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== 1990 ==
* ''[[A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia]]'' (1990) – British television film depicting the experiences of [[T. E. Lawrence]] and [[Faisal I of Iraq|Emir Faisal]] of the [[Kingdom of Hejaz|Hejaz]] at the [[Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)|Paris Peace Conference]] after the end of the [[World War I|First World War]]
* ''[[A Killing in a Small Town]]'' (1990) – [[television film]] based on the story of [[Wylie, Texas|Wylie]], [[Texas]], housewife Candy Montgomery's murder of Betty Gore in 1980
* ''[[After the Shock]]'' (1990) – [[television film]] about the aftermath of the [[1989 Loma Prieta earthquake]] that hit [[San Francisco]] on October 17, 1989
* ''[[An Angel at My Table]]'' (1990) – drama film based on [[Janet Frame]]'s three autobiographies, ''To the Is-Land'' (1982), ''An Angel at My Table'' (1984), and ''The Envoy from Mirror City'' (1984)
* ''[[Anything to Survive]]'' (1990) – [[Disaster film|disaster]] [[survival film]] loosely based on the true story of the Wortman family of Prince of Wales Island, Alaska
* ''[[Awakenings]]'' (1990) – drama film based on British neurologist [[Oliver Sacks]]'s memoir [[Awakenings (book)|of the same title]], about his discovery of the beneficial effects of the drug [[L-DOPA]], which he administered to catatonic patients, who awakened after decades of catatonia
* ''[[Call Me Mr. Brown]]'' (1990) – Australian movie based on the Australian Great Plane Robbery of 1971
* ''[[Captive of the Desert]]'' (French: ''La captive du désert'') (1990) – French [[drama film]] based in part on the experiences of [[Françoise Claustre]] who was captured by [[Chad]]ian rebels in 1974, later joined by her husband, and the pair finally released in 1977
* ''[[Challenger (1990 film)|Challenger]]'' (1990) – [[television film]] based on the events surrounding the [[Space Shuttle Challenger disaster|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster]]
* ''[[Chicago Joe and the Showgirl]]'' (1990) – British [[crime film|crime]] [[drama film]] inspired by the real-life Hulten/Jones murder case of 1944, otherwise known as the [[Cleft chin murder|Cleft Chin Murder]]
* ''[[China Cry]]'' (1990) – [[biographical film]] set during the rise of the [[communist state]] in China, based on the book by [[Nora Lam]], about a young girl, Sung Neng Yee, who is taken to a labour camp, overseen by the sadistic Colonel Cheng
* ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 film)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]'' (1990) – about French [[novelist]], [[playwright]], [[Letter (message)|epistolarian]] and [[duel]]ist, [[Cyrano de Bergerac]]
* ''[[The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story]]'' (1990) – [[television film]] about [[L. Frank Baum]], the author of ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]''
* ''[[Ek Doctor Ki Maut]]'' (1990) – Indian film based on the life of [[Subhash Mukhopadhyay (physician)|Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay]], an Indian Physician who pioneered the [[In vitro fertilisation|IVF]] treatment just around the same time when another leading scientist [[Robert Edwards (physiologist)|Dr. Robert Edwards]] was conducting separate experiments in England
* ''[[Europa Europa]]'' (German: ''Hitlerjunge Salomon'') (1990) – German film based on the true story of author and motivational speaker [[Solomon Perel]]'s life
* ''[[Fall from Grace (1990 film)|Fall from Grace]]'' (1990) – [[television film]] about the lives of [[Jim Bakker]] and his then-wife, [[Tammy Faye Messner|Tammy Faye Bakker]], during the 1980s, and depicting the events that led to the [[PTL scandal]] and the Bakkers' subsequent downfall
* ''[[Forbidden Nights]]'' (1990) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the article ''The Rocky Course of Love in China'', set in [[People's Republic of China|Red China]] in 1979, Judith Shapiro, an American teacher who falls in love with [[Liang Heng]], a Chinese radical, trying to bring political reform to his homeland. She puts all her wishes and dreams away to fit into his ideals, but soon, trouble starts to come
* ''[[GoodFellas]]'' (1990) – based on the book ''Wiseguy'' by [[Nicholas Pileggi]], the true story of New York City mobster [[Henry Hill]]
* ''[[Henry & June]]'' (1990) – based on the book ''[[Henry and June]]'' by [[Anais Nin]], the true story of the Millers, [[Anais Nin]] and [[Ian Hugo]]
* ''[[Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes]]'' (1990) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[historical drama|historical]] [[war film|war]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] about the [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|Atomic bombings of Hiroshima]]
* ''[[I Love You to Death]]'' (1990) – [[black comedy]] film loosely based on an attempted murder that happened in 1983, in [[Allentown, Pennsylvania]], where Frances Toto repeatedly tried to kill her husband, Anthony
* ''[[I, the Worst of All]]'' (Spanish: ''Yo, la peor de todas'') (1990) – Argentinian film, a biopic on the life of [[Juana Inés de la Cruz]]. It was based on [[Octavio Paz]]'s ''Sor Juana: Or, the Traps of Faith''
* ''[[Judgment (1990 film)|Judgment]]'' (1990) – [[television film]] about a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church
* ''[[The Krays (film)|The Krays]]'' (1990) – a trendy take on the criminally insane [[East End]] gangsters the [[Kray twins]], who enjoyed a brief, [[black comedy|black-humored]] celebrity during London's [[Swinging London|Swinging Sixties]]
* ''[[Max and Helen]]'' (1990) – [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the 1982 book ''Max and Helen'' by [[Simon Wiesenthal]], about his 1962 prosecution of the head of a German factory whom he learns was a murderous labor camp commandant
* ''[[Mayumi (film)|Mayumi]]'' (1990) – South Korean film based on the bombing of [[Korean Air Flight 858]]
* ''[[Memphis Belle (film)|Memphis Belle]]'' (1990) – British-American [[war film|war]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]], a fictionalization of the 1944 [[Documentary film|documentary]] ''[[Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress]]'' about the 25th and last mission of an American [[Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress]] [[bomber]], the ''[[Memphis Belle (aircraft)|Memphis Belle]]'', based in England during [[World War II]]
* ''[[Miracle Landing]]'' (1990) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on an in-flight accident aboard [[Aloha Airlines Flight 243]] that occurred in April 1988
* ''[[Mountains of the Moon (film)|Mountains of the Moon]]'' (1990) – biographical film depicting the 1857–1858 journey of [[Richard Francis Burton]] and [[John Hanning Speke]] in their expedition to Central Africa which culminated in Speke's discovery of the source of the [[Nile River]] and led to a bitter rivalry between the two men
* ''[[The Long Walk Home]]'' (1990) – [[historical drama|historical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the [[Montgomery bus boycott]] (1955–1956)
* ''[[Murder in Mississippi (film)|Murder in Mississippi]]'' (1990) – [[television film]] which dramatized the last weeks of [[civil rights]] activists [[Michael Schwerner|Michael "Mickey" Schwerner]], [[Andrew Goodman (activist)|Andrew Goodman]] and [[James Chaney]], and the events leading up to [[Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner|their disappearance and subsequent murder]] during [[Freedom Summer]] in 1964
* ''[[My Father's Glory (film)|My Father's Glory]]'' (French: ''La Gloire de mon père'') (1990) – French film based on the autobiographical novel ''[[My Father's Glory]]'' by [[Marcel Pagnol]]
* ''[[My Mother's Castle (film)|My Mother's Castle]]'' (French: ''Le château de ma mère'') (1990) – French film, a sequel to ''[[My Father's Glory (film)|My Father's Glory]]''
* ''[[The Nasty Girl]]'' (German: ''Das schreckliche Mädchen'') (1990) – West German [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the true story of [[Anna Rosmus]] (named Sonja Rosenberger in the film), a [[West Germany|German]] high school student, who investigates her town's [[Nazi]] past, when the community turns against her
* ''[[Pacific Heights (film)|Pacific Heights]]'' (1990) – [[psychological horror film]] based on a true story about a couple who rent out an apartment to a crazy scam man
* ''[[Reversal of Fortune]]'' (1990) – the true story of the unexplained coma of socialite [[Sunny von Bülow]], the subsequent attempted murder trial, and the eventual acquittal of her husband, [[Claus von Bülow]], who was defended by [[Alan Dershowitz]]
* ''[[The Rose and the Jackal]]'' (1990) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[Western (genre)|Western]] [[adventure film]] revolving around Union agent [[Allan Pinkerton]], who falls in love with female spy [[Rose O'Neal Greenhow]]
* ''[[Secret Weapon (film)|Secret Weapon]]'' (1990) – American-Australian film, the true story of [[Mordechai Vanunu]], the Israeli nuclear technician who revealed to the world his country's nuclear weapons capabilities
* ''[[Shoot to Kill (1990 film)|Shoot to Kill]]'' (1990) – a four-hour drama reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 [[Stalker Inquiry]] into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]] 
* ''[[Silent Scream (1990 film)|Silent Scream]]'' (1990) – biopic film about convicted murderer Larry Winters
* ''[[Sudie and Simpson]]'' (1990) – [[television film]] based on Sarah Flanigan Carter's autobiographical novel about growing up in World War II-era Georgia, Sudie Harrington, a feisty twelve-year-old, befriends Simpson, a gentle black man accused of impropriety with a child
* ''[[Too Young to Die?]]'' (1990) – [[television film]] touching on the debate concerning the death penalty, loosely based on the true story of [[Attina Marie Cannaday]]
* ''[[Vincent & Theo]]'' (1990) – the intense relationship between an art dealer [[Vincent van Gogh]] and his alienated older brother [[Theo van Gogh (art dealer)|Theo]]
* ''[[Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase]]'' (1990) – miniseries based on ''[[When Rabbit Howls]]'', the autobiography of [[Truddi Chase]], a woman who was diagnosed with [[dissociative identity disorder]] who allegedly had 92 separate personalities
* ''[[Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair]]'' (1990) – American-German-Italian-French [[television film|made-for-television]] [[action film|action-drama film]] based on the 1985 [[Achille Lauro hijacking|''Achille Lauro'' hijacking]]
* ''[[White Hunter Black Heart]]'' (1990) – based on the location filming of ''[[The African Queen (film)|The African Queen]]'' in 1951

== 1991 ==
* ''[[29th Street (film)|29th Street]]'' (1991) – [[comedy drama]] film, adapted from a story by [[Frank Pesce]] and [[James Franciscus]], about Frank Pesce Jr. who wins the lottery in 1976
* ''[[Absolute Strangers]]'' (1991) – made-for-television [[drama film]] based on the true story of a husband's controversial decision to have his wife undergo an abortion to aid her recovery after a head-trauma accident had left her comatose
* ''[[American Friends]]'' (1991) – British [[comedy film]] about Francis Ashby, a senior [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] professor on holiday in the [[Swiss Alps]] in 1861. The plot was based on a real-life incident involving [[Michael Palin]]'s great-grandfather, Edward Palin
* ''[[Billy Bathgate (film)|Billy Bathgate]]'' (1991) – [[biographical]] [[gangster film]] starring [[Dustin Hoffman]] as real-life gangster [[Dutch Schultz]]
* ''[[Black Robe]]'' (1991) – tells the story of the first contacts between the Huron Indians of Quebec and the Jesuit missionaries from France who came to convert them to Catholicism, and ended up delivering them into the hands of their enemies
* ''[[The Boys from St. Petri]]'' (Danish: ''Drengene fra Sankt Petri'') (1991) – Danish World War II film inspired by the activities of the [[Churchill Club]]
* ''[[Bugsy]]'' (1991) – the glamorized and sanitized story of mobster [[Bugsy Siegel]], the putative father of the [[Las Vegas Strip]]
* ''[[Cabeza de Vaca (film)|Cabeza de Vaca]]'' (1991) – Mexican film about the adventures of [[Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca]] (c. 1490 – c. 1557), an early Spanish explorer, as he traversed what later became the Southeast United States
