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The Right Stuff How accurate is this Disney+ TV adaptation of Tom Wolfe's book about John Glenn and the space race?

The One and Only Ivan The Disney+ movie tells the story of a 400-pound silverback gorilla named Ivan who is confined in a suburban shopping mall with other animals.

The Outpost How accurate is this story of a small force of U.S. soldiers who defend their outpost from hundreds of Taliban?

Hamilton How accurate is Broadway's biography of Alexander Hamilton?

Greyhound Based on a novel, the Tom Hanks film was inspired by a real-life WWII battle.

Waco Authorities lay siege to religious leader David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound in 1993.

Military Wives Military spouses and girlfriends form a choir that becomes a global sensation, but does the film stay in harmony with the truth?

Capone Is it possible that Al Capone was faking dementia to get out of prison?

Mrs. America Hollywood finds the villain in conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, but is it the truth?

Bad Education Hugh Jackman portrays Frank Tassone, the superintendent at the heart of the Long Island school scandal.

Sergio UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello finds himself in a perilous situation in the aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq.

Tiger King This wildly popular Netflix documentary tells the at-times exaggerated story of big-cat zoo operator Joe Exotic.

Lost Girls We compare the Netflix series to Shannan Gilbert's real-life disappearance.

Self Made Meet the real African American hair-care entrepreneur behind the rags-to-riches story.

I Still Believe The story of singer/songwriter Jeremy Camp and his experience with love and loss early in his career.

For Life How much of the ABC TV series For Life is rooted in fact?

The Last Full Measure Is this story about an Air Force pararescueman's heroism true to history?

Just Mercy Does this story of an attorney who fights to free a black man on Death Row perjure itself with too much fiction?

1917 Two WWI soldiers are tasked with delivering a message that could save hundreds of lives, but did it happen?

Togo Meet the real sled dog who helped save Nome from a diphtheria epidemic.

Richard Jewell The media got Richard Jewell wrong, but does Clint Eastwood get his story right?

The Irishman Robert De Niro and Al Pacino star in a film about the man who supposedly killed Jimmy Hoffa, but is the movie a lie?

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Is the Tom Hanks Mister Rogers movie filled with too much fiction?

Ford v Ferrari Does this car racing movie about the 1966 Le Mans rivalry leave the truth in the dust?

Midway Is director Roland Emmerich's version of the WWII Battle of Midway accurate?

Harriet Harriet Tubman frees dozens of slaves through the Underground Railroad, but is the biopic factual?