List of 1990s films based on actual events

This is a list of films and miniseries that are based on actual events. All films on this list are from American production unless indicated otherwise.

1990

A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1990) – British biographical drama television film depicting the experiences of T. E. Lawrence and Emir Faisal of the Hejaz at the Paris Peace Conference, after the end of the First World War[http://www.iemmys.tv/awards_previous.aspx IEMMY — Previous Award Winners] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071205001705/http://www.iemmys.tv/awards_previous.aspx |date=5 December 2007 }}. iemmys.tv
A Killing in a Small Town (1990) – crime drama television film based on the story of Candy Montgomery{{cite book|title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present|year=2003|publisher=Ballantine Books|isbn=0-345-45542-8|pages=1440}}
A Season of Giants (Italian: La primavera di Michelangelo) (1990) – American-Italian biographical drama television film depicting real life events of Michelangelo, his youth, his approach with art, his friendship with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, and his involvement in great political and religious events{{cite news |last=Ken Tucker |title=A Season of Giants (1991) |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20200437,00.html |access-date=11 July 2014 |newspaper=Entertainment Weekly |date=15 March 1991 |archive-date=14 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714141837/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20200437,00.html |url-status=dead }}
A Violent Life (Italian: Una vita scellerata) (1990) – Italian biographical drama film depicting real life events of goldsmith and sculptor Benvenuto Cellini{{cite news|last1=Irene Bignardi|title=Cellini, genio e sregolatezza|newspaper=La Repubblica|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1990/05/10/cellini-genio-sregolatezza.html?ref=search|date=10 May 1990|access-date=26 October 2023|archive-date=13 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231113194709/https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1990/05/10/cellini-genio-sregolatezza.html?ref=search|url-status=live}}
After the Shock (1990) – disaster drama television film about the aftermath of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that hit San Francisco on 17 October 1989Kay, Glenn and Michael Rose, Disaster Movies, Chicago Review Press, An A Capella Book, Chicago, 2006 p. 76
An Angel at My Table (1990) – biographical drama film depicting a dramatization of the autobiographies of New Zealand author Janet Frame – following from when she grows up in a poor family, through her years in a mental institution, and into her writing years after her releaseHunter Cordaiy, "An Angel at My Table", Cinema Papers, November 1990, pp. 32–36.
Anything to Survive (1990) – Canadian-American disaster survival television film based on the true story of the Wortman family of Prince of Wales Island, Alaska{{cite web |title=Anything to Survive (1990) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/455301/anything-to-survive/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=24 October 2023 |archive-date=12 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231112104036/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/455301/anything-to-survive/ |url-status=live }}
Artificial Paradise (Slovene: Umetni raj) (1990) – Yugoslav biographical drama film portraying a fictionalized depiction of Fritz Lang's life in 1935{{cite web |url=https://bsf.si/sl/film/umetni-raj/ |title=Umetni raj |work=BSF |access-date=24 March 2022 |archive-date=1 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201094544/https://bsf.si/sl/film/umetni-raj/ |url-status=live }}
The Austrian (French: L'Autrichienne) (1990) – French biographical drama film depicting the last days of Marie-Antoinette of Austria, showing her trial and executionLa Revue du cinéma " Pierre Granier-Deferre à propos de L'Autrichienne. Film français de Pierre Granier-Deferre (1989). avec Ute Lemper. Patrick Chesnais. Daniel Mesguich.
Awakenings (1990) – biographical drama film telling the story of the story of neurologist Oliver Sacks who discovers the beneficial effects of the drug L-DOPA in 1969 administering it to catatonic patients who survived the 1917–1928 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica{{cite news|title=Home Alone in 9th Week as No. 1 Film : Movies: 'Godfather Part III' takes dramatic slide from second to sixth place in its third week out. 'Awakenings' is in second.|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=14 January 1991|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-14-ca-310-story.html|access-date=2011-01-01|first=Pat H.|last=Broeske|archive-date=4 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104143436/http://articles.latimes.com/1991-01-14/entertainment/ca-310_1_godfather-part-iii|url-status=live}}
Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990) – historical biographical drama film about the life and death of Norman Bethune, a Canadian physician who served as a combat surgeon during the Chinese Civil War{{Cite news |date=5 February 1986 |title=China okays Bethune film script |page=19 |work=North Bay Nugget |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114787717/north-bay-nugget/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221218013024/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114787717/north-bay-nugget/ |archive-date=18 December 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Blood Oath (1990) – Australian drama film based on the real-life trial of Japanese soldiers for war crimes committed against Allied prisoners of war on the island of Ambon, in the Netherlands East Indies, such as the Laha massacre of 1942{{Cite web |url=http://film.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/AA4_Aust_Box_office_report.pdf |title=Film Victoria – Australian Films at the Australian Box Office |access-date=20 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723234802/http://film.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/AA4_Aust_Box_office_report.pdf |archive-date=23 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}
Call Me Anna (1990) – biographical drama television film about Patty Duke, detailing her long-time struggle with mental illness{{cite web |author=Ken Tucker |url=https://ew.com/article/1990/11/09/call-me-anna/ |title=Call Me Anna |publisher=EW.com |date=9 November 1990 |accessdate=2018-11-22 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026134719/https://ew.com/article/1990/11/09/call-me-anna/ |url-status=live }}
Captive of the Desert (French: La captive du désert) (1990) – French adventure drama film based in part on the experiences of Françoise Claustre who was captured by Chadian rebels in 1974, later joined by her husband, and the pair finally released in 1977{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/156/year/1990.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Captive of the Desert |accessdate=2009-08-05 |work=festival-cannes.com |archive-date=3 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003194956/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/156/year/1990.html |url-status=live }}
Challenger (1990) – disaster drama television film based on the events surrounding the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986{{cite news |last=Dawson|first=Greg|date=25 February 1990|title='CHALLENGER': PAINFUL BUT MOSTLY WELL-DONE|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1990-02-25-9002232935-story,amp.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602212321/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:f5TGVimr2P0J:https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1990-02-25-9002232935-story,amp.html+&cd=26&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 June 2021|work=Orlando Sentinel|location= |access-date=}}
Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (1990) – British crime drama film inspired by the real-life Hulten/Jones murder case of 1944, otherwise known as the Cleft chin murder{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-back-to-the-future-the-fall-and-rise-of-the-british-film-industry-in-the-1980s.pdf|page=20|title=Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s – An Information Briefing|website=British Film Institute|date=2005|access-date=26 October 2023|archive-date=12 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912042419/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-back-to-the-future-the-fall-and-rise-of-the-british-film-industry-in-the-1980s.pdf|url-status=live}}
China Cry (1990) – biographical drama film based on the true story of Sung Neng Yee{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/chinacrynoralams00lamn|title=China Cry: The Nora Lam Story|first1=Nora|last1=Lam|authorlink1=Nora Lam|first2=Richard H.|last2=Schneider|edition=Paperback|publisher=Thomas Nelson|location=Nashville|orig-year=1st pub with Irene Burk Harrell HarperCollins 1983|year=1991|isbn=978-0840731876|url-access=registration}}
The Civil War (1990) – historical miniseries about the American Civil WarWard, Geoffrey C.; Burns, Ric; Burns, Ken (1992) [First published 1991]. The Civil War: An Illustrated History. New York: Knopf. {{ISBN|978-0679742777}}.
Close-Up (Persian: کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک) (1990) – Iranian biographical drama film telling the story of the real-life trial of a man who impersonated film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, conning a family into believing they would star in his new film{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/dvd-of-the-week-close-up|title=DVD of the Week: Close-Up|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=26 October 2023|archive-date=6 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706020628/http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/dvd-of-the-week-close-up|url-status=live}}
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990) – biographical drama television film about the early life of the baseball star in the army and in particular his court-martial for insubordination regarding segregation{{cite web |last=O'Connor |first=John J. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/15/arts/review-television-2-cable-movies-of-substance.html |title=Review/Television – 2 Cable Movies of Substance |work=The New York Times |date=15 October 1990 |access-date=2018-02-07 |archive-date=5 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105105345/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/15/arts/review-television-2-cable-movies-of-substance.html |url-status=live }}
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 (1990) – disaster drama television film telling the story about a bomb hoax aboard a passenger plane, usually advertised as being based on true eventsErickson, Hal. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120305114314/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/124685/Crash-The-Mystery-of-Flight-1501/overview "Review Summary: 'Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501'," ] The New York Times (webarchive), 5 March 2012. Retrieved: 2 April 2017.
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) – French-Hungarian historical comedy drama film depicting a fictionalisation following the broad outlines of Cyrano de Bergerac's life{{cite web | title = The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema – 43. Cyrano de Bergerac | url = http://www.empireonline.com/features/100-greatest-world-cinema-films/default.asp?film=43 | work = Empire | access-date = 26 October 2023 | archive-date = 6 September 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150906212912/http://www.empireonline.com/features/100-greatest-world-cinema-films/default.asp?film=43 | url-status = live }}
Dear Sarah (1990) – Irish biographical television film about Giuseppe Conlon who was wrongfully sentenced to twelve years imprisonment after being implicated as one of the Maguire Seven during the 1970s{{cite web |title=Dear Sarah (1990) |url=https://letterboxd.com/film/dear-sarah/ |website=Letterboxd |access-date=17 October 2024}}
Death of a Doctor (Hindi: एक डॉक्टर की मौत) (1990) – Indian Hindi-language biographical drama film loosely based on the life of Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay, an Indian physician who pioneered the In vitro fertilisation treatment{{Cite web|last=Times News Network|author-link=Times News Network|date=14 October 2003|title=Honour fails to cheer doctor's wife|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Honour-fails-to-cheer-doctors-wife/articleshow/232116.cms|access-date=2020-07-16|website=The Times of India|language=en|archive-date=9 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509025856/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Honour-fails-to-cheer-doctors-wife/articleshow/232116.cms|url-status=live}}
Diary for My Father and Mother (Hungarian: Napló apámnak, anyámnak) (1990) – Hungarian biographical drama film following a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising{{cite web |title=Diary for My Father and Mother (1990) |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/diary-for-my-father-and-mother |website=MUBI |access-date=25 October 2023}}
Divided Loyalties (1990) – Canadian biographical drama television film about Mohawk leader Joseph Brant, portraying his "divided loyalties" between British and American allies during the American Revolutionary WarMike Boone, "Brant saga lives up to its potential in CTV blockbuster". Montreal Gazette, 13 February 1990.
Dr. Petiot (French: Docteur Petiot) (1990) – French crime drama film presenting the exploits of real-life serial killer Marcel Petiot during the Second World War{{cite web |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/doctor-petiot-review/ |title=Doctor Petiot Review |website=Empire |access-date=24 April 2023 |archive-date=29 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429064636/https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/doctor-petiot-review/ |url-status=live }}
The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story (1990) – biographical drama television film depicting how L. Frank Baum came to create The Wonderful Wizard of Oz while undergoing and eventually overcoming professional and personal failures{{Cite web |last=Zurawik |first=David |date=10 December 1990 |title=Here he is, the whiz of 'The Wizard of Oz': Lionizing L. Frank Baum |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1990/12/10/here-he-is-the-whiz-of-the-wizard-of-oz-lionizing-l-frank-baum/ |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=Baltimore Sun |language=en-US |archive-date=23 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523084705/https://www.baltimoresun.com/1990/12/10/here-he-is-the-whiz-of-the-wizard-of-oz-lionizing-l-frank-baum/ |url-status=live }}
Europa Europa (German: Hitlerjunge Salomon) (1990) – German-French-Polish historical war drama film based on the 1989 autobiography of Solomon Perel, a German-Jewish boy who escaped the Holocaust by masquerading as a Nazi and joining the Hitler Youth{{Cite web |last=Wilmington |first=Michael |date=18 February 1992 |title="Europa" at Center of Oscar Storm: Commentary: Debate over why the film won't be a foreign-language nominee reveals inequities of process. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-02-18-ca-2490-story.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 December 2021 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US |archive-date=5 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205112741/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-02-18-ca-2490-story.html |url-status=live }}
Fall from Grace (1990) – biographical drama television film about the lives of Jim Bakker and his then-wife, Tammy Faye Bakker, during the 1980sO'Connor, John.[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/27/arts/tv-weekend-a-time-for-ratings-and-biographies.html?pagewanted=1 TV Weekend; A Time for Ratings, and Biographies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105105024/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/27/arts/tv-weekend-a-time-for-ratings-and-biographies.html?pagewanted=1 |date=5 November 2023 }}New York Times, 27 April 1990[https://tv.yahoo.com/fall-from-grace/show/9180/castcrew "'Fall from Grace listing'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009004434/http://tv.yahoo.com/fall-from-grace/show/9180/castcrew |date=9 October 2012 }} tv.yahoo.com, retrieved 19 March 2010
Family of Spies (1990) – drama television film based on the espionage of John A. Walker Jr.{{cite web |title=Family of Spies (1990) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/413782/family-of-spies/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026134726/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/413782/family-of-spies/ |url-status=live }}
Forbidden Nights (1990) – drama television film focuses on Judith Shapiro, an American teacher who falls in love with Liang Heng, a Chinese radical, trying to bring political reform to his homeland[https://web.archive.org/web/20120205092509/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/125630/Forbidden-Nights/overview Review Summary] The New York Times
The Fourth Reich (1990) – South African biographical drama film revolving around the life of Robey Leibbrandt, a South African boxer who participated in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin{{cite web | url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7a66b5ff| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017143835/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7a66b5ff| url-status=dead| archive-date=17 October 2020| title=The Fourth Reich? (1990) | publisher=British Film Institute. | access-date=14 October 2020}}
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (Swedish: God afton, Herr Wallenberg – En Passionshistoria från verkligheten) (1990) – Swedish biographical war drama film about Swedish World War II diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who was instrumental in saving the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust{{cite web |url=http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=MOVIE&itemid=16190&iv=Awards |title=God afton, herr Wallenberg (1990) |publisher=Swedish Film Institute |date=16 March 2014 |access-date=18 December 2017 |archive-date=11 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140411193645/http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=MOVIE&itemid=16190&iv=Awards |url-status=live }}
Goodfellas (1990) – biographical war film narrating the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980{{Cite web|title=Librarian of Congress Names 25 More Films to National Film Registry|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-00-200/librarian-of-congress-names-25-more-films-to-national-film-registry/2000-12-27/|access-date=2020-10-08|website=Library of Congress|archive-date=3 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403175921/https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-00-200/librarian-of-congress-names-25-more-films-to-national-film-registry/2000-12-27/|url-status=live}}
Hello Hemingway (1990) – Cuban drama film set in Havana in 1956, near the end of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship{{cite web |title=Hello, Hemingway (1990) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7b96f2cc |website=British Film Institute |access-date=25 October 2023 |archive-date=6 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206092952/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7b96f2cc |url-status=live }}
Henry & June (1990) – biographical drama film telling the story of Anaïs Nin's relationship with Henry Miller and his wife, June{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/henry_and_june/|title=Henry & June|website=Rotten Tomatoes|date=5 October 1990|access-date=26 October 2023|archive-date=23 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120123124948/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/henry_and_june/|url-status=live}}
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (1990) – historical war drama television film about the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/415891/hiroshima-out-of-the-ashes#credits|title=Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes|work=Turner Classic Movies|publisher=Turner Broadcasting System|location=United States|access-date=25 May 2018}}
I Love You to Death (1990) – black comedy crime film loosely based on an attempted murder that happened in 1983, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where Frances Toto repeatedly tried to kill her husband, Anthony{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/25/us/allentown-journal-true-love-true-life-and-truly-bizarre.html |title=Allentown Journal; True Love, True Life, And Truly Bizarre – New York Times |work=The New York Times |date=25 April 1990 |access-date=15 February 2016 |archive-date=30 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430192316/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/25/us/allentown-journal-true-love-true-life-and-truly-bizarre.html |url-status=live }}
I, the Worst of All (Spanish: Yo, la peor de todas) (1990) – Argentine biographical drama film about the life of Juana Inés de la Cruz{{cite news|last1=Holden|first1=Stephen|title=I the Worst of All (1990) FILM REVIEW; A Free-Spirited Nun's Poetry Shows Seeds of Her Undoing|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=990CE5D6123DF931A1575AC0A963958260|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=13 March 2015|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402151544/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=990CE5D6123DF931A1575AC0A963958260|url-status=dead}}
Iron & Silk (1990) – Canadian action comedy drama film detailing Mark Salzman's journey to China after college to study Chinese wu shu, better known in the west as kung fu, and to teach English{{cite news |title=FILM; An Old Eli Performs As Kung Fu Star in China |work=The New York Times |date=22 January 1989 |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA071FFC3F5F0C718EDDA80894D1484D81 |accessdate=2010-12-17 |first=Nicholas D. |last=Kristof |authorlink=Nicholas D. Kristof |archive-date=23 May 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060523170107/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA071FFC3F5F0C718EDDA80894D1484D81 |url-status=live }}
Jiao Yulu (Mandarin: 焦裕祿) (1990) – Chinese biographical film telling the story of Jiao Yulu overseeing the development of Lankao County in Henan from 1962 to 1964{{cite news |url=http://www.ycwb.com/epaper/ycwb/html/2009-10/07/content_613953.htm |script-title=zh:李雪健：焦裕禄的故事就像家事一样熟悉 |newspaper=ycwb.com |date=7 October 2009 |language=zh |access-date=2015-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091012011342/http://www.ycwb.com/ePaper/ycwb/html/2009-10/07/content_613953.htm |archive-date=2009-10-12 |url-status=dead }}
Judgment (1990) – drama television film loosely based on Louisiana priest, Gilbert Gauthe who faced a widely publicized criminal trial for child sexual abuse and was sentenced to 20 years in prison{{cite news |last1=Clark |first1=Kenneth R. |title=Docudrama Tells of Priest's Pedophilia |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-10-11-9003250889-story.html |access-date=15 May 2021 |work=The Chicago Tribune |date=11 October 1990 |archive-date=5 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705190840/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-10-11-9003250889-story.html |url-status=live }}
Kawashima Yoshiko (Cantonese: 川島芳子) (1990) – Hong Kong historical crime drama film based on the life of Yoshiko Kawashima, a Manchu princess who was brought up as a Japanese and served as a spy in the service of the Japanese Kwantung Army and Manchukuo during the Second World War{{cite web |title=Kawashima Yoshiko: The Last Princess of Manchuria (1990) |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/kawashima-yoshiko-the-last-princess-of-manchuria |website=MUBI |access-date=25 October 2023 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026134717/https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/kawashima-yoshiko-the-last-princess-of-manchuria |url-status=live }}
Korczak (1990) – biographical war film about Polish-Jewish humanitarian Janusz Korczak{{cite web| url=http://www.wajda.pl/en/filmy/film29.html| title=Andrzej Wajda. Official Website of Polish movie director – Films – "Korczak"| access-date=26 October 2023| archive-date=5 July 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200705191713/http://www.wajda.pl/en/filmy/film29.html| url-status=dead}}
The Krays (1990) – British biographical crime drama film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangster twins Ronald and Reginald Kray, often referred to as The Krays{{cite web|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0CE0D61739F93AA35752C1A966958260|title=The Krays (1990) Review/Film; Twin Thugs With a Mother Complex|authorlink=Janet Maslin|first=Janet|last=Maslin|date=9 November 1990|access-date=26 October 2023|archive-date=10 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910223703/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0CE0D61739F93AA35752C1A966958260|url-status=live}}
The Long Walk Home (1990) – historical drama film about the Montgomery bus boycott{{cite web|title=The Long Walk Home|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1031744-long_walk_home/|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate=17 January 2021|archive-date=1 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301014907/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1031744-long_walk_home|url-status=live}}
The Man Inside (1990) – drama film about German writer and undercover journalist, Günter Wallraff{{cite news |last=James |first=Caryn |title=Review/Film; Crusading Journalist, or a Man Obsessed? |department=Movies |work=The New York Times |date=26 October 1990 |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0CE7DD173AF935A15753C1A966958260}}
Max and Helen (1990) – war drama television film based on Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal's 1962 prosecution of the head of a German factory whom he learns was a murderous labor camp commandant{{cite web|author=Ray Loynd |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-01-08-ca-134-story.html |title=TV Reviews: 'Max and Helen': Holocaust Survivors' Odyssey of Love |publisher=Articles.latimes.com |date=8 January 1990 |access-date=17 November 2018}}
Mayumi (Korean: 마유미) (1990) – South Korean drama film based on the life of Kim Hyon Hui, a North Korean agent whose Japanese teacher was Yaeko Taguchi, a Japanese abductee; she was paroled in 1998, and 12 years later she met Yaeko's son Kochi and told him that his mother was still alive{{cite news|url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/03/12/2009031261001.html|title=KAL Bomber Meets Abduction Victim's Family|work=Chosun Ilbo|date=12 March 2009|accessdate=2021-07-06|archive-date=14 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614184538/http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/03/12/2009031261001.html|url-status=live}}
Memphis Belle (1990) – British-American war drama film about the 25th and last mission of an American Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, the Memphis Belle, based in England during World War II{{cite book |last1=Orriss |first1=Bruce |title=When Hollywood Ruled the Skies: The Aviation Film Classics of World War II |date=1984 |publisher=Aero Associates Inc. |location=Hawthorne, California |isbn=0-9613088-0-X |page=83}}
Miracle Landing (1990) – disaster drama television film based on an in-flight accident aboard Aloha Airlines Flight 243 that occurred in April 1988{{cite web|last=Ortega|first=Sergio|url=http://airodyssey.net/1999/08/01/movie-ml/|title=Miracle Landing (Movie Review)|work=Airodyessey.net|date=1 August 1999|access-date=20 May 2015|archive-date=1 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150601150415/http://airodyssey.net/1999/08/01/movie-ml/|url-status=live}}
Mountains of the Moon (1990) – biographical drama film depicting the 1857–1858 journey of Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke in their expedition to Central Africa, which culminated in Speke's discovery of the source of the Nile River and led to a bitter rivalry between the two men{{cite news|last=Travers|first=Peter|title=Mountains of the Moon|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/mountains-of-the-moon-19900223|access-date=27 August 2012|newspaper=Rolling Stone|date=23 February 1990|archive-date=26 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326234639/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/mountains-of-the-moon-19900223|url-status=live}}
Murder in Mississippi (1990) – crime drama television film dramatizing the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder during Freedom Summer in 1964{{cite web |title=Murder in Mississippi (1990) |url=https://mubi.com/en/us/films/murder-in-mississippi |website=MUBI |access-date=24 October 2023}}
My Mother's Castle (French: Le château de ma mère) (1990) – French biographical adventure film about Marcel Pagnol's early life, a sequel to My Father's Glory{{cite news |last1=Wilmington |first1=Michael |title=Movie Reviews: A Sentimental Journey in 'My Mother's Castle' |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-02-ca-95-story.html |access-date=25 October 2023 |agency=Los Angeles Times |date=2 August 1991 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026134719/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-02-ca-95-story.html |url-status=live }}
My Father's Glory (French: La Gloire de mon père) (1990) – French biographical drama film about Marcel Pagnol's early life{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|title='Weekend' boosts Gallic b.o.; 'Heart' weak|page=36|date=10 September 1990}}
Nambugun (Korean: 남부군: 남한의 북한 빨치산) (1990) – South Korean war drama film based upon the experiences of Lee Tae, a war correspondent and pro-North Korean Partisan during the Korean War{{cite web |title=North Korean Partisan in South Korea (1990) |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/north-korean-partisan-in-south-korea |website=MUBI |access-date=26 October 2023}}
The Nasty Girl (German: Das schreckliche Mädchen) (1990) – West German drama film based on the true story of Anna Rosmus, a young woman who investigated her town's Nazi past{{cite web |title=The Nasty Girl (1990) |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/the-nasty-girl |website=MUBI |access-date=24 October 2023}}
Pacific Heights – psychological thriller film based on a true story about a couple who rent out an apartment to a crazy scam man{{cite news|first=Janet|last=Maslin|authorlink=Janet Maslin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/28/movies/review-film-neophyte-landlords-and-their-worst-nightmare.html|title=Review/Film; Neophyte Landlords and Their Worst Nightmare|newspaper=The New York Times|date=28 September 1990|access-date=26 October 2023|archive-date=5 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105110744/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/28/movies/review-film-neophyte-landlords-and-their-worst-nightmare.html|url-status=live}}
Portrait of a Marriage (1990) – British biographical drama miniseries detailing the real-life love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Violet Keppel, as well as the strength of Vita's enduring marriage to the diplomat Harold Nicolson{{cite news|last=Rosenberg|first=Howard|title=TV review: A Limited Portrait of a 'Marriage'|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-18-ca-3431-story.html|access-date=26 August 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=18 July 1992|authorlink=Howard Rosenberg|archive-date=26 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140526054311/http://articles.latimes.com/1992-07-18/entertainment/ca-3431_1_vita-sackville-west-and-harold-nicolson|url-status=live}}
Reversal of Fortune (1990) – biographical mystery film recounting the true story of the unexplained coma of socialite Sunny von Bülow, the subsequent attempted murder trial, and the eventual acquittal of her husband, Claus von BülowState v. von Bulow, 475 A.2d 995 (R.I. 1984).
Rock Hudson (1990) – biographical drama television film telling the story of Phyllis Gates and Rock Hudson's marriage, written after Hudson's 1985 death from AIDSStephen Tropiano {{google books|rLhJAgAAQBAJ|The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV|page=149}}
The Rose and the Jackal (1990) – Western adventure television film revolving around Union agent Allan Pinkerton, falling in love with female spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow{{cite web |title=The Rose and the Jackal (1990) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7b71d1bb |website=British Film Institute |access-date=24 October 2023 |archive-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226153106/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7b71d1bb |url-status=live }}
Sandino (1990) – Spanish-Nicaraguan biographical drama film about Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto César Sandino{{cite web|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1989/06/14/radiotv/613778405_850215.html|title=Miguel Littín rueda 'Sandino', biografía del líder revolucionario nicaragüense – Edición impresa|website=EL PAÍS|accessdate=2017-08-12|archive-date=26 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026134719/https://elpais.com/diario/1989/06/14/radiotv/613778405_850215.html|url-status=live}}
Santha Shishunala Sharifa (Kannada: ಸಂತ ಶಿಶುನಾಳ ಶರೀಫ) (1990) – Indian Kannada-language biographical drama film based on the life of acclaimed saint poet Shishunala Sharif who wrote several moral poems striving towards social reformation{{Cite web |url=http://www.bharatmovies.com/director/ts-nagabharana-movies.htm |title=TS Nagabharana Movies list |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304140417/http://www.bharatmovies.com/director/ts-nagabharana-movies.htm |url-status=live }}
Schweitzer (1990) – adventure biographical film about Albert Schweitzer's life in Africa{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7a37988d|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328105808/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7a37988d|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 March 2017|title=Schweitzer|work=BFI}}
Secret Weapon (1990) – American-Australian biographical drama television film depicting the true story of Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear technician who revealed to the world his country's nuclear weapons capabilitiesEd. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p138
Shoot to Kill (1990) – biographical drama miniseries depicting the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation{{cite web |title=Shoot to Kill (1990) |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/shoot-to-kill-1990 |website=MUBI |access-date=24 October 2023 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026134719/https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/shoot-to-kill-1990 |url-status=live }}
Silent Scream (1990) – biographical crime drama film about convicted murderer Larry Winters{{cite web |title=Silent Scream (1990) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/silent-scream-1990 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=25 October 2023 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026134719/https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/silent-scream-1990 |url-status=live }}
Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990) – biographical drama television film depicting the life of Ian Fleming, creator of the James Bond spy character, retracing his playboy youth, his expulsion from several colleges, his experiences as a newspaper writer and his tour of duty for the British intelligence agency during World War II{{cite web |title=Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/spymaker-the-secret-life-of-ian-fleming-1990 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=25 October 2023 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026134718/https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/spymaker-the-secret-life-of-ian-fleming-1990 |url-status=live }}
Stalingrad (Russian: Сталинград) (1990) – Soviet-Slovak-East German-American war drama film about the eponymous Battle of Stalingrad[http://bt.eutorrents.com/imdb/imdb.php?mid=0174240 A detailed overview of the movie.]
The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner (1990) – biographical drama television film about the life of Anton BrucknerKEN RUSSELL: MUSICAL MYTHMAKER

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Sudie and Simpson (1990) – romantic drama television film based on Sarah Flanigan Carter's autobiographical novel about growing up in World War II-era Georgia, United States{{cite journal|last=Hiltbrand|first=David|date=10 September 1990|title=Picks and Pans Review: Sudie and Simpson|journal=People|volume=34|issue=10|issn=0093-7673|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20118626,00.html|access-date=26 October 2023|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072302/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20118626,00.html|url-status=live}}
Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys (1990) – biographical drama television film covering the history of the Beach Boys{{cite web |last1=Finn |first1=Lisa |title=Author Steven Gaines Opens Up About New Book, Hamptons Life |url=https://patch.com/new-york/easthampton/author-steven-gaines-opens-new-book-hamptons-life |website=Patch |date=1 September 2016 |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=13 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230913043934/https://patch.com/new-york/easthampton/author-steven-gaines-opens-new-book-hamptons-life |url-status=live }}
Too Young to Die? (1990) – crime drama television film loosely based on the story of Attina Marie Cannaday, who along with David Gray killed Ronald Wojcik with a knife, in Harrison County, Mississippi, on 3 June 1982{{cite web |title=Too Young to Die? |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1053512-too_young_to_die |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=24 October 2023 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026134719/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1053512-too_young_to_die |url-status=live }}
Unspeakable Acts (1990) – biographical drama television film telling the story of child psychologists Dr. Laurie and Joseph Braga and their involvement in one of the worst child sex abuse scandals in the U.S{{cite web |url= https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=alka&p=7&item=T:16747 |title= ABC Monday Night Movie: Unspeakable Acts (TV) |publisher= The Paley Center for Media |year= 1995–2020 |access-date= 26 October 2023 |archive-date= 5 November 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231105102933/https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=alka&p=7&item=T:16747 |url-status= live }}
Vincent & Theo (1990) – biographical drama film about the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theo, an art dealer{{cite magazine |title=Vincent & Theo |last=Gleiberman |first=Owen |date=2 November 1990 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |url=http://www.ew.com/article/1990/11/02/vincent-theo |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026134726/https://ew.com/article/1990/11/02/vincent-theo/ |url-status=live }}
Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase (1990) – drama miniseries about Truddi Chase, a woman who was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder who allegedly had 92 separate personalities{{cite news|date=2 October 1992|title=Long, long way from 'Cheers|work=New Straits Times|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nllPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GZADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6774%2C760315|access-date=26 October 2023|archive-date=26 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026134717/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nllPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GZADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6774,760315|url-status=live}}
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (1990) – thriller drama miniseries based on the 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking{{Cite news|last=O'Connor|first=John J.|date=2 May 1990|title=New Film on Achille Lauro Hijacking|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/02/arts/review-television-new-film-on-achille-lauro-hijacking.html|access-date=13 December 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=25 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150525190451/http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/02/arts/review-television-new-film-on-achille-lauro-hijacking.html|url-status=live}}
When You Remember Me (1990) – biographical drama television film based on the life of Michael Patrick Smith, a young man who filed a lawsuit in the early '70s that led to improved conditions for nursing home patients nationwide{{Cite web|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1980/07/23/page/10/article/regulation-of-nursing-homes-called-a-national-disgrace|title=Historical Newspapers from 1700s–2000s|access-date=26 October 2023|archive-date=3 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103004807/http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1980/07/23/page/10/article/regulation-of-nursing-homes-called-a-national-disgrace/|url-status=live}}
White Hunter Black Heart (1990) – adventure drama film depicting a thinly disguised account of Peter Viertel's experiences while working on the 1951 film The African Queen, which was shot on location in Africa at a time when location shoots outside of the United States for American films were very rare{{cite news |title=Voice Choices: White Hunter, Black Heart |work=The Village Voice |date=13 July 2010 |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-07-13/voice-choices/white-hunter-black-heart/full/ |access-date=2015-01-04 |first=Jim |last=Hoberman |archive-date=4 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104072036/http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-07-13/voice-choices/white-hunter-black-heart/full/ |url-status=dead }}
Young Guns II (1990) – Western action film following the life of Billy the Kid, in the years following the Lincoln County War in which Billy was part of "The Regulators" – a group of around six highly skilled gunmen avenging the death of John Tunstall – and the years leading up to Billy's documented death{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/young-guns-ii-film-qxnzzxq6vlgtnjq5mjmx|title=Young Guns II|website=British Board of Film Classification|access-date=26 October 2023|archive-date=26 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926003640/https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/young-guns-ii-film-qxnzzxq6vlgtnjq5mjmx|url-status=dead}}