* ''[[Charuga (film)|Charuga]]'' (1991) – Yugoslav film based on the novel by [[Ivan Kušan]], it tells a true story about legendary [[Slavonia]]n bandit [[Jovo Stanisavljević Čaruga]]
* ''[[The Chase (1991 film)|The Chase]]'' (1991) – crime drama television film based on the true story of American bank robber [[Phillip Hutchinson]], who robbed a bank, killed a cop and took a man hostage in a 1988 rampage in [[Denver|Denver, Colorado]]
* ''[[Chernobyl: The Final Warning]]'' (1991) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[disaster film|disaster]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] chronicling the [[Chernobyl disaster]]
* ''[[Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann]]'' (1991) – television film based on the true story of the [[Kidnapping of Peggy Ann Bradnick|abduction of Peggy Ann Bradnick]] by an ex-convict and ex-mental patient William Diller Hollenbaugh which took place in [[Shade Gap, Pennsylvania]] on May 11, 1966
* ''[[Deadly Intentions... Again?]]'' (1991) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[thriller film]] and a sequel to the 1985 film ''[[Deadly Intentions]]'' about Dr. Charles Raynor
* ''[[Dillinger (1991 film)|Dillinger]]'' (1991) – [[television film]] based on the actual events of the pursuit of [[United States|American]] [[bank robber]] [[John Dillinger]] during the 1930s
* ''[[The Doctor (1991 film)|The Doctor]]'' (1991) – [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] loosely based on Dr. [[Edward Rosenbaum]]'s 1988 autobiographical book ''A Taste of My Own Medicine'', about his experience with throat cancer
* ''[[The Doors (film)|The Doors]]'' (1991) – based on the life of [[Jim Morrison]], the lead singer for the American rock band [[The Doors]] before his death in Paris
* ''[[The Haunted (1991 film)|The Haunted]]'' (1991) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[haunted house]] film depicting the events surrounding the [[Smurl haunting]]
* ''[[Hear My Song]]'' (1991) – comedy film based on the story of Irish tenor [[Josef Locke]]
* ''[[Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem]]'' (Swedish: ''Il Capitano'') (1991) – Swedish-Finnish [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama film]] about the 1988 [[Åmsele]] murders, where a family of three was murdered by [[Juha Valjakkala]] over a stolen bicycle
* ''[[In a Child's Name]]'' (1991) – [[crime film|crime drama]] mini-series about a custody battle in the state of Indiana for a boy named Andrew Taylor
* ''[[The Inner Circle (1991 film)|The Inner Circle]]'' (1991) – [[drama]] film by telling the story of [[Joseph Stalin]]'s private [[projectionist]] and [[KGB]] officer [[Ivan Sanchin]] (real name Alex Ganchin) between 1939 and 1953, the year Stalin died
* ''[[Impromptu (1991 film)|Impromptu]]'' (1991) – British-American [[period drama|period drama film]] about the romance between [[Frédéric Chopin]] and [[George Sand]] in 1830s France
* ''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]'' (1991) – loosely based on New Orleans DA [[Jim Garrison]]'s late-1960s prosecution of defendant [[Clay Shaw]] – in addition to pieces of a half-dozen other conspiracy theories – in the [[John F. Kennedy assassination]]
* ''[[Let Him Have It]]'' (1991) – the story of the murder of a London policeman killed during an attempted break in by [[Derek Bentley case|Christopher Craig and Derek Bentley]]; covers the subsequent trial and execution of what has turned out to be an innocent man
* ''[[Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story]]'' (1991) – [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the true story of Morris Dees, a civil rights lawyer from [[Alabama]], whose Southern Poverty Law Center battles [[neo-Nazi]]s and the [[Ku Klux Klan]]
* ''[[Love, Lies and Murder]]'' (1991) – two-part miniseries based on the 1985 murder of [[Linda Bailey Brown]] and [[Ann Rule]]'s book ''If You Really Loved Me''
* ''[[Lovers (1991 film)|Lovers]]'' (Spanish: ''Amantes'') (1991) – Spanish [[film noir]] concerning a widow who engages in blackmailing and persuades a young man to kill his wife
* ''[[Mobsters (film)|Mobsters]]'' (1991) – [[crime film]] detailing the creation of [[The Commission (mafia)|The Commission]]. Set in [[New York City]], taking place from 1917 to 1931, it is a semi-fictitious account of the rise of [[Lucky Luciano|Charles "Lucky" Luciano]], [[Meyer Lansky]], [[Frank Costello]], and [[Bugsy Siegel|Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel]]
* ''[[Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story]]'' (1991) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[crime film|crime drama film]] based on the true story of [[Pamela Smart]] seducing one of her 15-year-old students into [[statutory rape|sex]] and to murdering her husband, Gregg Smart, in [[Derry, New Hampshire|Derry]], [[New Hampshire]]
* ''[[Never Forget (1991 film)|Never Forget]]'' (1991) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] about Mel Mermelstein, an American holocaust survivor who confronted a Holocaust denial organization's lies in court
* ''[[Not Without My Daughter (film)|Not Without My Daughter]]'' (1991) – the story of American author and public speaker [[Betty Mahmoody]], who was abducted and held hostage with her daughter in Iran
* ''[[One Man's War]]'' (1991) – television drama film set in Paraguay in 1976, under the dictatorship of General [[Alfredo Stroessner]], it is based on the true story of [[Joel Filártiga]] who sought justice for his son's death at the hands of Stroessner's secret police
* ''[[Rose Against the Odds]]'' (1991) – Australian mini series about the life of [[Lionel Rose]]
* ''[[Switched at Birth (1991 film)|Switched at Birth]]'' (1991) – the true story of Kimberly Mays and Arlena Twigg, babies switched soon after birth in a Florida hospital in 1978
* ''[[Walerjan Wrobel's Homesickness]]'' (German: ''Das Heimweh des Walerjan Wróbel'') (1991) – German [[drama film]] based on the true story of sixteen-year old Walerjan who is removed from his close-knit Polish family in 1941 by the German occupation
* ''[[Walking a Tightrope]]'' (French: ''Les Équilibristes'') (1991) – French [[drama film]] about Marcel Spadice, a poet who meets Franz-Ali Aoussine, a valet who dreams of becoming a great tightrope walker
* ''[[Wife, Mother, Murderer]]'' (1991) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] concerning [[Alabama]] murderer [[Audrey Marie Hilley|Marie Hilley]]
* ''[[Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken]]'' (1991) – [[drama film]] concerning [[Sonora Webster Carver]], a rider of [[diving horse]]s
* ''[[Without Warning: The James Brady Story]]'' (1991) – television film about [[James Brady]], who was shot during the 1981 [[attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan]]

== 1992 ==
* ''[[1492: Conquest of Paradise]]'' (1992) – the very sanitized story of Taino homelands of by the [[Italian people|Italian]] colonialist [[Christopher Columbus]] and the effect this had on the [[indigenous peoples of the Americas]]
* ''[[A Killer Among Friends]]'' (1992) – [[Television film|made-for-television]] film about a mother grieving for her murdered daughter who sets out to find the killer, based on the real life [[murder of Michele Avila]]
* ''[[A League of Their Own]]'' (1992) – based on the [[All-American Girls Professional Baseball League]] during [[World War II]]
* ''[[A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story]]'' (1992) – [[television film]] chronicling the story behind the [[Elizabeth Morgan Act|Elizabeth Morgan case]], in which a woman is put on trial when she sends her daughter to New Zealand to live with her grandparents, after her ex-husband is not found guilty for abusing their daughter, of which she suspects him
* ''[[A Private Matter]]'' (1992) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the true 1962 story of [[Sherri Finkbine]], a resident of [[Phoenix, Arizona]] in the [[first trimester]] of her fifth pregnancy
* ''[[A Thousand Heroes]]'' (a.k.a. ''Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232'') (1992) – [[television film]] about the crash landing of [[United Airlines flight 232]] at [[Sioux City, IA]] in 1989
* ''[[Amy Fisher: My Story]]'' (1992) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama film]] based on [[Amy Fisher]]'s affair with [[Joey Buttafuoco]], and her conviction for [[aggravated assault]] for shooting Buttafuoco's wife
* ''[[The Babe]]'' (1992) – [[biographical]] [[drama film]] about the life of famed [[baseball player]] [[Babe Ruth]]
* ''[[Baby Snatcher (film)|Baby Snatcher]]'' (1992) – [[television film]] based on the kidnapping of Rachael Ann White
* ''[[Bed of Lies (film)|Bed of Lies]]'' (1992) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the non-fiction book, ''Deadly Blessing'', which tells the story of Vickie Moore, a low born Texas waitress, who murders her husband [[Price Daniel Jr.]]
* ''[[Bonnie & Clyde: The True Story]]'' (1992) – [[television film]] about [[United States|American]] [[Crime|criminal]] couple [[Bonnie and Clyde]]
* ''[[The Boys of St. Vincent]]'' (1992) – Canadian [[television miniseries]] based on child sexual abuse scandals that took place at the [[Mount Cashel Orphanage]] in [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's]], [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]]
* ''[[Chaplin (film)|Chaplin]]'' (1992) – based on the life of British comedian-actor [[Charlie Chaplin]]
* ''[[Child of Rage]]'' (1992) – [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] [[television film]] based on the true story of Beth Thomas, who had severe behavioral problems as a result of being [[sexually abused]] as a child
* ''[[Daens (film)|Daens]]'' (1992) - Belgian [[period drama]] based upon a novel by [[Louis Paul Boon]], telling the true story of [[Adolf Daens]], a Catholic priest in Aalst, Belgium, who strives to improve the miserable working conditions in the local factories
* ''[[De Bunker]]'' (1992) – [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[drama film]] that tells the true story of Dutch [[resistance fighter]] Gerrit Kleinveld
* ''[[Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster]]'' (1992) – [[drama film]] depicting the [[Exxon Valdez oil spill|''Exxon Valdez'' oil spill]] disaster off the coast of [[Alaska]] in March 1989
* ''[[Frankie's House (miniseries)|Frankie's House]]'' (1992) – British-Australian TV miniseries based on the biography of British photographer [[Tim Page (photographer)|Tim Page]], especially focusing on his relationship with [[Sean Flynn (photojournalist)|Sean Flynn]] - the son of [[Errol Flynn]] - during the [[Vietnam War]]
* ''[[Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive]]'' (1992) – television [[horror film]] supposedly based on real events, about a family that experiences disturbing supernatural phenomena after they find out that their house is built on land formerly used as a cemetery
* ''[[Hoffa (film)|Hoffa]]'' (1992) – based on the life of the [[Teamsters Union]] leader [[Jimmy Hoffa]] before his disappearance in 1975
* ''[[In the Best Interest of the Children]]'' (1992) – [[television film|made-for-television]] fact-based [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] about a woman struggling with [[Bipolar disorder|manic-depression]] while raising her five children
* ''[[Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted]]'' (1992) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] about Jonathan, a boy with [[down-syndrome]] who is left in an institute, and an employee of the institute who battles the system and the parents to have custody over him
* ''[[The Last of His Tribe]]'' (1992) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the book ''[[Ishi in Two Worlds]]'' by [[Theodora Kroeber]] which relates the experiences of her husband [[Alfred L. Kroeber]] who made friends with [[Ishi]], thought to be the last of his people, the [[Yana people|Yahi tribe]]
* ''[[Lorenzo's Oil]]'' (1992) – based on the true story of [[Augusto and Michaela Odone]], two parents in a relentless search for a cure for their son [[Lorenzo Odone|Lorenzo]]'s [[adrenoleukodystrophy]] (ALD)
