All posts tagged "true story"
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1.1KFilm & TVFilm Review: Lion
The true story of Saroo Brierley, who was adopted by Australian parents as a child and returns to India as an adult to find his birth family.
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4.7KEntertainmentInterview: Saroo & Sue Brierley, authors of ‘Lion’
The extraordinary biographical film, Lion, opens in cinemas today, and we caught up with Saroo & his mum for a chat about the film, their life, and what it's like seeing themselves depicted on screen.
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2.3KFilm & TVDVD Review: Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
With the help of the Resistance, a special ops team of allied soldiers are sent behind enemy lines to extract the man destined to lead a post-war Germany.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The War on Women, by Sue Lloyd-Roberts
This book encapsulates the working life of Sue Lloyd-Roberts, a video journalist for 30 years who often reported on human rights abuses around the world.
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521Film & TVFilm Review: Deepwater Horizon
The true story of the worst ever US oil spill disaster in 2010 when the Deepwater Horizon oil exploration rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and injuring 17 more.
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676Film & TVFilm Review: Snowden
The true story of Edward Snowden, a CIA employee who became disillusioned with the government and leaked sensitive security information to a major newspaper.
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1.2KFilm & TVDVD Review: The Secret
The true story of a double murder in Ireland when a bible-bashing dentist and a Sunday school teacher plot to kill their partners to hide their illicit affair.
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1.4KFilm & TVFilm Review: Sully
In 2009, a commercial airline was forced to crash land in the Hudson river. Hailed a hero, it turned into a media nightmare for Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger.
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738Books & LiteratureBook Review: Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, by Mike & Dave Stangle
The comical memoirs of Mike & Dave Stangle, a couple of incorrigible, irresponsible lads who became internet-famous after posting a Craigslist ad for wedding dates.
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1.2KFilm & TVDVD Review: The Stanford Prison Experiment
Halted after only 6 days, this is a retelling of an infamous true life experiment in behavioural psychology that spiralled out of control when university students were placed in a simulated prison.
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1.1KFilm & TVFilm Review: Eddie the Eagle
The true story of Eddie Edwards, an unusual young man who wanted to compete at the Winter Olympic Games despite not having many athletic skills.
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871Film & TVFilm Review: Labyrinth of Lies
The true story of a prosecutor and a journalist in post-war Germany who try to expose their country's denial of the Nazi atrocities in Auschwitz & other camps.
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669Film & TVFrench Film Festival Review: The White Knights
Based on a true story, the film follows a French team that goes into Chad, Africa to offer a better life to children under 5yo, but they have a secret agenda.
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679Film & TVFrench Film Festival Review: Taj Mahal
Based on a true event, an 18 year old girl who finds herself caught in the terrorist attack on the Taj Mahal hotel on the night of 26 November 2008.
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586Film & TVDVD Review: Pawn Sacrifice
In 1972, the US chess champion played the USSR World Champion in a match that became seen by both sides in the Cold War as a test of national supremacy.
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997Film & TVFilm Review: The Finest Hours
The true story of the greatest small-boat rescue in America’s Coast Guard history when a powerful storm literally ripped the SS Pendleton oil tanker in half.
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450Film & TVFilm Review: Concussion
A true story of a gifted Nigerian doctor who discovers a new football-related brain trauma only to be stifled by the powerful National Football League.
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476Film & TVFilm Review: The Revenant
Based on true events, explorer Hugh Glass is attacked by a bear & left for dead but he is determined to conquer the harsh elements & beat the odds for revenge.
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589Film & TVGround-Breaking Simshar Screens For 2 Weeks Only
This powerful, ground-breaking Maltese film recalls the true story of a Maltese fishing family left stranded in open water when mistaken for asylum seekers.
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1.2KFilm & TVDVD Review: Rosewater
The true story of Maziar Bahari, a Newsweek journalist arrested in Iran for being a spy after witnessing the political upheaval that followed the 2009 elections.
