Tag Archives: based on true story

Freedom Writers

IMDB Rating: 7.40
3637 votes

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A young teacher (Swank) inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Actors
Erin GruwellHilary Swank
Scott CaseyPatrick Dempsey
SteveScott Glenn
Also posted in 2007, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Gridiron Gang

IMDB Rating: 6.70
3915 votes

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In the Kilpatrick juvenile detention center, the supervisor and former football player Sean Porter sees the lack of discipline, self-esteem, union and perspective in the teenage interns and proposes to prepare a football team to play in one league. He is supported by his superiors and his successful experience changes the lives of many young kids.
Actors
Sean PorterThe Rock
Malcolm MooreXzibit
Bobbi PorterL. Scott Caldwell
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sport | Comments (0)

We Are Marshall

IMDB Rating: 7.20
2828 votes

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When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach (McConaughey) and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
Actors
Jack LengyelMatthew McConaughey
Red DawsonMatthew Fox
Nate RuffinAnthony Mackie
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sport | Comments (0)

The Pursuit of Happyness

IMDB Rating: 7.40
21312 votes

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In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman in little needed medical bone density scanners while his wife toiled in double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream with his son even when the odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father and son struggle through homelessness, jail time, tax seizure and the overall punishing despair in a quest that would make Gardner a respected millionaire.
Actors
Chris GardnerWill Smith
ChristopherJaden Smith
LindaThandie Newton
Also posted in 2006, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

World Trade Center

IMDB Rating: 6.50
15163 votes

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On September, 11th 2001, after the terrorist attack to the World Trade Center, the building collapses over the rescue team from the Port Authority Police Department. Will Jimeno and his sergeant John McLoughlin are found alive trapped under the wreckage while the rescue teams fight to save them.
Actors
John McLoughlinNicolas Cage
Donna McLoughlinMaria Bello
Steven McLoughlinConnor Paolo
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating, History | Comments (0)

Eight Below

IMDB Rating: 7.40
7684 votes

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In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren (Bruce Greenwood), the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd (Paul Walker) has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called-off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission while his dogs fight for survival.
Actors
Jerry ShepardPaul Walker
Davis McClarenBruce Greenwood
KatieMoon Bloodgood
Also posted in 2006, Adventure, Drama, Family, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Glory Road

IMDB Rating: 7.00
4736 votes

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40 years ago, Don Haskins went on the recruiting trail to find the best talent in the land, black or white. 7 blacks and 5 whites made up the legendary 1965-66 Texas Western Miners. They were mocked and ridiculed for their showboating and flaunting of black players on the court. Yet, in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, Haskins and his Miners came together as a team united to reach the National Championship game against powerhouse Kentucky.
Actors
Don HaskinsJosh Lucas
Bobby Joe HillDerek Luke
Jerry ArmstrongAustin Nichols
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sport | Comments (0)

The Zodiac

IMDB Rating: 5.40
1096 votes

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On 20 December 1968, in Lake Helena, a couple of teenagers are brutally murdered by a killer while dating nearby the lake. The young Sergeant Matt Parish is assigned and becomes obsessed with the case, neglecting his wife Laura and son Johnny. On 04 July 1969, another couple is shot on the golf course of Vallejo, and the killer sends letters to three newspapers with a riddle and promising more murders. He kills again, and the police force is not able to arrest him. On 24 April 1978, he writes to a newspaper saying that he is waiting for a good movie about him.
Actors
Inspector Matt ParishJustin Chambers
Laura ParishRobin Tunney
Johnny ParishRory Culkin
Also posted in 2005, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Great Raid

IMDB Rating: 6.90
4732 votes

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Set in the Philippines in 1945 towards the end of WWII, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, the 6th Ranger Battalion undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, they intend to liberate over 500 American Soldiers from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever.
Actors
Lt. Colonel MucciBenjamin Bratt
Captain PrinceJames Franco
Captain FisherRobert Mammone
Also posted in 2005, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

North Country

IMDB Rating: 7.20
8291 votes

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A semi-fictionalized account of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment and numerous and continuous insults and unwanted touching when they became the first women to go work at the Eveleth Mines in Minnesota.
Actors
Josey AimesCharlize Theron
Karen AimesElle Peterson
Sammy AimesThomas Curtis
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)