* ''[[Malcolm X (1992 film)|Malcolm X]]'' (1992) – [[epic film|epic]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] about the African-American activist [[Malcolm X]]
* ''[[Newsies]]'' (a.k.a. ''The News Boys'') (1992) – musical drama film about the New York City [[newsboys' strike of 1899]]
* ''[[Pugoy – Hostage: Davao]]'' (1992) – [[Cinema of the Philippines|Filipino]] [[action film]] based on the [[1989 Davao hostage crisis]]
* ''[[Requiem pro panenku]]'' ({{translation}} ''Requiem for a Doll'') (1992) – [[Czech language|Czech]] [[psychological thriller]] / [[drama film]] inspired by a real-life tragedy that cost the lives of 26 [[mentally disabled]] girls
* ''[[Schtonk!]]'' (1992) – German satirical film which retells the story of the 1983 ''[[Hitler Diaries]]'' hoax
* ''[[Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story]]'' (1992) – [[television film]] based on the life of prominent AIDS activist [[Alison Gertz]]
* ''[[Stay the Night (1992 film)|Stay the Night]]'' (1992) – television crime-drama mini-series about a teenage boy who has a romantic affair with an older, married woman who together plot to murder her husband
* ''[[Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story]]'' (1992) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] about Nancy Ziegenmeyer, a rape victim who spoke out about her experiences and created the notion that rape and sexual assault are never the victim's fault
* ''[[Thunderheart]]'' (1992) – [[Neo-Western]] [[mystery film]] loosely based on events relating to the [[Wounded Knee incident]] in 1973
* ''[[To Catch a Killer (1992 film)|To Catch a Killer]]'' (1992) – two-part [[television film]] based on the true story of the pursuit of American serial killer [[John Wayne Gacy]]
* ''[[The Waterdance]]'' (1992) – [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]], a semi-[[autobiographical]] story about a young [[Narrative|fiction writer]] who becomes [[Tetraplegia|tetraplegic fully paralyzed]] in a [[hiking]] accident and works to rehabilitate his body and mind at a [[Physical medicine and rehabilitation|rehabilitation center]]
* ''[[Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story]]'' (1992) – television film based on the story of [[Wanda Holloway]]

== 1993 ==
* ''[[A Bronx Tale]]'' (1993) – [[crime film|crime drama]] film adapted from [[Chazz Palminteri]]'s 1989 [[A Bronx Tale (play)|autobiographical play of the same name]], it tells the [[coming of age]] story of an [[Italian-American]] boy, Calogero, who, after encountering a local [[American Mafia|Mafia]] boss, is torn between the temptations of organized crime, racism in his community, and the values of his honest, hardworking father
* ''[[A Matter of Justice]]'' (1993) – [[television film]] based on the murder of Marine Chris Randall Brown
* ''[[A Place to Be Loved]]'' (1993) – [[television film]] about [[Gregory Kingsley]], a boy who is [[child abuse|abused]] by his father and placed with [[social services]] by his mother, he ends up taking his mother to court, to have her parental rights revoked, in hopes of being adopted by his foster family
* ''[[Alive (1993 film)|Alive]]'' (1993) – based on the [[Piers Paul Read]] [[Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors|book]] that tells the story of the crash of [[Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571]] in 1972
* ''[[The Amy Fisher Story]]'' (1993) – television film dramatizing the events surrounding [[Amy Fisher]]'s teenage affair with [[Joey Buttafuoco]] and her conviction for aggravated assault in the shooting of Buttafuoco's wife [[Mary Jo Buttafuoco|Mary Jo]]
* ''[[And the Band Played On (film)|And the Band Played On]]'' (1993) – [[television film]] [[docudrama]] adapted from the [[And the Band Played On|book]] of the same title by [[Randy Shilts]], chronicling the discovery and spread of [[HIV]] and [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]], with emphasis on political infighting and government indifference to what was then perceived as a specifically gay disease
* ''[[The Ballad of Little Jo]]'' (1993) – [[Western (genre)|Western]] film inspired by the true story of a society woman who tries to escape the stigma of bearing a child out of wedlock by going out to the [[American Old West|West]], and living disguised as a man
* ''[[Barbarians at the Gate (film)|Barbarians at the Gate]]'' (1993) – [[television movie]] based upon [[Barbarians at the Gate|the 1989 book]] by [[Bryan Burrough]] and [[John Helyar]], about the [[leveraged buyout]] (LBO) of [[RJR Nabisco]]
* ''[[Benito (film)|Benito]]'' (Italian: ''Il Giovane Mussolini'') (1993) – Italian TV film regarding the story of [[Benito Mussolini]]'s early rise to power in the [[Socialist International]] and his relationship with [[Angelica Balabanoff]]
* ''[[Beyond the Law (1993 film)|Beyond the Law]]'' (1993) – based on the real-life story of an undercover [[Drug Enforcement Administration|DEA]] Agent infiltrating a notorious biker gang involved with drug and gun running
* ''[[Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story]]'' (1993) – [[drama film]] based on the 1993 book ''Preacher's Girl'' by Jim Schutze, about the true story of a North Carolina woman who murdered her first husband and a lover with arsenic
* ''[[The Blue Exile]]'' (Turkish: ''Mavi sürgün'') (1993) –  Turkish [[drama film]] depicting writer [[Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı]]'s early years in [[Bodrum]]
* ''[[Blood In Blood Out]]'' (a.k.a. ''Bound by Honor'') (1993) – [[epic film|epic]] [[crime drama]] film following the intertwining lives of three [[Chicano]] relatives from 1972 to 1984, based on the true life experiences of poet and screenwriter [[Jimmy Santiago Baca]]
* ''[[Cannibal! The Musical]]'' (a.k.a. ''Alferd Packer: The Musical'') (1993) – [[Independent film|independent]] [[musical film|musical]] [[black comedy]] film, a heavily fabricated version on the true story of [[Alferd Packer]] and the sordid details of the trip from [[Utah]] to [[Colorado]] that left his five fellow travelers dead and partially eaten
* ''[[Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story]]'' (1993) – the third [[television film|made-for-television]] film based on the story of [[Amy Fisher]] and [[Joey Buttafuoco]]
* ''[[Cool Runnings]]'' (1993) – based on the true story of the first [[Jamaica national bobsleigh team|Jamaican bobsled team]] trying to make it to the 1988 Winter Olympics
* ''[[Dead Before Dawn (1993 film)|Dead Before Dawn]]'' (1993) – [[television film]] based on a true event involving the publicized mid-1980s bitter divorce of Linda and Robert Edelman
* ''[[Deadly Relations]]'' (1993) – [[television film]] based on the true crime book ''Deadly Relations: A True Story of Murder in a Suburban Family'' by Carol Donahue and Shirley Hall, Donahue and Hall are the daughters of Leonard Fagot, a [[New Orleans]] attorney whose obsession with controlling his daughters led to him murdering their husbands for hefty insurance pay outs
* ''[[Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story]]'' (1993) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on a true story of a woman who tries to rescue her 7-year-old daughter from the Middle East after she is abducted by her Jordanian father
* ''[[Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story]]'' (1993) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] that follows the life of actor and martial artist [[Bruce Lee]]
* ''[[The Ernest Green Story]]'' (1993) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[biographical film]] which follows the true story of [[Ernest Green]] ([[Morris Chestnut]]) and eight other [[African-American]] high-school students (dubbed the "[[Little Rock Nine]]") as they embark on their historic journey to integrate [[Little Rock Central High School]] in [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]], [[Arkansas]], in 1957
* ''[[Fire in the Sky]]'' (1993) – [[Biographical film|biopic]] [[science fiction film|science fiction]] [[mystery film]] based on [[Travis Walton UFO incident|Travis Walton's]] book ''The Walton Experience'', which describes an alleged [[Extraterrestrial life|extraterrestrial]] abduction
* ''[[Gatica, el mono]]'' (1993) – Argentine [[drama film]], a [[biopic]] of [[Argentina|Argentine]] [[boxing|boxer]] [[José María Gatica]]
* ''[[Geronimo: An American Legend]]'' (1993) – [[historical drama|historical]] [[western (genre)|western film]], a fictionalized account of the [[Apache Wars]] and how [[First Lieutenant]] [[Charles B. Gatewood]] convinced [[Apache]] leader [[Geronimo]] to surrender in 1886
* ''[[Gettysburg (1993 film)|Gettysburg]]'' (1993) – based on the story of the [[Battle of Gettysburg]]
* ''[[Gross Misconduct (film)|Gross Misconduct]]'' (1993) – Australian [[thriller film]] based on the play ''Assault With a Deadly Weapon'' which was written in 1969 by Lance Peters. It had been suggested by a 1955 scandal in [[Hobart]], where university professor [[Sydney Sparkes Orr|Sydney Orr]] had been sacked from his job on grounds of gross misconduct
* ''[[Heaven & Earth (1993 film)|Heaven & Earth]]'' (1993) – based on the experiences of [[Le Ly Hayslip]] during the [[Vietnam War]]
* ''[[I Can Make You Love Me]]'' (1993) – [[made-for-television]] psychological horror film based on the real-life story of American mass murderer [[Richard Farley]], a former employee of [[ESL Incorporated]] whose romantic obsession and subsequent [[stalking]] of co-worker Laura Black culminated in the mass murder of several co-workers at ESL's headquarters in [[California]]
* ''[[In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco]]'' (1993) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[action drama]] film portraying the events leading up to and at the start of the [[Waco siege]]
* ''[[In the Name of the Father (film)|In the Name of the Father]]'' (1993) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[legal drama|courtroom drama]] film based on the true story of the [[Guildford Four and Maguire Seven#Guildford Four|Guildford Four]], four people falsely convicted of the 1974 [[Guildford pub bombings]], which killed four off-duty British soldiers and a civilian
* ''[[Jonah Who Lived in the Whale]]'' (Italian: ''Jona che visse nella balena'') (1993) – Italian-French [[drama film]] based on the [[autobiographical novel]] by the writer [[Jona Oberski]] entitled ''Childhood'', focused on the drama of the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]]
* ''[[Judgment Day: The John List Story]]'' (1993) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[crime film|crime]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]], a fictionalized version of the crime of [[John List (serial killer)|John List]], who killed his mother, wife, and three children in 1971, before assuming a new identity, and eluding capture, for over 17 years
* ''[[Just a Matter of Duty]]'' (German: ''Die Denunziantin'') (1993) – German [[drama film]] about [[List of Axis war crime trials|a German war crimes trial]] following World War II
* ''[[Life with Billy]]'' (1993) – [[Television in Canada|Canadian]] [[television film]] based on the non-fiction [[Life with Billy (book)|book of the same name]] by [[Brian Vallée]]
* ''[[Lost in the Wild]]'' (a.k.a. ''Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7'') (1993) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] about a plane that plummets from the sky above the jungles of Mexico
* ''[[M. Butterfly (film)|M. Butterfly]]'' (1993) – [[Romance film|romantic]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on [[David Henry Hwang]]'s [[M. Butterfly|play of the same name]], loosely based on true events about a [[French people|French]] diplomat assigned to [[Beijing]], China, in the 1960s
* ''[[Money for Nothing (1993 film)|Money for Nothing]]'' (1993) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[comedy film|comedy]] [[crime film]] based on the 1986 ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer|Philadelphia Inquirer]]'' article "Finders Keepers" by [[Mark Bowden]]. The film is loosely based on the life of [[Joey Coyle]] (Cusack), who, in 1981, discovered $1.2 million that had fallen out of an armored van in [[Philadelphia|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]
