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Is the truth left on the sidelines in this story of a football coach who leads a group of orphans to victory?

A U.S. Special Forces team works with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban. Starring Chris Hemsworth.

Meet the real-life secret soldiers.

Is this Clint Eastwood movie more accurate because the heroes portray themselves?

The stories of two couples intersect when tragedy strikes, but how much is based on the real couples?

Does this gambling film deliver an honest hand or a loaded deck?

It's full of great fight scenes and lots of blood, but is the story accurate?

It's a bloody, sexy, violent spectacle, but how much of the 300 sequel is true?

Four seniors decide to make it their mission to attend the Super Bowl and meet Tom Brady.

Is the Tom Hanks Mister Rogers movie filled with too much fiction?

Actor Michael Peña portrays José Hernández, a migrant farmworker who dreams of becoming an astronaut.

The Nat Geo miniseries tells the story of Miep Gies, one of the people who helped hide Anne Frank and her family.

Was the actual Susan Orlean okay with the movie portraying her as a drug-snorting mess?

In 1983, a young couple sets off across the ocean to deliver a yacht and they encounter a deadly hurricane.

Nike's Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) wants to create a shoe around rookie Michael Jordan.

Chronicles the career of Tupac Shakur up until the 1996 drive-by shooting that took his life.

A salesman-turned-pastor tries to save a church he was ordered to shut down.

Did the movie's kidnapping and murder unfold the same way in real life?

Does the truth get hustled by the fiction?

Tom Cruise portrays drug smuggler Barry Seal in a largely fictional film.

The story of Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner, who went from grocery store stock boy to NFL star.

Is the truth as haunting as the famous 1979 movie?

Is this haunted doll movie stuffed with the truth?

Find out if there's any truth to the Annabelle prequel.

Abused as a boy, a former foster child learns to shed his demons during his time in the Navy.

Go undercover and discover the truth about the daring escape.

Hugh Jackman portrays Frank Tassone, the superintendent at the heart of the Long Island school scandal.

Did the Flying Bandit really carry out 59 bank and jewelry store heists?

The Apple TV+ movie tells the story of toy salesman Ty Warner and the rise and fall of Beanie Babies.

Does this story of a father trying to help his drug-addicted son leave out certain facts?

Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in a film that condenses their timeline.

Queen Latifah portrays bisexual blues singer Bessie Smith, who rose to fame in the 1920s.

Does Big Eyes paint within the boundaries of the truth?

Meet the real life Dude behind the Dude.

A romantic comedy based the movie's screenwriters, husband and wife Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, who also stars.

A photographer documents a 1960s biker gang, interviewing the wife of one of its most devoted members.

Johnny Depp portrays Boston gangster turned FBI informant Whitey Bulger.

The movie chronicles the rise and fall of the world's first smartphone, dubbed "CrackBerry" by its users.

Does this story of a boxing comeback get pinned against the ropes by too much fiction?

Is the reality just as inspiring?

The film is a heavily fictionalized and nightmarish look at the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.

We fight to uncover the truth behind Frank Dux and the Bloodsport movie.

Which of your favorite characters are real?

Does the movie stay in tune with the facts?

Discover why the town and the real people associated with the story did not support the movie.

Meet the real group of working class boys who rowed their way to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

A veteran with PTSD enters a bank claiming he has a bomb and demands the VA pay him $892.

Is the movie's miraculous survival story fact or mostly fiction?

Tom Hanks is lawyer James Donovan, who defended spy Rudolf Abel during the Cold War.

Larger-than-life attorney Willie E. Gary fights to save the business of a funeral home owner.

Could the Bye Bye Man be coming for you, or is he pure fiction? Learn the truth.

Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini fights for better care for orphaned children living in the slums of New York.

Does this movie about a literary forger invent certain parts of the story?

The Hulu miniseries explores the killing of Betty Gore by friend Candy Montgomery (Jessica Biel).

Climb aboard Tom Hanks's character's cargo ship as we explore the facts behind Captain Phillips.

Do the filmmakers hold the truth captive in this story of a single mother who is taken hostage by a murderer?

Two best friends clash over a gambling empire and a woman, but how much of the movie actually happened?

Catch up with the real con artist and the FBI agent who pursued him.

Does Chasing Mavericks hang ten or wipeout with regard to the truth?

Does this HBO miniseries about the Chernobyl disaster deliver a heavy does of fiction or fact?

A 500-pound black bear consumes a duffel bag full of cocaine, which sends it on a drug-fueled killing spree.

Is this story about an urban cowboy who reconnects with his rebellious son based in fact?

The horror sequel explores the real-life story of the Enfield Poltergeist.

Does the film conjure up more fiction than fact?

How much fiction is smuggled into this story about Cold War spy Greville Wynne?