1991

29th Street (1991) – comedy drama film based on the true-life story of actor Frank Pesce, who won the first New York State Lottery in 1976{{cite web |title=29th Street |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/29th_street/ |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=10 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231110125707/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/29th_street |url-status=live }}
A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story (1991) – biographical drama television film recounting the life of Ricky Bell, a Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back sickened with dermatomyositis, and Ryan Blankenship, a physically impaired child{{cite web |title=A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story (1991) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/475653/a-triumph-of-the-heart-the-ricky-bell-story/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=27 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027002306/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/475653/a-triumph-of-the-heart-the-ricky-bell-story/ |url-status=live }}
A Woman Named Jackie (1991) – biographical drama miniseries chronicling the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis{{Cite book|title=A woman named Jackie|last=Heymann|first=C. David|date=1989|publisher=Carol Cummunications|isbn=9780818404726|location=Secaucus, NJ|oclc=19512014}}
Absolute Strangers (1991) – biographical drama television film based on the true story of a husband's controversial decision to have his wife undergo an abortion to aid her recovery after a head-trauma accident had left her comatose{{cite news | title = Real Life Story Sets Up Hard Choices | author = Pat Milton (AP) | date = 13 April 1991 | newspaper = The Free Lance-Star | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wOJNAAAAIBAJ&dq=absolute-strangers%20film&pg=5524%2C2455198 | access-date = 26 October 2023 | archive-date = 26 October 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231026193411/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wOJNAAAAIBAJ&dq=absolute-strangers%20film&pg=5524,2455198 | url-status = live }}
American Friends (1991) – British romantic drama film based on a real-life incident involving Michael Palin's great-grandfather, Edward Palin{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=americanfriends.htm|title=American Friends (1993) – Box Office Mojo|website=www.boxofficemojo.com|accessdate=16 May 2019|archive-date=14 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314162328/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=americanfriends.htm|url-status=live}}
And the Sea Will Tell (1991) – crime drama television film recounting an apparent double murder on Palmyra Atoll although only one body was ever found; the subsequent arrest, trial, and conviction of Wesley G. "Buck Duane" Walker; and the acquittal of his girlfriend, Stephanie Stearns, whom Bugliosi and Leonard Weinglass had defended{{cite web |title=And the Sea Will Tell (1991) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/459065/and-the-sea-will-tell |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=26 October 2023}}
Babe Ruth (1991) – biographical sport drama television film based on the life of Babe Ruth{{cite web |last=Sandomir |first=Richard |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/27/sports/tv-sports-babe-ruth-on-nbc-isn-t-any-life-of-riley.html |title=TV SPORTS; 'Babe Ruth,' on NBC, Isn't Any 'Life of Riley' |work=The New York Times |date=27 September 1991 |accessdate=2018-05-04 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026193418/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/27/sports/tv-sports-babe-ruth-on-nbc-isn-t-any-life-of-riley.html |url-status=live }}
The Best Intentions (Swedish: Den goda viljan) (1991) – Swedish biographical drama film telling the story of the complex relationship between Ingmar Bergman's parents, Erik Bergman and Karin Åkerblom{{Cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/08/09/with-best-intentions/ |title=With 'Best Intentions' |last=Blair |first=Iain |date=9 August 1992 |access-date=20 September 2016 |work=The Chicago Tribune |archive-date=14 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214033536/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-08-09/entertainment/9203110883_1_fanny-and-alexander-henrik-bergman-oscar-winning-danish-director |url-status=live }}
The Best of Friends (1991) – biographical television film about the friendship of George Bernard Shaw, Sydney Cockerell and Dame Laurentia McLachlan, based on the lengthy correspondence that passed between them for over 25 years{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7b252025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823095559/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7b252025|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 August 2018|title=The Best of Friends (1991)|website=BFI}}
Billy Bathgate (1991) – biographical gangster film about a teen named Billy Bathgate who finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz{{cite news |date=1 January 1991 |author=Variety Staff |title=Billy Bathgate |url=https://variety.com/1990/film/reviews/billy-bathgate-1200428993/ |website=Variety |quote=the $40 million-plus production bears no signs of the rumored troubles of its making. |access-date=20 December 2020 |archive-date=12 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112032126/https://variety.com/1990/film/reviews/billy-bathgate-1200428993/ |url-status=live }}
Bix (1991) – Italian biographical drama film about the final years of cornet player Bix Beiderbecke{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/73/year/1991.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Bix |accessdate=9 August 2009 |work=festival-cannes.com |archive-date=18 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118221541/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/73/year/1991.html |url-status=live }}
Black Robe (1991) – historical drama film depicting the adventures of a Jesuit missionary tasked with founding a mission in New France{{cite magazine|last=Stratton|first=David|date=9 September 1991|title=Black Robe|url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117789325.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0|magazine=Variety|page=65|access-date=26 October 2023|archive-date=3 June 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080603220809/http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117789325.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0|url-status=live}}
The Boys from St. Petri (Danish: Drengene fra Sankt Petri) (1991) – Danish war drama film inspired by the activities of the Churchill Club{{cite book|last=Reuter|first=Bjarne|title=Drengene fra Sankt Petri|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NrNEAgAAQBAJ|year=2013|publisher=Gyldendal|isbn=978-87-02-14465-9}}
Bugsy (1991) – biographical crime drama film based on the life of American mobster Bugsy Siegel and his relationship with wife and starlet Virginia Hill{{cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |title=Bugsy |work=Chicago Sun-Times |date=20 December 1991 |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bugsy-1991 |access-date=2015-11-05 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026193418/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bugsy-1991 |url-status=live }}
Cabeza de Vaca (1991) – Mexican adventure drama film about the adventures of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, an early Spanish explorer, as he traversed what later became the American South{{cite web |title=Cabeza De Vaca (1991) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/70000/cabeza-de-vaca/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026193418/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/70000/cabeza-de-vaca/ |url-status=live }}
Center Stage (Cantonese: 阮玲玉) (1991) – Hong Kong biographical drama film following the life and career of silent film actress Ruan Lingyu{{Cite web |url=http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=7521&display_set=eng |title=Center Stage at HKMDB |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=28 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928172559/https://www.hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=7521&display_set=eng |url-status=live }}
Charuga (Croatian: Čaruga) (1991) – Yugoslav biographical adventure film telling the true story about legendary Slavonian bandit Jovo Stanisavljević Čaruga{{cite magazine|url=http://arhiva.nacional.hr/clanak/24108/za-siroku-publiku |title=Za široku publiku |journal=Nacional |issue=541 |date=27 March 2006 |language=Croatian |accessdate=25 February 2012 |trans-title=For general audience |author=Damir Radić |archivedate=4 August 2012 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120804203936/http://www.nacional.hr/clanak/24108/za-siroku-publiku }}
The Chase (1991) – crime drama television film based on the true story of American criminal Phillip Hutchinson, who robbed a bank, killed a police officer, and took a man hostage in a 1988 rampage in Denver, Colorado{{cite news|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1991/02/10/pilot-joined-the-chase-controversy-followed/|title=Pilot Joined The Chase, Controversy Followed|date=10 February 1991|work=Orlando Sentinel|location=Denver, Colorado|access-date=26 October 2023|archive-date=22 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122052101/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1991-02-10/entertainment/9102080247_1_mike-silva-robert-beltran-hutchinson|url-status=live}}
Chernobyl: The Final Warning (1991) – disaster drama television film telling the true story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl and how one American specialist, Dr. Robert Gale, helped the soviet doctors treat the survivors[https://www.tcm.com TCM.] [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2769/chernobyl-the-final-warning Chernobyl: The Final Warning] Retrieved 4 December 2012
Conspiracy of Silence (1991) – Canadian crime drama miniseries based on the true story of the Murder of Helen Betty Osborne, a Canadian cold case that was legally resolved after roughly twenty years of inaction{{cite web |title=Conspiracy of Silence |url=https://www.oocities.org/mymmsite/conspiracy-of-silence.html |website=www.oocities.org |publisher=OoCities |access-date=15 May 2022 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026193413/https://www.oocities.org/mymmsite/conspiracy-of-silence.html |url-status=live }}
Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann (1991) – crime drama television film based on the true story of the abduction of Peggy Ann Bradnick by an ex-convict and ex-mental patient William Diller Hollenbaugh which took place in Shade Gap, Pennsylvania on 11 May 1966{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-06-ca-898-story.html|title='Cry in the Wild' Explores the Love of an Outcast|last=Letofsky|first=Irv|date=6 May 1991|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=4 January 2013|archive-date=3 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151203170701/http://articles.latimes.com/1991-05-06/entertainment/ca-898_1_peggy-ann|url-status=live}}
Deadly Intentions... Again? (1991) – thriller television film based on the true story of a troubled young doctor jailed for plotting the murder of his first wife{{cite web |title=Deadly Intentions...Again? (1991) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/432034/deadly-intentionsagain/#:~:text=Synopsis-,Based%20on%20the%20true%20story%20of%20a%20troubled%20young%20doctor,drive%20his%20second%20wife%20mad. |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=27 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027002307/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/432034/deadly-intentionsagain/#:~:text=Synopsis-,Based%20on%20the%20true%20story%20of%20a%20troubled%20young%20doctor,drive%20his%20second%20wife%20mad. |url-status=live }}
Deadly Medicine (1991) – thriller drama television film chronicling the murder case of convicted serial killer Genene Jones, a pediatric nurse from San Antonio, Texas, who murdered between 11 and 46 infants during 1981 and 1982 by inducing Code blue emergencies through fatal overdoses of prescription medications such as heparin{{cite news|title=TV MOVIE BASED ON MURDER CASE M.H. AUTHORS WROTE ABOUT TEXAS NURSE|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB718D193B50652&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|access-date=3 May 2013|newspaper=San Jose Mercury News|date=11 November 1991|archive-date=19 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019055422/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB718D193B50652&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|url-status=live}}
Death Song Korean: 사의 찬미) (1991) – South Korean biographical drama film about the life and death of famous Korean singer, Yun Sim-deok in the 1920s{{cite web|url=http://www.kmdb.or.kr/movie/md_basic.asp?nation=K&p_dataid=04484|script-title=ko:사의 찬미 (1991)|access-date=2009-05-21|publisher=Korean Movie Database (KMDb)|language=Korean|archive-date=17 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917071430/http://www.kmdb.or.kr/movie/md_basic.asp?nation=K&p_dataid=04484|url-status=live}}
Decisive Engagement: The Liaoxi-Shenyang Campaign (Mandarin: 大決戰之遼沈戰役) (1991) – Chinese epic war film about the Liaoshen Campaign of the Chinese Civil War{{cite news |url=http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/2008-12-09/ba2287599.shtml |script-title=zh:三十年经典电影：《大决战》系列(1991～1992) |newspaper=sina |date=9 December 2008 |language=zh |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=2 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102012748/http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/2008-12-09/ba2287599.shtml |url-status=live }}
Dillinger (1991) – action crime television film based on the actual events of the pursuit of American bank robber John Dillinger during the 1930s"Dillinger" (review), Variety, 4 January 1991, reprinted in {{cite book|editor=Prouty|title=Variety TV REV 1991–92 17|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RxHbPxbBM1AC&pg=PP16|year=1994|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8240-3796-3|pages=16–17}}
The Doctor (1991) – drama film about a doctor who undergoes a transformation in his views about life, illness and human relationships, loosely based on Dr. Edward Rosenbaum's 1988 memoir A Taste of my Own MedicineDr. Edward E. Rosenbaum, A Taste of my Own Medicine: When the Doctor Is the Patient, Random House, 1988. {{ISBN|978-0-394-56282-7}}
The Doors (1991) – biographical drama film telling the story of the American rock band the Doors and their influence on music and counterculture[http://m.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/the-doors-19910301 "The Doors" (review)] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20140718001758/http://m.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/the-doors-19910301 |date=18 July 2014 }} Rolling Stone (1 March 1991)
False Arrest (1991) – drama television film based on the real-life murders of William Redmond and Helen Phelps and the true story of Joyce Lukezic, who was wrongfully convicted of being one of the masterminds behind the murders{{cite news|last=Fitzpatrick|first=Tom|date=6 November 1991|title=As seen on TV, a famous Phoenix murder|work=Phoenix New Times|url=https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/as-seen-on-tv-a-famous-phoenix-murder-6411727|access-date=3 February 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240128154239/https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/as-seen-on-tv-a-famous-phoenix-murder-6411727|archive-date=28 January 2024|url-status=live}}
Fire: Trapped on the 37th Floor (1991) – disaster drama television film about the high-rise fire fire at the First Interstate Tower (now Aon Center) in Los Angeles, California{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-25-me-4052-story.html|last=Jones|first=Charisse|title=Adding Film to the Fire : Re-Enacted for TV, First Interstate Blaze Is Relived by Survivors|publisher=The L.A. Times|date=25 October 1990|access-date=2017-10-19|archive-date=4 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604091347/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-10-25/local/me-4052_1_interstate-fire|url-status=live}}
The Haunted (1991) – horror drama television film depicting the events surrounding the Smurl haunting{{cite web|title=The 49th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1992)|url=http://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/1992/all#category-35|publisher=GoldenGlobes.com. Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA)|accessdate=25 June 2020|archive-date=12 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012222926/http://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/1992/all#category-35|url-status=dead}}
Hear My Song (1991) – British comedy drama film based on the story of Irish tenor Josef Locke{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0CE2D71E39F93AA25752C0A964958260|work=The New York Times|title=Hear My Song (1991) Review/Film; Irish Tenor Is Focus Of Intrigue and Blarney|author=Janet Maslin|date=19 January 1992}}
Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem (Swedish: Il Capitano) (1991) – Swedish-Finnish biographical drama film about the 1988 Åmsele murders in which a family of three was murdered by Juha Valjakkala over a stolen bicycle[http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-film/Filmdatabasen/?itemid=16172&type=MOVIE&iv=Comments&ref=/templates/SwedishFilmSearchResult.aspx?id%3d1225%26epslanguage%3dsv%26searchword%3dil+capitano%26type%3dMovieTitle%26match%3dBegin%26page%3d1 Summary/comment] at the Swedish Film Institute (in Swedish)
Impromptu (1991) – historical drama film about the romantic relationship between Frédéric Chopin and Amantine Dupin{{Cite web |title=Chateau des Briottieres |url=http://www.frenchentree.com/france-pays-de-la-loire-chateau-bed-and-breakfast/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=38027 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110314092613/http://www.frenchentree.com/france-pays-de-la-loire-chateau-bed-and-breakfast/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=38027 |archive-date=14 March 2011 |access-date=2011-12-25 |website=frenchentree.com}}
In a Child's Name (1991) – biographical thriller drama miniseries depicting a true story about a woman who fights her brother-in-law's parents for custody of her deceased sister's baby upon learning that her brother-in-law murdered her sister{{Cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-11-15-1991319211-story.html|title='In a Child's Name' becomes more than just a murder story|website=Baltimore Sun|access-date=26 October 2023|archive-date=26 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026193418/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-11-15-1991319211-story.html|url-status=live}}
In Broad Daylight (1991) – thriller drama television film about the life of Ken McElroy, the town bully of Skidmore, Missouri who became known for his unsolved murder{{cite news|last=Jones|first=Tim|title=Many remember, few mourn, and no one blabs|date=2 March 2006|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2006/03/02/many-remember-few-mourn-and-no-one-blabs/|access-date=12 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913044005/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2006-03-02/news/0603020175_1_town-bully-skidmore-broad-daylight|archive-date=13 September 2017|url-status=live}}
The Inner Circle (1991) – biographical crime drama film telling the story of Joseph Stalin's private projectionist and KGB officer Ivan Sanchin between 1939 and 1953, the year Stalin died{{citation|first = Milena|last = Michalski|article = The Inner Circle|title = The Slavonic and East European Review|volume = 72|date = July 1994|issue = 3|pages = 591–593|publisher = Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies|jstor = 4211627}}
Isabelle Eberhardt (1991) – Australian-French biographical drama film following the adult life of Isabelle Eberhardt{{cite web|url=http://www.flachfilm.com/film/isabelle-eberhardt/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160830084852/http://www.flachfilm.com/film/isabelle-eberhardt/ |archive-date=30 August 2016 |language=French |title=Isabelle Eberhardt |work=Flach Film |access-date=11 October 2016 |url-status=live }}
Jacquot de Nantes (1991) – French biographical drama film recreating the early life of Agnès Varda's husband, Jacques Demy, in Occupied France and his interest in the various crafts associated with film making, such as casting, set design, animation and lighting{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/90/year/1991.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Jacquot de Nantes |accessdate=12 August 2009 |work=festival-cannes.com |archive-date=4 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004164117/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/90/year/1991.html |url-status=live }}
JFK (1991) – epic political thriller film examining the investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, who came to believe there was a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy and that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jfk-oliver-stone-conspiracy-theory-russian-disinformation-1260223/|title=This Is Where Oliver Stone Got His Loony JFK Conspiracies From|date=22 November 2021|magazine=Rolling Stone|author=Tim Weiner|access-date=26 October 2023|archive-date=18 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118210955/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jfk-oliver-stone-conspiracy-theory-russian-disinformation-1260223/|url-status=live}}
The Josephine Baker Story (1991) – biographical drama television film about Josephine Baker, who was an international African-American star, who was especially successful in Europe{{cite web |title=Bare-ing Up: Actress Lynn Whitfield was glad... |work=www.latimes.com |date=10 January 1991 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-10-vw-10995-story.html |access-date=24 February 2022 |archive-date=24 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224151800/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-10-vw-10995-story.html |url-status=live }}
Let Him Have It (1991) – British crime drama film based on the true story of Derek Bentley, who was convicted of the murder of a police officer by joint enterprise and was hanged in 1953 under controversial circumstances{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A9115229 |title='Let Him Have It!' – The Case of Bentley and Craig |accessdate= 3 April 2011 |date=17 March 2006 |work=h2g2 |publisher= BBC |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090406014836/http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A9115229 |archivedate=6 April 2009 |first=Bob |last=Hopeless }}
Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story (1991) – drama television film based on the true story of Morris Dees, a civil rights lawyer from Alabama, whose Southern Poverty Law Center battles neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan{{cite web |author=Susan King |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-20-tv-1105-story.html |title=The Role That Changed Corbin Bernsen |date=20 January 1991 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=2018-12-13 |archive-date=20 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320201456/http://articles.latimes.com/1991-01-20/news/tv-1105_1_corbin-bernsen |url-status=live }}
The Longest Night (Spanish: La noche más larga) (1991) – Spanish historical drama film concerning the last executions carried out by the Francoist dictatorship on 27 September 1975{{Cite web|url=https://vertele.eldiario.es/noticias/destacados_1_7502934.html|website=Vertele!|via=eldiario.es|date=3 March 2017|title=Glòria Serra y su equipo investigan las apps de citas|access-date=26 October 2023|archive-date=6 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606035317/https://vertele.eldiario.es/noticias/destacados_1_7502934.html|url-status=live}}
Love, Lies and Murder (1991) – crime drama miniseries based on the 1985 murder of Linda Bailey Brown{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1991/02/15/love-lies-and-murder/|title=Love, Lies and Murder (1991)|last=Tucker|first=Ken|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|publisher=Time Inc.|date=15 February 1991|access-date=3 January 2011|archive-date=20 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020135636/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,313314,00.html|url-status=live}}
Lovers (Spanish: Amantes) (1991) – Spanish neo-noir drama film telling the story of Paco, a young man who finds himself in Madrid in search of a job after leaving the army, based on a true story and set in 1950s SpainVicente Aranda, 2006 Declaración de Intenciones www.vicentearanda.es.
Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter (1991) – biographical historical drama television film about the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/08/arts/tv-weekend-lucy-and-desi-behind-the-screen.html |title=Lucy and Desi, Behind the Screen |date=8 February 1991 |website=The New York Times |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026193412/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/08/arts/tv-weekend-lucy-and-desi-behind-the-screen.html |url-status=live }}
Milena (1991) – French biographical drama film about Czech writer Milena Jesenská{{cite web |title=Milena (1991) |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/milena |website=MUBI |access-date=27 October 2023 |archive-date=27 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027133341/https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/milena |url-status=live }}
Mobsters (1991) – crime drama film detailing the creation of The Commission{{cite web|title=Review: 'Mobsters'|url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117793179?refcatid=31|newspaper=Variety|date=31 December 1990|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108054950/https://variety.com/review/VE1117793179?refcatid=31|archive-date=8 November 2012}}
Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story (1991) – crime drama television film based on the true story of Pamela Smart seducing one of her 15-year-old students into sex and to murdering her husband, Gregg Smart, in Derry, New Hampshire{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/414856/murder-in-new-hampshire|title=Smart Story|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=23 March 2016|archive-date=18 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018013533/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/414856/Murder-in-New-Hampshire/|url-status=live}}
My Best Friend, General Vasili, Son of Joseph Stalin (Russian: Мой лучший друг генерал Василий, сын Иосифа) (1991) – Soviet-Belgian biographical drama film based on a true story of a sport star Vsevolod Bobrov, who happened to become befriended by Vasily Stalin, the son of Joseph Stalin{{cite web |title=Moy luchshiy drug, general Vasiliy, syn Iosifa (1991) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/moy-luchshiy-drug-general-vasiliy-syn-iosifa-1991 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026193418/https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/moy-luchshiy-drug-general-vasiliy-syn-iosifa-1991 |url-status=live }}
Nelligan (1991) – Canadian biographical drama film about Quebec poet Émile Nelligan"Newcomer St. Pierre looks part, but is less than convincing as Nelligan". Montreal Gazette, 27 September 1991.
Never Forget (1991) – historical drama television film telling the story of Mel Mermelstein, an American holocaust survivor who confronted a Holocaust denial organization's lies in court{{cite web |title=Never Forget (1991) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/3383/never-forget/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026193414/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/3383/never-forget/ |url-status=live }}
Not Without My Daughter (1991) – thriller drama film depicting the escape of American citizen Betty Mahmoody and her daughter from her abusive husband in Iran{{cite web |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/not-without-my-daughter-1991 |title=Not Without My Daughter (review) |first=Roger |last=Ebert |author-link=Roger Ebert |work=RogerEbert.com |date=11 January 1991 |access-date=2014-07-08 |archive-date=9 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709013749/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/not-without-my-daughter-1991 |url-status=live }}
One Man's War (1991) – British drama television film based on the true story of Joel Filártiga, who sought justice for his son's death at the hands of Alfredo Stroessner's secret policeJohn Leonard, New York, 22 April 1991, [https://books.google.com/books?id=UukCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA81 One Half of One Man's War]
The Ox (Swedish: Oxen) (1991) – Swedish drama film based on a true story of devastating hardship during the great Swedish drought of the late 1860s{{Cite web |url=http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=MOVIE&itemid=16871&iv=Awards |title=The Ox (1991) |accessdate=18 March 2014 |work=The Swedish Film Database |archive-date=11 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611153011/http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?itemid=16871&type=MOVIE&iv=Awards |url-status=live }}
The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend (1991) – biographical sport drama film about the 1959 8th grade basketball season of Pete Maravich, presenting his early beginnings and the origin of the "Pistol" nickname{{cite web|url=http://reviews.christianbook.com/2016/017855/campbell-stone-media-the-pistol-the-birth-of-a-legend-inspirational-ed-dvd-reviews/reviews.htm|title= Campbell Stone Media The Pistol: The Birth Of A Legend, Inspirational Ed. DVD |accessdate=5 June 2014|publisher=ChristianBook.com}}
Prisoner of Honor (1991) – British biographical drama television film centering on the famous Dreyfus AffairDreyfuss stars in `Prisoner' despite `dislike of television': [FINAL Edition]

Holloway, Diane. Austin American Statesman 1 November 1991: B4.

Rose Against the Odds (1991) – Australian biographical sport drama miniseries chronicling the life of Australian Aboriginal boxer Lionel RoseEd. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p228-229
Rossini! Rossini! (1991) – Italian biographical drama film depicting real life events of composer Gioachino Rossini{{cite book|last=Leonardo De Franceschi|title=Lo sguardo eclettico: il cinema di Mario Monicelli|year=2001|publisher=Marsilio, 2001|isbn=8831777637}}
Selling Hitler (1991) – comedy drama miniseries about the Hitler Diaries hoax{{cite web |title=Selling Hitler (1991) |url=https://mubi.com/en/us/films/selling-hitler |website=MUBI |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026194914/https://mubi.com/en/us/films/selling-hitler |url-status=live }}
Son of the Morning Star (1991) – Western historical miniseries telling the story of George Custer, Crazy Horse and the events prior to the battle of the Little Bighorn, told from the different perspectives of two women{{cite journal|last=Leonard|first=John|title=Home of the Braves|journal=New York|date=4 February 1991|page=41}}
Switched at Birth (1991) – drama miniseries based on the true story of Kimberly Mays and Arlena Twigg, babies switched soon after birth in a Florida hospital in 1978{{cite news |last=Drew |first=Mike |title=Emotions Aren't Only Thing Being Exploited in New TV Movie |newspaper=The Milwaukee Journal |date=28 April 1991 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Pp8aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JywEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1862,3752412 |accessdate=20 June 2011 |via=Google News}}

To Be Number One (Cantonese: 跛豪) (1991) – Hong Kong biographical gangster film based on the rise and fall of a real-life gangster Ng Sik-ho{{cite web |title=To Be Number One (1991) |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/to-be-number-one |website=MUBI |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026193419/https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/to-be-number-one |url-status=live }}
All the Mornings of the World (French: Tous les Matins du Monde) (1991) – French biographical drama film telling the story of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, grand master of the viola da gamba, and Marin Marais, prestigious musician in the court of Louis XIV[https://web.archive.org/web/20070612192723/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/458504 British Film Institute page about Tous les Matins du Monde] accessed 10 April 2014.
Van Gogh (1991) – French biographical drama film following the last 67 days of Vincent van Gogh's life and explores his relationships with his brother Theo, his physician Paul Gachet (most famous as the subject of Van Gogh's painting Portrait of Dr. Gachet), and the women in his life, including Gachet's daughter, Marguerite{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/10/van-gogh-maurice-pialat-dvd-classic-review|title=Van Gogh|access-date=27 February 2022|work=The Guardian|date=10 November 2013 |last1=French |first1=Philip }}
Walerjan Wrobel's Homesickness (German: Das Heimweh des Walerjan Wróbel) (1991) – German historical drama film about Walerian Wróbel, a Polish forced laborer who was executed by the National Socialists at the age of only 17{{cite web |url=http://38.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff38/eng/archives/?year=1991 |title=17th Moscow International Film Festival (1991) |access-date=28 August 2016 |work=MIFF |archive-date=14 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114170146/http://38.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff38/eng/archives/?year=1991 |url-status=dead }}
Walking a Tightrope (French: Les Équilibristes) (1991) – French drama film about a famous homosexual writer during the sixties in Paris who is trying to make a young Arab into the greatest tightrope walker in the world, allegedly based on a true story witnessed by the director Nikos Papatakis{{cite book|last1=Raymond Murray|title=Images in the dark: an encyclopedia of gay and lesbian film and video|publisher=Titan Books, 1998|isbn=1840230339|year=1998}}
Wife, Mother, Murderer (1991) – drama television film concerning Alabama murderer Marie Hilley{{cite web |title=Wife, Mother, Murderer (1991) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7b7df795 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=28 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128165639/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7b7df795 |url-status=live }}
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991) – romantic drama film concerning Sonora Webster Carver, a rider of diving horses{{cite web |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE5D7113FF937A15756C0A967958260 |title=Review/Film; The True Story Of a Girl, a Horse, A Diving Board |publisher=NY Times |date=24 May 1991 |first=Stephen |last=Holden |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=6 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071206023350/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE5D7113FF937A15756C0A967958260 |url-status=live }}
Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991) – drama television film focuses on James Brady, the press secretary to Ronald Reagan who was severely injured in an attempt on the president's life in 1981{{cite magazine|last=Tucker|first=Ken|title=Without Warning: The James Brady Story|date=14 June 1991|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|url=http://ew.com/article/1991/06/14/without-warning-james-brady-story/|accessdate=12 September 2017|archive-date=26 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026193414/https://ew.com/article/1991/06/14/without-warning-james-brady-story/|url-status=live}}
Young Catherine (1991) – British historical drama miniseries based on the early life of Catherine II of Russia{{cite web |title=Young Catherine (1991) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/420399/young-catherine/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=27 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027002308/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/420399/young-catherine/ |url-status=live }}

1992

1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) – epic historical drama film portraying a version of the travels to the New World by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and the effect this had on indigenous people{{Cite news |last=Mathews |first=Jack |date=3 May 1992 |title=MOVIES : Voyage of Rediscovery : With '1492,' director Ridley Scott and writer Roselyne Bosch aim to portray Christopher Columbus not as a legend but as an extraordinary though flawed person |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-03-ca-2005-story.html |access-date=9 October 2010 |archive-date=18 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218175114/http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-03/entertainment/ca-2005_1_christopher-columbus |url-status=live }}
A Killer Among Friends (1992) – crime drama television film based on the real life murder of Michele Avila{{cite web |title=A Killer Among Friends (1992) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/430117/a-killer-among-friends |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=27 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027133107/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/430117/a-killer-among-friends |url-status=live }}
A League of Their Own (1992) – sport comedy drama film depicting a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League{{Cite web |date=2 July 2022 |title=Brad Byrd InDEPTH: DeLisa Chinn-Tyler talks about " A League of Their Own" |url=https://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/indepth-with-brad-byrd-delisa-chinn-tyler-talks-about-a-league-of-their-own/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=WEHT-TV |language=en-US |archive-date=10 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410172719/https://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/indepth-with-brad-byrd-delisa-chinn-tyler-talks-about-a-league-of-their-own/ |url-status=live }}
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story (1992) – drama television film chronicling the story behind the Elizabeth Morgan case, in which a woman suspected her ex-husband was sexually abusing their three-year-old daughter{{cite web

|first=Richard|last=Huff |title=A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story|url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117900154?refcatid=32&printerfriendly=true |date=23 November 1992|work=Variety|accessdate=2012-12-16}}