* ''[[Murder in the Heartland]]'' (1993) – two-part television miniseries based on the 1957–58 murder spree carried out by 19-year-old [[Charles Starkweather]] and 14-year old [[Caril Ann Fugate]] throughout [[Nebraska]] and [[Wyoming]]
* ''[[Ordeal in the Arctic]]'' (1993) – [[television film]] depicting the accident of [[Canadian Forces]] [[Lockheed C-130 Hercules|Lockheed CC-130E Hercules]] (''130322''), from [[435 Transport and Rescue Squadron]] (a part of Operation Boxtop), that struck a rocky slope and crashed on [[Ellesmere Island]], October 30, 1991
* ''[[The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom]]'' (1993) – television film based on the story of [[Wanda Holloway]]
* ''[[Precious Victims]]'' (1993) – [[television film]] based on the book of the same name by Charles Bosworth Jr. and Don W. Weber
* ''[[The Puppetmaster (film)|The Puppetmaster]]'' (Mandarin: ''Xi meng ren sheng'') (1993) – [[Cinema of Taiwan|Taiwanese film]] about the story of [[Li Tian-lu]], who becomes a master puppeteer but is faced with demands to turn his skills to propaganda during Japanese-ruled Taiwan from pre-1896 to the end of World War II in 1945
* ''[[The Rainbow Warrior (film)|The Rainbow Warrior]]'' (1993) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the true story of the [[Greenpeace]] ship [[Rainbow Warrior (1955)|''Rainbow Warrior'']], which was sunk in [[Waitematā Harbour]] in [[Auckland]], New Zealand on 10 July 1985 by French [[Directorate-General for External Security|DGSE]] operatives, when it was preparing for a Pacific voyage to protest against [[French nuclear testing]]
* ''[[Rudy (film)|Rudy]]'' (1993) – based on the story of [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame football]] walk-on [[Daniel Ruettiger|Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger]]
* ''[[Sakay (film)|Sakay]]'' (1993) – [[Cinema of the Philippines|Filipino]] [[historical drama]] film portraying the latter part of the life of Filipino patriot and hero [[Macario Sakay]], who was declared an outlaw and a criminal for continuing hostilities against the United States after the "official" end of the [[Philippine–American War]]
* ''[[Sardar (1993 film)|Sardar]]'' (1993) – based on life of Sardar [[Vallabhbhai Patel]], one of India's greatest freedom fighters and the first Home Minister of India
* ''[[Scattered Dreams]]'' (1993) – [[television film|made for TV]] [[drama film]] about a couple that get arrested for a crime they didn't commit
* ''[[Schindler's List]]'' (1993) – adapted from the book ''[[Schindler's Ark]]'' by [[Thomas Keneally]] about [[Oskar Schindler]] and his actions to save over 1,000 Jews from the [[Holocaust]]
* ''[[Searching for Bobby Fischer]]'' (1993) – [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the life of [[prodigy (chess)|prodigy]] [[chess]] player [[Joshua Waitzkin]]
* ''[[Shadowlands (1993 film)|Shadowlands]]'' (1993) – [[biographical film]] about the relationship between writer and [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] academic [[C.S. Lewis]] and American poet [[Joy Davidman]], their marriage, and her death from [[cancer]]
* ''[[Six Degrees of Separation (film)|Six Degrees of Separation]]'' (1993) – [[comedy drama]] film inspired by the real-life story of [[David Hampton]], a [[confidence trick|con]] man and robber who convinced a number of people in the 1980s that he was the son of actor [[Sidney Poitier]]
* ''[[Tango Feroz]]'' (Spanish: ''Tango Feroz: la leyenda de Tanguito'') (1993) – [[Cinema of Argentina|Argentine]] [[drama film|drama]] [[musical film]] loosely based in the life of [[Tanguito]], one of the first artists of [[Argentine rock]]
* ''[[Telling Secrets]]'' (a.k.a. ''Contract for Murder'') (1993) – [[television film]] based on the true story of Joy Aylor, who plots the murder of her adulterous husband's mistress
* ''[[This Boy's Life]]'' (1993) – [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[Coming-of-age story|coming-of-age]] [[drama film]] based on the [[memoir]] of the same name by American author [[Tobias Wolff]]
* ''[[Tombstone (film)|Tombstone]]'' (1993) – story of [[Wyatt Earp]]
* ''[[The Trust (1993 film)|The Trust]]'' (1993) – depicting the story of businessman [[William Marsh Rice]]'s mysterious death in 1900 and the people involved with it
* ''[[What's Love Got to Do with It (1993 film)|What's Love Got to Do with It]]'' (1993) – [[biographical film]] based on the life of American-born singer [[Tina Turner]]
* ''[[Wide-Eyed and Legless]]'' (1993) – made-for-TV British [[drama film]] based on the 1989 book ''Diana's Story'' by [[Deric Longden]], that tells the story of his marriage to his wife, Diana, who contracts a chronic, degenerative illness that medical officials were unable to understand at the time

== 1994 ==
* ''[[8 Seconds]]'' (1994) – based on the story of American rodeo legend [[Lane Frost]] who died from injuries sustained riding a bull at the 1989 [[Cheyenne Frontier Days]] Rodeo
* ''[[A Friend to Die For]]'' (a.k.a. ''Death of a Cheerleader'') (1994) – [[psychological thriller]] [[television film]] based on the real-life [[murder of Kirsten Costas]], who was killed by her classmate, Bernadette Protti, in 1984
* ''[[A Time to Heal (film)|A Time to Heal]]'' (1994) – [[television film]] based on the true story of a young mother's painful recovery from a stroke 
* ''[[Against the Wall (1994 film)|Against the Wall]]'' (1994) – [[Action film|action]] [[historical drama]] [[television film]] based on the 1971 [[Attica Prison riot]]
* ''[[And Then There Was One (1994 film)|And Then There Was One]]'' (1994) – [[television film]] about the true story of a family dealing with [[AIDS]]
* ''[[Andre (film)|Andre]]'' (1994) – [[comedy drama|comedy drama film]] about a child's encounter with a seal, an adaptation of the book ''A Seal Called Andre'', which in turn was based on a true story
* ''[[Armed and Innocent]]'' (1994) – [[crime]]/[[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] made-for-TV film based on the true story of an eleven-year-old boy, who was left at home alone, kills two intruders in self defense
* ''[[Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker]]'' (1994) – made-for-TV [[drama film]] about [[Johnson Chesnut Whittaker]], one of the first black cadets at [[United States Military Academy|West Point]], and the trial that followed an assault he suffered in 1880
* ''[[The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story]]'' (1994) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the true story of [[Cecil Jacobson]], who used his own sperm to impregnate patients, without informing them
* ''[[Bandit Queen]]'' (1994) – Indian [[biographical film]] based on the life of female rights activist, [[bandit]] and politician [[Phoolan Devi]]
* ''[[The Burning Season (1994 film)|The Burning Season]]'' (1994) – [[television film]] chronicling [[Chico Mendes]]' fight to protect the rainforest
* ''[[Cobb (film)|Cobb]]'' (1994) – [[biographical film]] starring [[Tommy Lee Jones]] as [[baseball]] player [[Ty Cobb]], based on a book by [[Al Stump]]
* ''[[Cries from the Heart]]'' (1994) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] about a seven-year-old autistic boy who has trouble with verbalization but a real talent for technology, who uses a computer to plead for help after being molested at school
* ''[[The Diary of Evelyn Lau]]'' (1994) – Canadian [[television film]] about [[Evelyn Lau]], a teenager who runs away from home and becomes a drug-addicted [[prostitute]]
* ''[[Doomsday Gun]]'' (1994) – [[television film]] dramatizing the life of [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[Supergun affair|supergun]] designer Dr. [[Gerald Bull]] and his involvement in [[Project Babylon]], [[Saddam Hussein]]'s plan to build a supergun with a range of over 500 miles
* ''[[Ed Wood (film)|Ed Wood]]'' (1994) – based on the story of film director [[Ed Wood|Edward D. Wood Jr.]], starring [[Johnny Depp]] as Ed Wood
* ''[[Farinelli (film)|Farinelli]]'' (1994) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama film]] centering on the life and career of the 18th-century Italian opera singer Carlo Broschi, known as [[Farinelli]], considered the greatest [[castrato]] singer of all time; as well as his relationship with his brother, composer [[Riccardo Broschi]]
* ''[[The Fatima Buen Story]]'' (1994) – [[Cinema of the Philippines|Philippine]] [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[Crime film|crime]] [[drama film]] based on Fatima Buen, a complex woman jailed for illegal recruitment
* ''[[For the Love of Aaron]]'' (1994) – [[Canada|Canadian]] television film, based on the true story of [[Margaret Gibson (writer)|Margaret Gibson]], a noted Canadian writer who suffered from [[bipolar disorder]], the film dramatizes her custody battle for her son Aaron after her divorce
* ''[[For the Love of Nancy]]'' (1994) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on Nancy Walsh, a graduating senior who suffers from [[anorexia nervosa]]
* ''[[Getting Gotti]]'' (1994) – TV film centering on a Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney named Diane Giacalone, and her attempts to build a [[Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act]] (RICO) case against [[John Gotti]] and the [[Gambino crime family]]
* ''[[The Glass Shield]]'' (1994) – [[crime film|crime]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on a true story about the first black cop to be assigned to a California sheriff's department
* ''[[Heavenly Creatures]]'' (1994) – based on the true story of [[Juliet Hulme]] and [[Pauline Parker]], principals in the 1954 [[Parker–Hulme murder case]] in New Zealand
* ''[[I Can't Sleep (film)|I Can't Sleep]]'' (French: ''J'ai pas sommeil'') (1994) – [[cinema of France|French]] [[drama film]] loosely inspired by the murders committed by [[Thierry Paulin]]
* ''[[It Could Happen to You (1994 film)|It Could Happen to You]]'' (1994) – [[romantic comedy]]-[[comedy drama|drama]] film based on the true story of a [[New York City]] police officer who wins the [[lottery]] and splits his winnings with a waitress
* ''[[Kabloonak]]'' (1994) – [[Canada|Canadian]] drama film about the making of ''[[Nanook of the North]]'', a 1922 film about an [[Inuit|Inuk]] called Nanook and his family in the [[Canadian Arctic]]
* ''[[La Reine Margot (1994 film)|La Reine Margot]]'' ({{translation}} ''Queen Margot'') (1994) – French [[period film]] based on [[Alexandre Dumas]]' [[La Reine Margot (novel)|novel]] about Catholics and Protestant [[Huguenots]] fighting over political control of France
* ''[[Ladybird, Ladybird (film)|Ladybird, Ladybird]]'' (1994) – British drama film about a British woman's dispute with Social Services over the care and custody of her four children
* ''[[Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee]]'' (1994) – based on Mary Crow Dog's autobiography ''[[Lakota Woman]]'', wherein she accounts her troubled youth, involvement with the [[American Indian Movement]], and relationship with Lakota medicine man and activist [[Leonard Crow Dog]]
* ''[[The Madness of King George]]'' (1994) – the true story of [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]]'s deteriorating mental health, which stemmed from [[porphyria]]; based on the play ''[[The Madness of George III]]''
* ''[[Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills]]'' (1994) – [[television film]] about [[Lyle and Erik Menéndez]], who murdered their parents in 1989
* ''[[Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle]]'' (1994) – about writer [[Dorothy Parker]] and the members of the [[Algonquin Round Table]], a group of writers, actors and critics who met almost daily from 1919 to 1929 at Manhattan's [[Algonquin Hotel]]
* ''[[Octobre]]'' (1994) – [[Cinema of Quebec|Quebec]] film telling a fictionalized version of the [[October Crisis]] from the point of view of the [[Chénier Cell]], the [[Front de libération du Québec|FLQ]] terrorist cell who in 1970 kidnapped and murdered Quebec minister and Deputy Premier [[Pierre Laporte]]
* ''[[One of Her Own]]'' (1994) – [[television film]] based on a true story of a rookie policewoman who was raped by a fellow officer
* ''[[Princess Caraboo (film)|Princess Caraboo]]'' (1994) – based on the story of [[Princess Caraboo|Mary Baker]] (née Willcocks: b. 11 November 1792) who was a noted imposter who fooled an entire British town for months that she was a princess from a far off kingdom.
