20 h. ago A Thousand Blows true story: Inside the real infamous Forty Elephants all

A Thousand Blows brings to life real-life characters that walked the dirty East End streets more than 100 years ago.

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23 h. ago Britain's Got Talent's Sydnie Christmas ready to tell her true story after whirlwind year

Britain's Got Talent winner Sydnie Christmas may have had a whirlwind year since being crowned winner of the ITV contest, but she has plenty more she wants to achieve as she shares her story on stage

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37 h. ago The true story behind A Thousand Blows by the show's historical advisor

Steven Knight’s story of boxing and thievery is rooted in reality

Culture

53 h. ago BRIAN VINER reviews I'm Still Here: Chilling reality behind the glitz of Pele's Brazil

BRIAN VINER: I'm Still Here tells the true story of the affluent, middle-class Paiva family whose comfortable life was ripped apart following that sound in all totalitarian countries: the knock on the door.

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3 d. ago Scamanda's Lisa Berry and how she turned on fake cancer influencer Amanda Riley

Scamanda shares the true story of a woman who faked having cancer for donations and attention

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3 d. ago I’m Still Here review – Fernanda Torres’s stoic maternal mask never slips

Emotions hide beneath the surface and horrors lurk behind unseen doors in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated tale of the Brazilian disappearedThe subtlety and dignity of Fernanda Torres’s Oscar-nominated performance in Walter Salles’s new film have been rightly praised. This is a kind of mother-courage true story: the case of Eunice Paiva, a Brazilian woman who had to keep her family together and shield her five children from despair when her activist husband Rubens was brutally “disappeared” in 1971 by the military dictatorship. They refused even to admit he had been arrested, or later officially admit his death, in a state-sanctioned act of cruelty which was only finally acknowledged in the mid-90s after decades of campaigning, when the government issued a formal death certificate.I’m Still Here is a drama which intelligently seeks to intuit the courageously maintained calm that Eunice imposes on herself and the children when the thuggish secret police arrive. Torres is effectively t...

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4 d. ago ‘History was attempted to be buried’: the true story behind Oscar

Director RaMell Ross details horrors behind Florida School for Boys that backdropped the moving film adaptationIt was one of the darkest, most shameful episodes in Florida’s grotesque history of state-sanctioned racism: dozens of children, most of them Black, beaten or shot to death, or sexually abused in a decades-long reign of terror at a secretive and remote reform school.Early next month at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, the horrors that befell the students of the notorious Arthur G Dozier School for Boys will be laid bare before the world, courtesy of a best picture nomination for the “transcendentally moving and frightening film” Nickel Boys, and a best adapted screenplay nod for director RaMell Ross and his co-writer, Joslyn Barnes. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Doctor Who and Sex Education stars feature in new Netflix show Toxic Town filmed in Greater Manchester

It is based on a true story

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4 d. ago 'I woke up in hospital and made terrifying realisation after noticing man next to me'

Neide Melo woke up in 2017, in a hospital bed, next to a man who she had seen only once in her life with her last memories had been from 2003. She is still yet to remember what happened

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5 d. ago What is fact and what is fiction in Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar?

A new Netflix series dramatises the real-life story of Belle Gibson, the Australian wellness influencer who built an empire off the back of a non-existent brain tumour. Helen Coffey sorts reality from fantasy by digging into the bizarre true events that inspired the show

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