Tom Holland portrays Danny Sullivan, a character inspired by The Campus Rapist, Billy Milligan.

Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse face off to see whose electrical current will power the world.

The film tells the story of transgender artist Lili Elbe, who underwent sexual reassignment surgery.

Gary Oldman portrays Winston Churchill during the early days of WWII, but is the movie accurate?

A 12-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a plane crash that kills 191 people, including his family.

Is Deepwater Horizon full of leaks when it comes to the truth?

Does this crime/horror movie deliver the truth?

Was the fabric of the story spun with fact or fiction?

Two U.S. Navy pilots develop a bond of brotherhood as they fly combat missions in the Korean War.

Does the truth get buried in this story of the Sutton Hoo archaeological dig?

Did rock band Mötley Crüe really do all of the crazy things seen in the movie?

James Franco portrays Tommy Wiseau, famous for making the worst movie ever.

A father and son search for their dog that went missing along the Appalachian Trail.

Go undercover, see pics, and watch an interview with the real-life Donnie Brasco.

Which parts of the Downton Abbey movie are true to history?

Find out if a family curse could have been responsible for Bruce Lee's death.

A barmaid convinces her small-town neighbors to help fund a racehorse in hopes of it becoming a champion.

A computer nerd flips the script on Wall Street by driving up GameStop's stock value.

Do the facts become casualties in Christopher Nolan's WWII movie?

The film focuses on the life of Elvis Presley (Austin Butler) and the role of his manager, Tom Parker (Tom Hanks).

A runaway slave named Peter (Will Smith) tries to make his way through the Louisiana swamps to the Union Army.

Meet actor Mark Wahlberg's real-life posse who inspired the Entourage TV show characters.

Meet the real woman behind the movie, who took on a power company and won.

Based on the exorcism story of Anneliese Michel.

Does fiction suffocate the facts in this Ted Bundy film?

A Jewish boy falls in love with filmmaking in this semi-autobiographical story of Steven Spielberg.

A family finds out the grandma is dying and decides to keep it from her. How much of this lie is true?

Does this story of a widowed father (Kevin Hart) raising his daughter stick to the facts?

Meet Esther Earl, the inspiration behind Shailene Woodley's character.

The Michael Mann film explores the life of Italian sports car mogul Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver).

We pit Fact vs. Fiction to see which wins the title.

Does the truth get lost in Johnny Depp's Neverland?

Does the truth stay afloat in this story of a perilous Coast Guard rescue mission?

The series examines the controversial events at Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina.

Did Richard Montañez create Flamin' Hot Cheetos, or is the film perpetuating a lie?

How much of the ABC TV series For Life is rooted in fact?

Does this car racing movie about the 1966 Le Mans rivalry leave the truth in the dust?

Steve Carell portrays multimillionaire and convicted murderer John du Pont.

Michael Douglas portrays Benjamin Franklin, who at age 70 worked to secure the Franco-American Alliance.

Get to know the teacher who inspired her students to beat the odds.

Get to know the controversial artist whose physical suffering inspired her paintings.

Does the James Brown biopic get funky with the truth?

A paralyzed young man finds hope through his primate friend, but how much of the film is monkey business?

Is the movie in sync with Jeannette Walls bestselling memoir about her poverty stricken upbringing?

We mine the Gold movie for the facts amongst the fiction.

Meet the real nurse who discovered her coworker and good friend was secretly killing patients.

Comedian Iliza Shlesinger based this comedy on her own relationship disaster.

Meet the real Henry Hill and learn more about the Lufthansa Heist.

Meet the real Gran Turismo player who became an actual race car driver.

How accurate is The Greatest Showman when compared to the real P.T. Barnum?

Is the truth reinvented in this story of a bouncer who drives a black pianist through the 1960s South?

Meet the real coach and find out if the football program really changed the lives of these troubled kids.

Mel Gibson directs the story of a WWII Medal of Honor winner who never fired a shot.

Does fiction knock out the truth in this story of boxing trainer Ray Arcel and boxer Roberto Duran?

Harriet Tubman frees dozens of slaves through the Underground Railroad, but is the biopic factual?

Heaven is for real. Okay, but is the movie?

Is this story of three African-American women NASA mathematicians fueled by too much fiction?

Does Ron Howard's film about J.D. Vance's difficult upbringing in Appalachia stay true to his memoir?

Gary Johnson (Glen Powell), a professor who moonlights as a fake hit man for the cops, starts to fall for a client.

Saints coach Sean Payton (Kevin James) coaches his son's football team during his year-long NFL suspension.

Find out if the real basketball team's story was as dramatic as the movie.

Socialite Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga) plots the death of her husband, Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver).

Separate the facts from the fiction that ultimately KOed Denzel Washington's Oscar chances.