* ''[[The Quality of Mercy (film)|The Quality of Mercy]]'' (German: ''Hasenjagd – Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen'') (1994) – Austrian film, a dramatization of the events surrounding the [[Mühlviertler Hasenjagd]], a [[Nazi war crime]] that took place near [[Linz]], in the [[Mühlviertel]] region of [[Upper Austria]], just before the end of the [[Second World War]]
* ''[[Quiz Show (film)|Quiz Show]]'' (1994) – adapted from a book by [[Richard N. Goodwin]] about the real-life American television [[quiz show scandals]] of the 1950s
* ''[[Roswell (film)|Roswell]]'' (1994) – [[television film]] based on a supposedly true story about the [[Roswell UFO incident]], the supposed U.S. military capture of a flying saucer and its alien crew following a crash near the town of [[Roswell, New Mexico]], in July 1947
* ''[[Sister My Sister]]'' (1994) – British film based on a true incident in [[Le Mans]], France in 1933 called the [[Papin sisters|Papin]] murder case, where two sisters brutally murdered their employer and her daughter
* ''[[Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story]]'' (1994) – [[television film]] based on a true story, Jim and Jennifer Stolpa and their infant son Clayton are 500 miles from their home in [[Castro Valley, California]], when they lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow in northern [[Nevada]], east of [[Cedarville, California]]
* ''[[Tarzan of Manisa (film)|Tarzan of Manisa]]'' (Turkish: ''Manisa Tarzanı'') (1994) – Turkish [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama film]] about Ahmet bin Carlak, also known as the "[[Tarzan of Manisa]]" 1899–1963
* ''[[Terror in the Night]]'' (1994) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[thriller film]] based on the story of Tom Cross and his girlfriend, Robin Andrews, who are awakened by "police officer" Lonnie Carter, a psychotic brutal murderer on-the-loose with his girlfriend Tina and her two children, who claims that he is taking them to police headquarters, but instead kidnaps and terrorizes them
* ''[[Tom & Viv]]'' (1994) – based on the turbulent relationship between [[T.S. Eliot]] and his first wife, [[Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot]]
* ''[[Tonya and Nancy: The Inside Story]]'' (1994) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[Biography|biographical]] [[Satire|satirical]]-[[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] focusing on the [[1994 Cobo Arena attack]] on [[Nancy Kerrigan]] and the extensive media coverage surrounding the infamous incident
* ''[[Ultimate Betrayal]]'' (1994) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on a true story about two sisters who sue their father for incest and child abuse
* ''[[White Mile]]'' (1994) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[thriller film|thriller-drama film]] loosely based on a rafting accident, on August 1, 1987, on the White Mile rapids in the Bidwell Canyon section of the [[Chilko River]], in the [[British Columbia Interior|Central Interior of British Columbia]], Canada
* ''[[Wyatt Earp (film)|Wyatt Earp]]'' (1994) – [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[Western (genre)|Western]] film about Old West lawman and gambler [[Wyatt Earp]] (1848–1929)

== 1995 ==
* ''[[A Single Spark]]'' (Korean: ''Jeon tae-il'') (1995) – South Korean [[biographical film|biographical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] film about [[Jeon Tae-il]], a worker who protested labor conditions through [[self-immolation]]
* ''[[Across the Sea of Time]]'' (1995) – [[IMAX]] [[3D film|3D]] [[adventure film]] about a young Russian boy who travels to the United States in search of his ancestor's family
* ''[[The Affair (1995 film)|The Affair]]'' (1995) – [[Romance film|romantic]] [[drama]] [[television film]] about an [[African-American]] soldier in the [[United States Army]] who is deployed to England during [[World War II]] and has an affair with a British officer's wife
* ''[[Apollo 13 (film)|Apollo 13]]'' (1995) – the story of the [[Apollo 13]] lunar mission, based on the book ''[[Lost Moon]]'' by Apollo 13 astronaut [[Jim Lovell]] and [[Jeffrey Kluger]]
* ''[[The Bait (1995 film)|The Bait]]'' (French: '' L'appât'') (1995) – French film about two boys and a girl who commit a murder, with the girl acting as the "bait", the film is based on the 1990 book of the same name by [[Morgan Sportès]], which is in turn based on the "Valérie Subra affair", a true event that happened in 1984
* ''[[Balto (film)|Balto]]'' (1995) – British-American [[live-action animated film|live-action/animated]] [[adventure film]] loosely based on a true story about [[Balto|the dog of the same name]] who helped save children infected with [[diphtheria]] in the [[1925 serum run to Nome]]
* ''[[The Basketball Diaries (film)|The Basketball Diaries]]'' (1995) – based on the [[The Basketball Diaries (book)|autobiographical book of the same name]] by author and musician [[Jim Carroll]], an edited collection of diaries he kept between the ages of 12 and 16, it tells the story of Carroll's teenage years as a promising high school basketball player and writer who develops an [[addiction]] to [[heroin]]
* ''[[Bombay (film)|Bombay]]'' (1995) – Indian Tamil bilingual film centered on the 1993 [[Bombay riots]]
* ''[[Braveheart]]'' (1995) – historical drama war film based on the story of [[William Wallace]] of Scotland, a 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the [[First War of Scottish Independence]] against King [[Edward I of England]]
* ''[[Butterbox Babies]]'' (1995) – adapted from the book ''Butterbox Babies'' by [[Bette L. Cahill]], based on the true story of the [[Ideal Maternity Home]], a [[Maternity home|home for unwed pregnant mothers]], during the [[Great Depression]] and [[Second World War]]. The home made millions from the illegal adoption of illegitimate babies during the 1930s and 1940s
* ''[[Cafe Society (1995 film)|Cafe Society]]'' (1995) – [[mystery film]] about New York society playboy Mickey Jelke who inherits a large sum of money and soon becomes embroiled in shadowy web of political exploitation and scandal in 1952
* ''[[Carrington (film)|Carrington]]'' (1995) – chronicles the relationship between English painter [[Dora Carrington]] and writer [[Lytton Strachey]]
* ''[[Casino (1995 film)|Casino]]'' (1995) – [[epic film|epic]] [[crime film]] telling the story of the last mafia-run casino in Las Vegas, the fictional Tangiers, based on [[Frank Rosenthal]], who ran the [[Stardust Resort and Casino|Stardust]], [[Fremont Hotel and Casino|Fremont]], and [[Hacienda (resort)|Hacienda]] casinos in Las Vegas for the [[Chicago Outfit]] from the 1970s until the early 1980s
* ''[[Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story]]'' (1995) – [[television film]] about the controversial nurse [[Margaret Sanger]] who campaigned in the earlier decades of the 20th century in the United States for women's birth control
* ''[[Citizen X]]'' (1995) – [[television film]] based on the investigation into murders committed by [[Soviet]] [[serial killer]] [[Andrei Chikatilo]]
* ''[[Dangerous Minds]]'' (1995) – [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]]  based on the story of teacher [[LouAnne Johnson]] who takes on the challenge of an unruly class and wins them over
* ''[[Dead Man Walking (film)|Dead Man Walking]]'' (1995) – [[Crime film|crime]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] adapted from the 1993 [[Dead Man Walking (book)|non-fiction book of the same name]], [[Nun#Distinction between a nun and a religious sister|Sister]] [[Helen Prejean]] establishes a special relationship with Matthew Poncelet, a character based on convicted murderers [[Elmo Patrick Sonnier]] and [[Robert Lee Willie]]
* ''[[Deathmaker]]'' (German: ''Der Totmacher'') (1995) – German film based on the transcripts of the interrogation of the notorious serial killer [[Fritz Haarmann]]
* ''[[Dead Presidents]]'' (1995) – [[crime]] [[thriller film]] about the life of Anthony Curtis, focusing on his teenage years as a high school graduate and his experiences during the [[Vietnam War]], based partly on the real-life experiences of Haywood T. Kirkland (a.k.a. Ari S. Merretazon)
* ''[[Deadly Whispers]]'' (1995) – [[television film]] depicting a father with [[dissociative identity disorder]] who murders his daughter. Based on Ted Schwarz's book of the same name, it is a fictionalized account of the [[murder of Kathy Bonney]] in 1987
* ''[[Escape from Terror: The Teresa Stamper Story]]'' (1995) – [[crime drama]] [[television film]] based on a true story from ''[[Unsolved Mysteries]]''
* ''[[Eskapo]]'' (1995) – [[Cinema of the Philippines|Filipino]] [[historical drama|historical]] [[thriller film]] about [[Eugenio Lopez Jr.|Eugenio "Geny" López Jr.]] and [[Sergio Osmeña III|Sergio "Serge" Osmeña III]] who are separately arrested based on false accusations of attempts to assassinate President [[Ferdinand Marcos]] in the 1970s
* ''[[Falling from the Sky: Flight 174]]'' (1995) – [[made-for-television]] film based on the real-life events of Air Canada Flight 143, nicknamed the "[[Gimli Glider]]"
* ''[[Heat (1995 film)|Heat]]'' (1995) – loosely based on Chicago police officer [[Chuck Adamson]]'s pursuit of career criminal Neil McCauley in the 1960s
* ''[[If Someone Had Known]]'' (1995) – [[Drama (film and television)|crime drama]] [[television]] [[film]] based on a young wife and mother who is abused by her husband 
* ''[[Indictment: The McMartin Trial]]'' (1995) – based on a real-life court case, the film finds members of the McMartin family on trial for alleged sexual molestation and abuse of children at their well-regarded preschool
* ''[[The Infiltrator (1995 film)|The Infiltrator]]'' (1995) – [[thriller film]] based on the book ''In Hitler's Shadow: An Israeli's Journey Inside Germany's Neo-Nazi Movement'' by [[Yaron Svoray]] and Nick Taylor about an [[Israelis|Israeli]] freelance [[journalist]] who travels to Germany in the early 1990s and uncovers a pervasive underground [[Neo-Nazi]] faction with the intent to bring [[Nazism]] back to the forefront in Germany
* ''[[Killer: A Journal of Murder (film)|Killer: A Journal of Murder]]'' (1995) – [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] about the 1920s [[serial killer]] [[Carl Panzram]], who befriended prison guard Henry Lesser
* ''[[Les Milles (film)|Les Milles]]'' (1995) – French drama film about Germans, Jews, Communists or opponents of Nazism who had taken refuge in France, who were interned in the [[Camp des Milles]], near [[Aix-en-Provence]] and get on a train to evacuate to [[Bayonne]] in May 1940
* ''[[Losing Isaiah]]'' (1995) – [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the novel of the same name by [[Seth Margolis]], about the biological and adoptive mothers of a young boy who are involved in a bitter, controversial custody battle
* ''[[Murder in the First (film)|Murder in the First]]'' (1995) – [[legal drama]] film about petty criminal [[Henri Young]], who is put on trial for [[First degree murder|murder in the first degree]]
* ''[[Nixon (film)|Nixon]]'' (1995) – the story of American President [[Richard Nixon]]
* ''[[Operation Dumbo Drop]]'' (1995) – comedy film based on a true story by United States Army Major Jim Morris, about Green Berets during the Vietnam War in 1968 who attempt to transport an elephant through jungle terrain to a local South Vietnamese village, which in turn helps American forces monitor [[Viet Cong]] activity
* ''[[Pocahontas (1995 film)|Pocahontas]]'' (1995) – highly fictionalized film about the settlement of [[Jamestown, Virginia]], the first feature-length animated film by Disney to be based on historical events
* ''[[Policemen (film)|Policemen]]'' (Italian: ''Poliziotti'') (1995) – [[Cinema of Italy|Italian]] [[Crime film|crime]]-[[drama film]] based on a policeman, Vincenzo Rizzi, who had committed suicide while in jail
* ''[[Ravan Raaj: A True Story]]'' (1995) – Hindi film based on a doctor's story, centered on kidney smugglers and a serial killer
* ''[[Red Cherry]]'' (Chinese: ''Hong ying tao'') (1995) – [[Cinema of China|Chinese]] film based on the true story of Chuchu, a 13-year-old Chinese girl, and Luo Xiaoman, a 12-year-old Chinese boy, who were sent to Moscow, Russia in the 1940s and enrolled into an international boarding school
* ''[[Savate (film)|Savate]]'' (1995) – [[Western (genre)#Martial arts Western|martial arts Western]] film promoted as the allegedly true story of the world's first kickboxer
* ''[[She Fought Alone]]'' (1995) – [[television film]] about a girl in a small rural town who gets raped by a football player
* ''[[Stonewall (1995 film)|Stonewall]]'' (1995) – British-American [[Historical drama|historical]] [[comedy drama]] film inspired by the [[memoir]] of the same title by gay historian [[Martin Duberman]], ''Stonewall'' a fictionalized account of the weeks leading up to the [[Stonewall riots]], a seminal event in the modern American [[gay rights]] movement
* ''[[Tyson (1995 film)|Tyson]]'' (1995) – [[television film]] based on the life of American [[heavyweight]] [[boxing|boxer]] [[Mike Tyson]]
* ''[[Who Killed Pasolini?]]'' (Italian: ''Pasolini, un delitto italiano'') (1995) – [[Cinema of Italy|Italian]] [[Crime film|crime]]-[[drama film]] depicting the trial against Pino Pelosi, who was charged with the murder of artist and filmmaker [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]]
* ''[[Wild Bill (1995 film)|Wild Bill]]'' (1995) – [[Western (genre)|Western]] film about the last days of legendary lawman [[Wild Bill Hickok]]
* ''[[The Young Poisoner's Handbook]]'' (1995) – British-German-French [[black comedy|dark comedy]] based on the life of [[Graham Young]], more commonly known as "The Teacup Murderer" of the 1970s

