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Read true stories of love, loss, survival, and more from Reader's Digest. These stories are based on real events and people, and they will inspire, entertain, and inform you.
Browse a user-created list of 250 movies that are based on true events or stories, from The Pianist to The Zookeeper's Wife. See ratings, genres, directors, stars and plot summaries for each movie.
Oct 30, 2023 · In honor of this power (and in celebration of the 2023 National Book Awards finalists), we're gathering some of our favorite novels from the past few years that take true stories to imaginative new heights.
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Al Pacino has played many criminal masterminds over the course of his career, but John Wojtowicz isn’t one of them. On a scorching 1972 summer day, the Vietnam War veteran made a clumsy attempt to rob a Brooklyn bank, only to be penned in with hostages for a 14-hour standoff.
- All the President’s Men (1976) A younger generation might know Bob Woodward for his exhaustive chronicles of the Trump Administration in his books Fear: Trump in the White House and Rage.
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Paul Newman and Robert Redford stole hearts and set a new standard for the buddy film when they portrayed notorious real-life outlaws Robert “Butch Cassidy” LeRoy Parker and Harry “The Sundance Kid” Longabaugh in 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
- Spotlight (2015) Starring Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams and Michael Keaton as members of a real team of investigative journalists at the Boston Globe,Spotlight shows the efforts of reporters to uncover the history of systematic sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Boston.
- Educated. Tara Westover | 5.00. Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag".
- The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank, B.M. Mooyaart, Eleanor Roosevelt | 4.90. In Everyman’s Library for the first time—one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, read by tens of millions of people around the world since its publication in 1947.
- Man's Search for Meaning. Viktor E. Frankl, William J. Winslade, et al. | 4.88. Man's Search for Meaning has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival.
- Unbroken. A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption. Laura Hillenbrand | 4.87. In her long-awaited new book, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit.
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Looking for inspiring, entertaining and informative films based on real-life events? Check out this list of 65 movies from various genres and eras, ranging from Schindler's List to Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