A Private Matter (1992) – drama television film based on the true 1962 story of Sherri Finkbine, a woman who sought a medically recommended abortion, following thalidomide usage during her pregnancy, and endured a firestorm of public controversy about her decision(14 June 1992). [https://web.archive.org/web/20121105033550/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1010763.html A Private Matter'; Sherri Finkbine's 1962 Abortion], The Washington Post, Retrieved 16 November 2010
A River Runs Through It (1992) – drama film following two sons of a Presbyterian minister, one studious and the other rebellious, as they grow up and come of age in the Rocky Mountain region during a span of time from roughly World War I to the early days of the Great Depression, including part of the Prohibition era, based on the 1976 semi-autobiographical novella A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/ariverrunsthroughitpgthompson_a09e82.htm|newspaper=Washington Post|last=Thompson|first=Toby|title=A River Runs Through It|date=11 October 1992|access-date=28 April 2013|archive-date=29 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829012455/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/ariverrunsthroughitpgthompson_a09e82.htm|url-status=live}}
A Thousand Heroes (1992) – disaster drama film based on a true story of United Airlines Flight 232, which crash-landed at Sioux City, Iowa on 19 July 1989{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/shows/crash-landing-rescue-flight-232|title=CRASH LANDING: THE RESCUE OF FLIGHT 232|website=Television Academy|access-date=18 October 2021|archive-date=27 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027133106/https://www.emmys.com/shows/crash-landing-rescue-flight-232|url-status=live}}
All That Really Matters (Polish: Wszystko, co najważniejsze) (1992) – Polish biographical drama film about Aleksander Wat and his family's experiences with the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/147440/All-That-Really-Matters/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926043956/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/147440/All-That-Really-Matters/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 September 2015 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Clarke Fountain |date=2015 |title=All That Really Matters |access-date=24 September 2015 }}
American Me (1992) – crime drama film loosely based on mafia boss Rodolfo Cadena{{Cite web|last=Mukhopadhyay|first=Arka|date=23 April 2021|title=Is American Me a True Story? Is Montoya Santana Based on Real Life Gangster?|url=https://thecinemaholic.com/is-american-me-based-on-a-true-story/|access-date=2021-07-02|website=The Cinemaholic|language=en-US|archive-date=5 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105105843/https://thecinemaholic.com/is-american-me-based-on-a-true-story/|url-status=live}}
Amy Fisher: My Story (1992) – thriller drama film based on the story of Amy Fisher's affair with Joey Buttafuoco, and her conviction for aggravated assault for shooting Buttafuoco's wife{{cite web |author=Judd Blaise |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/lethal-lolita-v2151 |title=Lethal Lolita (1993) – Bradford May |publisher=AllMovie |date= |access-date=2018-08-10 |archive-date=7 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107201831/https://www.allmovie.com/movie/lethal-lolita-v2151 |url-status=live }}
The Babe (1992) – biographical sport drama film about the life of famed baseball player Babe Ruth{{Cite web |url=https://siskelebert.org/?p=5969 |title=City of Joy, Proof, The Babe, Deep Cover, The Famine Within, 1992 – Siskel and Ebert Movie Reviews |access-date=27 October 2023 |archive-date=27 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027133114/https://siskelebert.org/?p=5969 |url-status=live }}
Baby Snatcher (1992) – drama television film based on a true story of the kidnapping of Rachael Ann White[https://apnews.com/340027242cc2fea43395ca553ae64fde Baby Recovered four Days after Kidnapping] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527001651/https://apnews.com/340027242cc2fea43395ca553ae64fde |date=27 May 2022 }}- Retrieved 26 December 2016
Becoming Colette (1992) – German-British-French biographical drama film about Henri Gauthier-Villars and Colette{{cite magazine|last=Leydon|first=Joe|title=Becoming Colette|date=12 May 1992|magazine=Variety|url=https://variety.com/1992/film/reviews/becoming-colette-1200429737/|accessdate=12 February 2023|archive-date=5 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105105345/https://variety.com/1992/film/reviews/becoming-colette-1200429737/|url-status=live}}
Bonnie & Clyde: The True Story (1992) – crime drama television film about American crime duo, Bonnie and Clyde[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bonnie_and_clyde_the_true_story Bonnie & Clyde: The True Story] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403115843/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bonnie_and_clyde_the_true_story |date=3 April 2019 }}, Rotten Tomatoes, n.d., accessed 1 April 2019
The Boys of St. Vincent (1992) – Canadian biographical drama miniseries inspired by real events that took place at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, Newfoundland, one of a number of child sexual abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church{{Cite web |last=McCarthy |first=Todd |author-link=Todd McCarthy |date=17 September 1993 |title=The Boys of St. Vincent |url=https://variety.com/1993/film/reviews/the-boys-of-st-vincent-1200433320/ |access-date=2022-08-02 |website=Variety |language=en-US |archive-date=5 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105104534/https://variety.com/1993/film/reviews/the-boys-of-st-vincent-1200433320/ |url-status=live }}
Chaplin (1992) – biographical comedy drama film about the life of English comic actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-20-ca-4268-story.html|title=Channeling Chaplin : It is the role of Robert Downey Jr.'s career—and he believes the Little Tramp is with him|date=20 December 1992|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2019-06-22|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|archive-date=27 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027133107/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-20-ca-4268-story.html|url-status=live}}
Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After (1992) – biographical drama television film telling the real-life story of the failed marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales, and his first wife, Diana, Princess of Wales[http://www.tvworthwatching.com/post/THISDAYINTVHISTORY20191213.aspx 1992: ABC PRESENTS 'CHARLES AND DIANA: UNHAPPILY EVER AFTER'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201015094945/http://www.tvworthwatching.com/post/THISDAYINTVHISTORY20191213.aspx |date=15 October 2020 }} at tvworthwatching.com, 13 December 2019 accessed 14 October 2020
Child of Rage (1992) – biographical drama television film based on the true story of Beth Thomas, who had severe behavioral problems as a result of being sexually abused as a child{{cite news|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/857298/Praise-scorn-in-Utah-for-hold-therapy.html|title=Praise, scorn in Utah for 'hold therapy'|last=Thalman|first=James|date=7 August 2001|work=Deseret News|access-date=30 April 2012|archive-date=20 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620140812/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/857298/Praise-scorn-in-Utah-for-hold-therapy.html|url-status=dead}}
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) – historical adventure film following events after the fall of the Emirate of Granada (an Arab principality which was located in the south of Spain), and leads up to the voyage of Columbus to the New World in 1492{{cite news|title=A Family Feud in Wake of 'Columbus' : Movies: Ilya Salkind has sued Alexander, his father and producing partner, for breach of contract, fraud and racketeering.|work=Los Angeles Times|date=24 November 1993|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-11-24-ca-60385-story.html|access-date=9 October 2010|first=Judy|last=Brennan|archive-date=15 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715045822/http://articles.latimes.com/1993-11-24/entertainment/ca-60385_1_alexander-salkind|url-status=live}}
Citizen Cohn (1992) – biographical drama television film covering the life of Joseph McCarthy's controversial chief counsel Roy Cohn{{cite book|title=Citizen Cohn|first=Nicholas|last=von Hoffman|author-link=Nicholas von Hoffman|date=1988|publisher=Doubleday|isbn=978-0385236904}}
Daens (1992) – Belgian historical drama film telling the true story of Adolf Daens, a Catholic priest in Aalst who strives to improve the miserable working conditions in the local factories{{Cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1993 |title=The 65th Academy Awards (1993) Nominees and Winners |access-date=19 September 2015 |work=oscars.org |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402004418/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1993 |url-status=live }}
Day of Despair (Portuguese: O Dia do Desespero) (1992) – Portuguese drama film based on the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco{{Cite web |title=The Classical Modernist: Manoel de Oliveira |url=https://www.filmcomment.com/article/the-classical-modernist-manoel-de-oliveira/ |access-date=2023-06-13 |website=Film Comment |language=en |archive-date=21 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021175744/https://www.filmcomment.com/article/the-classical-modernist-manoel-de-oliveira/ |url-status=live }}
De Bunker (1992) – Dutch war drama film about Gerrit Kleinveld, a Dutch resistance fighter during the Second World War{{cite web |title=De bunker (1992) |url=https://mubi.com/en/it/films/de-bunker |website=MUBI |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=27 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027133107/https://mubi.com/en/it/films/de-bunker |url-status=live }}
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992) – disaster drama television film depicting the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster off the coast of Alaska{{cite web |title=Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/462613/dead-ahead-the-exxon-valdez-disaster/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=9 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231109104300/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/462613/dead-ahead-the-exxon-valdez-disaster/ |url-status=live }}
Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (Italian: Morte di un matematico napoletano) (1992) – Italian biographical drama film about the death of Renato Caccioppoli, an Italian mathematician, known for his contributions to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, measure theory{{cite web |title=Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992) |url=https://mubi.com/en/us/films/death-of-a-neapolitan-mathematician |website=MUBI |access-date=27 October 2023 |archive-date=27 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027133107/https://mubi.com/en/us/films/death-of-a-neapolitan-mathematician |url-status=live }}
Diên Biên Phu (1992) – French epic war drama film portraying the 55-day siege of Dien Bien Phu, the last battle by the French Union's colonial army in the First Indochina War during the final days of French Indochina, which was soon after divided into North and South Vietnam{{cite web |title=DIEN BIEN PHU |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/dien-bien-phu |website=MUBI |access-date=12 October 2024}}
Dreams of Russia (Russian: Сны о России; Japanese: おろしや国酔夢譚) (1992) – Soviet-Japanese historical drama film about real historical events in the interstate relations of the Russian Empire, during the time of Catherine II, and Japan, during the time of the Tokugawa shogunate[http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/ros/6591/annot Dreams of Russian] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108211935/https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/ros/6591/annot |date=8 November 2023 }} at the kino-teatr.ru
Faraway Sunset (Japanese: 遠き落日) (1992) – Japanese biographical drama film about the Japanese scientist Hideyo Noguchi{{cite book|title=遠き落日 (Tōki Rakujitsu)|first=Junichi|last=Watanabe|publisher=Kadokawa shoten|year=1982|isbn=9784041307144|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e-0rAQAAIAAJ&q=%E9%81%A0%E3%81%8D%E8%90%BD%E6%97%A5|access-date=27 October 2023|archive-date=27 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027133107/https://books.google.com/books?id=e-0rAQAAIAAJ&q=%E9%81%A0%E3%81%8D%E8%90%BD%E6%97%A5|url-status=live}}
Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story (1992) – biographical sport drama television film about the life of Loyola Marymount basketball player Eric "Hank" Gathers{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/17303/Final-Shot-The-Hank-Gathers-Story/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016214614/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/17303/Final-Shot-The-Hank-Gathers-Story/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 October 2007|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|author=Hal Erickson|title=Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story (1992)|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|date=2007|accessdate=1 September 2010}}
Frankie's House (1992) – British-Australian biographical drama miniseries based on the biography of British photographer Tim Page, especially focusing on his relationship with Sean Flynn – the son of Errol Flynn – during the Vietnam WarEd. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p64
The Girl in the Air (1992) – French drama film based on the true story of Nadine Vaujour who tried to spring her husband from prison by helicopter in 1986{{Cite web|title=Xenix Kino / Bar|url=https://www.xenix.ch/programm/juni-2009/definitivement-hors-du-commun-beatrice-dalle/fille-de-lair/2009-06-08T19:15:00|access-date=2021-02-10|website=www.xenix.ch|archive-date=27 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027133109/https://www.xenix.ch/programm/juni-2009/definitivement-hors-du-commun-beatrice-dalle/fille-de-lair/2009-06-08T19:15:00|url-status=live}}
Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive (1992) – mystery horror television film about the residents of new houses who experience disturbing supernatural phenomena, supposedly based on real events{{cite web |title=Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive (1992) |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/grave-secrets-the-legacy-of-hilltop-drive |website=MUBI |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=27 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027133107/https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/grave-secrets-the-legacy-of-hilltop-drive |url-status=live }}
Hoffa (1992) – biographical crime drama film based on the life of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa{{Cite web|title=AFI{{!}}Catalog|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/59268-HOFFA?sid=304e65a1-2262-465e-b6f9-47a74a06f17e&sr=11.3257065&cp=1&pos=0|access-date=2021-07-13|website=catalog.afi.com|archive-date=10 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221110200115/https://catalog.afi.com/Film/59268-HOFFA?sid=304e65a1-2262-465e-b6f9-47a74a06f17e&sr=11.3257065&cp=1&pos=0|url-status=live}}
In the Best Interest of the Children (1992) – biographical drama television film telling the true story of a legal battle fought over custody of five siblings{{cite web |title=In the Best Interest of the Children (1992) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/in-the-best-interest-of-the-children-1992 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-date=27 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027133106/https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/in-the-best-interest-of-the-children-1992 |url-status=live }}
The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992) – biographical drama miniseries based upon the history of the Jackson family, one of the most successful musical families in show business, and the early and successful years of the popular Motown group The Jackson 5{{cite news |title=Highlights |page=6A |first=Faye B. |last=Zuckerman |newspaper=The Tuscaloosa News |date=14 November 1992 |access-date=2010-03-01 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AzkdAAAAIBAJ&dq=the%20jacksons%20an%20american%20dream%20viewers&pg=4993%2C3487229 |archive-date=29 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029160045/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AzkdAAAAIBAJ&dq=the%20jacksons%20an%20american%20dream%20viewers&pg=4993,3487229 |url-status=live }}
Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted (1992) – biographical drama television film inspired by a true story concerning a landmark legal decision for rights of the disabled{{cite news|title=Life Goes On star lands role in television movie|work=Rome News-Tribune|date=16 October 1992|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tlYwAAAAIBAJ&pg=4866,4433791&dq=jonathan+the+boy+nobody+wanted+jobeth+williams&hl=en|access-date=27 October 2023|archive-date=27 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027153442/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tlYwAAAAIBAJ&pg=4866,4433791&dq=jonathan+the+boy+nobody+wanted+jobeth+williams&hl=en|url-status=live}}
The Last of His Tribe (1992) – drama television film based on the experiences Alfred L. Kroeber who made friends with Ishi, thought to be the last of his people, the Yahi tribe{{cite web|work=The Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-03-20-vw-4294-story.html|title=Makers of HBO's 'Tribe' Given a Warm Reception|date=20 March 1992|first=Bill|last=Higgins|access-date=27 October 2023|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305220442/http://articles.latimes.com/1992-03-20/news/vw-4294_1_american-indian-college-fund|url-status=live}}
The Long Day Closes (1992) – British biographical drama film portraying a semi-autobiographical account of Terence Davies' adolescence{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = 3 February 2016 | title = Turning a Gloomy World into a Sunny One | first = Stephen | last = Holden | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/28/movies/review-film-turning-a-gloomy-world-into-a-sunny-one.html | date = 28 May 1993 | archive-date = 26 May 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150526094539/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/28/movies/review-film-turning-a-gloomy-world-into-a-sunny-one.html | url-status = live }}
Lorenzo's Oil (1992) – biographical drama film based on the true story of Augusto and Michaela Odone, parents who search for a cure for their son Lorenzo's adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), leading to the development of Lorenzo's oil{{cite news| title= Pittsburgh – City lands good share of movies| url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=V19cAAAAIBAJ&pg=1397%2C300980| date= 10 December 1995| work= The Vindicator| access-date= 27 October 2023| archive-date= 5 November 2023| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231105101929/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=V19cAAAAIBAJ&pg=1397%2C300980| url-status= live}}
The Lover (French: L'Amant) (1992) – French-Vietnamese romantic drama film based on the semi-autobiographical 1984 novel of the same name by Marguerite Duras, the film details the illicit affair between a teenage French girl and a wealthy Chinese man in 1929 French Indochina{{Cite web |date=6 February 1992 |title=Jean-Jacques Annaud's 'The Lover' Gets Mixed Reviews |url=https://apnews.com/article/d6089d5c676c1f0aba44b13ca9dc58b7 |access-date=2022-04-13 |website=AP NEWS |language=en |archive-date=8 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408013640/https://apnews.com/article/d6089d5c676c1f0aba44b13ca9dc58b7 |url-status=live }}
Malcolm X (1992) – epic biographical drama film about the African-American activist Malcolm X{{Cite web|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|access-date=2020-12-04|website=Library of Congress|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305191832/https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|url-status=live}}
My Companions in the Bleak House (Czech: Přítelkyně z domu smutku) (1992) – Czechoslovak drama miniseries depicting a fictionalised account of Eva Kantůrková's time in prison on charges of sedition in Communist Czechoslovakia{{cite web |last1=Víchová |first1=Adéla |title=Přítelkyně z domu smutku Eva Kantůrková: Prostě jsem se musela ozvat... |url=https://zena-in.cz/clanek/pritelkyne-z-domu-smutku-eva-kanturkova-spisovatel-musi-pracovat-neosobne-jsem-svedek-doby-rika |website=ŽENA-IN |access-date=14 February 2023 |language=cs-CZ |archive-date=14 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230214063830/https://zena-in.cz/clanek/pritelkyne-z-domu-smutku-eva-kanturkova-spisovatel-musi-pracovat-neosobne-jsem-svedek-doby-rika |url-status=live }}
Newsies (1992) – historical musical drama film loosely based on the New York City Newsboys' strike of 1899{{cite magazine|last=Collis|first=Clark|date=31 August 2007|title=Spotlight on Christian Bale|url=http://ew.com/article/2007/08/31/spotlight-christian-bale/|access-date=19 March 2018|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|publisher=Time|archive-date=7 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107222152/https://ew.com/article/2007/08/31/spotlight-christian-bale/|url-status=live}}
Once Upon a Time in China II (Cantonese: 黃飛鴻之二男兒當自強) (1992) – Hong Kong martial arts film about Chinese martial arts master and folk hero of Cantonese ethnicity, Wong Fei-hung{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-07-ca-9214-story.html|title=MOVIE REVIEW : 'China II': History in a Martial Arts Fantasy|last=Thomas|first=Kevin|date=7 January 1994|access-date=2010-12-27|work=The Los Angeles Times|archive-date=20 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110320042703/http://articles.latimes.com/1994-01-07/entertainment/ca-9214_1_martial-arts-fantasy|url-status=live}}
Orlando (1992) – British historical drama film inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West{{cite book| editor1-first=R. G. | editor1-last=Young | title=The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film: Ali Baba to Zombies | publisher=Applause |location=New York | year=2000 | isbn=1-55783-269-2 | page=468}}
The Quest for Freedom (1992) – historical drama television film about abolitionist Harriet Tubman{{cite web|title=The Quest for Freedom: The Harriet Tubman Story|url=https://www.dcmp.org/media/1540-the-quest-for-freedom-the-harriet-tubman-story|website=Dcmp.org|access-date=27 October 2023|archive-date=27 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027133108/https://dcmp.org/media/1540-the-quest-for-freedom-the-harriet-tubman-story|url-status=live}}
Requiem for a Doll (Czech: Requiem pro panenku) (1992) – Czechoslovak psychological thriller drama film inspired by a real-life tragedy that cost the lives of 26 mentally disabled girls{{cite web|title=A brief review: "Requiem pro panenku" [1991 Czechoslovakia]|url=https://thirstyrabbit.net/cinema/slavic-cinema/czech-republic/review-requiem-pro-panenku-1991-czechoslovakia/|website=Thirstyrabbit|access-date=19 April 2017|date=28 September 2013|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303060750/http://thirstyrabbit.net/cinema/slavic-cinema/czech-republic/review-requiem-pro-panenku-1991-czechoslovakia/|url-status=live}}
Ruby (1992) – biographical crime drama film about Jack Ruby, the Dallas, Texas nightclub owner who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement garage of a Dallas city police station in 1963{{cite web|author-link=Vincent Canby|author=Cannby, Vincent|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0CE4DC143DF934A15750C0A964958260|work=The New York Times|title=Ruby (1992) Review/Film: Ruby; Annals of an Assassin's Assassin|date=27 March 1992|access-date=3 March 2017|archive-date=8 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108062852/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0CE4DC143DF934A15750C0A964958260|url-status=dead}}
Savage Nights (French: Les Nuits Fauves) (1992) – French biographical crime drama film based on Cyril Collard's semi-autobiographical novel Les Nuits Fauves, published in 1989{{cite web|url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=4798|title=Les Nuits fauves (Savage Nights) (1992)- JPBox-Office|work=jpbox-office.com|access-date=27 October 2023|archive-date=9 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231109210811/https://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=4798|url-status=live}}
Schtonk! (1992) – German satirical drama film retelling the story of the 1983 Hitler Diaries hoax{{cite magazine|magazine=Screen International|date=2 February 1996|page=30|title=Making Mann more desirable}}
Sinatra (1992) – biographical drama miniseries about singer Frank Sinatra{{Cite web|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1992-11-08-9211060349-story.html|title=SINATRA PORTRAIT RINGS WITH TRUTH AND CLARITY|website=Orlando Sentinel|access-date=27 October 2023|archive-date=8 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208111135/https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1992-11-08-9211060349-story.html|url-status=live}}
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992) – drama television film based on the life of prominent AIDS activist Alison Gertz{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_auQCAAAAMBAJ |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_auQCAAAAMBAJ/page/n78 83] |quote=something live for alison gertz. |title=New York Magazine |via=Internet Archive |date=30 March 1992 |publisher=New York Media, LLC |accessdate=2013-01-02}}
The Sound and the Silence (1992) – Canadian-New Zealander biographical drama television film about the life and works of Scottish inventor, Alexander Graham Bell[http://academy.ca/hist/history.cfm?stitle=The+Sound+and+the+Silence&awyear=0&winonly=0&awards=0&rtype=2&curstep=4 Canada's Awards Database]
Stalin (1992) – political drama television film telling the story of Stalin's rise to power until his death and spans the period from 1917 to 1953{{cite news |last1=Hill |first1=Michael |title=Gilman graduate produces Stalin film for HBO |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-07-22-1991203126-story.html |access-date=4 May 2022 |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=22 July 1991 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210622053248/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-07-22-1991203126-story.html |archive-date=22 June 2021}}
Stay the Night (1992) – crime drama miniseries depicting the true story of the controversial romance between a small town teenage boy named Michael Kettman and a free-spirited older married woman named Jimmie Sue FingerDavid Hiltbrand (27 April 1992). [http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20112476,00.html "Picks and Pans Review: Stay the Night"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914183531/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20112476,00.html |date=14 September 2016 }}. People. Vol. 37, No. 16. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
Sunday's Children (Swedish: Söndagsbarn) (1992) – Swedish biographical drama film about the life of Church of Sweden minister Erik Bergman{{cite book |last=Macnab |first=Geoffrey |title=Ingmar Bergman: The Life and Films of the Last Great European Director |location=London and New York |publisher=I.B.Tauris |date=2009 |isbn=978-0230801387 |page=210}}
Swoon (1992) – crime drama film recounting the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, focusing more on the homosexuality of the killers than other films based on the case{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/59407|title=SWOON (1992)|website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films|access-date=28 March 2023|archive-date=5 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105105314/https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/59407|url-status=live}}
Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story (1992) – drama television film about a rape victim who spoke out about her experiences and raised awareness of the fact that rape and sexual assault are never the victim's fault{{cite news|author1=David Margolick|title=A Name, a Face and a Rape: Iowa Victim Tells Her Story|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/25/us/a-name-a-face-and-a-rape-iowa-victim-tells-her-story.html?pagewanted=all|accessdate=13 February 2017|agency=New York Times|date=25 March 1990|language=English|archive-date=14 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214102032/http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/25/us/a-name-a-face-and-a-rape-iowa-victim-tells-her-story.html?pagewanted=all|url-status=live}}
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story (1992) – crime drama film about the life of Jackie Presser, an American labor leader and president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1983 until his death in 1988{{cite web |last=Marin |first=Rick |url=https://variety.com/1992/tv/reviews/teamster-boss-the-jackie-presser-story-1200430620/ |title=Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story |publisher=Variety.com |date=11 September 1992 |access-date=2018-01-29 |archive-date=27 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027133111/https://variety.com/1992/tv/reviews/teamster-boss-the-jackie-presser-story-1200430620/ |url-status=live }}
Those Old Love Letters (Estonian: Need vanad armastuskirjad) (1992) – Estonian biographical drama film about the life of Raimond Valgre, an Estonian songwriter of the 1930s and the 1940s{{cite web |url=http://www.efis.ee/en/film-categotries/movies/id/4336 |title=Those Old Love Letters |accessdate=22 September 2015 |work=efis |archive-date=25 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225170012/https://www.efis.ee/en/film-categotries/movies/id/4336 |url-status=live }}
Thunderheart (1992) – Neo-Western mystery film loosely based on a fictional portrayal of events relating to the Wounded Knee incident in 1973, when followers of the American Indian Movement seized the South Dakota town of Wounded Knee in protest against federal government policy regarding Native AmericansMichael Apted. (1992). Thunderheart [Motion picture]. United States: TriStar Pictures.
To Catch a Killer (1992) – biographical crime miniseries based on the true story of the pursuit of American serial killer John Wayne Gacy{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-13-ca-1440-story.html|title=TV Reviews : 'To Catch a Killer' a Cop's-Eye View of Gacy Case|last=Rosenberg|first=Howard|date=13 May 1992|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=16 October 2017|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|archive-date=28 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928065706/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-13-ca-1440-story.html|url-status=live}}
The Waterdance (1992) – romantic drama film depicting a semi-autobiographical story about a young fiction writer who becomes tetraplegic fully paralyzed in a hiking accident and works to rehabilitate his body and mind at a rehabilitation center{{Cite web |last=Davis |first=Steve |date=22 May 1992 |title=Movie Review: The Waterdance |url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/1992-05-22/the-waterdance/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Austin Chronicle |language=en-US |archive-date=5 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105105345/https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/1992-05-22/the-waterdance/ |url-status=live }}
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story (1992) – thriller drama television film about Wanda Holloway, an American woman from Channelview, Texas who was convicted of attempting to hire a hitman to kill the mother of her daughter's junior high school cheerleading rivalhttp://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/willing-to-kill-the-texas-cheerleader-story-v129974 {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}

1993

A Bronx Tale (1993) – coming-of-age crime drama film largely based on Chazz Palminteri's childhood{{cite web |last=Kachka |first=Boris |url=https://nymag.com/arts/theater/features/39313/ |title=How 'A Bronx Tale' Got Told – New York Magazine |website=Nymag.com |date=14 October 2007 |access-date=20 February 2014 |archive-date=4 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404184207/https://nymag.com/arts/theater/features/39313/ |url-status=live }}
A Child Too Many (1993) – Canadian drama television film exploring the story of a family impacted by an ethical dilemma when they agree to get involved in surrogacy with a wealthy older couple, allegedly based on true events{{cite web |last1=Voros |first1=Drew |title=Nbc Monday Night at the Movies Moment of Truth: A Child Too Many |url=https://variety.com/1993/tv/reviews/nbc-monday-night-at-the-movies-moment-of-truth-a-child-too-many-1200433695/ |website=variety.com |publisher=Variety |access-date=12 February 2023}}
A Home of Our Own (1993) – comedy drama film based on the story on Patrick Sheane Duncan's childhood experiences as one of twelve children growing up in the Midwest with a single mother{{cite web |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/59551 |title=A Home of Our Own |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |access-date=8 January 2023 |archive-date=8 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230108211429/https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/59551 |url-status=live }}
A Matter of Justice (1993) – thriller drama television film based on a true story about the mother of a murder victim seeking to bring her son's widow to justice and gain custody of her granddaughter{{cite web|title=TV REVIEWS : 'A Matter of Justice' Based on Real Feud|date=6 November 1993|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-11-06-ca-53711-story.html|accessdate=4 July 2020|archive-date=5 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200705013748/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-11-06-ca-53711-story.html?_amp=true|url-status=live}}
A Place to Be Loved (1993) – biographical drama television film about Gregory Kingsley, a boy who is abused by his father and placed with social services{{cite web |title=A Place to Be Loved (1993) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/470429/a-place-to-be-loved |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=28 October 2023 |archive-date=29 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029154707/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/470429/a-place-to-be-loved |url-status=live }}
A Year in Provence (1993) – biographical comedy drama miniseries based on the 1989 best-selling memoir by Peter Mayle about his first year in Provence, and the local events and customs{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/aug/22/broadcasting.uknews|work=The Guardian|title=Naked Keith Chegwin hits the heights of 'memorably rotten' TV|first=Owen|last=Gibson|date=22 August 2006|accessdate=7 September 2020|archive-date=18 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018045730/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/aug/22/broadcasting.uknews|url-status=live}}
Abraham (1993) – Christian drama television film based on the life of the Biblical patriarch Abraham{{cite web |title=Abraham (1993) |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/abraham |website=MUBI |access-date=29 October 2023 |archive-date=29 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029154707/https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/abraham |url-status=live }}
Alex Haley's Queen (1993) – biographical romantic drama miniseries based on the life of Queen Jackson Haley, showing the problems which biracial slaves and former slaves faced in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries{{cite news |title=Alex Haley's crowning finales to his "Roots" |page = 1C |first=Duane |last=Dudek |newspaper=The Milwaukee Sentinel |date=6 February 1993 |access-date=25 February 2010|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RzIxAAAAIBAJ&dq=queen%20halle%20berry&pg=5912%2C1392828 }}
Alive (1993) – biographical survival drama film detailing a Uruguayan rugby team's crash aboard Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 into the Andes mountains on 13 October 1972{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/15/movies/reviews-film-tasteful-cannibalism-as-upbeat-viewing.html |title=Reviews/Film; Tasteful Cannibalism As Upbeat Viewing |first=Janet |last=Maslin |website=The New York Times |author-link=Janet Maslin |access-date=29 October 2023 |archive-date=5 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105202743/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/15/movies/reviews-film-tasteful-cannibalism-as-upbeat-viewing.html |url-status=live }}
The Amy Fisher Story (1993) – crime drama television film dramatizing the events surrounding Amy Fisher's teenage affair with Joey Buttafuoco and her conviction for aggravated assault for shooting Buttafuoco's wifePaglia, Camille. Vamps and Tramps: New Essays. Penguin Books, 1995, p. 134.
And the Band Played On (1993) – historical drama television film depicting the story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it{{cite web|author=Tony Scott |url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117901186.html?categoryid=32&cs=1&p=0 |title=Review: And the Band Played On|work=Variety |date=30 August 1993 |access-date=4 December 2013}}
The Ballad of Little Jo (1993) – Western drama film inspired by the real-life story of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman who lived as a man in the late 19th century{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/59457|title=THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO (1993)|website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films|access-date=16 September 2023|archive-date=29 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029154707/https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/59457|url-status=live}}
Barbarians at the Gate (1993) – biographical comedy drama television film about the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco{{cite web |url=https://www.emmys.com/shows/barbarians-gate |title=Barbarians at the Gate |publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |access-date=20 September 2023 |archive-date=29 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029154707/https://www.emmys.com/shows/barbarians-gate |url-status=live }}
Belle van Zuylen – Madame de Charrière (1993) – Dutch historical drama film about Isabelle de Charrière and her friendship with Benjamin Constant{{cite web |title=Belle van Zuylen – Madame de Charrière (1993) |url=https://mubi.com/films/belle-van-zuylen-madame-de-charriere |website=MUBI |access-date=29 October 2023 |archive-date=24 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124031812/https://mubi.com/films/belle-van-zuylen-madame-de-charriere |url-status=live }}
Benito (Italian: Il Giovane Mussolini) (1993) – Italian biographical drama miniseries regarding the story of Benito Mussolini's early rise to power in the Socialist International and his relationship with Angelica Balabanoff{{cite web |title=Benito: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/benito_1993 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=29 October 2023 |archive-date=29 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029154708/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/benito_1993 |url-status=live }}
Beyond the Law (1993) – crime drama film telling the story of Dan Saxon, an undercover cop who infiltrates a group of criminal outlaw bikers behind a drug-smuggling and arms-dealing operation, based on a true story{{Citation |title=Camera Obscura |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |date=11 July 1997 | first=Paige |last= Smoron }}
Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story (1993) – crime drama television film based on the true story of a North Carolina woman (Blanche Taylor Moore) who murdered her first husband and a lover with arsenic{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-03-ca-30578-story.html |title=Bewitched by 'Black Widow' : Television: Elizabeth Montgomery found the reality-based story of a woman who poisoned people too fascinating to pass up. |publisher=Articles.latimes.com |date=3 May 1993 |access-date=2018-08-15 |archive-date=19 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160519235716/http://articles.latimes.com/1993-05-03/entertainment/ca-30578_1_elizabeth-montgomery |url-status=live }}
Blood in Blood Out (1993) – epic crime drama film based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, focusing on step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo{{Cite web |last=Chela |first=The Daily |date=6 June 2021 |title=14 Behind The Scene Pics From Blood In Blood Out |url=https://www.dailychela.com/blood-in-blood-out-pics/ |access-date=2022-08-09 |website=The Daily Chela |language=en-US |archive-date=5 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105121547/https://www.dailychela.com/blood-in-blood-out-pics/ |url-status=live }}
Bloom in the Moonlight (Japanese: わが愛の譜滝廉太郎物語) (1993) – Japanese biographical drama film about the life of pianist Rentarō Taki{{cite web|url=https://www.toei-video.co.jp/catalog/dstd02778/|title=わが愛の譜滝廉太郎物語|publisher=東映ビデオ|access-date=2 October 2021|archive-date=4 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211004095243/https://www.toei-video.co.jp/catalog/dstd02778/|url-status=live}}
Blue (1993) – British biographical drama film about Derek Jarman{{Cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/jarman-blue-t14555|title='Blue', Derek Jarman, 1993|access-date=29 October 2023|archive-date=12 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112005200/https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/jarman-blue-t14555|url-status=live}}
The Blue Exile (Turkish: Mavi Sürgün) (1993) – Turkish biographical drama film inspired by the autobiographical memoir, also titled Mavi Sürgün, of Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, who wrote under the pen name Halikarnas Balıkçısı – the Fisherman of Halicarnassus{{cite journal | last = Frook | first = John Evan | title = Acad inks Cates, unveils foreign-language entries | journal = Variety | date = 30 November 1993 | url = https://www.variety.com/article/VR116185.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 | access-date = 25 August 2008 | archive-date = 8 February 2013 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130208224805/http://www.variety.com/article/VR116185.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 | url-status = live }}
Bread and Roses (1993) – New Zealander biographical drama film showing significant episodes in the political life of socialist and feminist Sonja Davies{{cite book |last1=Martin |first1=Helen |last2=Edwards |first2=Sam |title=New Zealand film, 1912–1996 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/23627951 |publisher=Auckland; Melbourne; Oxford :Oxford University Press |page=169 |date=1997 |isbn=0-19-558336-1 |access-date=28 January 2023 |archive-date=13 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113011416/https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/23627951 |url-status=live }}
Cannibal! The Musical (1993) – black comedy musical film depicting a heavily fabricated version on the true story of Alferd Packer and the sordid details of the trip from Utah to Colorado that left his five fellow travellers dead and partially eaten{{Rotten Tomatoes|qid=Q779121|title=Cannibal! The Musical}}
Casualties of Love: The "Long Island Lolita" Story (1993) – crime drama television film based on the story of Amy Fisher and Joey Buttafuoco{{cite web

|first=Bill|last=Carter|title=Amy Fisher Story a Surprise Smash In 3 TV Movies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/05/movies/amy-fisher-story-a-surprise-smash-in-3-tv-movies.html |date=5 January 1993|work=The New York Times|accessdate=2012-06-07| url-status= live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805200904/http://www.nytimes.com:80/1993/01/05/movies/amy-fisher-story-a-surprise-smash-in-3-tv-movies.html |archive-date=2009-08-05 }}