== 1996 ==
* ''[[After Jimmy]]'' (1996) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on a teenage boy's suicide
* ''[[Apollo 11 (1996 film)|Apollo 11]]'' (1996) – television film about the [[Apollo 11]] spaceflight
* ''[[Basquiat (film)|Basquiat]]'' (1996) – [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the life of American [[Postmodernism|postmodernist]]/[[Neo-expressionism|neo expressionist]] artist [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]]
* ''[[Bastard Out of Carolina (film)|Bastard Out of Carolina]]'' (1996) – based on real-life events of child abuse from the [[Bastard Out of Carolina|semi-autobiographical book]] of the same title by Dorothy Allison
* ''[[Born Free: A New Adventure]]'' (1996) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[adventure film]] based on the real life of the lioness [[Elsa the lioness|Elsa]]
* ''[[Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day]]'' (1996) – [[drama film]] about a Chinese-American's attempt at saving a railroad in post-[[World War II]] [[California]]
* ''[[Crime of the Century (1996 film)|Crime of the Century]]'' (1996) – [[television film]], a dramatization of the [[Lindbergh kidnapping]] of 1932 
* ''[[The Crucible (1996 film)|The Crucible]]'' (1996) – drama based on the [[Salem witch trials]] between 1692 and 1693, written by [[Arthur Miller]] and based on his [[The Crucible|play of the same name]]
* ''[[Dead Heart]]'' (1996) – [[Cinema of Australia|Australian film]] based on the true story of an aboriginal who killed someone in the 1930s for traditional reasons
* ''[[Deadly Voyage]]'' (1996) – television film about [[Kingsley Ofosu]], the sole survivor of a group of nine African stowaways murdered on the cargo ship MC ''Ruby'' in 1992
* ''[[Deep Crimson]]'' (Spanish: ''Profundo Carmesí'') (1996) – Mexican [[crime film]], a dramatization of the story of "[[Lonely Hearts Killers]]", [[Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck]], who committed a string of murders of women in the 1940s
* ''[[The Dentist]]'' (1996) – horror film based on real-life dentist/serial killer [[Nick Rex]]
* ''[[Devil's Island (1996 film)|Devil's Island]]'' (Icelandic: ''Djöflaeyjan'') (1996) – [[Cinema of Iceland|Icelandic]] dark comedy film depicting a group of otherwise homeless families living in barracks abandoned by the [[US Air Force]] after the [[Second World War]]
* ''[[The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca]]'' (1996) – Spanish-American [[drama film|drama]]-[[biographical film]] based on a book by [[Ian Gibson (author)|Ian Gibson]] about the life and murder of Spanish poet [[Federico García Lorca]]
* ''[[Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story]]'' (1996) – [[independent film]] about the life of [[Dorothy Day]], the [[journalist]] turned [[social activism|social activist]] and founder of the ''[[Catholic Worker]]'' newspaper
* ''[[Fly Away Home]]'' (1996) – adapted from the book by [[Bill Lishman]], dramatizing the actual experiences of [[Bill Lishman]] who in 1986 started training geese to follow his ultralight and succeeded in leading their migration in 1993
* ''[[For My Daughter's Honor]]'' (1996) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] about a popular coach, Lynn Stroud (named Pete Nash in the film), who is accused of having a sexual relation with a 14 year old, one of his school's pupils
* ''[[Forgotten Sins]]'' (1996) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on [[Lawrence Wright]]'s ''[[The New Yorker|New Yorker]]'' articles and his book ''Remembering Satan'', which was in turn based on the actual case of [[Thurston County ritual abuse case|Paul Ingram]]
* ''[[Frozen (1997 film)|Frozen]]'' (Chinese: ''Jidu hanleng'') (1996) – [[Cinema of China|Chinese film]] supposedly based on a true story, about young [[performance art]]ist, Qi Lei, who attempts to create a masterpiece centered on the theme of death. After two "acts" where he simulates death, he decides that his final act will be a true suicide through [[hypothermia]]
* ''[[The Ghost and the Darkness]]'' (1996) – fictionalized account about [[Tsavo Man-Eaters|two lions]] that attacked and killed workers in [[Tsavo]], Kenya during the building of the African Uganda-Mombasa Railway in 1898, killing 130 people over a nine-month period
* ''[[Ghosts of Mississippi]]'' (1996) – based on the 1994 third retrial of [[Byron De La Beckwith]], white supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist [[Medgar Evers]]
* ''[[Giant Mine (film)|Giant Mine]]'' (1996) – [[Cinema of Canada|Canadian]] [[television film]], which dramatizes the events of the 1992 [[Giant Mine]] labour dispute and the subsequent [[bomb]] explosion which killed nine replacement workers
* ''[[Gone in the Night (1996 film)|Gone in the Night]]'' (1996) – [[television film]] about the [[Murder of Jaclyn Dowaliby|Jaclyn Dowaliby]] murder case
* ''[[Hillsborough (1996 film)|Hillsborough]]'' (1996) – [[television film]] set between 1989 and 1991, a dramatization of the [[Hillsborough disaster]], which saw 96 football supporters lose their lives at [[Hillsborough Stadium|Hillsborough]] in [[Sheffield]]
* ''[[Hostile Advances|Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story]]'' (1996) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on ''Ellison v. Brady'', a landmark [[sexual harassment]] case
* ''[[I Shot Andy Warhol]]'' (1996) – based on the life of [[Valerie Solanas]] and her relationship with [[Andy Warhol]]
* ''[[In Cold Blood (miniseries)|In Cold Blood]]'' (1996) – TV miniseries based on [[Truman Capote]]'s [[true crime]] [[In Cold Blood|book of the same name]] that follows a pair of ex-cons who murdered a respected Midwestern rancher and his family
* ''[[Intimate Relations (1996 film)|Intimate Relations]]'' (1996) – Canadian-British film based on the true story of [[Albert Goozee]], who was put on trial in 1956 in England after his 53-year-old landlady, Mrs. Lydia Leakey, and her 14-year-old daughter, Norma, were found murdered
* ''[[It's My Party (film)|It's My Party]]'' (1996) – [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the true events of the death of Harry Stein, accomplished architect and designer, who was actually director [[Randal Kleiser]]'s ex-lover. Stein's actual farewell party was held in 1992
* ''[[Jerusalem (1996 film)|Jerusalem]]'' (1996) – [[Cinema of Sweden|Swedish]]/[[Cinema of Denmark|Danish]]/[[Cinema of Norway|Norwegian]] production based on the two-part novel ''[[Jerusalem (Lagerlöf novel)|Jerusalem]]'' by [[Selma Lagerlöf]], inspired by real events from the end of the 19th century, a time when many people left Europe to find a better life abroad
* ''[[Justice for Annie: A Moment of Truth Movie]]'' (1996) – American/Canadian [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the case of Deana Hubbard Wild (named Annie Mills Carman in the film), who was pushed to her death from a cliff for insurance money
* ''[[The Late Shift (film)|The Late Shift]]'' (1996) – [[television film]] based on the [[The Late Shift (book)|book of the same name]] by ''[[The New York Times]]'' media reporter Bill Carter, about the rivalry between [[David Letterman]] and [[Jay Leno]]
* ''[[Michael Collins (film)|Michael Collins]]'' (1996) – based on the life of [[Irish Republican Army|IRA]] leader [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]]
* ''[[Mr. and Mrs. Loving]]'' (1996) – [[television film]] based on a true story, but with fictionalized parts, about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s
* ''[[No One Would Tell (1996 film)|No One Would Tell]]'' (1996) – teen crime drama [[television film]] based on the true story of Jamie Fuller, a 16-year-old high school student who murdered his 14-year-old girlfriend, Amy Carnevale, on August 23, 1991, in [[Beverly, Massachusetts]]
* ''[[Normal Life]]'' (1996) – [[Crime film|crime drama film]] based on the real lives of husband-and-wife bank robbers, [[Jeffrey and Jill Erickson]]
* ''[[The One That Got Away (1996 film)|The One That Got Away]]'' (1996) – [[Cinema of South Africa|South African]] [[television film]] based on the [[The One That Got Away (1995 novel)|book of the same name]] by [[Chris Ryan]] telling the true story of a [[Special Air Service]] patrol during the [[Gulf War]] in 1991
* ''[[The People vs. Larry Flynt]]'' (1996) – [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[drama film]] chronicling the rise of pornographer [[Larry Flynt]] and his subsequent clash with religious institutions and the law
* ''[[Public Enemies (1996 film)|Public Enemies]]'' (1996) – centering on the 1930s figure [[Ma Barker]] and her criminal sons
* ''[[Race the Sun (film)|Race the Sun]]'' (1996) – [[comedy drama]] film loosely based on the true story of the [[Konawaena High School]] Solar Car Team, which finished 18th in the 1990 [[World Solar Challenge]] and first place among high school entries
* ''[[Rowing Through]]'' (1996) – [[Cinema of Canada|Canadian]]/[[Cinema of Japan|Japanese]] co-produced drama film based on [[David Halberstam]]'s book ''The Amateurs'', the film centers on American sculler Tiff Wood as he tries to qualify for the [[1984 Summer Olympics]]
* ''[[Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story]]'' (1996) – television film based roughly on real-life events, the film recounts the story of Wisconsin teacher Diane Borchardt, who hired teen students first to spy on her cheating husband and later to kill him
* ''[[The Siege at Ruby Ridge]]'' (1996) – [[drama film|drama]] [[television film]] about the confrontation between the family of [[Randy Weaver]] and the US federal government at [[Ruby Ridge]] in 1992
* ''[[Some Mother's Son]]'' (1996) – [[Cinema of Ireland|Irish]]/[[Cinema of the United States|American]] film based on the true story of the [[1981 Irish hunger strike|1981 hunger strike]] in the [[Maze Prison]], in Northern Ireland
* ''[[To Brave Alaska]]'' (1996) – [[television film|made-for-TV]] [[adventure film]] about a young couple who attempt to survive in the rough Alaskan wilderness
* ''[[Twisted Desire]]'' (1996) – [[drama film|drama]]/[[thriller film]] based on the 1990 murders of the parents of 14-year-old Jessica Wiseman
* ''[[Unabomber: The True Story]]'' (1996) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[biographical film]] about Ted Kaczynski, who is also known as the [[Unabomber]]
* ''[[Unforgivable (1996 film)|Unforgivable]]'' (1996) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] about Paul Hegstrom, a [[domestic violence|ferociously violent man]] who is forced to join a group therapy program
* ''[[White Squall (film)|White Squall]]'' (1996) – based on the fate of the brigantine ''[[Albatross (1920 schooner)|Albatross]]'', which sank May 2, 1961, allegedly because of a white squall
* ''[[The Whole Wide World]]'' (1996) – biographical drama film about [[Robert E. Howard]], the creator of [[Conan the Barbarian]]

== 1997 ==
* ''[[...First Do No Harm]]'' (1997) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] about a boy whose severe [[epilepsy]], unresponsive to [[anticonvulsant|medications]] with terrible side effects, is controlled by the [[ketogenic diet]]. Aspects of the story mirror director [[Jim Abrahams]]' own experience with his son Charlie
* ''[[Amistad (film)|Amistad]]'' (1997) – based on the true story of a slave mutiny that took place aboard the ship [[La Amistad]] in 1839, and the [[United States v. The Amistad|legal battle]] that followed
* ''[[An Eyewitness Account]]'' (Italian: ''Testimone a rischio'') (1997) – [[Cinema of Italy|Italian]] [[Thriller (genre)|thriller]]-[[drama film]] based on real life events of [[Sicilian Mafia]] hit eyewitness Piero Nava
* ''[[Anastasia (1997 film)|Anastasia]]'' (1997) – [[Animation|animated]] [[Musical film|musical]] [[drama film]] loosely based on the story of the [[Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia]]
* ''[[Any Mother's Son]]'' (1997) – [[television film|television]] [[drama film]] based on the true story of [[US Navy]] Petty Officer [[Allen R. Schindler Jr.|Allen Schindler]], who is murdered by two of his fellow seamen while on shore leave from his post in Japan
* ''[[The Arrow (miniseries)|The Arrow]]'' (1997) – four-hour television [[miniseries]] about [[Crawford Gordon]], an experienced wartime production leader after [[World War II]] and president of [[Avro Canada]] during its attempt to produce the [[Avro Arrow]] [[supersonic]] [[jet aircraft|jet]] [[interceptor aircraft]]
* ''[[Boogie Nights]]'' (1997) – loosely based on the life of porn star [[John Holmes (pornographic actor)|John Holmes]]
* ''[[Border (1997 film)|Border]]'' (1997) – Indian war film based on the [[Indo-Pakistan War of 1971]]
* ''[[Buddy (1997 film)|Buddy]]'' (1997) – [[Family film|family]] [[comedy film]] based on the life of a [[gorilla]] called [[Massa (gorilla)|Massa]] with elements of [[Gertrude Lintz|Mrs. Gertrude "Trudy" Lintz]]'s other gorilla [[Gargantua (gorilla)|Gargantua]] (who was called "Buddy" at the time)
* ''[[Comedian Harmonists (film)|Comedian Harmonists]]'' (1997) – German film about the popular German vocal group the [[Comedian Harmonists]] of the 1920s and 1930s
* ''[[Crowned and Dangerous]]'' (1997) – [[Television movie|made-for-TV]] film about the murder of a beauty queen, and the investigation that revealed the suspects to be a former lover, a rival contestant, and a stage mother
* ''[[David (1997 film)|David]]'' (1997) – [[television film]] about [[King David]], as told in the [[David|biblical story]]
* ''[[Daughters (film)|Daughters]]'' (a.k.a. ''Our Mother's Murder'') (1997) – [[television film|made-for-TV]] [[drama film]] about the murder of publishing heiress [[Anne Scripps]]
