58 h. ago Just days left to watch 'perfect' movie based on true story on BBC iPlayer

BlacKkKlansman, which is available to watch on BBC iPlayer, tells the unbelievable true story of Ron Stallworth, the first African-American detective to serve in Colorado Springs

Sport

5 d. ago 'Must watch' film based on bizarre true story is a movie 'like no other'

Fans think it was worthy of an Oscar

Culture

6 d. ago War film based on true story hailed as 'an absolute masterpiece' and the 'best ever made' is finally free to stream

The movie first hit screens back in 1981 and has previously been regarded as one of the greatest war films ever made.

Sport

1 week ago An underrated true crime thriller starring Keira Knightley is airing on TV tonight

It is based on the true story of a serial killer who murdered 13 women in the 1960s

Events

2 w. ago Lovestuck at Stratford East review: 'a cheerfully brainless scatological musical'

Based on a true story about a woman who was trapped upside down in a toilet, this musical from the team behind My Dad Wrote a Porno doesn’t come out smelling of roses

Politics

2 w. ago Red Path review – Tunisian drama tells traumatic story of Islamic State’s horrific cruelty

Based on the true story of the brutal murder of a teenage shepherd, Lotfi Achour’s sombre film honestly attempts to encompass the unbearable grief suffered by the familyA low cloud of misery and horror settles on this sombre movie from Tunisian writer-director Lotfi Achour, inspired by a brutal event in his country from 2015. A teenage shepherd called Mabrouk Soltani was murdered and beheaded on Mount Mghila in central Tunisia by members of Jund al-Khilafah (“soldiers of the caliphate”), the Tunisian branch of Islamic State, which habitually hides out in that remote, rugged region. They videoed their grotesque homicide, claiming the boy was an army spy and ordered his terrified 14-year-old cousin, who was with him, to carry the severed head back to his village as a brutal “message” – and this boy obeyed, in a stricken state of trauma that can only be guessed at. This horrifying event was to assume the status of national scandal in Tunisia two years later when the victim’s elder brot...

Events

3 w. ago American Gangster film based on true story that's a 'must watch' if you love the Godfather

The gangster film, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime, has been hailed as very "underrated" and the "best true crime drama out there".

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