Charlemagne (French: Charlemagne, le prince à cheval) (1993) – French action biographical miniseries about the life of Charlemagne, covering the period from the death of Charlemagne's father Pepin the Short in AD 768 to his coronation as the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, AD 800{{cite web |title=Charlemagne (1993) |url=https://www.avclub.com/tv/reviews/charlemagne-1993 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=29 October 2023 |archive-date=29 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029154707/https://www.avclub.com/tv/reviews/charlemagne-1993 |url-status=live }}
Cool Runnings (1993) – sport comedy film loosely based on the debut of the Jamaican national bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics{{cite news|title= From Real Life to Screen Proved Tough Sledding : Movies: Despite being dropped by Columbia and two directors, 'Cool Runnings,' the film about Jamaican snow bobbers, makes it across the finish line. |newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=30 September 1993|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-09-30-ca-40417-story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110226001230/http://articles.latimes.com/1993-09-30/entertainment/ca-40417_1_cool-runnings|archive-date=26 February 2011|access-date=12 January 2011|first=Jane|url-status= live |last=Galbraith}}
Countess Dora (Croatian: Kontesa Dora) (1993) – Croatian biographical drama film about Croatian composer Dora Pejačević{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/1990-1999/66nominees.html |title=Nominees & Winners for the 66th Academy Awards |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences |work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |accessdate=19 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113133558/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/1990-1999/66nominees.html |archivedate=13 November 2013 }}
Crime Story (Cantonese: 重案組) (1993) – Hong Kong action crime thriller film based on actual events surrounding the 1990 kidnapping of Chinese businessman Teddy Wang{{Cite web |title=Crime Story |url=https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=7699 |access-date=28 April 2022 |website=Hong Kong Movie Database |archive-date=29 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220429051757/https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=7699 |url-status=live }}
The Crush (1993) – romantic crime drama film based on events from, writer and director, Alan Shapiro's real life{{Cite web |last=Lowry |first=Brian |date=5 April 1993 |title=The Crush |url=https://variety.com/1993/film/reviews/the-crush-2-1200432089/ |website=Variety |access-date=2023-09-09 |archive-date=22 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230722141635/https://variety.com/1993/film/reviews/the-crush-2-1200432089/ |url-status=live }}
Dead Before Dawn (1993) – thriller drama television film based on a true event involving the publicized mid-1980s bitter divorce of Linda and Robert Edelman[http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1988/may/the-ede-lman-file/ "Did Robert Edelman Plot to Kill His Wife?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509205236/https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1988/may/the-ede-lman-file/ |date=9 May 2024 }} by Sally Giddens, D Magazine, May 1988. Retrieved on 18 August 2016.
Deadly Relations (1993) – crime drama television film about Leonard Fagot, a New Orleans attorney whose obsession with controlling his daughters led to him murdering their husbands for hefty insurance pay outs{{cite book|title=Variety and Daily Variety Television Reviews, 1993–1994|volume=18|year=1996|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=0-824-03797-9|page=7}}
Dear Diary (Italian: Caro diario) (1993) – Italian-French biographical comedy drama film based on three incidents in, or three aspects of, Nanni Moretti's life{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sO8zxEhZbrMC&q=caro+diario|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Vol. 6\1: Tutti i film italiani dal 1990 al 2000. A-L.|first=Enrico|last=Lancia|location=Rome|publisher=Gremese Editore|isbn=8884400856|year=2001|page=139|language=it}}
Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story (1993) – action drama television film based on a true story of a woman who tries to rescue her 7-year-old daughter from the Middle East after she is abducted by her Jordanian father{{cite web|title=Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story (1993)|url=http://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/desperate-rescue-1993/desperate-rescue-1993.html|website=The Movie Scene|accessdate=4 April 2017|archive-date=10 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610095824/http://themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/desperate-rescue-1993/desperate-rescue-1993.html|url-status=live}}
Diana: Her True Story (1993) – biographical drama television film based on the life of Diana, Princess of Wales{{cite book |last1=Morton |first1=Andrew |title=Diana: Her True Story |date=1992 |publisher=Pocket Books |isbn=978-0-671-79878-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HnOkbWaerHMC |access-date=14 November 2022 |language=en |archive-date=14 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114164218/https://books.google.com/books?id=HnOkbWaerHMC |url-status=live }}
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) – biographical drama film following the life of actor and martial artist Bruce Lee, from his relocation to the United States from Hong Kong to his career as a martial arts teacher, and then as a television and film actor{{cite web|date=25 October 1992|first=Donald|last=Chase|title=On Location : Re-Enter the Dragon : A film biography of kung fu king Bruce Lee, who died almost 20 years ago, weaves martial arts action with an interracial love story|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-25-ca-1095-story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200424091846/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-25-ca-1095-story.html|archive-date=24 April 2020|url-status=live}}
The Ernest Green Story (1993) – biographical drama television film following the true story of Ernest Green and eight other African-American high-school students (dubbed the "Little Rock Nine") as they embark on their historic journey to integrate Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957{{cite web |title=The Ernest Green Story (1993) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/the-ernest-green-story-1993 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=28 October 2023 |archive-date=29 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029154708/https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/the-ernest-green-story-1993 |url-status=live }}
The Escort (Italian: La scorta) (1993) – Italian crime drama film based on the true story of a magistrate who became isolated and threatened after he sniffed out mob infiltration of a local city government{{cite magazine|magazine=Screen International|page=19|date=30 April 1993|title=La Scorta wins domestic vote}}
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993) – biographical drama television film telling the story of Marina Oswald, the widow of Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1993/tv/reviews/fatal-deception-mrs-lee-harvey-oswald-1200434353/|title=Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald|last=Voros|first=Drew|date=14 November 1993|website=Variety|access-date=26 May 2021|archive-date=29 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029154708/https://variety.com/1993/tv/reviews/fatal-deception-mrs-lee-harvey-oswald-1200434353/|url-status=live}}
Fire in the Sky (1993) – biographical science fiction mystery film based on the alleged alien abduction of Travis Walton in 1975{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/59525|title=Fire in the Sky|website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films|access-date=15 June 2018|archive-date=14 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814061505/https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/59525|url-status=live}}
Fong Sai-yuk (Cantonese: 方世玉) (1993) – Hong Kong action comedy film about the life of semi-fictional Chinese martial artist and folk hero from Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province of the Qing dynasty{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/fong-sai-yuk-v132934|publisher=Allmovie|title=Fong Sai-Yuk(1993)|access-date=4 September 2012|author=Brennan, Sandra|archive-date=5 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405221954/https://www.allmovie.com/movie/fong-sai-yuk-v132934|url-status=live}}
Gatica, the Monkey (Spanish: Gatica, el Mono) (1993) – Argentine biographical drama film about Argentine boxer José María Gatica{{cite magazine | last = Frook | first = John Evan | title = Acad inks Cates, unveils foreign-language entries | magazine = Variety | date = 30 November 1993 | url = https://www.variety.com/article/VR116185.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 | access-date = 25 August 2008 | archive-date = 8 February 2013 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130208224805/http://www.variety.com/article/VR116185.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 | url-status = live }}
Geronimo (1993) – Western historical drama television film depicting a fictionalized account of the Apache leader Geronimo{{cite news |title= YELLING GERONIMO! WES STUDI'S FILM AND TV ROLES ALLOW HIM TO WALK IN HIS ANCESTORS' SHOES |publisher= Chicago Tribune |date=19 December 1993 |url= https://www.chicagotribune.com/1993/12/19/yelling-geronimo/ |access-date=2010-12-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120911074307/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-12-19/entertainment/9312190158_1_geronimo-iroquois-confederation-wes-studi/2 |archive-date=11 September 2012 |url-status=live}}
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) – Western historical drama film depicting a fictionalized account of the Apache Wars and how First Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood convinced Apache leader Geronimo to surrender in 1886{{cite news|title=Wes 'Geronimo' Studi Wary Of Political Correctness|work=Chicago Tribune|date=16 December 1993|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1993/12/16/wes-geronimo-studi-wary-of-political-correctness/|access-date=2010-12-12|archive-date=11 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120911074238/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-12-16/features/9312160166_1_political-correctness-cherokee-wes-studi|url-status=live}}
Gettysburg (1993) – epic war drama film about the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/420333/gettysburg#credits|title=Gettysburg|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=17 June 2016|archive-date=16 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816030449/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/420333/Gettysburg/full-credits.html|url-status=live}}
Giovanni Falcone (1993) – Italian biographical drama film based on real life events of the prosecuting magistrate Giovanni Falcone who was killed by mafia in 1992{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Enrico Lancia |author3=Roberto Poppi |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I Film|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002}}
The Gray Wolves (Russian: Серые волки) (1993) – Russian political drama film centring on the displacement of Nikita Khrushchev, against which the story of a man who tried to uncover a plot against him is told[https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/41042/ Серые волки] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226170529/https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/41042/ |date=26 December 2022 }} at the kinopoisk.ru
Gross Misconduct (1993) – Australian thriller drama film inspired by a 1955 scandal in Hobart, where university professor Sydney Orr had been sacked from his job on grounds of gross misconductPybus, Cassandra. Gross Moral Turpitude. Heinemann, Port Melbourne 1993 p. 214
Gypsy (1993) – biographical musical drama television film about the life of Gypsy Rose Lee{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-12-05-ca-64013-story.html|title=They're Coming Up Roses: Bette Midler headlines a new movie version of 'Gypsy,' a rare exact replication of a Broadway show. Therein lies a tale of tenacity, good timing and star power that Mama Rose herself would have appreciated|work=Los Angeles Times|page=2|date=5 December 1993|access-date=2012-06-10|archive-date=17 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517121516/http://articles.latimes.com/1993-12-05/entertainment/ca-64013_1_mama-rose/2|url-status=live}}
Heaven & Earth (1993) – biographical war drama film about Le Ly Hayslip's experiences during and after the Vietnam War{{cite web|url=http://preview.reelviews.net/movies/h/heaven_earth.html|title=Heaven and Earth|author=James Berardinelli|author-link=James Berardinelli|access-date=22 December 2010|archive-date=8 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108204044/https://preview.reelviews.net/movies/h/heaven_earth.html|url-status=live}}
I Can Make You Love Me (1993) – psychological thriller television film based on the real-life story of American mass murderer Richard Farley, a former employee of ESL Incorporated whose romantic obsession and subsequent stalking of co-worker Laura Black culminated in the mass murder of several co-workers at ESL's headquarters in California, resulting in the first anti-stalking laws to be enacted in the United States{{cite news |last1=Wood |first1=Fran |title=Shields' guard is up versus stalker |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105126893/ |access-date=7 July 2022 |work=Daily News |date=9 February 1993}}
In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco (1993) – action drama television film portraying the events leading up to and at the start of the Waco siege{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1993/tv/reviews/nbc-sunday-night-at-the-movies-in-the-line-of-duty-ambush-in-waco-1200432193/|title=Nbc Sunday Night at the Movies in the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco|first=Todd|last=Everett|date=21 May 1993|publisher=|access-date=29 October 2023|archive-date=29 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029154709/https://variety.com/1993/tv/reviews/nbc-sunday-night-at-the-movies-in-the-line-of-duty-ambush-in-waco-1200432193/|url-status=live}}
In the Name of the Father (1993) – biographical crime drama film based on the true story of the Guildford Four, four people falsely convicted of the 1974 Guildford pub bombings that killed four off-duty British soldiers and a civilian{{Cite web | last=Pallister | first=David | title=An injustice that still reverberates | work=The Guardian | url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/oct/19/davidpallister1 | date=19 October 1999 | access-date=12 July 2011 | archive-date=2 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202185702/http://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/oct/19/davidpallister1 | url-status=live }}
JFK: Reckless Youth (1993) – biographical drama miniseries portraying the early life of American president John F. Kennedy{{cite web|last1=Holm|first1=D. K.|authorlink1=D. K. Holm|title=Reel Politique: DVD Review, JFK: Reckless Youth, JFK Assassination Studies, Part 1|url=http://blog.vanvoice.com/2007/12/03/reel-politique-dvd-review-jfk-reckless-youth-jfk-assassination-studies-part-1/|website=Vancouver Voice|accessdate=19 November 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120050832/http://blog.vanvoice.com/2007/12/03/reel-politique-dvd-review-jfk-reckless-youth-jfk-assassination-studies-part-1/|archivedate=20 November 2008|date=3 December 2007}}
Johnny 100 Pesos (Spanish: Johnny cien pesos) (1993) – Chilean crime drama film based on the first ever hostage taking robbery in Chile by Juan García, a 17-year-old thief{{cite journal | last = Frook | first = John Evan | title = Acad inks Cates, unveils foreign-language entries | journal = Variety | date = 30 November 1993 | url = https://www.variety.com/article/VR116185.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 | accessdate = 25 August 2008 | archive-date = 8 February 2013 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130208224805/http://www.variety.com/article/VR116185.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 | url-status = live }}
Jonah Who Lived in the Whale (Italian: Jona che visse nella balena) (1993) – Italian-French drama film based on the autobiographical novel by the writer Jona Oberski entitled Childhood (Dutch: Kinderjaren), focusing on the drama of the Holocaust{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1993 |title=18th Moscow International Film Festival (1993) |access-date=9 March 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403093721/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1993 |archive-date= 3 April 2014 }}
Judgment Day: The John List Story (1993) – crime drama television film depicting a fictionalized version of the crime of John List, who killed his mother, wife, and three children in 1971, before assuming a new identity, and eluding capture for over 17 years{{cite web|url=http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/judgment-day-the-john-list-story-v162151 |title=Judgment Day: The John List Story – Cast, Reviews, Summary, and Awards – AllRovi |accessdate=2011-12-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709224151/http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/judgment-day-the-john-list-story-v162151 |archivedate=2011-07-09 }}
Just a Matter of Duty (German: Die Denunziantin) (1993) – German war drama film about a German war crimes trial following World War II{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1993/02_programm_1993/02_Programm_1993.html |title=Berlinale: 1993 Programme |accessdate=30 May 2011 |work=berlinale.de |archive-date=22 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722185824/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1993/02_programm_1993/02_Programm_1993.html |url-status=live }}
The Last Lieutenant (Norwegian: Secondløitnanten) (1993) – Norwegian war film loosely based on the actions of 2nd Lt. Thor O. Hannevig, Norwegian Army (Reserve){{cite web |title=The Last Lieutenant |url=https://www.timeout.com/movies/the-last-lieutenant-1 |publisher=Time Out Group |access-date=6 July 2024}}
Lost in the Wild (1993) – adventure drama television film based on a true story about a life-saving mission that turned into a life-threatening ordeal when a plane carrying a group of doctors and nurses crashes in the jungles of Mexico{{cite web |title=BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/bc803dd94b8b5d5bb4a722380278ff41 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk |access-date=31 August 2023 |date=4 November 1995 |archive-date=31 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230831144344/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/bc803dd94b8b5d5bb4a722380278ff41 |url-status=live }}
Lost in Transit (French: Tombés du ciel) (1993) – French comedy drama film about a man who loses his passport and spends a couple of days at a Paris airport – inspired by the predicament of Mehran Karimi Nasseri{{cite web|url=http://yubarifanta.com/index_pc.php?ct=archive.php&langue=21002 |title=YUBARI INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL'95 |website=yubarifanta.com |accessdate=2009-09-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040407040236/http://yubarifanta.com/index_pc.php?ct=archive.php&langue=21002 |archivedate=2004-04-07 }}
Louis, the Child King (French: Louis, enfant roi) (1993) – French historical drama film about the formative years of the young king Louis XIV, before he became the Sun-king at Versailles{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2578/year/1993.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Louis, the Child King |access-date=22 August 2009 |work=festival-cannes.com |archive-date=3 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003193627/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2578/year/1993.html |url-status=live }}
M. Butterfly (1993) – romantic drama film loosely based on true events which involved French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Chinese opera singer Shi Pei Pu{{Rotten Tomatoes|qid=Q1513195|title=M. Butterfly}}
Mancao (1993) – Filipino biographical action film based on the life of former policeman Cezar Mancao and his encounter with Red Scorpion Gang leader Joey de Leon{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R5UVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3woEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5128%2C282740|title=Mancao|pages=19|date=2 December 1993|newspaper=Manila Standard|publisher=Philippine Manila Standard Publishing|accessdate=9 January 2022|via=Google News|archive-date=29 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029154708/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R5UVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3woEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5128,282740|url-status=live}}
Moment of Truth: Stalking Back (1993) – crime drama television film based on the true story of a teen girl who is stalked and harassed by a perverted man ten years older than she is, but despite help from her family, there's little the police can do to get rid of him{{cite news |last1=Washington |first1=Kevin |title=Family's terror comes to NBC |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1993/10/14/family-s-terror-comes-to-nbc/ |access-date=29 October 2023 |agency=Tampa Bay Times |date=14 October 1993 |archive-date=29 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029154708/https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1993/10/14/family-s-terror-comes-to-nbc/ |url-status=live }}
Money for Nothing (1993) – biographical comedy crime film loosely based on the life of Joey Coyle who, in 1981, discovered $1.2 million that had fallen out of an armored van in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/moneyfornothingrrosenfeld_a09e4b.htm|title=Money for Nothing (R)|first=Megan|last=Rosenfeld|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=15 September 1993|access-date=14 October 2020|archive-date=16 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116181800/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/moneyfornothingrrosenfeld_a09e4b.htm|url-status=live}}
Murder in the Heartland (1993) – crime drama miniseries based on the 1957–58 murder spree carried out by 19-year-old Charles Starkweather throughout Nebraska and Wyoming{{Cite web |title=MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND |url=https://www.emmys.com/shows/murder-heartland |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=Television Academy |language=en |archive-date=5 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105123800/https://www.emmys.com/shows/murder-heartland |url-status=live }}
My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud (French: En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud) (1993) – French biographical drama film following Jacques Prevel's journal of a two-year friendship with Antonin Artaud until his death in 1948{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=990CE7DD173AF93AA25754C0A963958260|title=My Life and Times With Antonin Artaud (1994)|work=The New York Times|last=Holden|first=Stephen|date=19 July 1995|accessdate=2012-08-07}}
Once Upon a Time in China III (Cantonese: 黃飛鴻之三獅王爭霸) (1993) – Hong Kong martial arts film about Chinese martial arts master and folk hero of Cantonese ethnicity, Wong Fei-hung{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/once_upon_a_time_in_china_3|title=Once Upon a Time in China III|website=Rotten Tomatoes|publisher=Fandango Media|access-date=2021-03-09|archive-date=29 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029154707/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/once_upon_a_time_in_china_3|url-status=live}}
Ordeal in the Arctic (1993) – drama television film depicting the events of when a Canadian military flight from Thule Air Base to Edmonton crashed on Ellesmere Island resulting in the death of four of the 18 passengers and crewBrennan, Patricia. [http://www.richardchamberlain.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=322&Itemid=37 "A Survival Drama."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411105204/http://www.richardchamberlain.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=322&Itemid=37 |date=11 April 2023 }} Richard Chamberlain, Actor and Beyond, 1993. Retrieved: 26 September 2014.
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993) – biographical black comedy television film based on the true story of Wanda Holloway, a woman who tried to put out a hit on one of her daughter's classmates (and the girl's mother) to advance her own daughter's Middle school cheerleading career{{cite web |url=https://ew.com/article/1993/04/09/positively-true-adventures-alleged-texas-cheerleader-murdering-mom/ |title=The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom |last=Tucker |first=Ken |date=9 April 1993 |website=EW.com |access-date=29 October 2023 |archive-date=5 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105125028/https://ew.com/article/1993/04/09/positively-true-adventures-alleged-texas-cheerleader-murdering-mom/ |url-status=live }}
Precious Victims (1993) – crime mystery television film based on the investigation of the death of two baby girls Lorelei and Heather Sims who were claimed to have been snatched from their bassinets by unknown kidnappers{{cite web|last=Willman|first=Chris|title=TV REVIEW : 'Precious Victims' Goes by the Numbers|date=28 September 1993|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-09-28-ca-39795-story.html|accessdate=4 July 2020|archive-date=4 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200704191805/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-09-28-ca-39795-story.html?_amp=true|url-status=live}}
Pugoy – Hostage: Davao (1993) – Filipino action drama film based on the 1989 Davao hostage crisis{{cite web|url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/halalan2016/nation/04/18/16/look-how-duterte-comics-portrayed-pugoy-hostage-crisis|title=How Duterte comics portrayed Pugoy hostage crisis|website=ABS-CBN News|date=18 April 2016|accessdate=11 May 2020|archive-date=29 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029154708/https://news.abs-cbn.com/halalan2016/nation/04/18/16/look-how-duterte-comics-portrayed-pugoy-hostage-crisis|url-status=live}}
The Puppetmaster (1993) – Taiwanese biographical drama film about Li Tian-lu, Taiwan's most celebrated puppeteer{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/film/4ce2b7c8951ef |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820041924/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/film/4ce2b7c8951ef |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 August 2012 |title="Puppetmaster, The" (1993) |publisher=British Film Institute |accessdate=3 June 2015}}
Rail of the Star (Japanese: お星さまのレール) (1993) – Japanese animated biographical drama film based on Chitose Kobayashi's autobiographical novel of the same name, narrating the vicissitudes suffered by the Kobayashi family after the armed conflict of the World War II, focused according to Chitose's vision at the time{{cite book|last=Galbraith |first=Stuart IV |author-link=Stuart Galbraith IV |year=1996 |title=The Japanese Filmography: A Complete Reference to 209 Filmmakers and the Over 1250 Films Released in the United States, 1900 Through 1994 |location=Jefferson, N.C. |publisher=McFarland & Co. |isbn=0786400323 |oclc=77649243 |page=112}}
The Rainbow Warrior (1993) – drama television film based on the true story of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, which was sunk in Waitematā Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand on 10 July 1985 by French DGSE operatives, when it was preparing for a Pacific voyage to protest against French nuclear testing{{Cite web |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/samneill/films/90-94.html |title=The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior |access-date=29 October 2023 |archive-date=3 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403235219/http://www.ibiblio.org/samneill/films/90-94.html |url-status=live }}
Rudy (1993) – biographical sport drama film depicting the life of Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, who harbored dreams of playing football at the University of Notre Dame despite significant obstacles{{cite journal |last1=Ebert |first1=Roger |year=1993 |title=Rudy |journal=The Chicago Sun-Times |issue=10 October 1993 |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rudy-1993 |access-date=29 October 2023 |archive-date=29 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230929175121/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rudy-1993 |url-status=live }}
Sakay (1993) – Filipino historical drama film portraying the latter part of the life of Filipino patriot and hero Macario Sakay, who was declared an outlaw and a criminal for continuing hostilities against the United States after the "official" end of the Philippine–American War{{cite news|url=https://www.rappler.com/entertainment/movies/67213-movies-national-heroes-day-philippines/|title=10 movies featuring PH national heroes|publisher=Rappler|date=25 August 2014|accessdate=13 February 2020|archive-date=12 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200212210354/https://amp.rappler.com/entertainment/movies/67213-movies-national-heroes-day-philippines|url-status=live}}
Sardar (Hindi: सरदार) (1993) – Indian Hindi-language biographical drama film about Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of India's greatest freedom fighters{{Cite web|date=9 August 2016|title=Pune: A film festival that celebrates freedom|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/pune-a-film-festival-that-celebrates-freedom-2962539/|access-date=2021-06-15|website=The Indian Express|language=en|archive-date=1 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801200601/https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/pune-a-film-festival-that-celebrates-freedom-2962539/|url-status=live}}
Scattered Dreams (1993) – drama television film based on a true story of a loving couple trying to make a living in 1951 Florida, when they are arrested for a crime they didn't commit{{cite web |title=Scattered Dreams (1993) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/415997/scattered-dreams/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=29 October 2023 |archive-date=29 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029154710/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/415997/scattered-dreams/ |url-status=live }}
Schindler's List (1993) – epic historical drama film following Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved more than a thousand mostly Polish–Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II{{cite web|title=Schindler{{'}}s List (1993)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/schindlers_list/|work=Rotten Tomatoes|publisher=Fandango Media|access-date=14 April 2021|archive-date=27 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227232024/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/schindlers_list|url-status=live}}
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) – biographical sport drama film based on the life of prodigy chess player Joshua Waitzkin{{cite web|url=https://fredwaitzkin.com/searchingforbobbyfischer/|title=Searching For Bobby Fischer – A Memoir|author=Fred Waitzkin|access-date=7 May 2023|archive-date=8 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508000158/https://fredwaitzkin.com/searchingforbobbyfischer/|url-status=live}}
The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer (1993) – biographical crime drama film based on the life of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered 17 men and ate many of them before he was caught in 1991{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba2c1511e|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213203227/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba2c1511e|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 February 2023|title=Filmography: Carl Crew|publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=13 February 2023}}
Shadowlands (1993) – British biographical romantic drama film about the relationship between academic C. S. Lewis and Jewish American poet Joy Davidman, her death from cancer, and how this challenged his Christianity{{cite news |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/shadowlandspgkempley_a0a3fe.htm |title = Shadowlands (PG) |newspaper = The Washington Post |date = 7 January 1994 |access-date = 29 October 2023 |archive-date = 4 November 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121104084511/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/shadowlandspgkempley_a0a3fe.htm |url-status = live }}
Six Degrees of Separation (1993) – comedy drama film inspired by the real-life story of David Hampton, a con man and robber who convinced a number of people in the 1980s that he was the son of actor Sidney Poitier[https://books.google.com/books?id=9ugCAAAAMBAJ&dq=stockard+channing+inger+elliott&pg=PA43 New York Mag The Story of David Hampton] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105105314/https://books.google.com/books?id=9ugCAAAAMBAJ&dq=stockard+channing+inger+elliott&pg=PA43 |date=5 November 2023 }} Retrieved 27 July 2015
Stalingrad (1993) – German war film portraying the Battle of Stalingrad{{Cite web|last=Wolters|first=Timo|date=9 December 2020|title=Stalingrad auf 4K Blu-ray im Test: Endlich eine würdige Veröffentlichung|url=https://www.4kfilme.de/test-stalingrad-4k-blu-ray/|access-date=2022-02-14|website=4K Filme|language=de-DE}}
Telling Secrets (1993) – mystery crime television film based on the true story of Joy Aylor, who plots the murder of her adulterous husband's mistress{{cite web|url=https://lakehighlands.advocatemag.com/2014/03/true-crime-lake-highlands-mom-hit-man|title=True crime: The Lake Highlands mom and the hit man|date=18 March 2014|website=lakehighlands.advocatemag.com|accessdate=15 November 2020|archive-date=17 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117041842/https://lakehighlands.advocatemag.com/2014/03/true-crime-lake-highlands-mom-hit-man|url-status=live}}
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) – Canadian biographical anthology film about the pianist Glenn Gould{{Cite web |url=http://playbackonline.ca/1993/09/13/3077-19930913/ |title=Thirty-two short films about Glenn Gould |last=Vlessing |first=Etan |date=13 September 1993 |access-date=5 April 2017 |work=Playback |archive-date=6 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406025845/http://playbackonline.ca/1993/09/13/3077-19930913/ |url-status=live }}
This Boy's Life (1993) – biographical coming-of-age drama film about the relationship between a rebellious 1950s teenager and his abusive stepfather, based on the memoirs of writer Professor Tobias Wolff{{Cite web|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=thisboyslife.htm|title=This Boy's Life (1993)|publisher=Box Office Mojo|access-date=12 July 2010|archive-date=25 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525172355/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=thisboyslife.htm|url-status=live}}
Tombstone (1993) – Western biographical drama film loosely based on real events that took place in the 1880s in Southeast Arizona, including the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the Earp Vendetta Ride{{cite web |author=Oliver |first=Myrna |date=27 April 2005 |title=George P. Cosmatos, 64; Director Was Known for Saving Troubled Projects |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-apr-27-me-cosmatos27-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121202337/http://articles.latimes.com/2005/apr/27/local/me-cosmatos27 |archive-date=21 January 2012 |access-date=15 March 2011 |work=Los Angeles Times}}
Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story (1993) – disaster drama television film about Hurricane Andrew{{cite web|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1993-05-24-9302130578-story.html |title=Andrew: The Movie The Biggest Disaster Of South Floridians' Lives Is Now Just A Part Of The Entertainment During The May Sweeps. |publisher=Sun Sentinel |date=24 May 1993 |accessdate=2018-12-04}}
The Trust (1993) – crime drama film depicting the story of William Marsh Rice's mysterious death in 1900 and the people involved with it{{cite web|title=The Trust (1993)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/149141/The-Trust/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326201950/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/149141/The-Trust/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 March 2016|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|author=Clarke Fountain|date=2016|accessdate=18 March 2016}}
Wild Tango (Spanish: Tango Feroz) (1993) – Argentine biographical musical drama film loosely based in the life of Tanguito, one of the first artists of Argentine rock{{cite magazine|magazine=Daily Variety|date=21 September 1993|title=Real-life Rudy has Midas touch offscreen, too|page=19|last=Klady|first=Leonard}}
The Visual Bible: Matthew (1993) – Christian drama film portraying the life of Jesus as it is found in the Gospel of MatthewTo Tell the Story Page 73 C Thomas Elkins – 2011 "The actors in these Biblical Docu/Dramas are well known: Richard Kiley, Jennifer O'Neil, Bruce Marchiano, Dean Jones, ... 140 The Visual Bible, Matthew and Acts (Dallas, TX: Visual International and Visual Entertainment, Inc., 1997"
What's Love Got to Do with It (1993) – biographical drama film based on the life of American singer-songwriter Tina Turner{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/59707-WHATS-LOVEGOTTODOWITHIT?sid=328a033b-a065-4c12-a4d3-7512c9cf8002&sr=16.794794&cp=1&pos=0 |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=catalog.afi.com}}
Wide-Eyed and Legless (1993) – British drama television film telling the story of the final years of Deric Longden's marriage to his wife, Diana, who contracted a degenerative illness which left her wheelchair-bound and in almost constant pain and which medical officials were unable to understand at the time, though now believed to be a form of chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis{{cite news|title=Deric Longden: Deric Longden, who has died aged 76, wrote books that brought a gentle and life-enhancing humour to the problems of living with disability.|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/10160973/Deric-Longden.html|access-date=3 September 2014|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=4 July 2013}}
Wittgenstein (1993) – experimental comedy drama film loosely based on the life story, as well as the philosophical thinking of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wittgenstein/ |title=Wittgenstein |website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=21 September 2018}}
Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story (1993) – biographical drama television film based on the true story of Laurie Bembenek, an American former police officer, convicted for the 1981 murder of her husband's ex-wife{{cite web|last=Gilbert |first=Griffin |url=https://variety.com/1993/tv/reviews/woman-on-the-run-the-lawrencia-bembenek-story-1200432245/ |title=Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story |publisher=Variety.com |date=14 May 1993 |accessdate=2018-12-01}}
Zelda (1993) – biographical drama television film based on the lives of author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald, artist and fellow author{{cite web |title=Zelda (1993) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/zelda-1993 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=29 October 2023}}

1994

8 Seconds (1994) – contemporary Western biographical drama film about American rodeo legend Lane Frost, focusing on his life and career as a bull riding champion{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/18442/8-seconds#credits|title=8 Seconds|work=Turner Classic Movies|publisher=Turner Broadcasting System|location=United States|access-date=31 March 2018}}
A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story (1994) – biographical drama television film about the early life of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Margaret Mitchell, who rose to fame after publishing Gone with the Wind[https://web.archive.org/web/20110521044919/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/149545/A-Burning-Passion-The-Margaret-Mitchell-Story/overview The New York Times review]
A Friend to Die For (1994) – crime drama television film based on the real-life murder of Kirsten Costas, who was killed by her classmate, Bernadette Protti, in 1984[https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/64407984.html?dids=64407984:64407984&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Mar+14%2C+1985&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Girl%2C+16%2C+Convicted+in+Classmate's+Slaying+Teen-ager+Feared+Victim+%60Was+Going+to+Tell+People+I+Was+Weird'&pqatl=google Girl, 16, Convicted in Classmate's Slaying Teen-ager Feared Victim `Was Going to Tell People I Was Weird']{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}. Los Angeles Times, 14 March 1985
A Soul Haunted by Painting (Chinese: 画魂) (1994) – Chinese biographical drama film loosely based on the life of Pan Yuliang, a former prostitute turned painter{{cite web |title=A Soul Haunted by Painting |url=https://mubi.com/en/us/films/a-soul-haunted-by-painting |website=MUBI |access-date=29 October 2023}}
A Time to Heal (1994) – drama television film based on the true story of a young mother's painful recovery from a stroke{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/479616/a-time-to-heal#credits|access-date=23 April 2016|work=Turner Classic Movies|title=A Time to Heal}}
Against the Wall (1994) – action drama television film based on the true story of the Attica Prison uprising of 1971{{cite news|last=O'Connor|first=John J.|title=Review/Television; Unlikely Allies in a Dangerous Place and Time|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/26/arts/review-television-unlikely-allies-in-a-dangerous-place-and-time.html|website=The New York Times|date=26 March 1994}}
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight (1994) – biographical adventure television film depicting events in the life of Amelia Earhart, focusing on her final flight and disappearance in 1937, with her exploits in aviation and her marriage to publisher George P. Putnam being revealed in flashbacks[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/457708/amelia-earhart#notes "Amelia Earhart (1976): Miscellaneous Notes."] Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved: 3 May 2012.
And Then There Was One (1994) – drama television film about a true story of a family dealing with AIDS{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/andthentherewasone.php|title=DVD Verdict Review – And Then There Was One|publisher=Dvdverdict.com|date=30 September 2005|accessdate=2013-05-08}}
Andre (1994) – comedy drama film telling the true story of how a seal named Andre befriended a little girl named Toni and her family in 1962{{Cite web |title=Andre |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/andre |access-date=17 November 2022 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango Media}}
Armed and Innocent (1994) – drama thriller television film loosely based on actual events of an 11-year-old boy who was left home alone and killed two intruders in self defense{{cite news |last=Loynd |first=Ray |url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-04-ca-8202-story.html |title=TV REVIEW : 'Armed' With a Message |work=Los Angeles Times |date=4 January 1994 |access-date=11 June 2017}}
The Ascent (1994) – war adventure film based on Felice Benuzzi's Italian war memoir, No Picnic on Mount Kenya, about a series of events that took place at Camp 354 near Nanyuki, Kenya{{cite web |last1=DiGeorge |first1=Pat |title=The Ascent |url=https://libertyladybook.com/2011/11/16/the-ascent/ |website=Liberty Lady |date=16 November 2011 |access-date=19 June 2020}}
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker (1994) – thriller drama television film about Johnson Chesnut Whittaker, one of the first black cadets at West Point, and the trial that followed an assault he suffered in 1880{{cite web |title=Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/assault_at_west_point |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=29 October 2023}}
The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story (1994) – drama television film based on the true story of Cecil Jacobson, who used his own sperm to impregnate patients, without informing them[https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117902342.html?categoryid=32&cs=1&query=Babymaker+Cecil+Jacobson Review by Variety]
Backbeat (1994) – British-German biographical drama film following The Beatles through their pre-fame Hamburg days when Stuart Sutcliffe, the band's bassist, meets German photographer Astrid Kirchherr.{{cite news |date=19 April 1994 |title=Weekend Box Office : Hey, Chevy, the British Are Coming |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-19-ca-47830-story.html |access-date=3 June 2012}}
Bandit Queen (Hindi: दस्यु रानी) (1994) – Indian Hindi-language biographical action film based on the life of Phoolan Devi{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/30/movies/film-review-true-story-of-modern-legend.html|title=FILM REVIEW; True Story Of Modern Legend|website=The New York Times|date=30 June 1995 |quote=Shekhar Kapur's movie biography, based on Miss Devi's prison diaries, is a rip-roaring action-adventure film that defies credibility despite its truth.}}
The Burning Season (1994) – biographical drama television film chronicling environmental activist Chico Mendes' fight to protect the Amazon rainforest{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-20-ca-47896-story.html |title=HBO Leads the Pack With 89 CableACE Nominations: Television: Nods for 'Larry Sanders,' 'Dream On' push network ahead of Showtime, which garners 36. |last=Margulies |first=Lee |work=Los Angeles Times |date=20 September 1995 |access-date=6 September 2015}}
Carl, My Childhood Symphony (Danish: Min fynske barndom) (1994) – Danish biographical drama film about the childhood of the Danish composer Carl Nielsen{{cite book|author1=John Sundholm|author2=Isak Thorsen|author3=Lars Gustaf Andersson|author4=Olof Hedling|author5= Gunnar Iversen| author6=Birgir Thor Møller|title=Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ae4QqlUDt9wC&pg=PA106|date=31 August 2012|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-5524-3|pages=106}}
Cobb (1994) – biographical sport drama film about Al Stump who was hired as a ghostwriter for Ty Cobb and discovers just how dark the baseball legend's real story is{{Cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cobb-1994|title=Cobb movie review & film summary (1994) {{!}} Roger Ebert|last=Ebert|first=Roger|website=www.rogerebert.com|language=en|access-date=2019-12-25}}
Col. Billy Bibit, RAM (1994) – Filipino biographical action film based on the life of the late colonel Billy Bibit{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=q64mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KAsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6599%2C2351357|last=Japitana|first=Norma|title=What Are Rommel Padilla's Chances?|pages=22|date=16 September 1994|newspaper=Manila Standard|publisher=Philippine Manila Standard Publishing|accessdate=22 February 2023|via=Google News}}
Cries from the Heart (1994) – drama television film about a seven-year-old autistic boy who has trouble with verbalization but a real talent for technology, who uses a computer to plead for help after being molested at school, based on a true storyNew York Magazine, 17 October 1994. p.96
Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story (1994) – thriller drama television film telling the story of Donna Yaklich who hired assassins to kill her husband[https://www.nytimes.com/tv/show/44666/Cries-Unheard-The-Donna-Yaklich-Story/overview Overview Article] The New York Times
The Day the Sun Turned Cold (Mandarin: 天国逆子) (1994) – Hong Kong crime drama film about a real life murder investigation{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=990CE5DC1131F932A35757C0A963958260 |title=The Day the Sun Turned Cold |access-date=27 September 2015|newspaper=The New York Times}}
The Diary of Evelyn Lau (1994) – Canadian biographical drama television film about Evelyn Lau, a teenager who runs away from home and becomes a drug-addicted prostitute{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BToxwPEf814C&q=diary+evelyn+lau+sandra+oh&pg=PA9|title=The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene|year=2007|page=9|author=Parreñas Shimizu, Celine|publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=9780822340331}}
Doomsday Gun (1994) – action drama television film dramatizing the life of Canadian supergun designer Dr. Gerald Bull and his involvement in Project Babylon, Saddam Hussein's plan to build a supergun with a range of over {{convert|500|mi|km}}{{cite magazine|date=21 July 1994| title=Doomsday Gun |first=Ray |last=Loynd |magazine=Variety |url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117902929?refCatId=32}}{{Subscription required}}
Ed Wood (1994) – biographical comedy drama film concerning the period in Ed Wood's life when he made his best-known films as well as his relationship with actor Bela Lugosi{{cite news |author=Arnold |first=Gary |date=2 October 1994 |title=Depp sees promise in cult filmmaker Ed Wood's story |work=The Washington Times}}
Farinelli (1994) – biographical drama film centring on the life and career of the 18th-century Italian opera singer Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli, considered the greatest castrato singer of all time; as well as his relationship with his brother, the composer Riccardo Broschi{{cite book|author1=Melissa U. D. Goldsmith|author2=Paige A. Willson|author3=Anthony J. Fonseca|title=The Encyclopedia of Musicians and Bands on Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_TP3DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA117|date=7 October 2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4422-6987-3|pages=114–118}}
The Fatima Buen Story (1994) – Filipino biographical crime drama film based on the actual case of Fatima Buen, a woman jailed for illegal recruitment{{cite web|url=https://www.philstar.com/lifestyle/supreme/2018/07/21/1835242/kris-crossing-borders|last=Cruz|first=Oggs|title=Kris Crossing Borders|website=The Philippine Star|date=21 July 2018|accessdate=22 August 2020}}
For the Love of Aaron (1994) – Canadian drama television film based on the true story of Margaret Gibson, a noted Canadian writer who suffered from bipolar disorder, dramatizing her custody battle for her son Aaron after her divorce"Author's `tortured life' turned into two-hour TV special". Ottawa Citizen, 24 February 1994.
For the Love of Nancy (1994) – drama television film based on a true story of a woman suffering from anorexia nervosa{{cite web |title=For the Love of Nancy |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/for_the_love_of_nancy |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=29 October 2023}}
Frank and Jesse (1994) – biographical Western drama film based on the story of Jesse James{{cite web |title=Frank and Jesse |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/frank_and_jesse |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=29 October 2023}}
Getting Gotti (1994) – crime drama television film centring on an Assistant United States Attorney named Diane Giacalone, and her attempts to build a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) case against John Gotti and the Gambino crime family{{cite web |title=Getting Gotti (1994) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/getting-gotti-1994 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=29 October 2023}}
The Glass Shield (1994) – crime drama film based on a true story about the first black cop to be assigned to a California sheriff's department{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1994/film/reviews/the-glass-shield-1200436941/|title=Review: 'The Glass Shield'|last=McCarthy|first=Todd|work=Variety|date=30 May 1994|access-date=5 May 2016}}
Heavenly Creatures (1994) – New Zealander biographical psychological drama film based on the notorious 1954 Parker–Hulme murder case in Christchurch{{cite web|url=http://www.heavenlycreaturesmovie.com|title=Fourth World – The Heavenly Creatures Website|website=Heavenlycreaturesmovie.com|access-date=24 August 2017}}
I Can't Sleep (French: J'ai pas sommeil) (1994) – French drama film loosely inspired by the murders committed by Thierry Paulin{{cite web|title=Rotten Tomatoes, I Can't Sleep|website=Rotten Tomatoes |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i-cant-sleep/|accessdate=23 October 2013}}
Immortal Beloved (1994) – biographical drama film narrating the life of composer Ludwig van Beethoven{{cite news|last=Maslin |first=Janet |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=990CE6D91438F935A25751C1A962958260 |title=Movie Review: Immortal Beloved |work= New York Times |date=16 December 1994 |access-date=2012-04-03}}
In the Best of Families (1994) – crime drama miniseries about the North Carolina family murders from 1984 to 1985{{cite web|url=https://greensboro.com/at-last-bitter-filming-to-begin/article_3c72a556-585f-537a-b640-c33332a027d1.html|title=At last, 'Bitter' filming to begin|work=News & Record|date=13 August 1993|first=Leigh|last=Pressley|access-date=26 August 2022|archive-date=26 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826191856/https://greensboro.com/at-last-bitter-filming-to-begin/article_3c72a556-585f-537a-b640-c33332a027d1.html|url-status=live}}
It Could Happen to You (1994) – comedy romantic drama film about a police officer who promises to share his lottery ticket with a waitress in lieu of a tip, inspired by a real-life news story{{cite news|title=After 24 Years Pushing Pizza, Waitress Phyllis Penzo Gets a Tip to Remember: $3 Million|work=People Magazine|author=David Grogan|date=23 April 1984|url=https://people.com/archive/after-24-years-pushing-pizza-waitress-phyllis-penzo-gets-a-tip-to-remember-3-million-vol-21-no-16/}}
Jacob (1994) – Christian drama television film based on a biblical account from the Book of Genesis about Jacob{{cite book |last1=Nappi |first1=Francesco M |title=Giacobbe |id={{ASIN|8839603816|country=it}} }}
Joan the Maid (French: Jeanne la pucelle) (1994) – French historical drama film chronicling the life of Joan of Arc from the French perspective{{Cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/joan-maid-review-1228515|title='Joan the Maid': Film Review|last=Uhlich|first=Keith|date=1 August 2019|work=Hollywood Reporter|access-date=13 December 2019}}
Kabloonak (1994) – Canadian adventure drama film about the making of Nanook of the North, a 1922 film about an Inuk called Nanook and his family in the Canadian Arctic"Kabloonak captures the North". Montreal Gazette, 16 September 1994.
Ladybird, Ladybird (1994) – British drama film depicting an account of an abused working-class woman whose six children are taken away by the social services, one of them almost immediately after delivery in hospital, based on a true story{{cite news |last1=Bennett |first1=Ronan |title=Still worried about Maggie's children |url=https://www.theguardian.com/observer/screen/story/0,,595981,00.html#:~:text=His%20new%20film%2C%20Ladybird%2C%20Ladybird,immediately%20after%20delivery%20in%20hospital. |access-date=29 October 2023 |agency=The Observer |work=The Guardian |date=4 September 1994}}
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994) – drama television film based on Mary Crow Dog's autobiography Lakota Woman, wherein she accounts her troubled youth, involvement with the American Indian Movement, and relationship with Lakota medicine man and activist Leonard Crow Dog{{cite web |url=https://lmtribune.com/lakota-woman-actor-draws-on-pain-of-her-people-entire-cast-nearly-half-of-crew/article_4b0df278-d1f5-56da-9590-aa480c4c2957.html |title='Lakota Woman'; Actor draws on pain of her people; Entire cast, nearly half of crew is Indian |location=Lmtribune.com.com |date=14 October 1994 |access-date=2021-02-04}}
Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994) – crime drama television film about Laurie Kellogg, who was accused of murdering her husband Bruce in May 1992[https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117902321.html?categoryid=32&cs=1&p=0 Review] Variety
Life with Billy (1994) – Canadian drama television film about Jane Hurshman who shot her common-law husband, Billy Stafford, in his sleep{{cite web |title=Life With Billy |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/life_with_billy |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=29 October 2023}}
The Madness of King George (1994) – British historical comedy drama film telling the true story of George III of Great Britain's deteriorating mental health, and his equally declining relationship with his eldest son, the Prince of Wales, particularly focusing on the period around the Regency Crisis of 1788–89{{cite web |title=The Madness of King George |url=https://ew.com/article/1995/01/20/madness-king-george/ |website=EW.com }}
Madonna: Innocence Lost (1994) – biographical drama television film about the early years of Madonna's career{{cite web|last=O'Connor |first=John J. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/29/arts/television-review-madonna-blond-ambition-indeed.html |title=TELEVISION REVIEW; Madonna, Blond Ambition, Indeed |work=The New York Times |date=29 November 1994 |access-date=2018-03-03}}
The Maggie dela Riva Story: God... Why Me? (1994) – Filipino crime drama film dramatizing the case of actress Maggie de la Riva's ordeal in 1967{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pp8VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5QoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3551%2C1220656|title=Dawn Relieves Maggie's Trials in New Movie|pages=21|date=9 July 1994|newspaper=Manila Standard|publisher=Philippine Manila Standard Publishing|accessdate=25 January 2023|via=Google News}}
Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills (1994) – crime drama television film about Lyle and Erik Menendez, who murdered their parents in 1989{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/menendez-a-killing-in-beverly-hills-v134597|title=Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills (1994) – Synopsis|author=Hal Erickson|website=AllMovie}}
Mesmer (1994) – Austrian-Canadian-British-German biographical drama film about Franz Anton Mesmer and his radical new ways as a pioneering physician{{cite web |title=Mesmer (1994) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/523669/mesmer/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=29 October 2023}}
Mindbender (1994) – American-Israeli biographical drama film about the life of Uri GellerCompany Town What This Show Needs Are Awards For a New Image, the Film Market Could Honor What Its Folks Do Best: [Home Edition]

