napoli (Italian: Fortapàsc) (2009) – Italian biographical film about the fight against the Camorra and subsequent assassination of journalist Giancarlo Siani
- Georgia O'Keeffe (2009) – made-for-television biographical drama film about American painter Georgia O'Keeffe
- Get Low (2009) – drama film about a Tennessee hermit in the 1930s who throws his own funeral party while still alive, loosely based on the story of Felix Bushaloo "Uncle Bush" Breazeale
- Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009) – based on the life of Ben Carson, who grew up to become a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins and the first surgeon to separate conjoined twins
- The Girl on the Train (French: La fille du RER) (2009) – French drama film inspired by the true story of a woman in her twenties who walked into a police station in Paris on 9 July 2004 claiming she had been the victim of an antisemitic attack on a suburban RER train
- Goemon (2009) – Japanese historical fantasy film based on the story of Ishikawa Goemon, a legendary outlaw hero who stole valuables from the rich and gave them to the poor
- Grey Gardens (2009) – biographical drama television film about the lives of Edith Bouvier Beale and her mother Edith Ewing Bouvier
- Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009) – based on the faithful Akita Hachikō, remake of the Japanese film Hachikō Monogatari, and now set in the United States
- Held Hostage (2009) – Lifetime Movie based on the true story of Michelle Renee Ramskill-Estey, a single mother who is kidnapped by three masked men and held hostage until she is forced to rob a bank
- Hilde (2009) – German biographical film depicting the life of the German actress Hildegard Knef
- Hurricane Season (2009) – sports drama film based on the true story of John Ehret High School's 2005–06 State championship team
- I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009) – independent comedy film loosely based on the work and persona of writer Tucker Max, who co-wrote the screenplay
- I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) – black comedy drama film based on the 1980s and 1990s real-life story con artist, imposter and multiple prison escapee Steven Jay Russell
- In Her Skin (2009) – Australian drama based on the brutal murder of 15-year-old Melbourne girl Rachel Barber, who went missing on 1 March 1999
- In the Beginning (2009) – French drama film about the true story of Philippe Berre, a Frenchman with a reputation as an impostor
- The Informant! (2009) – based on the real-life story of Mark Whitacre, the highest-ranked executive in U.S. history to turn whistleblower
- Ingenious (2009) – based on the rags-to-riches story of two friends, a small-time inventor and a sharky salesman, who hit rock bottom before coming up with a gizmo that becomes a worldwide phenomenon
- The Interrogation (Finnish: Kuulustelu) (2009) – Finnish war drama film focusing on the interrogation of Soviet intelligence agent Kerttu Nuorteva
- Into the Storm (2009) – British-American biographical film about Winston Churchill and his days in office during the Second World War
- Invictus (2009) – based on the real-life story of South African president Nelson Mandela and François Pienaar, the captain of the Springboks, the South African rugby union team
- John Rabe (2009) – German/Chinese/French biographical film focusing on the experiences of John Rabe, a German businessman who used his Nazi Party membership to create a protective International Safety Zone in Nanking, China, helping to save over 200,000 Chinese from the Nanking massacre in late 1937 and early 1938
- Julie & Julia (2009) – comedy drama contrasting the lives of two food writers: pioneer chef Julia Child in the 1940s and 21st-century New Yorker Julie Powell, who aspires to cook all 524 recipes in Child's cookbook in 365 days
- Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja (2009) – Indian Malayalam-language historical drama film based on the life of Pazhassi Raja, a Hindu king who fought against the British in the 18th century
- The Killing Room (2009) – psychological thriller based on the Project MKUltra programme by the CIA, with fictionalized characters
- The Last Station (2009) – German English-language biographical drama film based on Jay Parini's 1990 biographical novel of the same name, which chronicled the final months of Leo Tolstoy's life
- The Least Among You (2009) – based on the true story of Rev. Dr. Charles Marks' formative years
- Lula, Son of Brazil (Portuguese: Lula: O Filho do Brasil) (2009) – Brazilian film based on the life of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
- Mao's Last Dancer (2009) – based on the autobiography of ballet dancer Li Cunxin
- Margaret (2009) – made-for-television film fictionalising of the life of Margaret Thatcher and her fall from the premiership in the 1990 leadership election
- Middle Men (2009) – drama film based on the experiences of Christopher Mallick, who was previously associated with the Internet billing companies Paycom and ePassporte and was accused of stealing millions of dollars from his customers at ePassporte
- The Mighty Macs (2009) – sport drama film regarding Cathy Rush, a Hall of Fame women's basketball coach
- Moonshot (2009) – British television film about the events leading up to the Apollo 11 spaceflight
- Mulan (Chinese: 花木蘭) (2009) – Chinese action war film based on the life of Hua Mulan
- My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009) – American/German crime drama film loosely based on the story of Mark Yavorsky, an actor at the University of San Diego who reenacted a scene from Orestes by murdering his mother with an antique saber
- Natalee Holloway (2009) – made-for-television film based on the disappearance of Natalee Holloway
- Notorious (2009) – depiction of the life and career of rapper Biggie Smalls/The Notorious B.I.G.
