Focuses on an extraordinary group of working class housewives from Love Canal, New York who took on the government and the chemical industry in the 70s. With no training or support, they got the President himself to move their families from homes built on lots where massive amounts of toxic chemicals had been dumped.
Story & True Events
A segmented selection of the BASED ON Selections from the IN DEVELOPMENT projects. This hub covers all In Development projects that are based on a story, true story, life rights, real events and biopics.
A Filipino singer rescued from obscurity by a YouTube video that led him to become the lead singer of the iconic 80s arena rock band Journey.
Tells the true story of two young female entrepreneurs, Penelope Gazin and Kate Dwyer, who had to invent a third male company founder in order to be taken seriously in the business world.
The divers and survivors of summer’s Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand when 12 boys aged 11-16 and their coach of the Wild Boar soccer team were trapped 1,000 meters below the surface.
Chronicles the true story of the group in Chicago that helped women obtain abortions before Roe V. Wade.
A college student creates an atomic bomb at Princeton University.
Chronicles the true story of a con artist who impersonates teenagers that have gone missing
Chronicles the attack of marines by the Vietnamese army at Khe Sanh.
The story of Robert F. Kennedy, politician, and brother to John F. Kennedy, who gained national attention for his public challenge of notorious Teamster Jimmy Hoffa.
Chronicles the true story of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer.
A young man spends a summer in Italy where he meets his idol Gore Vidal and learns about life, love, and politics from the great man himself.
The lives of three people from different eras are connected by the genocide of the Congolese people at the command of Belgium’s King Leopold II.
In 1947, Pepsi CEO Walter Mack hired National Urban League staffer Edward F. Boyd to do something no major American company had done before — assemble an all-black national sales team to focus on the overlooked black market.
Follows the downfall of Democratic presidential nominee frontrunner Gary Hart after the publication of an extramarital affair.
The project is under wraps, but will be based on the memoir of the same name and developed in the tone of Crash.
Based on the 2013 true story of Damany Lewis, a math teacher in Atlant that got caught up in the largest academic cheating scandal in U.S. history.
The true story of young athlete Ed Zine, his struggle with mental illness and the Harvard doctor, Michael Jenike, who broke all the rules of traditional medicine to help him.
Based on recently declassified materials, tells teh incredible true story of Arthur Meyerowitz, an American turret-gunner whose B-24 bomber was shot down over Vichy France in 1943.
The story follows three refugees from East Prussia as they struggle to survive during the end of WWII. They believe the ship Wilhelm Gustloff can take them to safety, but just as freedom seems within their grasp, tragedy strikes and the ship sinks, resulting in one of the worst maritime disasters ever.
After escaping a militia attack in Darfur, a Zaghawa tribesman used his knowledge of languages to be a translator for journalists who arrived to report on the genocide.
Chronicles the struggles of painter Vincent van Gogh as he paints his famous masterpieces.
Based on the story of famed mime Marcel Marceau, who learned to mime while saving the lives of Jewish orphans whose parents were murdered by Nazis.
After discovering she only has a few years until she becomes blind, a woman sets out to make the most of her eyesight with the time she has left.
The fictionalized story of the real life Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin who escaped from the Nazis in 1940.
Based on the story of a business man from Sweden who attempts to extort a large sum of money from an heiress in Germany.
Before he was an icon, before creating the car that would define his image, Ferruccio Lamborghini manufactured tractors and military vehicles in World War II. This is an exploration of his life and legacy.
A professor tries to escape Sarajevo during the four-year siege in the 1990s during the Bosnian War.
Storyline is under wraps, but centers on Truman Capote’s infamous Black & White Ball in 1966.
WWII story when Shigenori Nishikaichi, an Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilot, crash-landed his Zero on the eponymous Hawaiian island after the participating in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Based on a book of the oral histories, this tells the story of an ordinary group of women who did something extraordinary: 11,000 safe, illegal abortions in Chicago from 1968 to 1973.