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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) – biographical drama film depicting the members of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of writers, actors and critics who met almost every weekday from 1919 to 1929 at Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel{{cite web |title=Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mrs_parker_and_the_vicious_circle |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=5 September 2023}}
Murder or Memory? (1994) – crime drama television film about a mother who fights to prove her 14-year-old son is innocent of a murder he confessed to under hypnosis, based on a true story{{cite web |title=Murder or Memory? A Moment of Truth Movie |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/murder_or_memory |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=29 October 2023}}
Nostradamus (1994) – biographical drama film recounting the life and loves of the physician, astrologer, and famed prognosticator, Nostradamus{{cite web |title=Nostradamus (1994) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/85245/nostradamus |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=29 October 2023}}
Octobre (1994) – Canadian French-language drama film depicting a version of the October Crisis from the point of view of the Chénier Cell, the FLQ terrorist cell who in 1970 kidnapped and murdered Quebec minister and Deputy Premier Pierre LaporteLes boeufs sont lents mais la terre est patiente, p.104, Pierre Falardeau, 1999
Of Love and Shadows (Spanish: De amor y de sombra) (1994) – Chilean-Argentine-American thriller drama film inspired by journalistic accounts taken from magazines, newspapers, and interviews that Isabel Allende gathered both working as a journalist in Chile before her exile and during her later career as a writer in Venezuela{{cite news|last=Karen Regelman |title=Review: 'Of Love and Shadows'|url= https://variety.com/1994/film/reviews/of-love-and-shadows-1200438852/ |access-date=25 February 2014|newspaper=Variety|date=24 October 1994 }}
One of Her Own (1994) – drama television film based on a true story of a rookie policewoman who was raped by a fellow officer{{cite news |last1=Loynd |first1=Ray |title='One of Her Own': Painful Code of Silence |agency=Los Angeles Times |date=16 May 1994}}
Out of Darkness (1994) – biographical drama television film about a paranoid schizophrenic woman who finds treatment to her mental illness after 18 years of suffering, based on a true story{{cite news |last1=O'Connell |first1=Patricia |title=Out of Darkness |url=https://variety.com/1994/tv/reviews/out-of-darkness-1200435286/ |access-date=29 October 2023 |agency=Variety |date=12 January 1994}}
Pentathlon (1994) – action drama film inspired by the true story of Olympic athlete, Lutz Eigendorf, who escapes East Germany and is tracked down allegedly by Stasi and murdered{{cite web|last1=Friel|first1=Eoin|title=Pentathlon (1994)|url=http://theactionelite.com/movie-review/pentathlon-1994-review/|website=The Action Elite|date=21 May 2014 |accessdate=22 May 2017}}
The Postman (Italian: Il Postino) (1994) – Italian-French-Belgian comedy drama film about Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/11/arts/film-a-postman-a-poet-an-actor-s-farewell.html|title=FILM; A Postman, a Poet, an Actor's Farewell|last=Laurino|first=Maria|date=11 June 1995|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=14 March 2019}}
Princess Caraboo (1994) – historical comedy drama film based on the real-life 19th-century character Princess Caraboo, who passed herself off in British society as an exotic princess who spoke a strange foreign language{{Citation|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/princess_caraboo|title=Princess Caraboo (1994)|website=Rotten Tomatoes|publisher=Fandango|access-date=29 October 2023}}
The Quality of Mercy (German: Hasenjagd – Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen) (1994) – Austrian war drama film dramatizing the events surrounding the Mühlviertler Hasenjagd, a Nazi war crime that took place near Linz, in the Mühlviertel region of Upper Austria, just before the end of the Second World WarCathy Meils, [https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117909398.html?categoryid=31&cs=1 "Aktion K"] Variety review. (7 November 1994) Retrieved 10 May 2010{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
Queen Margot (French: La Reine Margot) (1994) – historical romantic drama film based on the life of Margaret of Valois{{cite web|title=Queen Margot (La Reine Margot)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/queen_margot|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=2017-03-27}}
Quiz Show (1994) – historical mystery drama film dramatizing the Twenty-One quiz show scandals of the 1950s{{Cite web|title=AFI{{!}}Catalog|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/60197|access-date=2022-01-15|website=catalog.afi.com}}
Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story (1994) – biographical sport drama television film telling the true story of Dennis Byrd, his football career, his terrible accident, and his miraculous recovery and rehabilitation{{cite web|author=Adam Sandler |url=https://variety.com/1994/tv/reviews/fox-night-at-the-movies-rise-walk-the-dennis-byrd-story-1200435637/ |title=Fox Night at the Movies Rise & Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story |publisher=Variety.com |date=27 February 1994 |access-date=2018-08-07}}
Road to Eilat (Egyptian Arabic: الطريق إلى إيلات) (1994) – Egyptian war drama film about the Egyptian raids on the Israeli port of Eilat during the War of Attrition in 1969{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pxRIAQAAIAAJ&q=%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%89+%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA|title=الحوادث|date=May 1994|publisher=مؤسسة الحوادث للصحافة والنشر.|language=ar}}
The Road to Wellville (1994) – comedy drama film telling the story of the doctor and clean-living advocate John Harvey Kellogg and his methods employed at the Battle Creek Sanitarium at the beginning of the 20th century{{cite web|title=Black and White Breakfast|url=http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/38/wellville1.htm|author=Tanfer Emin-Tunc|publisher=Bright Lights Film Journal|access-date=31 January 2008}}
Roswell (1994) – mystery drama television film based on a supposedly true story about the Roswell UFO incident, the alleged U.S. military capture of a flying saucer and its alien crew following a crash near the town of Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947{{Cite web|last=Goodman|first=Walter|date=29 July 1994|title=TV-RADIO WEEKEND; A Quest for a Long-Buried Truth about a UFO|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/29/arts/tv-radio-weekend-a-quest-for-a-long-buried-truth-about-a-ufo.html|website=The New York Times}}
The Sex Life of the Belgians (French: La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950–1978) (1994) – Belgian biographical comedy film depicting a semi-autobiography of the first 28 years of the director, the Flemish anarchist Jan Bucquoy{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bucquoy_jan.htm|title = Jan Bucquoy}}
Sister My Sister (1994) – British thriller drama film based on a true incident in Le Mans, France in 1933 called the Papin murder case, where two sisters brutally murdered their employer and her daughter{{cite web|work=The New York Times|date=1995|title=Sister My Sister|author=James, Caryn|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/23/movies/film-review-such-devoted-sisters.html}}
Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story (1994) – drama television film based on a true story of Jim and Jennifer Stolpa and their infant son Clayton who were 500 miles from their home in Castro Valley, California, when they lost their way and were stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow in northern Nevada, east of Cedarville, California{{cite web |title=Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story (1994) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/476610/snowbound-the-jim-and-jennifer-stolpa-story/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=29 October 2023}}
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994) – historical action adventure film loosely based on the actual historical Native American figure Squanto, and his life prior to and including the arrival of the Mayflower in 1620{{cite magazine|last1=Alter Mark|first1=Lois|title=Squanto: A Warrior's Tale|url=http://ew.com/article/1994/10/28/movie-review-squanto-warriors-tale/|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|accessdate=30 June 2017}}
Tarzan of Manisa (Turkish: Manisa Tarzanı) (1994) – Turkish biographical drama film about Ahmet bin Carlak, also known as the "Tarzan of Manisa"{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/134670/Manisa-Tarzani/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151011170513/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/134670/Manisa-Tarzani/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 October 2015 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Sandra Brennan |date=2015 |title=Tarzan of Manisa |access-date=1 October 2015 }}
Terror in the Night (1994) – drama thriller television film about a fugitive killer posing as a policeman who arrests two campers in the Arizona mountains, based on a true story{{cite magazine |author=Ray Loynd |url=https://variety.com/1994/tv/reviews/terror-in-the-night-1200435308/ |title=Review: 'Terror in the Night' |magazine=Variety |date=10 January 1994 |access-date=2020-05-04}}
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story (1994) – biographical drama television film based on a true story of a Californian custody battle{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-01-28-me-818-story.html |title=Man Receives Custody of Child, 4, He Didn't Father : Family law: Custody struggle may set precedent in state. Boy's most likely biological father consents to suspension of his rights. – Los Angeles Times |publisher=Articles.latimes.com |date=20 October 1993 |access-date=2012-08-04}}
Tom & Viv (1994) – American-British biographical romantic drama film about the early love life of American poet T. S. Eliot{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1994/film/reviews/tom-viv-1200436696/|title=Review: 'Tom & Viv'|first=Derek|last=Elley|date=15 April 1994}}
Tonya and Nancy: The Inside Story (1994) – biographical sport drama television film focusing on the 1994 Cobo Arena attack on Nancy Kerrigan and the extensive media coverage surrounding the infamous incident{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/08/26/remember-nancy-and-tonya/|title=Remember Nancy And Tonya?|first=Jessica|last=Seigel |newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=26 August 1994|access-date=11 August 2018}}
Ultimate Betrayal (1994) – drama television film based on a true story about two sisters who sue their father for incest and child abuse{{cite news |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/tv/1994/03/20/four-sisters-confront-dad-and-the-past/d312385d-584d-45be-bf91-1dbc96036432/ |title= Four Sisters Confront Dad and the Past |newspaper= The Washington Post |date= 20 March 1994 |access-date= 17 May 2018}}
White Mile (1994) – thriller drama television film loosely based on a rafting accident, on 1 August 1987, on the White Mile rapids in the Bidwell Canyon section of the Chilko River, in the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada{{cite news |url=https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/life/shooting-the-fraser-river-rapids/article25297142/?ref=https://www.theglobeandmail.com& |title=Shooting the Fraser River rapids |first=Bruce |last=Kirkby |work=The Globe and Mail |date=18 May 2002 |accessdate=2017-09-25}}
Wing Chun (Cantonese: 詠春) (1994) – Hong Kong martial arts film about Yim Wing-chun{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/3383/wing-chun/|title=Wing Chun|last=Wallis|first=J. Doyle|work=DVD Talk|date=12 February 2002|accessdate=2014-08-04}}
Wyatt Earp (1994) – epic Western adventure film covering the lawman of the same name's life, from an Iowa farmboy, to a feared marshal, to the feud in Tombstone, Arizona that led to the O.K. Corral gunfight{{cite news|title=Hollywood Habits : Leave 'Wyatt Earp' Off His Tombstone : Movies: Scripter Dan Gordon wants critics to know that the film is different from what he and Kevin Costner wrote and from his book.|work= The Los Angeles Times|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-05-ca-23723-story.html|access-date= 5 December 2010|archive-date= 11 March 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160311182642/http://articles.latimes.com/1994-08-05/entertainment/ca-23723_1_wyatt-earp|url-status= live}}
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone (1994) – Western biographical adventure television film about American lawman and gambler in the American West, Wyatt Earp{{cite news|title= Retro : The Wonder of Wyatt : MIXING THE OLD SERIES WITH NEW SCENES BRINGS EARP BACK TO TV—AND TOMBSTONE|work= The Los Angeles Times|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-06-26-tv-8527-story.html|access-date=2010-12-05}}

1995

A Single Spark (Korean: 아름다운 청년 전태일) (1995) – South Korean biographical drama film about Jeon Tae-il, a worker who protested labor conditions through self-immolationSynopsis from {{cite web |url=http://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/md_basic.asp?nation=K&p_dataid=04802|title=A Single Spark(Aleumda-un cheongnyeon Jeon Taeil)(1995)|accessdate=2008-01-10|publisher=Korean Movie Database}}
A Trick of Light (German: Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky) (1995) – German biographical drama film showing the birth of cinema in Berlin where Max Skladanowsky and his brother Emil built a projector they called the Bioscopcited after cinema-muenster.de, archived at [https://web.archive.org/web/20070203190509/http://www.cinema-muenster.de/dielinse/projekte+reihen/wenders/18_skladanowsky.htm the Internet Archive] (in German)
Across the Sea of Time (1995) – adventure drama film centring around a real life Russian immigrant, searching for his family, who is given the name Leopold Minton by the Ellis Island immigration officials{{cite web | url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=acrosstheseaoftimeimax.htm | title=Across the Sea of Time (1995) | work=Box Office Mojo | publisher=Amazon.com | date=20 May 2004 | accessdate=29 November 2016}}
The Affair (1995) – romantic war drama television film about an African-American soldier in the United States Army who is deployed to England during World War II and has an affair with a British officer's wife{{cite web|title=THE AFFAIR (15)|url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/affair-0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015117/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/affair-0|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 March 2016|work=British Board of Film Classification|date=17 May 1996|accessdate=2013-07-14}}
Aletta Jacobs: The Highest Aspiration (Dutch: Aletta Jacobs: Het Hoogste Streven) (1995) – Dutch biographical drama film telling the story of a Dutch female student, doctor, feminist and campaigner for women's suffrage and birth control, Aletta Jacobs{{cite web|url=http://www.alettajacobs.org/atria/Aletta_Jacobs/Aletta_nu/Film_het_hoogste_streven |title=Aletta Jacobs: Het Hoogste Streven |accessdate=2 November 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151105073647/http://www.alettajacobs.org/atria/Aletta_Jacobs/Aletta_nu/Film_het_hoogste_streven |archivedate=5 November 2015 }}
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story (1995) – biographical drama television film depicting the rapid rise to fame and untimely death of Jessica Savitch – one of America's first female news anchors{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/1995/film/reviews/almost-golden-the-jessica-savitch-story-1200443098/|title=Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story|first=Tony|last=Scott|date=4 September 1995}}
Anne no Nikki (Japanese: アンネの日記) (1995) – animated biographical drama film based on Anne Frank's 1942–1944 The Diary of a Young Girl{{cite web|url=http://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/animation_day_in_cannes/animated_film_anne_frank_s_diary_set_to_release_online_this_fall|title=Animated Film "Anne Frank's Diary" Set To Release Online This Fall|access-date=17 April 2017|date=23 May 2015}}
Apollo 13 (1995) – adventure biographical drama film dramatizing the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983125,00.html|last=Corliss|first=Richard|author-link=Richard Corliss|title=Apollo 13: Review|magazine=Time|access-date=11 April 2009|date=3 July 1995|archive-date=8 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101008030128/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983125,00.html|url-status=dead}}
Bach's Fight for Freedom (1995) – Canadian-Czech biographical drama television film about Johann Sebastian Bach{{cite web |title=Bach's Fight for Freedom (1995) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/bach-s-fight-for-freedom-1995 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=30 October 2023}}
The Bait (French: L'Appât) (1995) – French crime drama film based on the "Valérie Subra affair", a true event that happened in 1984[http://www.lumiere.org/realisateurs/tavernier-bertrand-partie7.html lumiere.org: "Bertrand Tavernier – Partie 7"] {{in lang|fr}}
Balto (1995) – animated family adventure film loosely based on the true story of the eponymous dog who helped save children infected with diphtheria in the 1925 serum run to Nome{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/166/mode/2up |page=166}}
The Basketball Diaries (1995) – biographical crime drama film telling the story of Jim Carroll's teenage years as a promising high school basketball player and writer who develops an addiction to heroin{{cite web| url=https://variety.com/1995/film/reviews/the-basketball-diaries-1200439904/| title=The Basketball Diaries| first1=Todd| last1=McCarthy| newspaper=Variety| date=30 January 1995}}
Big Dreams and Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story (1995) – biographical drama television film about the life of country music singer Dottie West{{Cite web|url=http://www.tcmuk.tv/movie_database_results.php?action=title&id=459788|title=TCM Movies | Listings from TCM Movies}}
Blue Murder (1995) – Australian crime drama miniseries concerning the relationship between controversial former detective Roger "the Dodger" Rogerson and notorious criminal Arthur "Neddy" SmithEd. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p177
Bombay (Tamil: பம்பாய்) (1995) – Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film telling the story of an inter-religious family in Bombay before and during the Bombay riots, which took place between December 1992 and January 1993 after the demolition of the Babri Masjid led to religious tensions between Hindu and Muslim communities{{Cite news |date=30 May 2008 |title=Bombay |work=The Times of India |url=http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:LowLevelEntityToPrintGifMSIE_PASTISSUES2&Type=text/html&Locale=english-skin-custom&Path=TOICH/2008/05/30&ChunkNum=0&ID=Ar05300 |url-status=dead |access-date=13 August 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20170612102234/http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getimage.dll?path=TOICH/2008/05/30/53/Img/Ar0530000.png |archive-date=12 June 2017}}
Braveheart (1995 – epic historical drama film about Sir William Wallace, a late-13th century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/69593/braveheart#notes|title=Braveheart (1995) – Misc Notes|website=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=2019-05-11|archive-date=11 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511203232/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/69593/Braveheart/misc-notes.html|url-status=live}}
Butterbox Babies (1995) – Canadian drama film based on the true story of the Ideal Maternity Home, a home for unwed pregnant mothers, during the Great Depression and Second World War{{cite web |title=Butterbox Babies |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/butterbox_babies |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=29 October 2023}}
Cafe Society (1995) – mystery drama film about New York society playboy Mickey Jelke who inherits a large sum of money and soon becomes embroiled in shadowy web of political exploitation and scandal in 1952, based on a true story covered in the national press{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1997/film/news/director-de-felitta-opens-his-own-cafe-1116677039/|title=Director De Felitta opens his own 'Cafe'|publisher=Variety|first=|last=|date=14 July 1997|access-date=2016-05-03}}
Carrington (1995) – British biographical drama film about the life of the English painter Dora Carrington, who was known simply as "Carrington"{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/sep/02/reel-history-carrington|title=Carrington: what a carry-on {{!}} Reel history|last=Tunzelmann|first=Alex von|date=2 September 2010|website=The Guardian|access-date=2020-02-09}}
Casino (1995) – epic crime drama film depicting the story of the alliance of Mafia mobsters Lefty Rosenthal and Tony Spilotro and their exploits working in Mafia controlled casinos in Las Vegas{{cite book |author=Pileggi, Nicholas |title=Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas |isbn=0-684-80832-3 |date=1995 |publisher=Simon & Schuster|url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/casinolovehonori00pile|access-date=5 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820061350/https://archive.org/details/casinolovehonori00pile|archive-date=20 August 2013|url-status=live}}
Catherine the Great (1995) – biographical drama television film based on the life of Catherine II of Russia{{cite web |title=Catherine the Great (1995) |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/catherine-the-great |website=MUBI |access-date=30 October 2023}}
Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story (1995) – biographical drama television film about the controversial nurse Margaret Sanger who campaigned in the earlier decades of the 20th century in the United States for women's birth control{{cite news|author=Mark Deming |title= Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story (1995) |url= https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/251947/Choices-of-the-Heart-The-Margaret-Sanger-Story/overview |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071108233837/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/251947/Choices-of-the-Heart-The-Margaret-Sanger-Story/overview |url-status= dead |archive-date= 8 November 2007 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2007 |accessdate=2009-07-29}}
Citizen X (1995) – biographical crime drama television film based upon the true story of Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted in 1992 of the murder of 52 women and children committed between 1978 and 1990{{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=Television Review; A Soviet Serial Murderer|first=John J.|last=O'Connor|date=25 February 1995|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/25/arts/television-review-a-soviet-serial-murderer.html}}
Dangerous Minds (1995) – biographical drama film about retired U.S. Marine LouAnne Johnson, who in 1989 took up a teaching position at Carlmont High School in Belmont, California, where most of her students were African-American and Latino teenagers from East Palo Alto, a racially segregated and economically deprived city{{cite web |url=http://pfeiffer-is-pfabulous.com/dangerous-minds/ |title = Dangerous Minds – 95 – Michelle Pfeiffer}}
Dead Man Walking (1995) – crime drama film about Sister Helen Prejean who establishes a special relationship with Matthew Poncelet, a character based on convicted murderers Elmo Patrick Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie{{cite web | url = http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1068779-dead_man_walking/ | title = Dead Man Walking (1995) | work = Rotten Tomatoes | publisher = Fandango Media | access-date = 27 April 2020}}
Dead presidents (1995) – action crime drama film chronicling the life of Anthony Curtis, focusing on his teenage years as a high school graduate and his experiences during the Vietnam War as a Recon Marine{{cite news |last=Masters |first=Kim |author-link=Kim Masters |date=15 October 1995 |title='Dead Presidents' Precedent: The Heist Is Only Half of the Story, Says the Man Who Pulled It Off |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1995/10/15/dead-presidents-precedent/aab9754e-310e-4e3c-a762-2969c0eca92e/ |access-date=25 July 2022 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}
Deadly Whispers (1995) – crime thriller television film depicting a father with dissociative identity disorder who murders his daughter, inspired by the murder of Kathy Bonney in 1987{{cite web |last1=Scott |first1=Tony |title=Deadly Whispers |url=https://variety.com/1995/tv/reviews/deadly-whispers-1200440978/ |website=Variety |accessdate=20 August 2020}}
Death in Small Doses (1995) – crime drama television film dramatizing the 1991 death of wealthy Dallas resident Nancy Lyon by arsenic poisoning, a crime for which her husband Richard Lyon was the police's main suspect{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1994/tv/reviews/death-in-small-doses-1200435228/|title=Death in Small Doses|date=20 January 1994|last=Loynd|first=Ray|work=Variety|access-date=19 August 2022|archive-date=19 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819175434/https://variety.com/1994/tv/reviews/death-in-small-doses-1200435228/|url-status=live}}
Deathmaker (German: Der Totmacher) (1995) – German crime drama film based on the transcripts of the interrogation of the notorious serial killer Fritz Haarmann{{cite web |author=H. G. Pflaum |title=On the history of the German candidates for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film |publisher=German Films |url=http://www.german-films.de/en/germanfilmsquaterly/previousissues/topicalsubjects/focuson/thetindrum-alonevictor/index.html |access-date=2008-08-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070813145148/http://www.german-films.de/en/germanfilmsquaterly/previousissues/topicalsubjects/focuson/thetindrum-alonevictor/index.html |archive-date=2007-08-13 }}
England, My England (1995) – British historical drama film depicting the life of the composer Henry Purcell, seen through the eyes of a playwright in the 1960s who is trying to write a play about him{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/539846 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090117184934/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/539846 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-01-17 |title=England, My England (1995) |website=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |date= |access-date=2016-11-18}}
Escape from Terror: The Teresa Stamper Story (1995) – crime drama television film based on the true story of Teresa Walden-Stamper{{cite web |title=Escape from Terror – The Teresa Stamper Story (1995) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/crimes-of-passion-escape-from-terror-the-teresa-stamper-story-1995 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=29 October 2023}}
Eskapo (1995) – Filipino historical thriller film about Sergio "Serge" Osmeña III and Eugenio "Geny" Lopez Jr. who were wrongly accused of plotting to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7ec6e682|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230184226/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7ec6e682|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 December 2018|title=ESKAPO (1995)|website=BFI|publisher=British Film Institute|location=United Kingdom|access-date=18 November 2019}}
Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (1995) – Canadian drama thriller film based on the events of Air Canada Flight 143Witkin, Richard. [https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/30/us/jet-s-fuel-ran-out-after-metric-conversion-errors.html "Jet's Fuel Ran Out After Metric Conversion Errors".] The New York Times, 30 July 1983.
Faustina (Polish: Faustyna) (1995) – Polish biographical drama film about Faustina Kowalska, a Roman Catholic nun and mystic whose apparitions of Jesus Christ inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy{{Cite web |title=St. Faustina in Film |url=https://www.ncregister.com/features/st-faustina-in-film |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=NCR |date=24 October 2019 |language=en}}
The Flor Contemplacion Story (1995) – Filipino crime drama film about Flor Contemplacion, a Filipina domestic helper who was hanged in Singapore for allegedly killing her fellow maid{{cite web|url=http://filmography.nora-icon.com// |title=Nora Aunor Filmography|accessdate=24 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516182751/http://filmography.nora-icon.com//|archive-date=16 May 2013|url-status=dead}}
The Great White Man of Lambaréné (French: Le grand blanc de Lambaréné) (1995) – Cameroonian-Gabonese-French biographical drama film about Albert Schweitzer, the Alsatian polymath{{cite book|author=Deanne Schultz|title=Filmography of World History|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zd2CVhbGWNAC&pg=PA75|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32681-3|pages=75–6|chapter=The Great White Man of Lambaréné / Le grand blanc de Lambaréné}}
Heat (1995) – crime drama film loosely based on Chicago police officer Chuck Adamson's pursuit of career criminal Neil McCauley in the 1960s{{cite news | author=George M. Thomas | title=He's a Goofy Goober; 'Heat' | newspaper=Akron Beacon Journal | date=27 February 2005}}
Hiroshima (Japanese: 広島) (1995) – Japanese-Canadian war drama television film about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the end of World War II{{Cite book |last=Marill |first=Alvin H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CUMOAQAAMAAJ |title=Movies Made for Television, 1964–2004: 1990–1999 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |year=2005 |pages=230 |isbn=9780810851740 |access-date=20 October 2022 |via=Google Books}}
Houses of Fire (Spanish: Casas de fuego) (1995) – Argentine historical biographical drama film following the life of Salvador Mazza, the Argentine physician who began investigating the Chagas disease in 1926 and over the years became the principal researcher in the country{{cite web |url=http://www.drwebsa.com.ar/alcha/hist4.htm |publisher=Asociación Lucha Contra el Mal de Chagas |title=Enfermedad de Chagas – Mazza |language=Spanish |accessdate=15 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110916130857/http://www.drwebsa.com.ar/alcha/hist4.htm |archivedate=16 September 2011 }}
If Someone Had Known (1995) – crime drama television film about a young wife and mother who is abused by her husband but keeps it a secret from her friends and family, based on a true story[https://web.archive.org/web/20080221062632/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/154316/If-Someone-Had-Known/overview Review Summary] The New York Times
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995) – thriller drama television film based on the true story of the McMartin preschool trial{{cite news | title=The Horrors Behind The McMartin Trial | work=The New York Times | date=19 May 1995 | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE5DB153FF93AA25756C0A963958260 | last=O'Connor | first=John J. | access-date=2009-01-11}}
The Infiltrator (1995) – thriller drama television film about an Israeli freelance journalist who travels to Germany in the early 1990s and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction with the intent to bring Nazism back to the forefront in Germany{{cite news |last=Endrst |first=James |url= https://www.courant.com/1995/06/19/hbos-infiltrator-a-compelling-thriller/ |title=HBO's 'Infiltrator' A Compelling Thriller |work=Hartford Courant |date=19 June 1995 |access-date=21 September 2018}}
Jefferson in Paris (1995) – historical drama film about Thomas Jefferson's tenure as the Ambassador of the United States to France before his presidency and of his alleged relationships with Italian-English artist Maria Cosway and his slave, Sally Hemings{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/31/movies/film-review-jefferson-s-entanglements-in-history-and-in-love.html|title=FILM REVIEW; Jefferson's Entanglements, In History And in Love|first=Janet|last=Maslin|newspaper=The New York Times |date=31 March 1995 }}
Joseph (1995) – German-Italian-American Christian drama television film about the life of Joseph from the Old Testament{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-20-ca-47896-story.html |title=HBO Leads the Pack With 89 CableACE Nominations: Television: Nods for 'Larry Sanders,' 'Dream On' push network ahead of Showtime, which garners 36. |last=Margulies |first=Lee |work=Los Angeles Times |date=20 September 1995 |access-date=6 September 2015}}
Kathapurushan (Malayalam: കഥാപുരുഷൻ) (1995) – Indian-Japanese Malayalam-language historical drama film exploring the history of the state of Kerala in India{{cite web |title=Kathapurushan (1996) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/kathapurushan-1996 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=31 October 2023}}
Kidnapped (1995) – adventure drama television film set around real 18th-century Scottish events, notably the "Appin Murder", which occurred in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745{{cite web |title=Kidnapped (1995) |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/kidnapped-1995 |website=MUBI |access-date=30 October 2023}}
Kidnapped: In the Line of Duty (1995) – thriller drama television film loosely based on a true story about an IRS official with access to detailed personal and financial data, who chose kidnap victims from the files{{cite web|last=McCarthy|first=John P.|title=In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped|date=8 March 1995|publisher=Variety|url=https://variety.com/1995/tv/reviews/in-the-line-of-duty-kidnapped-1200441177/|accessdate=4 July 2020}}
Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995) – biographical crime drama film based on the life of American serial killer Carl Panzram, who was active in the early 20th century and executed in 1930{{cite news|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960906/REVIEWS/609060303/1023 |title=Killer: A Journal of Murder :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews |publisher=Rogerebert.suntimes.com |date= 6 September 1996|access-date=2012-12-10}}
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995) – biographical drama television film about Louisiana politician Huey Long, whose nickname was The Kingfish{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/151974/Kingfish-A-Story-of-Huey-P-Long/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110314111427/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/151974/Kingfish-A-Story-of-Huey-P-Long/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-03-14 |title=Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2011 |access-date=2010-03-08}}
Les Milles (1995) – French war drama film about Germans, Jews, Communists or opponents of Nazism who had taken refuge in France, who were interned in the Camp des Milles, near Aix-en-Provence and get on a train to evacuate to Bayonne in May 1940, based on a true story about Charles Perrochon{{Cite web|url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=4349|title=Les Milles (1994) – JPBox-Office}}
Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995) – biographical drama television film chronicling the life of British-American actress Elizabeth Taylor{{cite web|work=Variety|url=https://variety.com/1995/tv/reviews/liz-the-elizabeth-taylor-story-1200441595/|date=24 May 1995|title=Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story|author=McCarthy, John P.}}
Losing Isaiah (1995) – drama film about the biological and adoptive mothers of a young boy who are involved in a bitter, controversial custody battle{{cite web |title=Losing Isaiah |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/losing_isaiah |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=30 October 2023}}
Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story (1995) – biographical drama miniseries about Mia Farrow's relationship with Woody Allen{{cite web|last=Loynd |first=Ray |url=https://variety.com/1995/tv/reviews/love-and-betrayal-the-mia-farrow-story-1200440489/ |title=Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story |publisher=Variety.com |date=27 February 1995 |access-date=2018-04-19}}
Moses (1995) – Christian drama miniseries based on the biblical story of Moses, an Israelite raised by the Egyptian royal family, is chosen by God to release the Hebrew people from slavery and lead them to the Promised Land{{cite web|last1=T. Chattaway|first1=Peter|title=Review: Moses (dir. Roger Young, 1995)|url=http://www.patheos.com/blogs/filmchat/1996/12/review-moses-dir-roger-young-1995.html|website=Patheos|accessdate=21 May 2017}}
Murder in the First (1995) – legal drama film telling the alternate history of a petty criminal named Henri Young who is sent to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and later put on trial for murder in the first degree{{Cite news |last=Turan |first=Kenneth |author-link=Kenneth Turan |date=20 January 1995 |title=MOVIE REVIEW : 'Murder in the First': Exercise of Excess |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-20-ca-22103-story.html |access-date=12 July 2022}}
Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge (1995) – biographical drama television film about the mother-daughter country music duo The JuddsTodd Everett, [https://variety.com/1995/tv/reviews/naomi-wynonna-love-can-build-a-bridge-1200441668/ "Review: ‘Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge’"], Variety, 12 May 1995.
Neurosia: 50 Years of Perversity (German: Neurosia – 50 Jahre pervers) (1995) – German biographical comedy drama film depicting an ironic life review of Rosa von Praunheim based on a fictional story about his murder{{cite web|title=Neurosia – 50 Jahre pervers|periodical=|publisher=Mubi|url=https://mubi.com/de/films/neurosia-50-years-of-perversity|format=|access-date=2022-05-01|last=|date=|year=|language=|pages=|quote=}}
Nixon (1995) – epic historical drama film telling the story of the political and personal life of former U.S. President Richard Nixon{{cite news|last=Fuchs|first=Cindy|title=Nixon|work=Philadelphia City Paper|date=4 January 1996|url=http://www.citypaper.net/articles/122895/article023.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022091524/http://www.citypaper.net/articles/122895/article023.shtml|archive-date=22 October 2008|url-status=dead}}
The O. J. Simpson Story (1995) – biographical drama television film dramatizing some of the more tawdry events in the relationship between O. J. Simpson and his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, up to and including his arrest for Brown's murder{{cite web|author=Tim Gray |url=https://variety.com/1995/tv/reviews/the-o-j-simpson-story-1200439872/ |title=The O.J. Simpson Story |publisher=Variety.com |date=30 January 1995 |access-date=2018-03-20}}
Operation Dumbo Drop (1995) – action war drama film about the Green Berets during the Vietnam War in 1968, who attempt to transport an elephant through jungle terrain to a local South Vietnamese village which in turn helps American forces monitor Viet Cong activity{{cite news |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1995/8/1/operation-dumbo-drop-two-tons-of/ |title=Operation Dumbo Drop: Two Tons of Weak Humor |newspaper=The Harvard Crimson |access-date=2010-08-18}}
Panther (1995) – American-British drama film portraying the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, tracing the organization from its founding through its decline in a compressed timeframe{{Cite book|title=Shaping the future of African American film : color-coded economics and the story behind the numbers|author=Ndounou, Monica White|year=2014|isbn=978-0813562551|location=New Brunswick, N.J.|oclc=879576313}}
Pocahontas (1995) – animated family musical historical film based on the life of Powhatan woman Pocahontas and the arrival of English colonial settlers from the Virginia Company{{cite web|url=http://www.animationmagazine.net/top-stories/sort-thanksgiving-movie/|title=That Other (Sort of) Thanksgiving Movie|last=Mallory|first=Michael|work=Animation|date=5 December 2013|access-date=24 May 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524081142/http://www.animationmagazine.net/top-stories/sort-thanksgiving-movie/|archive-date=24 May 2015}}
Pocahontas: The Legend (1995) – Canadian historical drama film fictionalizing the young life of the historical figure of Chief Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas and her relationship with Captain John Smith{{Cite book |last1=Mee |first1=Laura |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rDFQBwAAQBAJ&dq=Pocahontas:+The+Legend+Suissa&pg=PA268 |title=Cinema, Television and History: New Approaches |last2=Walker |first2=Johnny |date=16 October 2014 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-6887-7 |language=en}}
Policemen (Italian: Poliziotti) (1995) – Italian crime drama film based on a policeman who committed suicide while in jail{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Enrico Lancia |author3=Roberto Poppi |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I Film|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401372}}
Ravan Raaj: A True Story (Hindi: रावण राज एक सच्ची कहानी) (1995) – Indian Hindi-language action film based on a doctor's story, loosely based on the serial killer Auto Shankar{{Cite web|title=Ravan Raaj – Movie – Box Office India|url=https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=2961|website=boxofficeindia.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=18 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618005711/https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=2961|url-status=live}}
Red Cherry (Mandarin: 紅櫻桃) (1995) – Chinese war drama film based on the true story of Chuchu (based on Zhu De's daughter Zhu Min), a 13-year-old Chinese girl, and Luo Xiaoman, a 12-year-old Chinese boy, who were sent to Moscow, Russia in the 1940s and enrolled into an international boarding school during World War Two{{cite news |title=追忆朱德之女朱敏：一生清贫从不索求(图)_新闻中心_新浪网 |url=http://news.sina.com.cn/c/sd/2009-04-24/094117680061.shtml |access-date=26 January 2021 |work=news.sina.com.cn}}
Restoration (1995) – American-British biographical historical drama film about a 17th-century medical student exploited by King Charles II{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1069339-restoration|title=Restoration (1995)|website=Rotten Tomatoes|publisher=Fandango|access-date=30 October 2023}}{{RT data|edit}}
Rob Roy (1995) – historical biographical drama film about Rob Roy MacGregor, an 18th-century Scottish clan chief who battles a sadistic nobleman in the Scottish Highlands{{cite web|last1=Minsaas|first1=Kirsti|title=Rob Roy: The Value of Honor|url=http://www.theatlasphere.com/columns/121008-minsaas-robroy.php|access-date=25 September 2015}}
Savate (1995) – Western martial arts film based on the allegedly true story of the world's first kickboxer{{cite magazine |date=22 December 1995 |author=J.R. Taylor |title=The Fighter |url=https://ew.com/article/1995/12/22/fighter-2/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly }}
Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995) – biographical drama television film recounting the events in the life of Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer which led to her retirement from the Washington National Guard under the U.S. military's gay exclusion policy{{cite web |url=https://www.wsna.org/hall-of-fame/2014/margarethe-Cammermeyer/ |title=Margarethe Cammermeyer |website=www.wsna.org |publisher=Washington State Nurses Association |access-date=10 October 2018 |language=en}}
The Seventh Room (Hungarian: A hetedik szoba) (1995) – Hungarian biographical war drama film based on the life of Edith Stein{{cite web |url=https://en.unifrance.org/movie/13836/the-seventh-room |title=The Seventh Room |publisher=UniFrance |accessdate=2020-01-25 }}
She Fought Alone (1995) – drama television film about a girl who finds herself shamed in her small rural town after being raped, based on a true story[http://www.mylifetime.com/on-tv/movies/she-fought-alone My Lifetime review] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081105100644/http://www.mylifetime.com/on-tv/movies/she-fought-alone |date=5 November 2008 }}
Solomon & Sheba (1995) – Christian drama television film about the relationship between Queen Sheba and King Solomon{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/solomon-sheba-v318065|title=Solomon & Sheba (1978) – Robert M. Young | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie}}
Stonewall (1995) – British-American historical comedy drama film depicting a fictionalized account of the weeks leading up to the Stonewall riots, a seminal event in the modern American gay rights movement{{cite web | url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stonewall/ | title=Stonewall (1995) | work=Rotten Tomatoes | publisher=Flixster | accessdate=5 February 2016}}
Tears of Stone (Icelandic: Tár úr steini) (1995) – Icelandic biographical drama film about the Icelandic composer Jón Leifs who spent much of his life in Germany before World War Two{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/136256/Tears-of-Stone/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307010625/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/136256/Tears-of-Stone/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 March 2016 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Sandra Brennan |date=2016 |title=Tears of Stone |access-date=4 October 2015 }}
Total Eclipse (1995) – biographical romantic drama film presenting a historically accurate account of the passionate and violent relationship between 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, at a time of soaring creativity for both men{{cite book|author1=Ewa Mazierska|author2=Michael Goddard|title=Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jdlGAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA290|year=2014|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-1-58046-468-0|pages=290–}}
Truman (1995) – biographical drama television film centring on Harry S. Truman's humble beginnings, his rise to the presidency, World War II, and his decision to use the first atomic bomb{{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=TV WEEKEND; Harry S Truman, Late Bloomer|first=John|last=J. O'Connor|date=8 September 1995|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/08/arts/tv-weekend-harry-s-truman-late-bloomer.html}}
The Tuskegee Airmen (1995) – biographical war television film based on the exploits of an actual groundbreaking unit, the first African-American combat pilots in the United States Army Air Corps, that fought in World War IIScott, Tony.[https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117910076.html?categoryid=32&cs=1&p=0 " 'The Tuskegee Airmen' review."] Variety.com.. Retrieved: 3 January 2010.
Tyson (1995) – biographical sport drama television film based on the life of American heavyweight boxer Iron Mike Tyson{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-04-28-9504280265-story.html|title=DEPRESSING ACCOUNT OF TYSON IN HBO FILM|first=Steve|last=Nidetz|website=ChicagoTribune.com|access-date=18 February 2019}}
Who Killed Pasolini? (Italian: Pasolini, un delitto italiano) (1995) – Italian-French crime drama film depicting the trial against Pino Pelosi, who was charged with the murder of artist and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Enrico Lancia |author3=Roberto Poppi |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I Film|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401372}}
Wild Bill (1995) – acid Western biographical drama film about the last days of legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickok{{cite news|title=The 'Wild Bill' of History, Here Mostly Made Up: The 'Wild Bill' of History, Here Made Up Waiter Hill's script told of the last days of the visually impaired, opium-addicted gunslinger Bill Hickok|first=Jamie|last=Diamond|newspaper=New York Times|date=26 November 1995|page= H13}}
The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995) – black comedy crime drama film based on the life of Graham Young, more commonly known as "The Teacup Murderer"{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7d26cdb5 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805190750/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7d26cdb5 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-08-05 |title=Young Poisoner's Handbook |website=BFI |accessdate=2014-04-02}}

