These based on a true story movies are pretty accurate — aside from their fictionalized main characters. Does knowing that lead characters — and in some cases, the hero of the movie — were Hollywood ...

While film as an artform is most often associated with fictional storytelling, there has been a long and varied history of impactful adaptations of real-life events and stories on the big screen.

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.