A ruined reporter helps a young woman investigate the mystery of her birth, but how much really happened?

The movie tells the story behind MercyMe's hit song, but how much of it really happened?

The story of singer/songwriter Jeremy Camp and his experience with love and loss early in his career.

How true is the Whitney film?

Is this Alan Turing biopic cryptic when it comes to the truth?

Was the real undercover agent's experience as harrowing as Bryan Cranston's in the movie?

Meet the real Vince Papale and discover the true story.

Robert De Niro and Al Pacino star in a film about the man who supposedly killed Jimmy Hoffa, but is the movie a lie?

Explore the inspiration behind this shark attack movie.

A couple facing retirement discover a lottery loophole and win millions.

A community of teenage hippies in Southern California inspire a spiritual awakening in the early 1970s.

Does this Jimi Hendrix movie miss a chord with regard to the truth?

A father embarks on a cross-country walk to raise awareness of bullying after his son commits suicide.

Does this story of Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano wash away the facts?

A look at the life of legendary performer Judy Garland (Renée Zellweger).

Does this story of an attorney who fights to free a black man on Death Row perjure itself with too much fiction?

Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this story of the Osage Tribe Murders.

Is King Arthur's legend one of fact or fiction?

Find out how much of Lady Bird was inspired by Greta Gerwig's life.

A reporter investigates two unrelated deaths in Baltimore: the murder of a young Jewish girl and the death of a black female bartender.

Is this story about an Air Force pararescueman's heroism true to history?

When the men go off to war, the women pick up their bats, but is the story based in fact?

A young Indian boy is separated from his family and uses Google Earth to try and find them 25 years later.

Mark Wahlberg fights for his life, but does the truth hold up in the onscreen version of the battle.

We compare the Netflix series to Shannan Gilbert's real-life disappearance.

Does this movie about an interracial couple's right to live freely together stay faithful to the real story?

Is this movie about music conductor Leonard Bernstein and wife Felicia off-key when it comes to the truth?

When two women with the same name are murdered a week apart, a police chief looks for a connection.

Does the film accurately depict Charles Dickens's writing of A Christmas Carol.

We compare the Manhattan TV show to real life at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

A young Thurgood Marshall defends a black chauffeur accused of attempted murder by his white employer.

Does the series hit the target with regard to the facts about the 100th Bomb Group during WWII?

Does this Kevin Costner sports movie outrun the truth?

Megan Leavey fights to adopt her combat dog Rex in the years after they survive an IED explosion.

Is director Roland Emmerich's version of the WWII Battle of Midway accurate?

Military spouses and girlfriends form a choir that becomes a global sensation, but does the film stay in harmony with the truth?

Does this story of photojournalist W. Eugene Smith accurately capture the Minamata disaster?

A British special forces team carries out "ungentlemanly" warfare against the Nazis.

Meet the real girl who says she visited heaven after falling inside a hollow tree.

Ex-professional skier Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) runs an exclusive high-stakes poker game.

Does director George Clooney paint over the facts with too much fiction?

Would the real Mothman be a fan of the Richard Gere movie?

Is this story of an elderly WWII veteran who transports drugs for a Mexican cartel filled with fiction.

Two former classmates who work for rival governments meet to discuss peace in the lead up to WWII.

Does Joaquin Phoenix accurately depict French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte?

Thomas Rongen becomes the head coach of the infamously bad American Samoa soccer team.

Does this Biggie Smalls movie drop an authentic beat?

We peel back The Nun's veil to reveal which parts of the horror movie are rooted in history.

We compare the real-life bank robber to the Robert Redford movie.

When their pilot dies suddenly mid-flight, a father tries to land the plane.

We reveal the facts behind this Disney+ movie that tells the story of a gorilla kept in a shopping mall.

Does the truth get lost in the smoke in this wildfire movie?

To trick the Nazis, the British place fake documents on a corpse posing as an officer. Is the WWII movie accurate?

The Christopher Nolan film explores the story of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.

When a couple receives devastating news, a friend arrives to help, but is the story in line with the truth?

How accurate is this film about the 14th century Scottish 'Outlaw King' Robert the Bruce?

Is the real story of the bodybuilding kidnappers as funny as the movie?

Single mom Liza Drake finds success at a corrupt pharmaceutical start-up with a new opioid medication.

Meet the real-life doctor who is the basis for the Robin Williams character.

Was Al Pacino able to capture Joe Paterno's appearance for the Penn State scandal movie?

Chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) takes on the Soviet Union and Boris Spassky (Liev Schreiber).

After an accident leaves a mother paralyzed, the family cares for an injured magpie, which helps them heal.

Did you know that director Roman Polanski had himself been a prisoner of the Polish ghetto during WWII?