1996

A Girl Called Rosemary (German: Das Mädchen Rosemarie) (1996) – German biographical crime drama television film based on the life of Rosemarie Nitribitt{{cite web |title=A Girl Called Rosemarie (1996) |url=https://mubi.com/en/us/films/a-girl-called-rosemarie |website=MUBI |access-date=31 October 2023}}
After Jimmy (1996) – drama television film based on a true story of a woman, with her family, mourning the suicide death of her teenage son{{cite web |title=After Jimmy (1996) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/455296/after-jimmy/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=31 October 2023}}
Andersonville (1996) – historical war drama television film about a group of Union soldiers during the American Civil War who are captured by the Confederates and sent to an infamous Confederate prison camp, loosely based on the diary of John Ransom{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/02/arts/television-review-disgrace-in-a-profusion-of-detail.html |title=TELEVISION REVIEW; Disgrace in a Profusion of Detail |last=James |first=Caryn |date=2 March 1996 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=25 January 2020}}
Apollo 11 (1996) – biographical drama television film about NASA's Apollo 11 mission which landed the first humans on the Moon{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19715235/the_times_and_democrat/

|title=The Eagle lands again on the moon|newspaper=The Times and Democrat|date=17 November 1996|page=33|via=Newspapers.com|location=Orangeburg, South Carolina}}

Basquiat (1996) – biographical drama film based on the life of American postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat{{Cite news|last=Weinreich|first=Regina|date=11 August 1996|title=Schnabel Becomes a Director To Film the Life of Basquiat|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/11/nyregion/schnabel-becomes-a-director-to-film-the-life-of-basquiat.html|access-date=2021-12-08|issn=0362-4331}}
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) – drama film based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Dorothy Allison, examining the complexities of mother-child relationships, conditions of class, race, and sexuality{{cite web |title=Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bastard_out_of_carolina |website=Rotten Tomatoes }}
Beaumarchais (French: Beaumarchais l'insolent) (1996) – French biographical drama film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais, depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays[https://web.archive.org/web/20090205194728/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/510880 BFI.org]
Breaking the Code (1996) – British biographical drama television film about British mathematician Alan Turing, linking Turing's cryptographic activities with his attempts to grapple with his homosexuality[https://io9.gizmodo.com/which-alan-turing-movie-really-captures-the-father-of-c-1671009693 Io9: Which Alan Turing Movie Really Captures The Father Of Computer Science?]
The Bruce (1996) – British historical drama film focusing primarily on the rise to power of Robert I of Scotland, culminating in the Battle of Bannockburn in AD 1314(2015) [http://www.filmedinburgh.org/filming/filmed_here?fh_PageIndex=11&fh_PageSize=10 Filmed here – 1996, The Bruce, Bob Carruthers, David McWhinnie] Film Edinburgh, Retrieved 20 February 2015
Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day (1996) – drama film about a Chinese-American's attempt at saving the Yosemite Valley Railroad in post-WWII California{{cite web |title=Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day |date=29 January 1996 |website=Variety |url=https://variety.com/1996/film/reviews/color-of-a-brisk-and-leaping-day-1200444317/}}
Crazy Horse (1996) – Western biographical drama television film based on the true story of Crazy Horse, a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota, and the Battle of Little Bighorn{{cite web|title=Review: 'Crazy Horse'|author=Scott, Tony |date=5 July 1996 |work=Variety |url=https://variety.com/1996/film/reviews/crazy-horse-2-1200446214/}}
Crime of the Century (1996) – crime drama television film presenting a dramatization of the Lindbergh kidnapping of 1932{{cite web |title=Crime of the Century (1996) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/436396/crime-of-the-century |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=31 October 2023}}
The Crucible (1996) – historical drama film depicting a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=940CE0DB1038F93BA3575AC0A960958260|title=The Demons of Salem, With Us Still|author=Victor Saul Navasky|author-link=Victor Saul Navasky|date=8 September 1996|website=The New York Times|access-date=20 May 2017}}
Dead Heart (1996) – Australian mystery thriller film set in the isolated Outback, mainly Aboriginal town of Wala Wala, where an Aboriginal man is found dead in the local police lock up, based on the true story of an Aboriginal who killed someone in the 1930s for traditional reasons[https://archive.today/20130222082811/http://www.signis.net/malone/tiki-index.php?page=Nick+Parsons&bl "Interview with Nick Parsons", Signet, 19 June 1998]. Retrieved 19 November 2012
Deadly Voyage (1996) – American-British survival drama television film about Kingsley Ofosu, the sole survivor of a group of nine African stowaways murdered on the Bahamian-flagged cargo ship MC Ruby in 1992{{cite news |last=Jicha |first=Tom |date=9 June 1996 |title=Hate, death stalk refugees in ship's hold |newspaper=South Florida Sun-Sentinel}}
Deep Crimson (Spanish: Profundo Carmesí) (1996) – Mexican crime drama film depicting a dramatization of the story of "Lonely Hearts Killers", Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, who committed a string of murders of women in the 1940s{{cite web |title=44 Countries Hoping for Oscar Nominations |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |date=24 November 1997 |url=http://www.oscars.org/pressreleases/97.11.24.html |accessdate=13 October 2015 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19980213090309/http://www.oscars.org/pressreleases/97.11.24.html |archivedate=13 February 1998 |url-status=dead }}
The Delicate Art of the Rifle (1996) – surrealistic comedy drama film about a school shooting as seen through the eyes of a socially awkward college student named Jay, the shooter is loosely based on Charles Whitman{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/1996/film/reviews/the-delicate-art-of-the-rifle-1200445250/ | title=The Delicate Art of the Rifle | access-date=8 October 2018}}
Devil's Island (Icelandic: Djöflaeyjan) (1996) – Icelandic comedy drama film depicting a group of otherwise homeless families living in barracks abandoned by the US Air Force after the Second World War{{cite web |title=39 Countries Hoping for Oscar Nominations |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |date=13 November 1996 |url=http://www.oscars.org/pressreleases/96.11.13.html |accessdate=5 October 2015 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19990209110950/http://www.oscars.org/pressreleases/96.11.13.html |archivedate=9 February 1999 |url-status=dead }}
The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca (1996) – American-Spanish-French-Cinema of Puerto Rican biographical drama film about the life and murder of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca{{cite web |title=The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/disappearance_of_garcia_lorca |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=31 October 2023}}
Easy Prey (1996) – Canadian historical drama television film reenacting the true story of Australian serial killer Christopher Wilder, also known as "the Beauty Queen Killer", and his kidnapping of victim Tina Marie Risico, a sixteen-year-old girl{{Cite web|title=Chris Wilder – The Snapshot Killer: Inside the Wanda Beach murders {{!}} 7NEWS Spotlight – YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQDW9pr_KzA|access-date=2021-02-06|website=www.youtube.com| date=20 January 2020 }}
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996) – biographical drama film about the life of Dorothy Day, the journalist turned social activist and founder of the Catholic Worker newspaper{{cite web |title=Entertaining Angels The Dorothy Day Story (1996) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7e4e3fd9 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=31 October 2023}}
Eva Perón: The True Story (1996) – Argentine biographical drama film based on the life of Eva Perón[http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/eva-peron-the-true-story/Film?oid=1063514 Lisa Alspector, "Review: 'Eva Peron: The True Story'"], Chicago Reader. Retrieved on 6 September 2010
Evita (1996) – musical historical drama film depicting the life of Eva Perón, detailing her beginnings, rise to fame, political career and death at the age of 33{{cite news|title=Promising Preview Builds 'Evita' Buzz|first=Roger|last=Ebert|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4334200.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201040307/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4334200.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 December 2017|author-link=Roger Ebert|work=Chicago Sun-Times|date=15 May 1996|access-date=16 December 2016}}
Fly Away Home (1996) – family adventure drama film dramatizing the actual experiences of Bill Lishman who, in 1986, started training Canada geese to follow his ultralight aircraft, and succeeded in leading their migration in 1993 through his program "Operation Migration"{{cite news |first=Emily |last=Langer |title=William J.L. Sladen, scientific adventurer featured in 'Fly Away Home,' dies at 96 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/william-jl-sladen-scientific-adventurer-featured-in-fly-away-home-dies-at-96/2017/06/01/0122b320-4639-11e7-bcde-624ad94170ab_story.html |newspaper=Washington Post |date=1 June 2017 |access-date=2017-06-27}}
Flynn (1996) – Australian biographical drama film about the early life of Errol Flynn, focusing on his time in New GuineaEd. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995, Oxford University Press, 1996 p64
For My Daughter's Honor (1996) – drama television film based on the true story of Brook Graham and her experience that started when she was a freshman in the fall of 1986 at Taylor High School in Taylor, Texas{{Cite web |title=For My Daughter's Honor |url=https://www.tvguide.com/movies/for-my-daughters-honor/2030133043/ |access-date=2023-10-06 |website=TVGuide.com |language=en}}
Forgotten Sins (1996) – drama television film based on Lawrence Wright's two-part article "Remembering Satan", about the real-life case of Paul Ingram, which appeared in the 17 and 24 May 1993, issues of The New Yorker{{cite news |title=Sociology Professor Featured In TV Movie 'Forgotten Sins' |url=http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1996/0306/memory.html |work=The Berkleyan |publisher=Office of Public Affairs at UC Berkeley |date=6 March 1996 |accessdate=2007-04-24 }}
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) – historical adventure film depicting a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of male lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898{{cite web |title=The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ghost_and_the_darkness |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=20 February 2023}}
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) – biographical courtroom drama film based on the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ghosts_of_mississippi|title=Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=2020-06-22}}
Giant Mine (1996) – Canadian disaster drama television film dramatizing the events of the 1992 Giant Mine labour dispute and the subsequent bomb explosion which killed nine replacement workersBonnie Malleck, "Giant Mine unearths some powerful emotions". Waterloo Region Record, 11 December 1996.
Gone in the Night (1996) – thriller drama television film about the Jaclyn Dowaliby murder case{{cite web |title=Gone in the Night (1996) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/gone-in-the-night-1996 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=30 October 2023}}
Gotti (1996) – crime drama television film about infamous Gambino crime family boss John Gotti{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1996/08/16/the-muscle-behind-gotti/|title=The Muscle Behind 'Gotti'|last=Randle|first=Nancy Jalasca|work=Chicago Tribune|date=16 August 1996|access-date=2016-01-16}}
Gray's Anatomy (1996) – American-British comedy drama film about Spalding Gray who is diagnosed with a rare ocular condition called macular pucker{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1996/film/reviews/gray-s-anatomy-3-1200446852/|title=Gray's Anatomy|first1=Todd|last1=McCarthy|date=16 September 1996}}
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1996) – historical war drama miniseries dramatizing genuine testimonies of frontline soldiers during World War I{{cite book|last1=Niemi|first1=Robert|title=Inspired by True Events: An Illustrated Guide to More than 500 History-based Films|date=2013|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara, CA|isbn=9781610691970|pages=75–77|edition=2nd}}
Hamsun (1996) – Danish-German-Swedish-Norwegian biographical war drama film about the later life of the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, who, together with his wife Marie Hamsun, went from being a national hero to a traitor after supporting Nazi Germany during their occupation of Norway during World War II[http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-film/Filmdatabasen/?itemid=22864&type=MOVIE&iv=Comments&ref=/templates/SwedishFilmSearchResult.aspx?id%3d1225%26epslanguage%3dsv%26searchword%3dhamsun%26type%3dMovieTitle%26match%3dBegin%26page%3d1 Summary at Svenskfilmdatabas.se] (in Swedish) Swedish Film Institute
Handel's Last Chance (1996) – Canadian-Slovak biographical drama television film following a fictionalized background of the premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Messiah in 1742{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-12-12-9612120052-story.html |title=LIFE'S LESSONS |author=Jennifer Mangan |date=12 December 1996 |work=Chicago Tribune }}
Hillsborough (1996) – British disaster drama television film depicting a dramatization of the Hillsborough disaster, which saw 97 football supporters lose their lives at Hillsborough in Sheffield{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/jun/10/features.features11|title=The power of truth|last=McGovern|first=Jimmy|date=10 June 2004|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-06-20}}
Hollow Reed (1996) – British-German-Spanish romantic drama film following a divorced gay man who begins to suspect that his son is being physically abused by his ex-wife's new boyfriend, based on a true incident{{cite news |last1=Klady |first1=Leonard |title=Hollow Reed |url=https://variety.com/1996/film/reviews/hollow-reed-1200445168/ |access-date=31 October 2023 |agency=Variety |date=1 February 1996}}
Hostile Advances (1996) – drama television film{{cite web |title=Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story (1996) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/469810/hostile-advances-the-kerry-ellison-story/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=31 October 2023}} based on Ellison v. Brady, a landmark sexual harassment case
I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) – biographical drama film about the life of Valerie Solanas and her relationship with the artist Andy WarholKaufman, Anthony (3 December 2009). [http://www.indiewire.com/article/decade_mary_harron_on_american_psycho "Decade: Mary Harron on 'American Psycho'"]. indieWire. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
In Cold Blood (1996) – crime drama miniseries about the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1996/11/22/remaking-cold-blood/|title=Remaking 'In Cold Blood'|last=Appelo|first=Tim|date=22 November 1996|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=20 August 2021}}
In Love and War (1996) – romantic drama film based on writer Ernest Hemingway's real-life experiences in the First World War as a young ambulance-driver in Italy{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/07/04/specials/hemingway-diliberto.html|title=A Hemingway Story, and Just as Fictional |work=The New York Times |first=Gioia |last=Diliberto |date=26 January 1997}}
Infinity (1996) – biographical drama film telling the story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman{{cite news|last=Howe|first=Desson|title=INFINITY' ADDS UP|date=4 October 1996|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/10/04/infinity-adds-up/53d74850-2f6a-46db-a9b1-e64da5d5d37c/|access-date=10 February 2019}}
Intimate Relations (1996) – Canadian-British comedy drama film based on the true story of Albert Goozee, who was put on trial in 1956 in England{{cite web |date=28 February 2008 |title=The murders they turned into a movie |url=https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/2080712.the-murders-they-turned-into-a-movie/ |website=Southern Daily Echo}}
It's My Party (1996) – romantic drama film based on the true events of the death of Harry Stein, accomplished architect and designer, who was actually director Randal Kleiser's ex-lover, it was one of the first feature films to address the topic of AIDS patients dying with dignity{{cite web |last=Holden |first=Stephen |authorlink=Stephen Holden |title=FILM REVIEW; Giving a Farewell Party With Death as a Guest |website=The New York Times |date=22 March 1996 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/22/movies/film-review-giving-a-farewell-party-with-death-as-a-guest.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2020-11-29}}
Jerusalem (1996) – Swedish-Norwegian-Danish drama film inspired by real events from the end of the 19th century, a time when many people left Europe to find a better life abroad{{cite web|url=http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-filmdatabas/Item/?itemid=24318&type=MOVIE&iv=Basic|title=Jerusalem|publisher=Swedish Film Database|language=sv|date=6 September 1996|access-date=21 September 2016}}
Justice for Annie: A Moment of Truth Movie (1996) – thriller drama television film based on the case of Deana Hubbard Wild, who was pushed to her death from a cliff near Monterey, California{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/230a9e69461570a2ef2466c466ed2cc4|title=Woman Sentenced to Life for Murdering Son's Girlfriend|website=AP NEWS|accessdate=23 May 2020}}
Kansas City (1996) – crime drama film loosely based on a true story about a 1933 kidnapping and ransom incident involving the city's chief manager{{cite web | title=Kansas City | date=16 August 1996 | first=Roger | last=Ebert | url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/kansas-city-1996 | access-date=31 July 2020}}
The Late Shift (1996) – biographical comedy drama television film chronicling the late-night television conflict between Jay Leno and David Letterman in the early 1990s, surrounding NBC's appointment of Leno to succeed Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show, and Late Night host Letterman's resulting efforts to negotiate out of his contract with the network to host his own competing talk show for CBS{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-09-11-ca-42502-story.html |title=CableACE Nominations Are Dominated by HBO |last=Margulies |first=Lee |work=Los Angeles Times |date=11 September 1996 |access-date=6 September 2015}}
The Making of the Mahatma (1996) – Indian-South African biographical historical drama film about the early life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as Mahatma Gandhi) during his 21 years in South Africa{{Cite web|title=The MAKING OF THE MAHATMA (1996)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7f64cac8|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007091215/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7f64cac8|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 October 2018|access-date=2021-12-16|website=BFI}}
Michael Collins (1996) – American-British-Irish biographical historical drama film about Michael Collins, who was a leading figure in the early-20th-century Irish struggle for independence against Britain{{cite news|date=5 May 2001|title=Acting against expectations|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/acting-against-expectations-1.306360|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=12 October 2023}}
Mr. and Mrs. Loving (1996) – biographical romantic drama film based on the true story of Mildred and Richard Loving{{cite web |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/480760/MR-AND-MRS-LOVING-IS-SHOCKING-BUT-TRUE.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214195455/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/480760/MR-AND-MRS-LOVING-IS-SHOCKING-BUT-TRUE.html? |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 February 2017 |title=Mr. and Mrs. loving Is Shocking But True |last=D. Pierce |first=Scott |date=30 March 1996 |website=Deseret News |access-date=1 July 2017}}
Nasser 56 (Egyptian Arabic: ناصر) (1996) – Egyptian historical drama film focusing on the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egypt's second President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and the subsequent Suez War with Israel, the United Kingdom, and France{{cite book|editor=Walter Armbrust

|title=Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond|author=Joel Gordon|publisher=University of California Press|chapter=Nasser 56/Cairo 96. Reimaging Egypt's Lost Community|year=2000|isbn=978-0-520-21926-7|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0TcLEgR9GkMC&pg=PA162|location=Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA; London|page=162}}

No One Would Tell (1996) – crime drama television film based on the true story of 14-year-old Amy Carnevale, who was physically abused and murdered by her 16-year-old boyfriend Jamie Fuller, on 23 August 1991, in Beverly, Massachusetts{{cite web |first=John P.|last=McCarthy |url=https://variety.com/1996/film/reviews/nbc-monday-night-at-the-movies-no-one-would-tell-1200445911/ |title=Nbc Monday Night at the Movies No One Would Tell |website=Variety |date=6 May 1996 |access-date=13 September 2018|quote=Cameron is realistic as the gullible and willful teen. The highest acting marks go to Heather McComb, who's able to take up the emotional slack in the script and performances.}}
Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996) – biographical drama television film about the life of Marilyn Monroe{{cite web |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7f1d5eca |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002072213/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7f1d5eca |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 October 2017 |title=Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996) |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=26 July 2023}}
Normal Life (1996) – crime drama film based on the real lives of husband-and-wife bank robbers, Jeffrey and Jill Erickson{{cite book|last=Schwartz|first=Ronald |title=Neo-noir: The New Film Noir Style from Psycho to Collateral|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2005|page=125|isbn=0-8108-5676-X}}
The One That Got Away (1996) – South African action drama television film telling the true story of a Special Air Service patrol during the Gulf War in 1991{{cite web |title=The One That Got Away (1996) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/the-one-that-got-away-1996 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=30 October 2023}}
Over Here (1996) – British war drama miniseries chronicling the lives of US Army Air Corps B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crews on a Royal Air Force Spitfire base during World War II{{Cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/over_here/|title = Over Here – BBC1 Comedy Drama| website=British Comedy Guide }}
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) – biographical drama film chronicling the rise of pornographer Larry Flynt and his subsequent clash with religious institutions and the law{{cite news |date=27 December 1996 |title=Milos Forman Explains Why He Made 'The People Vs. Larry Flynt' |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1996/12/27/milos-forman-explains-why-he-made-the-people-vs-larry-flynt/ |access-date=2010-11-02}}
Poznań '56 (1996) – Polish historical drama film about the Poznań 1956 protests[http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/ Film Polski]
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Serbian: Лепа села лепо горе) (1996) – Yugoslav historical drama film inspired by a real-life occurrence in eastern Bosnia from the opening stages of the Bosnian War, with the film's screenplay based on a Vanja Bulić-written, Duga magazine published long-form piece about the actual event{{Cite magazine|last1=Dabić|first1=Dejan|last2=Stojanović|first2=Boban|date=23 October 1996|title=DRAGAN BJELOGRLIĆ|url=http://www.pressing-magazine.com/index.php/pressing-br-60/429-dragan-bjelogrlic.html|url-status=dead|magazine=Pressing Magazin|language=bs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113073517/http://www.pressing-magazine.com/index.php/pressing-br-60/429-dragan-bjelogrlic.html|archive-date=13 January 2014}}
Private Confessions (Swedish: Enskilda samtal) (1996) – Swedish biographical drama film based on Ingmar Bergman's stories about his parents complicated relationship life in his marriage and also some of his own childhood memories{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4832/year/1997.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Private Confessions |access-date=26 September 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}
Public Enemies (1996) – crime thriller film centring on the 1930s figure Ma Barker and her criminal sons{{cite web |title=Public Enemies: Review |url=http://movies.tvguide.com/public-enemies/review/131977 |website=TV Guide |publisher=Red Ventures |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216183642/https://movies.tvguide.com/public-enemies/review/131977/ |archive-date=16 December 2013}}
Race the Sun (1996) – comedy drama film loosely based on the true story of the Konawaena High School Solar Car Team, which finished 18th in the 1990 World Solar Challenge and first place among high school entriesStephen Holden (22 March 1996). [https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=980CE1D71739F931A15750C0A960958260 Race the Sun (1996)]. New York Times. Accessed 10 October 2009.
Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996) – biographical historical drama television film chronicling the last four years (1912–16) of Grigori Rasputin's stint as a healer to Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia; the heir apparent to the Russian throne as well as the only son of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna; who suffered from hemophilia{{cite web |title=Rasputin |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1070802-rasputin |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=31 October 2023}}
Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault (1996) – biographical sport drama television film about Earl Manigault, a legendary American street basketball player famous under his nickname of "The Goat"{{cite web |last1=Gallo |first1=Phil |title=Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'the Goat' Manigault |url=https://variety.com/1996/film/reviews/rebound-the-legend-of-earl-the-goat-manigault-2-1200447635/ |website=Variety |access-date=30 October 2022 |date=18 November 1996}}
Rossini's Ghost (1996) – Canadian biographical drama television film centring around Gioachino Rossini, a composer whose friends never lose faith in him—even when things go wrong{{cite web |title=Rossini's Ghost |url=https://alefjo.com/films/rossinis-ghost/ |publisher=ALEF JO Filmstudio, Ltd |accessdate=19 September 2020}}
Rowing Through (1996) – Canadian-Japanese sport drama film centring on American sculler Tiff Wood as he tries to qualify for the 1984 Summer Olympics"Rowing movie sunk by bad script, acting". Toronto Star, 11 October 1996.
Saint-Ex (1996) – British biographical drama television film documenting the life of French author-aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the form of a "tone poem"Brennan, Sandra. [https://web.archive.org/web/20151002203337/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/136590/Saint-Ex/overview "Overview: 'Saint-Ex'."] The New York Times. Retrieved: 17 December 2015.
Samson and Delilah (1996) – American-German-Italian Christian drama miniseries telling the biblical story of Samson and Delilah{{cite web |title=Samson and Delilah (1996) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/413588/samson-and-delilah/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=31 October 2023}}
Seduced by Madness (1996) – crime thriller television film recounting the story of Wisconsin teacher Diane Borchardt, who hired teen students first to spy on her cheating husband and later to kill him{{cite web |last1=Scott |first1=Tony |title=Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story |url=https://variety.com/1996/tv/reviews/seduced-by-madness-the-diane-borchardt-story-1200444893/ |website=Variety |accessdate=31 August 2020}}
Shine (1996) – Australian biographical drama film based on the life of David Helfgott, a pianist who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions{{Cite web |date=19 August 2016 |title=Scott Hicks reflects on Shine, 20 years on {{!}} Screen News |url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/screen-news/2016/08-19-scott-hicks-reflects-on-shine-20-years-on |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=Screen Australia}}
The Siege at Ruby Ridge (1996) – historical drama television film about the confrontation between the family of Randy Weaver and the US federal government at Ruby Ridge in 1992{{cite book |last=Suprynowicz |first=Vin |date=1999 |title=Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993–1998 |chapter=The Courtesan Press, Eager Lapdogs to Tyranny (Chapter 6) |location=Las Vegas |publisher=Mountain Media |isbn=9780967025902 |author-link=Vin Suprynowicz}}
Some Mother's Son (1996) – American-Irish historical drama film based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in the Maze Prison, in Northern Ireland{{cite web |title=Some Mother's Son |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/some_mothers_son |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=31 October 2023}}
Stand Against Fear (1996) – drama television film about a cheerleader who takes action when she faces sexual intimidation from football players at her schoolbased on a real-life incident, which occurred at Santa Clara High School in California{{cite news |last=Scott |first=Tony |url= https://variety.com/1996/tv/reviews/stand-against-fear-a-moment-of-truth-movie-1117436952/ |title=Stand Against Fear: A Moment of Truth Movie |work=Variety |date=15 December 1996 |accessdate=31 August 2019}}
Surviving Picasso (1996) – biographical drama film about Françoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty, and move on with her life{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/surviving_picasso/|title=Surviving Picasso |website= Rotten Tomatoes |publisher= Fandango Media }}
To Brave Alaska (1996) – survival adventure drama television film based on the true story of a yuppie couple's Alaskan trip turning into a wilderness survival struggle[https://archive.today/20130619205433/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/316632/To-Brave-Alaska/overview Review summary] The New York Times
Twisted Desire (1996) – crime drama television film based on the 1990 murders of the parents of 14-year-old Jessica Wiseman{{cite web |title=Twisted Desire (1996) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/twisted-desire-1996 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=30 October 2023}}
Unabomber: The True Story (1996) – biographical drama television film telling the stories of three men: one who terrorized the U.S. from 1978 to 1995 by sending bombs through the mail; his brother who suspected him of being the Unabomber; and the postal inspector who investigated the bombings from the beginning{{cite news|last=Heisler|first=Steve|title=Tobin Bell|date=29 October 2008|newspaper=The A.V. Club|url=http://www.avclub.com/article/tobin-bell-2513|access-date=5 April 2017}}
Unforgivable (1996) – drama television film telling the story of the real life couple, Paul and Judy Hegstrom{{cite web |url= https://www.itssupernatural.org/sid-roth/our-guest-paul-hegstrom |title= Sid Roth 0749 It's Supernatural with Paul Hegstrom |date=2009 |access-date= 7 May 2018}}
Voice from the Grave (1996) – mystery crime television film inspired by the February 1977 murder of 47-year-old respiratory therapist Teresita Basa in Chicago, Illinois{{cite web |title=Voice from the Grave (1996) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b81b4ef22 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=30 October 2023}}
White Squall (1996) – disaster survival coming-of-age drama film based on the fate of the brigantine Albatross, which sank 2 May 1961, allegedly because of a white squall[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/white_squall/ White Squall] at Rotten Tomatoes
The Whole Wide World (1996) – biographical romantic drama film depicting the relationship between pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard and schoolteacher Novalyne Price Ellis[https://www.reelviews.net/reelviews/whole-wide-world-the Reelviews], retrieved 11 July 2007
Without Evidence (1996) – thriller drama film based on the true story of Michael Francke, who was the Head of Corrections for the state of Oregon before being murdered{{cite web |title=Without Evidence (1995) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/without-evidence-1995 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=31 October 2023}}