* ''[[Detention: The Siege at Johnson High]]'' (1997) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[thriller (genre)|thriller]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the 1992 [[Lindhurst High School shooting|Lindhurst High School shooting and siege]] that resulted in the death of four people
* ''[[The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca]]'' (1997) – Spanish-American [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on a book by [[Ian Gibson (author)|Ian Gibson]] about the life and murder of Spanish poet [[Federico García Lorca]]
* ''[[Donnie Brasco (film)|Donnie Brasco]]'' (1997) – loosely based on [[Joseph D. Pistone]], the FBI agent who successfully infiltrated the [[Bonanno crime family]] in New York City during the 1970s
* ''[[FairyTale: A True Story]]'' (1997) – French-American [[fantasy film|fantasy]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] loosely based on the story of the [[Cottingley Fairies]] in the year 1917 in England, about two children who take a photograph soon believed to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies
* ''[[Fever Pitch (1997 film)|Fever Pitch]]'' (1997) – [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]] film loosely based on [[Nick Hornby]]'s best-selling memoir, ''[[Fever Pitch|Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life]]'' (1992)
* ''[[First Time Felon]]'' (1997) – based on the true story of young [[Chicago]] drug dealer Greg Yance
* ''[[For All - O Trampolim da Vitória]]'' ({{translation}} ''For All: Springboard to Victory'') (1997) – [[Cinema of Brazil|Brazilian]] [[comedy drama]] about a [[United States|US]] established military base in [[Natal, Rio Grande do Norte|Natal]], Brazil during [[World War II]]
* ''[[Four Days in September]]'' (Portuguese: ''O Que É Isso, Companheiro?'') (1997) – Brazilian thriller film that tells the true story of the abduction of American ambassador [[Charles Burke Elbrick]] in 1969 by the [[Revolutionary Movement 8th October|MR-8 group]], adapted from the book by [[Fernando Gabeira]]
* ''[[Gaston's War]]'' (1997) – [[Cinema of Belgium|Belgian]] [[drama film]] based on a novel by [[Allan Mayer]], the film is set many decades after the [[Second World War]], and tells the story of a Belgian resistance fighter, [[Gaston Vandermeerssche]], who tries to discover who betrayed them to the Nazis
* ''[[Hav Plenty]]'' (1997) – [[romantic comedy]] film based on an eventful weekend in the life of Lee Plenty, based on the true story of [[Christopher Scott Cherot]]'s unrequited romance with Def Jam A&R executive [[Drew Dixon]]
* ''[[Hoodlum (film)|Hoodlum]]'' (1997) – [[Crime film|crime]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]], a fictionalized account of the gang war between the [[American Mafia|Italian]]/[[Jewish-American organized crime|Jewish mafia]] alliance and the black gangsters of [[Harlem]] that took place in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The film concentrated on [[Bumpy Johnson|Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson]], [[Dutch Schultz]], and [[Lucky Luciano|Charles "Lucky" Luciano]]
* ''[[Iruvar]]'' (1997) – Indian Tamil political drama based on the life of Indian actor, director, producer and politician [[M. G. Ramachandran]] and Indian politician [[M. Karunanidhi]]
* ''[[Kundun]]'' (1997) – based on the life of the [[Dalai Lama]], the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet
* ''[[Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder]]'' (1997) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the real life murder of Adrianne Jones by [[Diane Zamora]] in [[Texas]]
* ''[[Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]]'' (1997) – [[Mystery film|mystery]] [[thriller film]] based on [[John Berendt]]'s 1994 [[Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil|book of the same name]] and follows the story of an antiques dealer on trial for the murder of a male prostitute, part fact and part fiction
* ''[[Mrs. Brown]]'' (1997) – based on the relationship between [[Queen Victoria]] and [[Scottish people|Scottish]] servant [[John Brown (servant)|John Brown]] following the death of [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]]
* ''[[Nattbuss 807]]'' ({{translation}} ''Night Bus 807'') (1997) – [[Cinema of Sweden|Swedish]] [[thriller film]] based on the real murder of a young skinhead in 1992
* ''[[No Child of Mine]]'' (1997) – British [[drama film|drama]]-[[television film]] about the true case of a girl named Kerry who was [[child sexual abuse|sexually abused]] throughout her childhood
* ''[[Paradise Road (1997 film)|Paradise Road]]'' (1997) – [[war film]] about a group of English, American, Australian, and Dutch women imprisoned by the Japanese in [[Sumatra]] during [[World War II]]
* ''[[Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing]]'' (1997) – [[television film]] depicting the events surrounding the [[1993 World Trade Center bombing]]
* ''[[The Place of the Dead]]'' (1997) – British television film about a [[British Army]] expedition in [[Malaysia]] that made headlines in 1994 when it went badly wrong
* ''[[Prefontaine (film)|Prefontaine]]'' (1997) – based on the life of Olympic hopeful [[Steve Prefontaine]], a middle and long-distance runner who competed in the [[1972 Summer Olympics]] and died at age 24 in a car accident
* ''[[Prison of Secrets]]'' (1997) – [[television film]] based on the true story of a female prison inmate who fights for women's rights while still in jail
* ''[[Private Parts (1997 film)|Private Parts]]'' (1997) – based on eccentric radio DJ [[Howard Stern]]'s 1993 autobiography [[Private Parts (book)|of the same name]]
* ''[[Rosewood (film)|Rosewood]]'' (1997) – dramatization of a 1923 racist lynch mob attack on an African American community
* ''[[The Sarah Balabagan Story]]'' (1997) – [[Cinema of Philippines|Filipino]] [[Biographical film|biopic]] revolving around the case of [[Overseas Filipino Worker|OFW]], [[Sarah Balabagan]] who was sentenced to death in the [[United Arab Emirates]]
* ''[[Selena (film)|Selena]]'' (1997) – based on the life of Mexican-American singer [[Selena]] Quintanilla Perez
* ''[[Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film)|Seven Years in Tibet]]'' (1997) – based on the autobiographical travel book written by Austrian mountaineer [[Heinrich Harrer]], based on his real life experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during World War II and the interim period before the Communist Chinese [[People's Liberation Army]] resumed control of Tibet in 1950
* ''[[Shanghai 1937]]'' (1997) – German two-part [[miniseries]] about westerners staying at a popular hotel in [[Shanghai]] during the Japanese invasion of China also known as the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] begins in 1937
* ''[[Sleeping with the Devil (film)|Sleeping with the Devil]]'' (1997) – [[television film]] based upon the novel of the same name by [[Suzanne Finstad]], about a nurse who gets in a romantic relationship with a billionaire
* ''[[The Sleepwalker Killing]]'' (1997) – TV movie based on a popular real-life case from the ''[[Unsolved Mysteries]]'' television series
* ''[[Stolen Women: Captured Hearts|Stolen Women, Captured Hearts]]'' (1997) – made-for-television film loosely based on Anna Morgan, a woman living on the plains of [[Kansas]] in 1868 who is kidnapped by a band of [[Lakota people|Lakota]] Indians
* ''[[Subway Stories]]'' (1997) – [[television film]], a dramatization of ten stories of New York City subway riders
* ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'' (1997) – [[epic film|epic]] [[romance film|romance]] [[disaster film]] incorporating both historical and fictionalized aspects, it is based on accounts of the [[Sinking of the RMS Titanic|sinking]] of the [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']]
* ''[[Vasiliki (film)|Vasiliki]]'' (1997) – [[Cinema of Greece|Greek]] film about Vasiliki, the wife of a Greek communist guerrilla during the [[Greek Civil War]]
* ''[[Wild America (film)|Wild America]]'' (1997) – [[Adventure film|adventure]] [[comedy film]] based on the life of wildlife documentarian [[Marty Stouffer]]
* ''[[Wilde (film)|Wilde]]'' (1997) – British [[biographical film]] based on events in the life of [[Ireland|Irish]] writer [[Oscar Wilde]]

== 1998 ==
* ''[[23 (film)|23]]'' (1998) – German [[Drama film|drama]] [[thriller film]] about a young [[Hacker (computer security)|hacker]] who died on 23 May 1989, a presumed suicide
* ''[[A Bright Shining Lie (film)|A Bright Shining Lie]]'' (1998) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[war film|war]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on [[Neil Sheehan]]'s [[A Bright Shining Lie|book of the same name]] and the true story of [[John Paul Vann]]'s experience in the [[Vietnam War]]
* ''[[A Civil Action (film)|A Civil Action]]'' (1998) – based on the [[A Civil Action|book of the same name]] by [[Jonathan Harr]], telling the true story of environmental pollution that took place in [[Woburn, Massachusetts]], in the 1980s
* ''[[At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story]]'' (1998) – [[Cinema of Canada|Canadian]] television film about the life of Canadian [[right to die]] [[advocacy|advocate]] [[Sue Rodriguez]]
* ''[[The Apple (1998 film)|The Apple]]'' (Persian: ''Sib'') (1998) – [[Cinema of Iran|Iranian]] film based on the true story of two daughters who are locked up by their parents for eleven years, when their neighbors call social workers to investigate the situation, the girls are released
* ''[[The Brylcreem Boys]]'' (1998) – British [[romantic comedy]] film set in Ireland against the [[Irish neutrality during World War II|extraordinary neutrality arrangements]] in Ireland during [[World War II]]
* ''[[Daun di Atas Bantal]]'' ({{translation}} ''Leaf on a Pillow'') (1998) – [[Cinema of Indonesia|Indonesian]] film based on true stories of the lives of three street boys in [[Yogyakarta]] in Java, Indonesia
* ''[[Elizabeth (film)|Elizabeth]]'' (1998) – centered on the early years of the reign of [[Elizabeth I of England]] and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch
* ''[[Escape: Human Cargo]]'' (1998) – [[action drama film]] based on the true story of an American businessman who loses his passport and exit visa in Saudi Arabia
* ''[[Fifteen and Pregnant]]'' (1998) – based on the true story of Tina, a 15-year-old pregnant girl
* ''[[Forever Love (1998 film)|Forever Love]]'' (1998) – television film partially based on [[Anne Shapiro]]'s awakening after being in a coma for 20 years
* ''[[Gia]]'' (1998) – based on the life of [[Gia Carangi]], a top American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s
* ''[[Glory & Honor]]'' (1998) – [[television film]] based on the true story of [[Robert Peary]] and [[Matthew Henson]]'s 1909 journey to the [[Geographic North Pole]], and their nearly 20-year history of exploring the [[Arctic]] together
* ''[[Gods and Monsters (film)|Gods and Monsters]]'' (1998) – depiction of the last days of British film director [[James Whale]]
* ''[[Lautrec (film)|Lautrec]]'' (1998) – [[Cinema of France|French]] biographical film about the painter [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]]
* ''[[The Long Island Incident]]'' (1998) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] based on the [[1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting]]
* ''[[Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon]]'' (1998) – British made-for-television film, a fictional biography of painter [[Francis Bacon (artist)|Francis Bacon]]
* ''[[Miracle at Midnight]]'' (1998) – TV movie based on the [[rescue of the Danish Jews]] in Denmark during the [[Holocaust]]
* ''[[The Newton Boys]]'' (1998) – [[comedy drama]] film based on the true story of the [[Newton Gang]], a family of [[bank robbers]] from [[Uvalde, Texas]]
* ''[[Nicholas' Gift]]'' (1998) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] about an American couple on vacation in Italy in 1994 when their two children are attacked and shot by highway bandits
* ''[[Of Freaks and Men]]'' (Russian: ''Pro urodov i lyudey'') (1998) – [[Cinema of Russia|Russian]] film centered on two families and their decline at the hands of one man, Johann, and his pornographic endeavours
* ''[[Patch Adams (film)|Patch Adams]]'' (1998) – the story of the medical doctor, clown, performer, and social activist<ref>[http://www.patchadams.org/Gesundheit_Institute_speakers "Dr. Patch Adams."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100123044607/http://www.patchadams.org/Gesundheit_Institute_speakers |date=2010-01-23 }} [http://www.patchadams.org/ideas The Gesundheit! Institute] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127062144/http://www.patchadams.org/ideas |date=2010-01-27 }}</ref> [[Patch Adams]]
* ''[[The Pentagon Wars]]'' (1998) – military [[comedy film]] based on the book ''The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard'' by Colonel James G. Burton, [[United States Air Force]]
* ''[[Psycho (1998 film)|Psycho]]'' (1998) – inspired by the crimes of the real-life serial killer, [[Ed Gein]]; remake of [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]]'' (1960)
* ''[[Ruby Bridges (film)|Ruby Bridges]]'' (1998) – [[television film]] based on the true story of [[Ruby Bridges]], one of the first black students to attend integrated schools in [[New Orleans, Louisiana]], in 1960
* ''[[Savior (film)|Savior]]'' (1998) – [[war film]] about a U.S. [[mercenary]] escorting a [[Bosnian Serb]] woman and her newborn child to a [[United Nations]] safe zone during the [[Bosnian War]].
* ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'' (1998) – inspired by the story of the [[Niland Brothers]] during [[World War II]]
* ''[[Shot Through the Heart]]'' (1998) – television film which covers the [[Siege of Sarajevo]] during the [[Bosnian War]], the film is based on a true story and an article called ''Anti-Sniper'' by John Falk
* ''[[The Temptations (miniseries)|The Temptations]]'' (1998) – two-part miniseries based upon the history of one of [[Motown]]'s longest-lived acts, American vocal group [[The Temptations]]
* ''[[The Versace Murder]]'' (1998) – docu-drama focusing on the murder of fashion designer [[Gianni Versace]] by alleged [[serial killer]] [[Andrew Cunanan]]
* ''[[Why Do Fools Fall in Love (film)|Why Do Fools Fall in Love]]'' (1998) – [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama film]] about [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]]/[[Rock and roll]] singer [[Frankie Lymon]], lead singer of the pioneering rock and roll group [[The Teenagers|Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers]] for one year
* ''[[Windhorse (film)|Windhorse]]'' (1998) – based on the lives of three young [[Tibet]]ans who struggle for freedom against the Chinese communist regime
* ''[[Without Limits]]'' (1998) – biographical film about the relationship between record-breaking distance runner [[Steve Prefontaine]] and his coach [[Bill Bowerman]], who later co-founded [[Nike, Inc.]]
* ''[[Witness to the Mob]]'' (1998) – made-for-TV film that follows the rise of [[Sammy Gravano]] in ranks in the [[Gambino crime family]], one of the "[[Five Families]]" of the New York [[American Mafia|Cosa Nostra]]

== 1999 ==
* ''[[Aimée & Jaguar]]'' (1999) – German [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] set in [[Berlin]] during [[World War II]], based on Erica Fischer's book chronicling the actual lives of [[Lilly Wust]] and [[Felice Schragenheim]] during that time
* ''[[All the King's Men (1999 film)|All the King's Men]]'' (1999) – [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]] [[World War I]] television drama about the mystery of [[Sandringham Company]], which disappeared in action at [[Gallipoli]] in 1915
* ''[[Angela's Ashes (film)|Angela's Ashes]]'' (1999) – Irish-American drama based on the [[Angela's Ashes|memoir of the same title]] by [[Frank McCourt]], telling the story of McCourt and his childhood after he and his family are forced to move from America back to Ireland because of financial difficulties and family problems caused by his father's alcoholism
* ''[[Anna and the King]]'' (1999) – the story of Anglo-Indian travel writer, educator and social activist [[Anna Leonowens]] and her experiences in [[Siam]] (Thailand)
* ''[[At First Sight (1999 film)|At First Sight]]'' (1999) – [[romantic drama film]] based on the essay "To See and Not See" in [[neurologist]] [[Oliver Sacks]]' 1995 book ''[[An Anthropologist on Mars]]'' and inspired by the true life story of [[Shirl Jennings]]
* ''[[Bhopal Express (film)|Bhopal Express]]'' (1999) – [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[drama film]] set against the [[Bhopal Gas Tragedy|gas tragedy in Bhopal]], India, in 1984
* ''[[The Blonde Bombshell]]'' (1999) – British two-part mini-series based on the life and death of actress [[Diana Dors]]
* ''[[Boys Don't Cry (1999 film)|Boys Don't Cry]]'' (1999) – the story of hate crime victim [[Brandon Teena]]
* ''[[Cradle Will Rock]]'' (1999) – [[Historical film|historical]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] that fictionalizes the true events that surrounded the development of the 1937 musical ''[[The Cradle Will Rock]]'' by [[Marc Blitzstein]]
* ''[[The Cup (1999 film)|The Cup]]'' (Tibetan: ''Phörpa'') (1999) – [[Cinema of Bhutan|Bhutanese]] [[Tibetan-language film]] about two young football-crazed [[Tibet]]an refugee [[samanera|novice monks]] in a remote [[Himalaya]]n [[monastery]] in India who desperately try to obtain a [[television]] for the monastery to watch the [[Football World Cup 1998|1998 World Cup]] final{{citation needed|reason=The title card says "inspired by true events" but "inspired" is a lot broader than "based", and we haven't seen any other indications that it is a true story|date=March 2023}}
* ''[[The Debt (1999 film)|The Debt]]'' (Polish: ''Dług'') (1999) – [[Cinema of Poland|Polish]] film based on two entrepreneurs who become tangled in the web of a Russian thug in Warsaw, Poland in the early 1990s
* ''[[Dockers (film)|Dockers]]'' (1999) – British television drama about the struggles of a small group of Liverpool dockers who were sacked and subsequently spent nearly {{frac|2|1|2}} years picketing during the [[Liverpool dockers' strike (1995–98)|Liverpool Dockers' Strike]] of 1995 to 1998
* ''[[Excellent Cadavers]]'' (Italian: ''I giudici'') (1999) – Italian/American [[television film]] based on [[Excellent Cadavers|the book with the same name]] by [[Alexander Stille]] and tells the real life events of judge [[Giovanni Falcone]]
* ''[[Girl, Interrupted (film)|Girl, Interrupted]]'' (1999) – based on author [[Susanna Kaysen]]'s memoir of the same name, chronicling her 18-month stay at a mental institution
* ''[[Grey Owl (film)|Grey Owl]]'' (1999) – British/Canadian [[Biographical film|biopic]] about British schoolboy turned Native American trapper [[Grey Owl|"Grey Owl", Archibald Belaney]] (1888–1938)
* ''[[The Hunley]]'' (1999) – [[television film]] about the Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (submarine)|H. L. Hunley]]'', the first combat submarine to sink a warship
* ''[[The Hurricane (1999 film)|The Hurricane]]'' (1999) – based on the imprisonment of middleweight boxer [[Rubin Carter|Rubin "Hurricane" Carter]]
* ''[[In a Class of His Own]]'' (1999) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] about the true story of a high school janitor who never graduated high school and now must get his GED or lose his job
* ''[[In Too Deep (1999 film)|In Too Deep]]'' (1999) – [[Crime film|crime]] [[thriller film]] loosely based on a book about the takedown of a Boston gang lord, aided by an undercover cop
* ''[[Inherit the Wind (1999 film)|Inherit the Wind]]'' (1999) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[film adaptation]] of the 1955 [[Inherit the Wind (play)|play of the same name]] which originally aired on [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]]. The original play was written as a [[parable]] which fictionalized the 1925 [[Scopes Trial|Scopes "Monkey" Trial]] as a means of discussing the 1950s [[McCarthyism|McCarthy trials]]
* ''[[The Insider (film)|The Insider]]'' (1999) – based on the experiences of Dr. [[Jeffrey Wigand]], a tobacco industry whistleblower
* ''[[Jesus (1999 film)|Jesus]]'' (1999) – Italian/American [[Bible|biblical]] [[historical drama]] [[television film]] that retells the historical events of [[Jesus|Jesus Christ]]
* ''[[Joan of Arc (miniseries)|Joan of Arc]]'' (1999) – Canadian miniseries based on the story of [[Joan of Arc]], a young girl who believed she was God's messenger
* ''[[Man on the Moon (film)|Man on the Moon]]'' (1999) – biopic about the life of late comedian [[Andy Kaufman]]
* ''[[The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc]]'' (1999) – based on the story of [[Joan of Arc]], a young girl who believed she was God's messenger
* ''[[Molokai: The Story of Father Damien]]'' (1999) – [[Cinema of Belgium|Belgian]] [[biographical film]] of [[Father Damien]], a Belgian priest working at the [[Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement]] on the Hawaiian island of [[Molokai]]
* ''[[The Murder of Stephen Lawrence]]'' (1999) – British television [[true crime]] drama film based on the [[Murder of Stephen Lawrence|murder]] committed on 22 April 1993, and follows Stephen's parents' [[Doreen Lawrence|Doreen]] and Neville's quest for justice as a gang of racists are tried for their son's murder
* ''[[Music of the Heart]]'' (1999) – dramatization of the true story of [[Roberta Guaspari]], who co-founded the Opus 118 Harlem School of Music and fought for music education funding in New York City public schools
* ''[[Mutiny (1999 film)|Mutiny]]'' (1999) – [[television film|television]] [[drama film]] based on the story of the [[Port Chicago disaster]] during [[World War II]] where 50 [[African-American]] sailors were accused of mutiny because they declined to continue loading munitions after an explosion caused by failures in training and management
* ''[[My Life So Far]]'' (1999) – British/American film about a year in the life of a ten-year-old [[Scotland|Scottish]] boy, set in 1927 and based on the [[memoirs]] of [[Denis Forman]], a British television executive
* ''[[Not One Less]]'' (Mandarin: ''Yi ge dou bu neng shao'') (1999) – [[Cinema of China|Chinese]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] adapted from [[Shi Xiangsheng]]'s 1997 story ''A Sun in the Sky'', set in the [[People's Republic of China]] during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the [[Rural society in China|Chinese countryside]]
* ''[[October Sky]]'' (1999) – [[biographical film]] adapted from the memoir ''[[Rocket Boys]]'' by [[Homer Hickam]], a coal miner's son who was inspired by the launch of ''[[Sputnik 1]]'' to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became a [[NASA]] engineer
* ''[[One Man's Hero]]'' (1999) – [[historical film|historical]] [[war drama|war drama film]] about the true story of [[John Riley (soldier)|John Riley]] and the [[Saint Patrick's Battalion]], a group of [[Irish Catholic]] immigrants who desert from the [[Christianity in the United States#Protestantism|mostly Protestant]] [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] to the mostly [[Roman Catholicism in Mexico|Catholic Mexican]] side during the [[Mexican–American War]] of 1846 to 1848
* ''[[Pirates of Silicon Valley]]'' (1999) – based on the story of [[Steve Jobs]] ([[Apple Computer]]) and [[Bill Gates]] ([[Microsoft]]) and their rivalry on the development of the personal computer
* ''[[The Return of Alex Kelly]]'' (a.k.a. ''The Alex Kelly Story'') (1999) – [[Cinema of Canada|Canadian]] film based on the life of convicted [[rape|rapist]] [[Alex Kelly (rapist)|Alex Kelly]]
* ''[[RKO 281]]'' (1999) – [[historical drama film]] about the story of the making of ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' (1941)
* ''[[Rogue Trader (film)|Rogue Trader]]'' (1999) – British biographical drama centering around the life of former derivatives broker [[Nick Leeson]] and the 1995 collapse of [[Barings Bank]]
* ''[[The Straight Story]]'' (1999) – based on the story of [[Alvin Straight]]'s journey across [[Iowa]] and [[Wisconsin]] on a [[lawnmower]]
* ''[[Strange Justice (1999 film)|Strange Justice]]'' (1999) – [[television film]] based on events regarding the [[sexual harassment]] accusation brought by [[Anita Hill]] during the Senate confirmation hearings of [[Clarence Thomas]] for the [[United States Supreme Court]] during the [[George H. W. Bush]] presidential administration
* ''[[Summer of Sam]]'' (1999) – [[Crime film|crime]] [[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] film about the 1977 [[David Berkowitz]] ("Son of Sam") serial murders and their effect on a group of fictional residents of an [[Italian-American]] neighborhood in [[The Bronx]] in the late 1970s
* ''[[Switched at Birth (1999 film)|Switched at Birth]]'' (1999) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] about two baby boys born more or less at the same time, who were [[Babies switched at birth|switched]] soon after they were born
* ''[[Topsy-Turvy]]'' (1999) – musical drama concerning the period in 1884–1885 leading up to the premiere of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s ''[[The Mikado]]'', focusing on the creative conflict between playwright and composer, and the decision by the two men to continue their partnership
* ''[[Tuesdays with Morrie (film)|Tuesdays with Morrie]]'' (1999) – television film based on the memoir [[Tuesdays with Morrie|of the same title]]
* ''[[Ultimate Deception]]'' (a.k.a. ''Ultimate Betrayal'') (1999) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] about a man who has had a vasectomy and kills a young mother and steals her 3 month old baby, to please his married wife who yearns to raise a family
* ''[[The Winslow Boy (1999 film)|The Winslow Boy]]'' (1999) – British/American [[period drama]] film set in London before [[World War I]], it depicts a family defending the honour of its young son at all cost, based on [[Terence Rattigan]]'s 1946 dramatic play ''[[The Winslow Boy]]''
* ''[[Witch Hunt (1999 film)|Witch Hunt]]'' (1999) – [[Cinema of Australia|Australian]] [[crime drama]] about a young girl who goes missing and her father who accuses his mother-in-law, Barbara of abducting her
* ''[[You Know My Name (film)|You Know My Name]]'' (1999) – [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama]] [[western (genre)|western]] film based on the real-life story of [[Law enforcement officer|lawman]] and [[gunslinger]] [[Bill Tilghman]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/historymovies.html History at the Movies: Historical and Period Films]
* [https://www.imdb.com/keyword/based-on-true-story/ Internet Movie Database list]
* [http://hudsonfla.com/films.htm Films based on historical events and people]
==References==
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