Movies: Based on memoir or autobiography

Chronicles the harrowing year the Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent Evan Gershkovich spent in a Russian prison on fabricated espionage charges after being arrested by the Federal Security Service....

Adam Brown overcomes his addictions and trains to become an elite member of the SEAL Team Six....

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An average student in average small-town America, inspired by the astronauts she saw on TV, Eileen Collins nurtured a secret dream to fly to space herself. In the 1970's the US military selected women pilots for the first time, and Eileen became one ...

This piece is inspired by the memoirs of Sepideh Gholian. A prisoner of conscience at 26 years old in Bushehr prison, Iran....

Drama about an impoverished family, a widowed mother and her two sons, trying to get by....

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A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole....

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In 1975, Finnish President Urho Kekkonen became an internationally recognized expert on bridging the East with the West by hosting the “Conference of Security and Cooperation of Europe”. His dreams of retirement and the penwork of his newfound journa...