When it comes to storytelling in media such as games, books and movies, the phrases "based on a true story" and "a true story ...

Some of the best movies of all time happen to be based on true stories, from tragic and horrifying events to inspiring tales of perseverance.

Films based on true stories connect us to the past in a visceral way. Here are the 10 best, chosen by TIME staff and a panel of historians.

Some of the best movies ever are based on true events, from the stirring heroism shown in Schindler's List to the gripping rise-and-fall story in Goodfellas.

This Oscar front-runner links Holocaust trauma to the brutalism architecture movement.

An award-winning film about the harrowing escape of a young Jewish girl who’s entire family was killed during the Holocaust will make it’s metro Detroit debut at The Maple Theater in ...

It's based on the true story of Sara Goralnik, who lost her entire family in the Holocaust.

Some horror movies that are based on true stories stretch the truth in order to deliver a scarier film for the audience.

I know what you're thinking: horror movies that are "based on a true story" are bologna. Well, of course, Hollywood has a way of stretching the truth, especially when scaring audiences is involved ...

There aren’t always two sides to a story. “There are certain things that are true,” Deborah Lipstadt tells PEOPLE. “And the Holocaust is one of them.” The historian was the defendant in ...

Set in postwar Germany, this film dramatizes the true story of a group of Jewish survivors who sought revenge through an astonishing undercover operation.