1997

...First Do No Harm (1997) – drama television film about a boy whose severe epilepsy, unresponsive to medications with terrible side effects, is controlled by the ketogenic diet, aspects of the story mirror Jim Abrahams' experience with his son Charlie{{cite web |title=First Do No Harm (1997) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/first-do-no-harm-1997 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=31 October 2023}}
A Child's Wish (1997) – drama television film based on actual events of a family who discovers their 16-year-old daughter has cancer[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/04/garden/family-leave-bill-peace-of-mind-issue.html Family-Leave Bill: Peace of Mind Issue] New York Times, 4 February 1993
Amistad (1997) – historical drama film based on the events in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by the Washington, a U.S. revenue cutter{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115082338 |title='Amistad' gives African actor his big break |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=100 |date=12 December 1997}}
An Eyewitness Account (Italian: Testimone a rischio) (1997) – Italian thriller drama film based on real life events of Sicilian Mafia hit eyewitness Piero Nava{{cite news|last=Deborah Young |title=Review: 'Witness in Danger' |url=https://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/witness-in-danger-1117432585/ |access-date=22 April 2014|newspaper=Variety|date=1 March 1997 }}
Anastasia (1997) – animated musical drama film based on the legend of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia{{cite web | first=Rialto | last=Chatter | date=28 July 2012 | work=Broadway World | publisher=Wisdom Digital Media | title=Exclusive: Crawford, Barrett, Halston, Page Join Tveit, Lansbury, Lazar in ANASTASIA Reading! | url=http://broadwayworld.com/article/Exclusive-Crawford-Barrett-Halston-Page-Join-Tveit-Lansbury-Lazar-in-ANASTASIA-Reading-20120728 | access-date=1 July 2012 | archive-date=30 July 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730084930/http://broadwayworld.com/article/Exclusive-Crawford-Barrett-Halston-Page-Join-Tveit-Lansbury-Lazar-in-ANASTASIA-Reading-20120728 | url-status=live}}
Annamayya (Telugu: అన్నమయ్య) (1997) – Indian Telugu-language biographical drama film portraying the life of the 15th century composer Annamacharya{{cite news |title=జమీన్ రైతు |language=Telugu |work=Zaminryot |url=http://www.zaminryot.com/pdf/1997/Jun/6-Jun-1997.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913151600/http://www.zaminryot.com/pdf/1997/Jun/6-Jun-1997.pdf |archive-date=13 September 2016 |date=6 June 1997 |url-status=live}}
Any Mother's Son (1997) – crime drama television film based on the murder of Allen Schindler, a United States Navy sailor who was killed for being gay{{cite web |last1=Lavin |first1=Cheryl |title=Death Of A Sailor |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-08-10-9708100361-story.html |website=Chicago Tribune |date=10 August 1997}}
The Arrow (1997) – Canadian historical drama miniseries about Crawford Gordon, experienced wartime production leader after World War II and president of Avro Canada during its attempt to produce the Avro Arrow supersonic jet interceptor aircraft[http://members.shaw.ca/b.bogdan/Arrow/avro_arrow.htm "The Avro Arrow: Canada's Broken Dream."] shaw.ca, 2006. Retrieved: 25 September 2010.
Artemisia (1997) – French-Italian-German biographical drama film about Artemisia Gentileschi, the female Italian Baroque painter{{cite journal| url=http://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000698165| title=Artemisia| journal=Film Journal International| accessdate=2008-05-25 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}
Black Circle Boys (1997) – thriller drama film loosely based on real events filled with drugs, satanism & murder{{cite web|last=Phipps|first=Keith|title=The Black Circle Boys|date=10 April 2002|publisher=The A.V. Club|url=https://www.avclub.com/the-black-circle-boys-1798196375|access-date=26 November 2020}}
Boogie Nights (1997) – historical comedy drama film focusing on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s through his fall during the excesses of the 1980s, based on actor John Holmes{{cite news |last=McKenna |first=Kristine |title=Knows It When He Sees It |work=Los Angeles Times |date=12 October 1997 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-12-ca-41788-story.html |access-date=25 June 2012 |archive-date=3 January 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103142038/http://articles.latimes.com/print/1997/oct/12/entertainment/ca-41788 |url-status=live }}
Border (Hindi: सीमा) (1997) – Indian Hindi-language epic war film inspired by real life events that happened during the Battle of Longewala in 1971{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/films/story/19970728-if-the-reel-border-is-full-of-drama-and-heroism-so-was-the-real-battle-in-1971-830426-1997-07-28 |title=If the reel Border is full of drama and heroism, so was the real battle in 1971 |website=India Today |date=28 July 1997 |access-date=5 July 2021}}
Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story (1997) – biographical sport drama television film about American diver Greg Louganis{{cite web |title=Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/breaking_the_surface_the_greg_louganis_story |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=31 October 2023}}
Buddy (1997) – family comedy drama film based on the life of a gorilla called Massa with elements of Gertrude Lintz's other gorilla Gargantua (who was called "Buddy" at the time){{cite web |date= 1 October 2005 |author= Steve Persall |title=HOLLYWOOD SAYS grow up! |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1997/06/02/hollywood-says-grow-up/ |website=Tampa Bay Times }}
Comedian Harmonists (1997) – German biographical drama film about the popular German vocal group of the 1920s and '30s, the Comedian Harmonists{{cite web|last=Reinhardt|first=Bernd|title=Music is international: the film Comedian Harmonists|url=http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1998/06/cohe-j23.html|work=World Socialist Web Site|publisher=International Committee of the Fourth International|accessdate=2 June 2013}}
Country Justice (1997) – crime drama television film based on a true story of a 1981 West Virginia court case{{cite web |title=Country Justice (1997) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/464187/country-justice/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=31 October 2023}}
Crowned and Dangerous (1997) – crime drama television film about the murder of a beauty queen, an investigation which reveals the suspects to be a former lover, a rival contestant, and a stage mother, based on a true story{{cite web |title=Crowned and Dangerous (1997) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b812b1878 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=1 November 2023}}
Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters (Thai: 2499 อันธพาลครองเมือง) (1997) – Thai crime drama film about young Thai gangsters in 1950s Thailand{{cite web|title=2499 อันธพาลครองเมือง = Dang Bireleys and young gangsters [or, 2499 antapan krong muang]|url=https://library.mju.ac.th/film/detail.php?id=1375|website=Films Database|publisher=Mae Jo University|accessdate=31 August 2017}}
Daughters (1997) – thriller drama television film based on the true crime story about the murder of publishing heiress Anne Scripps Douglas who, in 1989, married a young hunk who eventually killed her{{cite web |title=Our Mother's Murder (1997) |url=https://mubi.com/en/us/films/our-mother-s-murder |website=MUBI |access-date=1 November 2023}}
David (1997) – Christian drama television film telling the biblical story of David{{cite book |first=Jeffrey |last=Richards |title=Hollywood's Ancient Worlds |date=September 2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0tLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA168 |via=Google Books |page=168|publisher=A&C Black |isbn=9781847250070 }}{{full citation needed|date=July 2020|reason=publisher, date, edition, ISBN}}
Detention: The Siege at Johnson High (1997) – thriller drama television film based on the 1992 Lindhurst High School shooting and siege that resulted in the death of four people{{cite web |title=Detention: Siege at Johnson High (1997) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/464194/detention-siege-at-johnson-high/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=1 November 2023}}
Don King: Only in America (1997) – biographical sport drama television film telling the story of Don King becoming a famous fight promoter and boxing manager{{cite news|last1=JOYNER|first1=WILL|title=TELEVISION REVIEW; 2 Views of Don King: His and the Legend|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/15/arts/television-review-2-views-of-don-king-his-and-the-legend.html|access-date=4 November 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|date=15 November 1997}}
Donnie Brasco (1997) – biographical crime drama film loosely based on the true story of Joseph D. Pistone, a FBI undercover agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family in New York City during the 1970s, under the alias Donnie Brasco, a jewel thief from Vero Beach, Florida{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSuEcpk_P5YC&q=Stephen+Frears+donnie+brasco+goodfellas&pg=PA166|title=Depp|first=Christopher|last=Heard|date=4 May 2001|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=9781550224702|via=Google Books}}
Dukhai (Bengali: দুখাই) (1997) – Bangladeshi drama film showing the struggle of the people of the shore in the 1970 Bhola cyclone{{cite web|title=Morshedul Islam|publisher=Vabantor|url=http://www.vabantar.com/Movie_Morshedul_Islam.htm|access-date=12 October 2015}}
Elvis Meets Nixon (1997) – Canadian-American biographical drama television film depicting an embellished account of the true story of American singer Elvis Presley meeting President Richard Nixon on 21 December 1970{{cite book|last=Guralnick|first=Peter|title=Elvis: Day by Day|year=1999|publisher=Ballantine Books Inc. | location = New York | isbn=978-0-345-42089-3|pages=285–287}}
FairyTale: A True Story (1997) – fantasy drama film loosely based on the story of the Cottingley Fairies, and following two children in 1917 England who take a photograph soon believed to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/415874/fairy-tale-a-true-story|title=Fairy Tale: A True Story (1997) - Overview - TCM.com|website=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=31 October 2017}}
Fever Pitch (1997) – British comedy drama film loosely on Nick Hornby's best-selling memoir, Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life (1992), concentrating on Arsenal's First Division championship-winning season in 1988–89{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/fever-pitch-2-1200449741/|title=Fever Pitch|author=Derek Elley|date=5 April 1997|website=Variety.com|access-date=26 December 2019}}
First Time Felon (1997) – crime drama film telling the story of the arrest, incarceration, shock incarceration program, home detention with electronic surveillance, and efforts to find employment experienced by a young black male who lived in Chicago and was arrested for drug possession, based on a true story{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/162825/First-Time-Felon/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071209055007/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/162825/First-Time-Felon/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-09 |title=New York Times profile |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Sandra Brennan |date=2007 |accessdate=2014-03-24}}
For All: Springboard to Victory (Portuguese: For All – O Trampolim da Vitória) (1997) – Brazilian comedy drama film about a US established military base in Natal, Brazil during World War II{{cite web|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/ilustrad/fq180820.htm|title='For All' vence a 25º edição do festival|publisher=Folha de S. Paulo|accessdate=12 July 2017}}
Four Days in September (Portuguese: O Que É Isso, Companheiro?) (1997) – Brazilian thriller film depicting a dramatization of the 1969 kidnapping of the United States Ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick, by members of Revolutionary Movement 8th October (MR-8) and Ação Libertadora Nacional (ALN)[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/four-days-in-september-1998 Roger Ebert, Review: Four Days in September (1998), 6 February 1998, Roger Ebert website]
Frozen (Mandarin: 极度寒冷) (1997) – Chinese drama film following a young performance artist, Qi Lei, who attempts to create a masterpiece centred on the theme of death, supposedly based on a true storyBerry, Michael (2005). "Wang Xiaoshuai: Banned in China" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=0PF21mv1vF0C Speaking in Images: Interviews With Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers], p. 168. {{ISBN|0-231-13330-8}}. Google Book Search. Retrieved 5 October 2008.
The Gambler (1997) – biographical drama film set around the writing of the 1866 novel The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky[https://web.archive.org/web/20090129061134/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/546621 BFI.org]
Gaston's War (1997) – Belgian war drama film telling the story of a Belgian resistance fighter, Gaston Vandermeerssche, who tries to discover who betrayed them to the Nazis[https://web.archive.org/web/20090207143809/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/532981 BFI.org]
George Wallace (1997) – biographical drama miniseries following Alabama governor George Wallace through segregation, presidential elections, an assassination attempt and personal trauma{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/23/arts/going-beyond-just-facts-to-show-a-hollow-soul.html|title=Going Beyond Just Facts To Show a Hollow Soul|last1=James|first1=Caryn|date=23 August 1997|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=12 August 2016}}
Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story (1997) – biographical drama television film chronicling country music singer Barbara Mandrell's life and career, from her early years in her family's band to her rise to country music fame, and the 1984 car accident that nearly ended her career{{cite web|last=Everett|first=Todd|title=Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story|url=https://variety.com/1997/tv/reviews/get-to-the-heart-the-barbara-mandrell-story-1200450973/|accessdate=22 November 2022|work=Variety|date=26 September 1997|archive-date=22 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221122143309/https://variety.com/1997/tv/reviews/get-to-the-heart-the-barbara-mandrell-story-1200450973/|url-status=live}}
Hav Plenty (1997) – romantic comedy film based on the true story of Christopher Scott Cherot's unrequited romance with Def Jam A&R executive Drew Dixon{{cite web |last=Wallace |first=Amy |date=18 June 1998 |title=Cherot Bets the House-and Wins |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-18-ca-61286-story.html |access-date=18 October 2011 |website=Los Angeles Times}}
Hoodlum (1997) – crime drama film depicting a fictionalized account of the gang war between the Italian/Jewish mafia alliance and the black gangsters of Harlem that took place in the late 1920s and early 1930s{{cite news | date = 27 August 1997 | author = Roger Ebert | author-link = Roger Ebert | url = https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/hoodlum-1997 | title = Hoodlum | work=Chicago Sun-Times}}
Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997) – disaster drama television film telling the story of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster{{cite book|title=Into Thin Air: Death on Everest|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/178032/Into-Thin-Air-Death-on-Everest/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013084931/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/178032/Into-Thin-Air-Death-on-Everest/overview|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|author=Jonathan Crow|date=2008|archive-date=13 October 2008}}
Iruvar (Tamil: இருவர்) (1997) – Indian Tamil-language epic political drama film inspired by the lives of M. Karunanidhi, M. G. Ramachandran and J. Jayalalithaa and is set against the backdrop of cinema and politics in Tamil Nadu{{Cite web |title=Duo, The |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/film/4ce2b80247698 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820073016/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/film/4ce2b80247698 |archive-date=20 August 2012 |access-date=17 January 2022 |website=British Film Institute}}
Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way (1997) – biographical sport drama television film chronicling Joe Torre's first year as manager of the New York Yankees when they won the World Series in 1996{{cite book|title=TV Guide October 16 – 22 1997}}
Keeping the Promise (1997) – American-Canadian historical drama television film based on a factual story that Elizabeth George Speare discovered in Milo, Maine about a young boy who was left alone for a summer in the wilderness and was befriended by a Native American, named Attean, and his grandfather{{cite web |title=Keeping the Promise |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/keeping_the_promise |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=31 October 2023}}
Kundun (1997) – epic biographical film based on the life and writings of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet[https://movies.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?res=9C06E2D8123EF937A15751C1A961958260 December 24, 1997 Review] from The New York Times
The Last of the Ryans (1997) – Australian biographical drama television film following the escape, re capture and hanging of Ronald Ryan for the murder of prison guard George Hodson{{Citation | last= Jones | first= Andrea | title= The last man to Hang – TELETOPICS | url= | periodical= The Sun Herald | date= 22 April 1997}}
The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) – biographical drama film based on a 1950 letter written by Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac{{cite web|first=Monica|last=Roman |url=https://variety.com/1997/film/news/sundancing-to-distrib-n-1117433122/ |title=Sundancing to distrib'n |magazine=Variety |date=23 January 1997 |access-date=17 February 2019}}
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997) – biographical drama miniseries about the Lewis and Clark Expedition{{cite web |title=Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/lewis-clark-the-journey-of-the-corps-of-discovery-1997 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=1 November 2023}}
Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder (1997) – drama television film based on the real life murder of Adrianne Jones by Diane Zamora in Texas{{cite news|title=TV Film About Teen-Ager's Murder Draws Protests on Network's Timing|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/03/arts/tv-film-about-teen-ager-s-murder-draws-protests-on-network-s-timing.html?ref=dianezamora|first=Bill|last=Carter|newspaper=The New York Times|date=3 February 1997}}
Lucie Aubrac (1997) – French biographical drama film about World War II French Resistance member Lucie Aubrac{{cite magazine|title=France Top 15|magazine=Screen International|date=14 March 1997|page=|quote=$1=FFR5.7}}
The Manson Family (1997) – crime exploitation horror film covering the lives of Charles Manson and his family of followers{{cite web |title=The Manson Family |url=https://tubitv.com/movies/559812/the-manson-family |website=Tubi |publisher=Fox Corporation |access-date=8 November 2021 }}
The Mad Phoenix (Cantonese: 南海十三郎) (1997) – Hong Kong biographical drama film depicting the life of the legend Cantonese Opera playwright Kong Yu-Kau{{cite web| url = http://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/curriculum-development/kla/chi-edu/resources/lit/47.pdf | title = 中六中國文學名著選讀簡介 – 南海十三郎| accessdate = 7 May 2018 | language = zh}}
Marquise (1997) – French historical drama film based on the historical actress Marquise-Thérèse de Gorla, who rises from obscurity to win the hearts of some of France's most prominent citizens, including Moliere, Racine, and King Louis XIV{{cite journal|last=Nesselson |first=Lisa |title=Marquise |journal=Variety |date=19 August 1997 |url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117340050/ |accessdate=5 November 2012}}
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) – mystery thriller film following the story of antiques dealer Jim Williams on trial for the murder of a male prostitute who was his lover{{Rotten Tomatoes|qid=Q1470767|title=Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil}}
Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor (1997) – biographical drama television film about the life of Mother Teresa[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091228/http://articles.philly.com/1997-10-05/entertainment/25540801_1_mother-teresa-god-s-poor-poor-children The Philadelphia Inquirer]; Winfrey, Lee. Doing The Dirty Work That Real Sanctity Often Demands The Family Channel's Telemovie About Mother Teresa Is Probably The Most Important Show It Has Presented in Its 20-year History. As The Tough And Canny Little Nun, Geraldine Chaplin Commands The Little Screen at Every Turn. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 5 October 1997
Mrs Brown (1997) – British biographical historical drama film telling the story of a recently widowed Queen Victoria and her relationship with a Scottish servant, John Brown, a trusted servant of her deceased husband, and the subsequent uproar it provoked[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mrs-brown-1997 Ebert,, Roger. "Review:'Mrs. Brown'", July 25, 1997]
My Heart Is Mine Alone (German: Mein Herz – niemandem!) (1997) – German drama film depicting the real-life love affair between Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler and Nazi poet Gottfried BennJewish Currents, Volume 51, 1997. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=NextAAAAMAAJ&q=%22My+Heart+Is+Mine+Alone%22+Sanders-Brahm 33].
Night Bus 807 (Swedish: Nattbuss 807) (1997) – Swedish crime thriller film based on a true story and events of the 1992 murder of a young boy in Vendelsömalm during the Stockholm Water Festival{{cite web|url=http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-filmdatabas/Item/?itemid=28280&type=MOVIE&iv=Basic|title=Nattbus 807|publisher=Swedish Film Database|language=Swedish|date=28 February 1997|access-date=17 September 2016}}
No Child of Mine (1997) – British biographical drama television film documenting the true case of a girl named Kerry who was sexually abused throughout her childhood{{cite web|url=https://www.tes.com/article.aspx?storycode=51918|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311131829/https://www.tes.com/article.aspx?storycode=51918|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-03-11|title=I felt alone, dirty and guilty|work=tes.co.uk}}
The Opium War (Mandarin: 鸦片战争) (1997) – Chinese historical epic film telling the story of the First Opium War of 1839–1842, which was fought between the Qing Empire of China and the British Empire, from the perspectives of key figures such as the Chinese viceroy Lin Zexu and the British naval diplomat Charles Elliot{{cite web|url=http://www.filmfestivals.com/mtreal97/mnew21.htm|title=Xie Jin Speaks Out|publisher=Filmfestivals.com|access-date=2007-12-11|archive-date=2007-10-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028052423/http://www.filmfestivals.com/mtreal97/mnew21.htm|url-status=dead}}
Paradise Road (1997) – Australian war drama film telling the story of a group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women who are imprisoned by the Japanese in Sumatra during World War II{{cite book |last1=Milliken |first1=Sue |title=Selective Memory: A Life in Film |date=1 November 2018 |publisher=Hybrid Publishers |isbn=978-1-74298-242-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LpF5DwAAQBAJ&q=Adrienne+Pargiter+Norah+Chambers&pg=PT339 |language=en}}
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing (1997) – drama television film depicting the events surrounding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tdg3BAAAQBAJ&q=path+to+paradise+the+untold+story+of+the+world+trade+center+bombing&pg=PA70|author=Wheeler Winston Dixon|title=Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema|year=2003|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231850483}}page 70
Pierre and Marie (French: Les Palmes de M. Schutz) (1997) – French biographical drama film about the lives of Marie and Pierre Curie and their discoveries around radioactivity{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/154828/Les-Palmes-de-M-Schutz/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921015040/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/154828/Les-Palmes-de-M-Schutz/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 September 2010 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Sandra Brennan |date=2010 |title=NY Times: Les Palmes de M. Schutz |access-date=29 May 2010 }}
The Place of the Dead (1997) – British adventure thriller television film based on a true account of a British Army expedition in Malaysia that made headlines in 1994 when it went badly wrong{{cite web |title=The Place of the Dead |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/in_the_place_of_the_dead_1997 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=31 October 2023}}
Prefontaine (1997) – biographical drama film chronicling the life of the American long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine and his death at age 24{{cite web|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/festivals-and-awards/prefontaine-premieres-at-sundance|title='Prefontaine' premieres at Sundance|first=Roger|last=Ebert|publisher=Roger Ebert|date=23 January 1997|access-date=8 December 2013}}
Prison of Secrets (1997) – crime drama television film based on a true story and focusing on a female prison inmate who fights for women's rights while still in jail[https://web.archive.org/web/20071209054031/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/154927/Prison-of-Secrets/overview Review Summary] The New York Times
Private Parts (1997) – biographical comedy film following radio personality Howard Stern's life from boyhood and his rise to success in radio{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-02-24-ca-35594-story.html|title=Slow Path to Screen for Stern's Book 'Parts'|first=Robert W.|last=Welkos|date=24 February 1995|access-date=22 August 2016|work=Los Angeles Times|archive-date=10 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910050313/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-02-24/entertainment/ca-35594_1_private-parts|url-status=live}}
Regeneration (1997) – British biographical drama film following the stories of a number of officers of the British Army during World War I who are brought together in Craiglockhart War Hospital where they are treated for various traumas, featuring the story of Siegfried Sassoon{{cite book|author=Karin Westman|title=Pat Barker's Regeneration: A Reader's Guide|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|year=2001|isbn=9780826452306|page=71}}
Rizal in Dapitan (Filipino: Rizal sa Dapitan) (1997) – Filipino biographical drama film about the four-year exile of Filipino propagandist and patriot José Rizal in Dapitan{{cite news|url=https://www.spot.ph/shopping/shopping-sale-alerts/46442/reel-heroes-10-actors-who-played-them-in-movies|title=Reel Heroes: 10 Actors Who Played Them in Movies|publisher=Spot|date=30 August 2010|access-date=26 February 2020}}
Rosewood (1997) – historical drama film inspired by the 1923 Rosewood massacre in Florida, when a white mob killed black people and destroyed their town{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rosewood/|title=Rosewood|access-date=19 June 2012|work=Rotten Tomatoes}}
Rough Riders (1997) – historical biographical drama miniseries about future President Theodore Roosevelt and the regiment known as the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry; {{aka}} the Rough Riders{{cite news |url=http://www.tvtango.com/miniseries/rough_riders |title=Rough Riders |website=TV Tango |date= |author= |access-date=24 April 2016 |archive-date=8 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508132535/http://www.tvtango.com/miniseries/rough_riders |url-status=live }}
The Sarah Balabagan Story (1997) – Filipino biographical drama film about Sarah Balabagan, an OFW who was sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates for killing her employer who was attempting to rape her{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZZQVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iwsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2347%2C2462492|last=Red|first=Isah|title=Sarah's Choice|pages=36|date=16 September 1996|newspaper=Manila Standard|publisher=Philippine Manila Standard Publishing|accessdate=22 May 2022|via=Google News}}
Selena (1997) – biographical musical drama film about Tejano music star Selena Quintanilla-Pérez{{Cite web|title='Selena' biopic will return to theaters in April to celebrate its 25th anniversary|website=NPR|date=22 March 2022|url=https://www.npr.org/2022/03/22/1088082740/selena-movie-returns-to-theaters|last1=Franklin|first1=Jonathan}}
Seven Years in Tibet (1997) – biographical war drama film about Heinrich Harrer and Peter Aufschnaiter's experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951{{cite news |author=Roger Ebert |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=Seven Years in Tibet :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews |work=Chicago Sun-Times|date=10 October 1997|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/seven-years-in-tibet-1997|access-date=2 July 2023}}
Shanghai 1937 (1997) – German war drama miniseries about the Japanese invasion of China also known as the Second Sino-Japanese War begins in 1937 as a precursor to World War II{{cite magazine |last=Byrge |first=Duane |date=7 October 1997 |title=War of the Worldly: Nine diverse characters brace for imminent Japanese attack in Durniok's 'Hotel Shanghai' |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |volume=349 |issue=27 |page=19 |id={{ProQuest|2469203575}} }}
Sins of the Mind (1997) – psychological drama television film telling the story of a conservative young woman who develops uncontrollable sexual urges as a result of a traffic accident and subsequent brain damage, inspired by a true story{{cite web |last1=Canton |first1=Maj |title=Sins of the Mind |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/b-uae6nm/sins-of-the-mind/ |website=www.radiotimes.com |publisher=Radio Times |access-date=23 May 2022}}
Sleeping with the Devil (1997) – thriller drama television film based on a true story about a woman recovering from a domestic-violence relationship who finds out that her former partner still wants her, even if it means killing her{{cite web |title=Sleeping with the Devil (1997) |url=https://mubi.com/en/us/films/sleeping-with-the-devil |website=MUBI |access-date=1 November 2023}}
The Sleepwalker Killing (1997) – crime drama television film inspired by a true story about a man who claims he was sleepwalking when he killed his mother-in-law{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/The-Sleepwalker-Killing-Hilary-Swank/dp/B00080Z5N4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360547784&sr=8-1&keywords=sleepwalker+killing|title=Amazon.com: The Sleepwalker Killing: Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Nordling, Charles Esten, Natalija Nogulich, Lisa Darr, Sean Murray, Victor Love, Marisa Coughlan, Sam Anderson, Julianna McCarthy, Joel Polis, John Rubinstein, Eric Van Haren Noman, John Cosgrove, Cyrus Yavneh, Lyle Slack, Terry Dunn Meurer, June Callwood: Movies & TV|website=Amazon |publisher=|accessdate=1 October 2014}}
Solomon (1997) – Christian drama miniseries retelling the biblical story of SolomonThe Ancient World in the Cinema Jon Solomon – 2001 0300083378 p173 "in Italy, RAI's Solomon (1997), starring Ben Cross as Solomon and Max von Sydow as David"
The Soong Sisters (Cantonese: 宋家皇朝) (1997) – Hong Kong historical drama film based on the lives of the Soong sisters from 1911 to 1949{{Cite news|last1=Dupont|first1=Joan|last2=Tribune|first2=International Herald|date=19 September 1997|title=MOVIES : Shooting the Saga of China's Famed Soong Sisters|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/19/style/IHT-movies-shooting-the-saga-of-chinas-famed-soong-sisters.html|access-date=2020-08-20|issn=0362-4331}}
Stolen Women: Captured Hearts (1997) – Western romantic drama television film about a woman living on the plains of Kansas in 1868 who is kidnapped by a band of Lakota Indians, loosely based on the real Anna Morgan who was taken by Cheyenne Indians for approximately one year before being returned to her husband{{cite web|url = http://www.skyways.org/towns/Delphos/our_history/anna_brewster_morgan.html|title = Delphos, Kansas, Our History}}
Subway Stories (1997) – anthology drama film based on the actual experiences of New York City subway riders and dramatized in a collection of 10 intriguing and very different vignettes{{cite web |title=Subway Stories: Tales From the Underground (1997) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/479888/subway-stories-tales-from-the-underground |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=1 November 2023}}
Thomas Jefferson (1997) – historical biographical miniseries covering the life and times of Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the United States[http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/trial/jefferson/episodes/list/12_1 Edward J. Gallagher, "Episode 12: Overview"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129080852/http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/trial/jefferson/episodes/list/12_1 |date=29 November 2014 }}, The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy, Digital Library, Lehigh University
Titanic (1997) – disaster drama film based on accounts of the sinking of {{RMS|Titanic}} in 1912{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/22/titanic-casting-james-cameron-christian-bale_n_1619006.html|title='Titanic' Casting: What Other Stars Were Considered For James Cameron's Masterpiece?|work=Huffington Post|date=22 June 2012|access-date=21 March 2016|archive-date=13 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313200613/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/22/titanic-casting-james-cameron-christian-bale_n_1619006.html|url-status=live}}
True Women (1997) – Western adventure miniseries covering five decades, from the Texas Revolution through Native American uprisings and the Civil War to the early stages of the women's suffrage movement{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/475737/true-women|title = True Women}}
Vasiliki (Greek: Βασιλική) (1997) – Greek drama film presenting the riotous years immediately after the Greek Civil War{{cite web|title=Vasiliki|url=http://www.tainiothiki.gr/v2/lang_en/filmography/view/1/2395/|publisher=tainiothiki.gr|accessdate=26 July 2014}}
Wild America (1997) – adventure comedy film based on the life of wildlife documentarian Marty Stouffer
Wilde (1997) – British biographical romantic drama film chronicling the turmoil in Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality{{cite news|last=Roman|first=Monica|date=12 February 1998|title=Sony nabs 'Wilde' rights|url=https://variety.com/1998/film/news/sony-nabs-wilde-rights-1117467735/|work=Variety|access-date=20 October 2023}}

