Fact and film

How to read the words based on a true story.

Based on

The people and the main events are real; scenes and dialogue are written. Moneyball is a good example.

Inspired by

The film takes a real starting point and invents freely. Cool Runnings keeps the team and changes the characters.

Filmed record

Newsies is a stage musical recorded in a theatre, about a real strike.

After the film

Most title pages name the real person, which makes further reading easy.

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