From period pieces like 'I'm Still Here' and 'The King' to quippy action comedies like 'Hit Man' with Glen Powell, here are the 29 best Netflix movies based on true stories.

A few gangsters from Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas are based on real characters. Here's what the movie changed about them.

This Oscar-nominated thriller is now streaming on Netflix.

The tragic Deepwater Horizon explosion was depicted in the 2016 movie by the same name ...

Ron Howard's Eden is based on a real story of Europeans who tried to start a utopia on the Galapagos island of Floreana ...

A man balances on a wire stretched between the Twin Towers. A pilot safely lands an airliner on a river with 155 people still on board. A CIA team escapes Tehran by pretending to shoot a sci-fi film.

These true stories are so bizarre they're almost unbelievable. Thankfully, these movies are here to tell the tale.

Deepwater Horizon — the new Mark Wahlberg disaster film—has the look and feel of a typical movie in the genre: big explosions, a dramatic score and a hero stepping in to protect the other characters.

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A man balances on a wire stretched between the Twin Towers. A pilot safely lands an airliner on a river with 155 people still on board. A CIA team escapes Tehran by pretending to shoot a sci-fi ...