The Vatican's chief exorcist battles an evil that is unlike anything he's encountered.

An English boxer finds himself in a savage Thai prison, but how much is fact?

We reveal how much of The Promise is based in reality and explore the controversy around the movie.

Meet the real-life stockbroker who went from rags to riches.

Does this story of a Ugandan female chess prodigy add any fictional pieces to the board?

Does this horror movie keep the truth quiet as well?

African American athlete Jesse Owens wins a record-breaking four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin as Hitler watches.

Colin Firth portrays Eric Lomax, a WWII POW who tracks down one of his former captors for closure.

Dennis Quaid portrays Ronald Reagan in this movie about his life and presidency.

Find out if the racial tension was depicted accurately in the movie.

A state trooper hopes to join the K-9 rescue team and picks an unruly dog to help him achieve his dream.

Is this story of revenge starring Leonardo DiCaprio based more on fact or folklore?

The media got Richard Jewell wrong, but does Clint Eastwood get his story right?

Is it based in fact or possessed by fiction?

Does this Elton John biopic contain too much fantasy and not enough fact?

Learn the truth and see a pic of the real Rudy being carried off the Notre Dame field.

Explore the real Formula One rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda.

Meet the real Mary Poppins author and learn the truth behind her battle with Disney.

How accurate is the acclaimed Steven Spielberg WWII movie?

The Netflix movie chronicles Prince Andrew's infamous 2019 BBC interview about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Meet Seabiscuit and watch the real-life races depicted in the movie.

UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello finds himself in a perilous situation in the aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq.

Does this miniseries about serial killer Charles Sobhraj accurately depict the real-life killings?

Is this new horror villain based in reality or is it a complete work of fiction?

Does the Facebook movie compute with the truth?

Based on the ten-hour miniseries The Bible, we explore the history, the cast and the controversy.

Does the truth hang ten or wipe out?

Kristen Stewart portrays Princess Diana when she decides to leave Prince Charles, but is it factual?

We shine a light on the real story, including the reporters who broke the Catholic Church abuse story.

The truth doesn't quite compute in this biopic about Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.

Is this story of Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman made weaker by too much ficton?

Does this story of a Holocaust survivor who boxed fellow prisoners keep the facts in the ring?

The movie is based on a Wall Street Journal article about a group of men who've played tag for more than 20 years.

Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton) travels behind the Iron Curtain to secure the rights to the video game Tetris.

Was there really a Leatherface? What did he look like?

Is this Stephen Hawking biopic as intelligent as the famous physicist?

Does this series about Pam Hupp (Renée Zellweger) and the murder of Betsy Faria get the details right?

This wildly popular Netflix documentary tells the at-times exaggerated story of big-cat zoo operator Joe Exotic.

The film tells the story of the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till and his mother's subsequent fight for justice.

Kat Dennings portrays Renee Yohe, who inspired the TWLOHA movement.

Meet the real sled dog who helped save Nome from a diphtheria epidemic.

How realistic is the sequel? We examine the flying, the pilots, and the plot.

Four women hide beneath a floor for months in an attempt to survive the Rwandan genocide.

16-year-old Jessica Watson tries to become the youngest person to sail solo and nonstop around the world.

Does the truth remain unbroken in this story of an Olympian and WWII hero?

Meet the heroes and investigate the story behind the film.

David Oyelowo is a prince who's interracial marriage changes history, but did it really?

The film tells the story of the Smallbone Family, whose children grew up to become Christian pop superstars.

How much fiction is in this story of a wealthy quadriplegic who hires a convict to take care of him?

Was Queen Victoria really a champion against racial intolerance?

Authorities lay siege to religious leader David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound in 1993.

Is this story of high-wire artist Philippe Petit wobbly with the truth?

Is the real story of these two stoner arms dealers as exciting as the movie?

This HBO miniseries chronicles the corruption surrounding the Baltimore PD's Gun Trace Task Force.

Members of a Jewish family each embark on their own path to safety during WWII, hoping to reunite again.

Daniel Radcliffe is parody musician Weird Al Yankovic in this satirical biopic.

A man (Steve Carell) creates a miniature WWII town in his yard to deal with PTSD.

The Netflix miniseries presents a searing tale of racial injustice while distorting the truth.

Does this story of a 14-year-old FBI informant turned drug dealer stick to the facts?

When residents of an English town start to receive vulgar letters, they rush to blame an unruly Irish immigrant.

Reese Witherspoon ventures into the Wild, but does she bring the truth with her?

Does this story of a woman who fights to reclaim a painting stolen by the Nazis smudge the facts?

Does the movie tell the whole story of the Kingdom of Dahomey and its female warriors?

Swimmer Trudy Ederle (Daisy Ridley) attempts to swim across the English Channel.

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