- Nowhere Boy (2009) – British biographical drama film about John Lennon's adolescence, his relationships with his aunt Mimi Smith and his mother Julia Lennon, the creation of his first band, the Quarrymen, and its evolution into the Beatles
- The Perfect Game (2009) – drama film based on the events leading to the 1957 Little League World Series, which was won by the first team from outside the United States, the Industrial Little League of Monterrey, Mexico
- Phantom Punch (2009) – biographical film based on the life of Sonny Liston
- Pope Joan (German: Die Päpstin) (2009) – biographical epic film based on American novelist Donna Woolfolk Cross novel of the same name about the legendary Pope Joan
- Prayers for Bobby (2009) – the true story of gay rights crusader Mary Griffith, whose teenage son committed suicide due to her religious intolerance, based on the book of the same title by Leroy F. Aarons
- Prince of Tears (2009) – Taiwanese historical drama film telling the story of a family embroiled in the tragic "White Terror" suppression of political dissidents that was wrought during the 1950s by the Kuomintang government (KMT) after their acquisition of Taiwan in the 1940s
- Princess Kaiulani – biographical drama film based on the life of Princess Kaʻiulani of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
- Public Enemies (2009) – biographical crime film in which the FBI tries to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s
- Purple Sea (Italian: Viola di mare, also known as The Sea Purple) (2009) – Italian romance drama film based on the non-fiction novel Minchia di re written by Giacomo Pilati, telling the love story between Angela and Sara in 19th-century Sicily
- Safe Harbor (2009) – television film based on the beginnings of the Safe Harbor Boys Home, a residential educational program for at risk teenaged boys on the Saint Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida, founded by Doug and Robbie Smith
- Same Same But Different (2009) – German film, a love story following Benjamin Prüfer's 2006 autobiographical magazine article, later published as a novel in 2007, about a 21-year-old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveler
- Sister Smile (French: Sœur Sourire) (2009) – biographical drama film based on Jeannine Deckers, also known as The Singing Nun
- The Soloist (2009) – based on the life of Nathaniel Ayers, a musician who developed schizophrenia and became homeless
- The Spell (2009) – British horror film about a young woman that begins to dabble in witchcraft but soon gets in over her head, loosely based on the true story of Emma Whale
- Stoic (2009) – Canadian arthouse drama film centering on a true incident which occurred in Siegburg prison in 2006 where three prisoners raped, tortured and ultimately forced their cellmate to commit suicide over a period of ten hours in a series of events that began with a poker bet involving the consumption of a tube of toothpaste
- The Stoneman murders (2009) – Indian Hindi neo-noir crime thriller film based on the real life Stoneman serial killings, which made headlines in the early 1980s in Mumbai
- Taken in Broad Daylight (2009) – television film based on the real-life kidnapping of Nebraska teenager Anne Sluti, who was abducted and held for six days in April 2001 by Anthony Steven Wright, also known as Tony Zappa
- Taking Chance (2009) – based on the experiences of Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, who escorted the body of Marine Chance Phelps back to his hometown from Iraq
- Taking Woodstock (2009) – comedy based on the Woodstock Festival of 1969
- Too Late to Say Goodbye (2009) – American/Canadian television film based on the 2007 true crime book of the same name by Ann Rule
- Tsar (2009) – Russian drama film set between the years 1566 and 1569 during the era of the Oprichnina and the Livonian War
- Van Diemen's Land (2009) – thriller set in 1822 in colonial Tasmania following the story of the infamous Irish convict, Alexander Pearce
- Vincere (2009) – Italian film based on the life of Benito Mussolini's first wife, Ida Dalser
- Vision (German: Vision – Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen) (2009) – German film depicting the story of Hildegard of Bingen, the famed 12th century Benedictine nun, Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, physician, poet, naturalist, scientist and ecological activist
- Wesley (2009) – biographical film about John Wesley and Charles Wesley, the founders of the Methodist movement
- Winter of Frozen Dreams (2009) – independent crime drama following the story of Barbara Hoffman, a Wisconsin biochemistry student and prostitute convicted of murder in the first televised murder trial ever
- The Young Victoria (2009) – dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert
- Zen (Japanese: 禅) (2009) – Japanese biographical film about Dōgen Zenji, a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher
External links
- History at the Movies: Historical and Period Films
- Internet Movie Database list
- Films based on historical events and people
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