1998

23 (German: 23 – Nichts ist so wie es scheint) (1998) – German drama thriller film about young hacker Karl Koch, who died on 23 May 1989, a presumed suicide{{cite book |last1=Schmid |first1=Hans-Christian |last2=Gutmann |first2=Michael |title=Drei Drehbücher. Nach fünf im Urwald / 23 / Crazy |year=2001 |publisher=Kiepenheuer & Witsch |location=Cologne |isbn=978-3-462-03049-5 }}
54 (1998) – drama film focusing on the rise and fall of Studio 54, a famous nightclub in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s{{Cite web |title=54 Director's Cut – Official Site |url=https://www.miramax.com/movie/54-director-s-cut |access-date= |website=Miramax |language=en}}
A Bright Shining Lie (1998) – war drama television film telling the true story of John Paul Vann's experience in the Vietnam War{{cite news | author=Rick Lyman | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/20/arts/hbo-s-shining-lie-draws-early-complaints.html | title=HBO's 'Shining Lie' Draws Early Complaints | work=The New York Times | date=20 May 1998 | accessdate=2014-09-02}}
A Civil Action (1998) – courtroom drama film telling the true story of a court case about environmental pollution that took place in Woburn, Massachusetts in the 1980s{{cite web| url = https://newenglandfilm.com/local_film/a-civil-action | title = A CIVIL ACTION (1998) | date = 15 May 2008 | access-date = 10 November 2019 | publisher = NewEnglandFilm.com }}
A Father for Brittany (1998) – drama television film based on a true story of a husband and wife who try to adopt a baby, only for cancer to get in the way{{Cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/m92js/a-change-of-heart/|title = A Change of Heart (1998)}}
Abgehauen (1998) – German biographical drama television film about the life of Manfred Krug{{cite web |title=Abgehauen (1998) |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/abgehauen |website=MUBI |access-date=1 November 2023}}
Aftershocks (1998) – Australian drama television film about the 1989 Newcastle earthquake{{Citation | last= Sue | first= Williams | title= No thanks for quake memory | url= | periodical= Herald Sun | date= 29 November 1998}}
The Apple (Persian: سیب) (1998) – Iranian drama film based on the true story of two sisters who were imprisoned for twelve years by their parents{{Cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_apple_1999|title = The Apple|website = Rotten Tomatoes}}
April (Italian: Aprile) (1998) – Italian biographical drama film about Nanni Moretti{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3600479/Film-makers-on-film-Claire-Denis.html|work=Daily Telegraph|title=Film makers on film Claire Denis on Nanni Moretti's Aprile (1998)|author=Sheila Johnston|page=20|date=16 August 2003|accessdate=29 September 2020|url-access=subscription}}
At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story (1998) – Canadian drama television film about the life of Canadian right to die advocate Sue Rodriguez{{cite web |title=At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/at_the_end_of_the_day_the_sue_rodriguez_story |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=1 November 2023}}
Bad As I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story (1998) – biographical sport drama television film about basketball player Dennis Rodman{{cite web|author=Ray Richmond |url=https://variety.com/1998/tv/reviews/bad-as-i-wanna-be-the-dennis-rodman-story-1200452964/ |title=Bad As I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story |publisher=Variety.com |date=5 February 1998 |access-date=2018-08-18}}
The Boys (1998) – Australian crime drama film influenced by the 1986 murder of Anita Cobby{{cite book|title=Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study|page=108|author=Alexandra Heller-Nicholas|publisher=McFarland|year=2011|isbn=978-0786486922}}
The Brylcreem Boys (1998) – British romantic comedy film set against the extraordinary neutrality arrangements in Ireland during World War II{{cite web |url=http://www.gov.im/dti/iomfilm/ |title=Isle of Man Government DTI – - Isle of Man Film Commission Welcome |accessdate=2003-12-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20031210085714/http://www.gov.im/dti/iomfilm/ |archivedate=10 December 2003 }}
Cider with Rosie (1998) – British biographical drama television film depicting an account of Laurie Lee's childhood in the village of Slad, Gloucestershire, England, in the period soon after the First World WarCountry Life, Volume 192, Issues 50–53 (1998), p. 56
Dangerous Beauty (1998) – historical biographical drama film about Veronica Franco, a courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice who becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft{{cite news|first=Roger|last=Ebert|author-link=Roger Ebert|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19980227/REVIEWS/802270303/1023|title=Dangerous Beauty (1998)[review]|work=Chicago Sun-Times|publisher=Sun-Times Media Group|location=Chicago, Illinois|date=27 February 1998|access-date=24 March 2018}}
The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1998) – historical biographical drama television film depicting the assassination of Abraham Lincoln[http://alt.tnt.tv/movies/tntoriginals/lincoln] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070823040431/http://alt.tnt.tv/movies/tntoriginals/lincoln|date=23 August 2007}}
The Day of the Roses (1998) – Australian disaster drama miniseries based on the events of the 1977 Granville railway disaster{{cite web |publisher=Umbrella Entertainment|title=Headline Collection, The Day of the Roses|url=http://www.umbrellaent.com.au/p-3633-headline-collection-the-day-of-the-roses.aspx?keyword=day+of+the+roses|accessdate=22 November 2015}}
Diana: A Tribute to the People's Princess (1998) – biographical drama television film about Diana, Princess of Wales{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/diana-the-peoples-princess-v358947|title=Diana: The People's Princess (1998) – Gabrielle Beaumont – Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related – AllMovie|website=AllMovie|accessdate=2 August 2017}}
Elizabeth (1998) – British historical biographical drama film based on the early years of Elizabeth I of England's reign, where she is elevated to the throne after the death of her half-sister Mary I, who had imprisoned her{{cite web |title=Elizabeth (1998) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1084153_elizabeth/ |access-date=29 December 2022 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango Media |archive-date=1 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801053924/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1084153_elizabeth? |url-status=live }}
Endurance (1998) – biographical drama film about the famous distance runner Haile Gebrselassie{{Cite web |last=Cox |first=Dan |date=4 September 1998 |title=Streep gets fest rolling in Telluride |url=https://variety.com/1998/film/news/streep-gets-fest-rolling-in-telluride-1117480136/ |access-date=2022-08-16 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}
Escape: Human Cargo (1998) – action television film based on the true story of an American businessman who loses his passport and exit visa in Saudi Arabia{{cite web | url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/b-gcrjkj/escape-human-cargo/ | title=Escape: Human Cargo (1998) }}
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) – stoner black comedy road film detailing Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo's journey through Las Vegas as their initial journalistic intentions devolve into an exploration of the city under the influence of psychoactive substances{{Cite web|date=20 June 2019|title=Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: 5 Things The Movie Changed From The Book (And 5 Things Kept The Same)|url=https://screenrant.com/fear-loathing-in-las-vegas-books-vs-movie/|access-date=2020-09-14|website=ScreenRant|language=en-US}}
Fifteen and Pregnant (1998) – drama television film based on the true story of a pregnant 15-year-old girl{{cite web |title=Fifteen and Pregnant (1998) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/fifteen-and-pregnant-1998 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=1 November 2023}}
Forever Love (1998) – romantic drama television film partially based on Annie Shapiro's awakening{{cite web |url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/51986_Mrs-Rip-van-Winkle-s-love-story-finally-ends |title=Mrs Rip van Winkle's love story finally ends - News - JamaicaObserver.com |website=www.jamaicaobserver.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603053226/http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/51986_Mrs-Rip-van-Winkle-s-love-story-finally-ends |archive-date=2011-06-03}}
The General (1998) – Irish crime drama film about Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill, who undertook several daring heists in the early 1980s and attracted the attention of the Garda Síochána, IRA and Ulster Volunteer Force{{Cite news |date=20 December 1998 |title=The Don of Dublin |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-20-ca-55689-story.html |access-date=2022-12-01}}
Genghis Khan (Mandarin: 代天骄成吉思汗) (1998) – Chinese biographical drama film telling the story of Genghis Khan{{cite web|url=https://movie.douban.com/subject/1858095/|title=一代天骄成吉思汗|publisher=Douban.com|language=Chinese|date=|accessdate=26 November 2017}}
Glory & Honor (1998) – biographical drama television film based on the true story of Robert Peary and Matthew Henson's 1909 journey to the Geographic North Pole, and their nearly 20-year history of exploring the Arctic together{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1998/film/reviews/glory-honor-1200452823/|title=Glory & Honor|last=Richmond|first=Ray|author-link=Ray Richmond|work=Variety|date=26 February 1998|access-date=5 February 2022}}
Gods and Monsters (1998) – historical drama film depicting a partly fictionalized account of the last days of the life of film director James Whale, known for directing Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935){{cite magazine|url= https://variety.com/1998/film/reviews/gods-and-monsters-1200452505/#!|title=Gods and Monsters|last=Harvey|first=Dennis|magazine=Variety|date=24 January 1998|accessdate=13 May 2021}}
Gia (1998) – biographical drama film about the life and times of one of the first supermodels, Gia Carangi{{cite web|url=http://www.interbridge.com/jamessanford/1998/gia.html|title=James Sanford reviews Gia|last=Sanford|first=James|year=2003|publisher=Kalamazoo Gazette|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061019170129/http://www.interbridge.com/jamessanford/1998/gia.html|archive-date=19 October 2006|access-date=10 January 2015}}
Hilary and Jackie (1998) – British biographical drama film about British classical musician sisters Jacqueline du Pré and Hilary du Pré, covering Jacqueline's meteoric rise to fame, her alleged affair with Hilary's husband Christopher Finzi, and her struggle with multiple sclerosis starting in her late 20s ultimately leading to her death at the age of 42{{cite book | last1=Du Pré | first1=Piers | last2=Du Pré |first2=Hilary | title=A Genius in the Family: An Intimate Memoir of Jacqueline du Pré | location=London | publisher=Heinemann | year=1997 | isbn=0-434-00344-1}}
Houdini (1998) – biographical drama television film about the life of the magician Harry Houdini{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/326689/houdini |title=Houdini (1998) – Overview |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |date=2 December 2009 |access-date=2013-12-01}}
Jeremiah (1998) – Christian drama television film depicting the biblical story of JeremiahJeffrey Richards Hollywood's Ancient Worlds [https://books.google.com/books?id=0tLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA168 p.168]
Jinnah (1998) – Pakistani-British epic biographical film following the life of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah{{cite news|title=Movie Review; Bringing Little-Known Pakistani Leader Jinnah to Life: [Home Edition|first=Kevin|last=Thomas|date=15 December 1998|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}} {{ProQuest|421351306}}
José Rizal (1998) – Filipino historical drama film based on the true story of Filipino patriot José Rizal, who was imprisoned under the Spanish colonization and tells Rizal's story until the final day of his execution{{cite web |title=Jose Rizal |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jose-rizal |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=1 November 2023}}
Lautrec (1998) – French biographical drama film about the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, focusing on his love affair with painter Suzanne Valadon{{Cite web |url=http://www.filmsdulosange.fr/fr/film/92/lautrec |title=Archived copy |access-date=1 November 2023 |archive-date=13 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813135356/http://www.filmsdulosange.fr/fr/film/92/lautrec |url-status=dead }}
Leaf on a Pillow (Indonesian: Daun di Atas Bantal) (1998) – Indonesian drama film based on true stories in the lives of three street boys in Yogyakarta who all die under tragic circumstances, also dealing with poverty in Indonesia, as seen through the experiences of the poor{{cite web |title=DAUN DI ATAS BANTAL (1998) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b814c18d8 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=1 November 2023}}
The Long Island Incident (1998) – drama television film about the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting[https://archive.today/20120918221139/http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,979847,00.html A Mass Murderer's Journey Toward Madness – Printout – TIME]
Love and Rage (1998) – British-Irish-German drama film about a romantic obsession which turned violent, inspired by a true story and partially filmed in the home where the actual events occurred{{cite web|title=The Valley House Holiday Hostel & Bar|url=http://www.valley-house.com/vh_film.htm|website=The Valley House|accessdate=20 September 2015}}
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) – British biographical drama film depicting a biography of painter Francis Bacon, concentrating on his strained relationship with George Dyer, a small-time thief{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|date=14 December 1998|page=72|title=British biz at the box office}}
Miracle at Midnight (1998) – war drama television film based on the rescue of the Danish Jews in Denmark during the Holocaust{{cite web |title=Miracle at Midnight (1998) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/473099/miracle-at-midnight |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=1 November 2023}}
Mulan (1998) – animated musical adventure film based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan{{Cite news|last1=Brown|first1=Corie|last2=Shapiro|first2=Laura|title=Women Warrior|magazine=Newsweek|format=|via=|access-date=|date=8 June 1998|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-20790971|archive-date=13 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713231139/https://www.gale.com/databases/questia|url-status=live}}
My Own Country (1998) – drama television film telling the story of Abraham Verghese, a young infectious-disease physician in the mid-1980s in Johnson City, Tennessee, who began to treat patients with a then unknown disease (later identified as AIDS){{cite web |title=My Own Country (1998) |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/my-own-country |website=MUBI |access-date=1 November 2023}}
Never Tell Me Never (1998) – Australian biographical drama television film about cross-country skier Janine Shepherd{{Citation | last= Browne | first= Rachel | title= Never? Never! | url= | periodical= The Sun Herald | date= 3 May 1998}}
The Newton Boys (1998) – Western crime film telling the true story of the Newton Gang, a family of bank and train robbers from Uvalde, Texas{{cite web |last1=Ebert |first1=Roger |title=The Newton Boys |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-newton-boys-1998 |website=RogerEbert.com |access-date=20 April 2022}}
Nicholas' Gift (1998) – American-Italian drama television film about an American couple on vacation in Italy in 1994 with their two children who are attacked and shot by highway bandits, based on a true story{{cite web|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1998-04-25-9804240227-story.html|title='NICHOLAS' GIFT' IS SURE TO TOUCH YOUR HEART|last=Jicha|first=Tom|date=24 April 1998|website=Sun-Sentinel|access-date=20 October 2022}}
Patch Adams (1998) – biographical comedy drama film loosely based on the life story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams[http://www.patchadams.org/Gesundheit_Institute_speakers "Dr. Patch Adams."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100123044607/http://www.patchadams.org/Gesundheit_Institute_speakers |date=23 January 2010 }} [http://www.patchadams.org/ideas The Gesundheit! Institute] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127062144/http://www.patchadams.org/ideas |date=27 January 2010 }}
The Pentagon Wars (1998) – war comedy film about the development of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=Daryl |title=TV Review; Savvy 'Pentagon Wars' Scores a Direct Hit: [Home Edition] |work=Los Angeles Times |issue=Home Edition |date=28 February 1998}}
Permanent Midnight (1998) – drama film about Jerry Stahl, a successful TV writer for popular series like thirtysomething, Twin Peaks, and ALF, and his struggles with substance abuse{{cite magazine |title=Jeff Fink: the arthouse customer is not some special breed|magazine=Video Business |date=30 August 1999 |volume=19 |number=35 |page=18 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/223917200|id={{ProQuest|223917200}} |quote=Based on the feedback we've gotten from dealers, we know titles like...Permanent Midnight deliver solid return on investment}}
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998) – animated musical adventure film focusing on Pocahontas's journey to England with John Rolfe to negotiate for peace between the two nations{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-20-ca-14696-story.html|title=Pocahontas, Re-Revisited|last=King|first=Susan|work=Los Angeles Times|date=20 August 1998|access-date=18 May 2020}}
Point Last Seen (1998) – action drama television film about a tracker who searches for a little girl who was lost in the desert, but suffers internally because her own children were kidnapped by her ex-husband, based on a true story{{cite web |last1=Wilkinson |first1=Alec |title=Tracks |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/22/reviews/970622.22wilkint.html |website=The New York Times |date=22 June 1997}}
The Prince of Egypt (1998) – animated religious musical drama film following the life of Moses from being a prince of Egypt to a prophet of the Lord, chosen by God to carry out his ultimate destiny of leading the Hebrews out of Egypt[http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/THE-PRINCE-OF-EGYPT-Will-Take-World-Premiere-Bow-in-Denmark-20170214 THE PRINCE OF EGYPT Will Take World Premiere Bow in San Francisco, then Play Denmark] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214234556/http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/THE-PRINCE-OF-EGYPT-Will-Take-World-Premiere-Bow-in-Denmark-20170214 |date=14 February 2017}} Broadway World, Retrieved 14 February 2017
Psycho (1998) – psychological horror film inspired by the crimes of the real-life serial killer, Ed Gein{{cite news|url=https://www.salon.com/1999/08/13/hitchcock_paglia/ |title=The Savage id|last=Sragow|first=Michael |work=Salon |date=13 August 1999|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220502045123/https://www.salon.com/1999/08/13/hitchcock_paglia/|archive-date=2 May 2022}}
The Rat Pack (1998) – biographical drama television film about the Rat Pack{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rat_pack |title=The Rat Pack |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |date= 3 May 2005|accessdate=2022-03-21}}
Resurrection Man (1998) – Northern Irish extreme horror drama film loosely based on the real-life "Shankill Butchers", an Ulster loyalist gang in 1970s Belfast who conducted random killings of Catholic civilians until their leader, Lenny Murphy, was assassinated by a Provisional IRA hit squadBaker, Stephen (2004) Vampire Troubles: Loyalism and Resurrection Man. In: Keeping it real: themes and issues in Irish film and television. (Eds: Barton, Ruth and O'Brien, Harvey), Wallflower, pp. 78–86. {{ISBN|978-1-903364-94-9}}
Ruby Bridges (1998) – biographical drama television film based on the true story of Ruby Bridges, one of the first black students to attend integrated schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1960{{Cite web |title=Ruby Bridges |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ruby_bridges |access-date=16 June 2023 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango Media}}
Sada (Japanese: SADA〜戯作・阿部定の生涯) (1998) – Japanese drama film based on the true story of Sada Abe{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1998/02_programm_1998/02_Programm_1998.html |title=Berlinale: 1998 Programme |accessdate=1 January 2012 |work=berlinale.de}}
Saving Private Ryan (1998) – epic war drama film inspired by accounts of casualties among members of a single family such as the Niland brothers during World War II{{Cite web |last=Weinraub|first=Bernard |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/19/movies/reel-1-dazzling-hope-reel-2-dimmer-results-dreamworks-disappoints-hollywood.html |title=Filmmakers Optimistic On Summer|website=The New York Times |date=19 May 1998 |access-date=10 December 2022 | archive-date=27 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527082842/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/19/movies/reel-1-dazzling-hope-reel-2-dimmer-results-dreamworks-disappoints-hollywood.html |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}
Savior (1998) – war drama film about a U.S. mercenary escorting a Bosnian Serb woman and her newborn child to a United Nations safe zone during the Bosnian War{{Cite web |title=Savior |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/savior |access-date=1 December 2022 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango Media}}
Shot Through the Heart (1998) – war drama television film covering the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, based on a true story{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/10/04/the-human-cost-of-war/ |title=The Human Cost Of War |last=Randle |first=Nancy Jalasca |date=4 October 1998 |website= |publisher=Chicago Tribune |access-date=25 May 2022 |archive-date=28 July 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728120015/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-10-04/entertainment/9810050019_1_vlado-snipers-serbs |quote=}}
The Sleep Room (1998) – Canadian biographical drama television film about experiments on Canadian mental patients that were carried out in the 1950s and 1960s by Donald Ewen Cameron and funded by the CIA's MKUltra program"The Sleep Room", The Canadian Historical Review, Volume 80, Number 4, December 1999 pp. 698–705
Swami Vivekananda (1998) – Indian biographical drama film about Swami Vivekananda, the 19th-century Hindu monk{{cite magazine|title=All-pervasive intolerance forces director of Swami Vivekananda to make seminal changes to cast and script of the historical film|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/intolerance-forces-director-of-swami-vivekananda-to-make-seminal-changes-to-cast-and-script-of-historical-film/1/264713.html|access-date=5 September 2013|magazine=India Today|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020184443/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/intolerance-forces-director-of-swami-vivekananda-to-make-seminal-changes-to-cast-and-script-of-historical-film/1/264713.html|archive-date=20 October 2013|url-status=dead}}
The Temptations (1998) – biographical musical drama miniseries based upon the history of one of Motown's longest-lived acts, The Temptations{{cite news|last=Zurawik|first=David|author-link=David Zurawik|title=We yielded to 'Temptations' Ratings: Baltimore's TV-watchers tuned in to the NBC miniseries in staggering numbers.|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1998/11/11/we-yielded-to-temptations-ratings-baltimores-tv-watchers-tuned-in-to-the-nbc-miniseries-in-staggering-numbers-radio-and-television/|newspaper=Baltimore Sun|date=11 November 1998|access-date=12 February 2017}}
Terra Nova (1998) – Australian drama film based on a young woman who runs away from her home in New Zealand and hides with her child in an Australian boarding house named Terra Nova{{cite web|author=Hollywood.com Staff|title=Terra Nova {{!}} Movie {{!}} 1998|url=http://www.hollywood.com/movies/terra-nova-59144171/|website=Hollywood.com|language=en-US|date=3 February 2015}}
The Thin Red Line (1998) – epic war film depicting a fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen, which was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War[http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Kipling/Tommy.htm" Rudyard Kipling – Tommy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401234723/http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Kipling/Tommy.htm |date=1 April 2012 }}. Web Books. Retrieved 4 August 2001.
The Tichborne Claimant (1998) – British drama film based on the Tichborne case, a historical case of identity theft{{cite web |title=The Tichborne Claimant (1998) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/526704/the-tichborne-claimant |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=1 November 2023}}
The Tiger Woods Story (1998) – biographical sport drama television film about the life of Tiger Woods{{cite web|author=Tiger Woods |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/tiger-woods-son-hero-champion-v162030 |title=Tiger Woods: Son, Hero & Champion (1998) – Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast |publisher=AllMovie |date= |accessdate=2013-01-26}}
The Versace murder (1998) – biographical crime drama film focusing on the true story of the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace by alleged serial killer Andrew Cunanan{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000DE6B3 |title=The Versace Murder: Franco Nero, Steven Bauer: Movies & TV |website=Amazon |date= |access-date=2010-10-12}}
Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998) – romantic drama film about Frankie Lymon, lead singer of the pioneering rock and roll group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers{{AFI film|id=61627|title=Why Do Fools Fall in Love}}.
Winchell (1998) – biographical drama television film telling the true story of the influential and controversial columnist, Walter Winchell{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/21/arts/television-review-putting-down-the-big-shots-while-snuggling-up.html | title=Putting Down the Big Shots While Snuggling Up | work=The New York Times | date=21 November 1998 | access-date=20 August 2012 | last=Goodman | first=Walter}}
Windhorse (1998) – drama film about the lives of three young Tibetans who struggle for freedom against the Chinese communist regime, based on true events[http://www.paulwagnerfilms.com/windhorse-about-film/ Windhorse]
Without Limits (1998) – biographical sport drama film following the relationship between record-breaking distance runner Steve Prefontaine and his coach Bill Bowerman, who later co-founded Nike, Inc.[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/without_limits/ Without Limits] at Rotten Tomatoes
Witness to the Mob (1998) – crime drama television film following the rise of Sammy Gravano in ranks in the Gambino crime family, one of the "Five Families" of the New York Cosa Nostra that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, his turning to government witness in the legal trials of John Gotti and his life in federal Witness Protection Program{{cite web|url=https://people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-review-witness-to-the-mob-vol-49-no-18/|title=Picks and Pans Review: Witness to the Mob|publisher=people.com|date=11 May 1998}}

1999

The 13th Warrior (1999) – historical action drama film depicting a loose adaptation of the tale of Beowulf combined with Ahmad ibn Fadlan's historical account of the Volga Vikings{{cite web|url=http://www.windofkeltia.com/crichton/13thwar.html |title=Michael Crichton's Novel, The 13th Warrior |publisher=Windofkeltia.com |access-date=2014-08-09}}
A Respectable Man (Italian: Un uomo perbene) (1999) – Italian biographical drama film depicting the judicial case of television presenter Enzo Tortora, who was falsely accused by several pentiti to be a camorra man and who died of cancer a short time after being acquitted{{cite book|author=Roberto Chiti|author2=Enrico Lancia|author3=Roberto Poppi|name-list-style=amp|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I Film|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401372}}
Aimée & Jaguar (1999) – German war drama film chronicling the actual lives of Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim during World War II{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1999/03_preistr_ger_1999/03_Preistraeger_1999.html |title=Berlinale: 1999 Prize Winners |access-date=2012-01-29 |work=berlinale.de |archive-date=8 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808033208/https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1999/03_preistr_ger_1999/03_Preistraeger_1999.html |url-status=dead }}
All My Loved Ones (Czech: Všichni moji blízcí) (1999) – Czech-Polish-Slovak war drama film about Nicholas Winton and the Czech Kindertransport{{cite web|url=http://www.radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/matej-minac-award-winning-film-maker-who-proved-his-mother-wrong|title=Matej Minac: award-winning film maker who proved his mother wrong|last=Vaughan|first=David|date=10 February 2003|work=Radio Prague|publisher=Český rozhlas|accessdate=13 September 2013}}
All the King's Men (1999) – British war drama television film based on the story of the 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment which included men from the King's estate at Sandringham House who had initially been formed in a "Sandringham Company"[http://user.online.be/%7Esnelders/sand.htm The Vanished Battalion] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141202082136/http://user.online.be/~snelders/sand.htm |date=2 December 2014 }}
Angela's Ashes (1999) – biographical drama film based on the memoir of the same name by Frank McCourt following the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick{{cite web|title=Angela's Ashes (EN)|url=http://lumiere.obs.coe.int/web/film_info/?id=15219|website=Lumiere|access-date=27 June 2017}}
Anna and the King (1999) – biographical historical drama film giving a fictionalized account of the diaries of Anna Leonowens{{Cite web|author= Aglionby, John |date= 29 December 1999 |title= Thai censors ban 'insulting' remake of King and I film |url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/dec/29/world.news |website= The Guardian |access-date= 29 July 2018 }}
Aristocrats (1999) – British-Irish-American historical drama miniseries about the four aristocratic Lennox sisters in 18th century England{{cite news |last1=Mermelstein |first1=Davod |title=Aristocrats |url=https://variety.com/1999/tv/reviews/aristocrats-3-1117752230/ |access-date=1 November 2023 |agency=Variety |date=8 October 1999}}
At First Sight (1999) – romantic drama film inspired by the true life story of Shirl Jennings{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/332063/at-first-sight|title=At First Sight|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=23 March 2016}}
Bad Company (French: Mauvaises Fréquentations) (1999) – French romantic drama film about an innocent 14-year-old girl ends up prostituting herself (and her best friend) for her tortured, disturbed boyfriend, in the name of love, based on a true story{{cite web |title=Alain Layrac : "Un film choc sur l'adolescence" |work=ladepeche.fr |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/1999/10/20/208407-alain-layrac-un-film-choc-sur-l-adolescence.html |access-date=2022-01-30 }}
Beefcake (1999) – biographical drama film about the muscle magazines of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s—in particular, Physique Pictorial magazine, published quarterly by Bob Mizer of the Athletic Model Guild[https://archive.today/20130216140831/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/176632/Beefcake/credits The New York Times Movies]
Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1999) – biographical Western miniseries about the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder{{cite web |title=Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/beyond_the_prairie_ii_the_true_story_of_laura_ingalls_wilder_continues |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=3 November 2023}}
Bhopal Express (Hindi: भोपाल एक्सप्रेस) (1999) – Indian Hindi-language drama film set against the gas tragedy in Bhopal, India, in 1984, and examines the irresponsible methods of large corporations and the effects of their actions on common people{{cite web |title=Bhopal Express (1999) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/bhopal-express-1999 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=2 November 2023}}
The Blonde Bombshell (1999) – British biographical drama miniseries based on the life and death of actress Diana Dors{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/200571/The-Blonde-Bombshell/overview |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120711030914/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/200571/The-Blonde-Bombshell/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 July 2012 |title=The-Blonde-Bombshell – Trailer – Cast – Showtimes – NYTimes.com |date=1 November 2010 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Hal Erickson |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |accessdate=4 May 2012}}
Boys Don't Cry (1999) – biographical drama film depicting a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, an American trans man who attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances[http://filmmakermagazine.com/archives/issues/fall1999/boys.php Kimberly Peirce profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922094632/http://filmmakermagazine.com/archives/issues/fall1999/boys.php |date=22 September 2015 }}
Bravo Two Zero (1999) – British war drama film covering real life events – from the perspective of Andy McNab, patrol commander of Bravo Two Zero, a British SAS patrol, tasked to find Iraqi Scud missile launchers during the Gulf War in 1991{{cite web |title=Bravo Two Zero |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bravo_two_zero |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=1 November 2023}}
Breaking Out (Swedish: Vägen ut) (1999) – Swedish comedy drama film inspired by the true event when Jan Jönson directed Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" at Kumla Prison and took the ensemble of inmates to Gothenburg City Theatre for an official opening performance, whereby four out of five of the inmates escaped{{cite web |title=VÄGEN UT (1999) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b82618ff4 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=1 November 2023}}
Brotherhood of Murder (1999) – crime thriller television film based on the white supremacist group The Order, its founder Robert Jay Mathews, and the largest cash robbery in US history{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/182446/Brotherhood-of-Murder/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071204151759/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/182446/Brotherhood-of-Murder/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 December 2007 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Mark Deming |date=2007 |title=Brotherhood of Murder (1999) |accessdate=13 January 2009}}
Children of the Century (French: Les Enfants du Siècle) (1999) – French biographical romance drama film based on the true tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset{{cite news | title = Following Sand's footsteps | url = http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/1999/0320/99032000201.html | format = fee required | publisher = The Irish Times | date = 20 March 1999 | access-date = 13 September 2007}}
Come On Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story (1999) – biographical drama television film about the 1970–1974 television series The Partridge Family, focusing on star David Cassidy and co-star Danny Bonaduce through the four years the show was on[https://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/come-on-get-happy-the-partridge-family-story-1200459755/ Come On Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story] at Variety, 11 November 1999.
Cradle Will Rock (1999) – historical drama film fictionalizing the true events that surrounded the development of the 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein{{cite web |url=https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2022/10/afterword-to-the-cradle-will-rock-a-screenplay-by-orson-welles-tk/ |title=Afterword to The Cradle Will Rock, a screenplay by Orson Welles|last=Rosenbaum |first=Jonathan |date=17 June 1994 |publisher=jonathanrosenbaum.net |access-date=12 February 2023}}
Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly (1999) – Canadian crime drama television film based on the life of Alex Kelly{{cite news |last1=Richmond |first1=Ray |title=Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly |url=https://variety.com/1999/tv/reviews/crime-in-connecticut-the-story-of-alex-kelly-1200456974/ |access-date=1 November 2023 |agency=Variety |date=15 March 1999}}
The Cup (Tibetan: ཕོར་པ།) (1999) – Bhutanese sport comedy film about two young football-crazed Tibetan refugee novice monks in a remote Himalayan monastery in India who desperately try to obtain a television for the monastery to watch the 1998 World Cup final, based on a true story{{cite news | author =Susan Jakes | title =The God of Small Films | publisher =Time Magazine | date =27 January 2003 | url =http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,411452,00.html | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070509052137/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,411452,00.html | url-status =dead | archive-date =9 May 2007 | accessdate=2009-06-13}}
The Debt (Polish: Dług) (1999) – Polish thriller film based on the true story of Sławomir Sikora and Artur Bryliński in the early 1990s{{cite news|url=https://culture.pl/en/artist/jacek-borcuch |title=Jacek Borcuch |access-date=22 April 2020}}
Dockers (1999) – British drama television film about the struggles of a small group of Liverpool dockers who were sacked and subsequently spent nearly {{frac|2|1|2}} years picketing during the Liverpool Dockers' Strike of 1995 to 1998{{cite web|title=Resources for Learning|url=http://www.channel4learning.com/support/programmenotes/netnotes/section/sectionid100663577.htm|work=4Learning|publisher=Channel 4|access-date=15 March 2011}}
The Einstein of Sex (German: Der Einstein des Sex) (1999) – German biographical drama film following the life of the Jewish doctor, sexologist, and gay socialist Magnus Hirschfeld{{cite web|title=DER EINSTEIN DES SEX – LEBEN UND WERK DES DR. HIRSCHFELD|url=https://mubi.com/de/films/the-einstein-of-sex-life-and-work-of-dr-m-hirschfeld|work=Internet Movie Database|access-date=2022-05-02}}
Esther (1999) – American-Italian-German Christian drama television film telling the biblical story of Esther{{cite web |title=Esther |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/esther_2000 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=3 November 2023}}
Excellent Cadavers (Italian: I giudici) (1999) – American-Italian crime drama television film telling the real life events of judge Giovanni Falcone{{cite news|last=Barbara D.Phillp|title=Excellent Cadavers' Looks At Mafia . |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aLtNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Uf0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3739,2554296&dq=excellent-cadavers+tognazzi&hl=en|accessdate=3 July 2012|newspaper=Lakeland Ledger|date=16 October 1999}}
General Sutter (1999) – Swiss historical drama film based on the life of John August Sutter, a German-born Swiss figure who participated in the American gold rush in the years before the American Civil War{{cite web |title=General Sutter (1999) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/general-sutter-1999 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=3 November 2023}}
Girl, Interrupted (1999) – psychological drama film following a young woman who spends 18 months institutionalized at a psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt, based on Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a psychiatric hospital in the late 1960s{{cite web|date=6 August 2014|title=7 Wonders: Girl, Interrupted|url=https://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2014/08/06/7-wonders-girl-interrupted/|access-date=2021-06-03|website=Wonderland|language=en-US}}
Goya in Bordeaux (Spanish: Goya en Burdeos) (1999) – Spanish historical drama film about the life of Francisco Goya, the Spanish painter{{cite web |title=Goya in Bordeaux |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/goya_in_bordeaux |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=3 November 2023}}
Grey Owl (1999) – American-Canadian-British biographical drama film about the real-life British schoolboy turned Native American trapper "Grey Owl", Archibald Belaney{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2000/10/31/grey_owl_2000_review.shtml|website=BBC|title=Grey Owl (2000)|date=31 October 2000}}
Guardami (1999) – Italian erotic thriller drama film loosely based on the life of Moana Pozzi{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Enrico Lancia |author3=Roberto Poppi |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano|year=1991 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2001|isbn=8884400856}}
Hefner: Unauthorized (1999) – biographical drama film about Hugh Hefner and the birth of the Playboy empire{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/hefner-unauthorized-v269023|title=Hefner: Unauthorized (1999) – Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast – AllMovie|publisher=allmovie.com|accessdate=2014-05-24}}
The Hunley (1999) – historical drama television film based on the true story of the H. L. Hunley submarine and the action of 17 February 1864{{cite web |title=The Hunley (1999) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/329606/the-hunley/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=1 November 2023}}
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999) – thriller drama miniseries depicting an account of early-1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who murdered his girlfriend and then fled the country{{cite web |title=The Hunt For the Unicorn Killer (1999) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/466321/the-hunt-for-the-unicorn-killer/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=1 November 2023}}
The Hurricane (1999) – biographical sport drama film about Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter, a former middleweight boxer who was wrongly convicted for a triple murder in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey{{cite web |last1=von Tunzelmann |first1=Alex |title=The Hurricane: the facts of Rubin Carter's life story are beaten to a pulp |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/24/the-hurricane-rubin-carter-denzel-washington |work=The Guardian |date=24 April 2014 |access-date=14 April 2021}}
In a Class of His Own (1999) – drama television film about a high school janitor must go back to school to get his GED to keep his job, based on a true story{{cite book|title=TV Guide|date= 16–22 October 1999|page=102}}
In Too Deep (1999) – crime thriller hood film loosely based on a true story of an undercover police officer who infiltrated an inner-city drug empire and took down the crime lord in charge{{cite news|title= Cop Thriller 'In Too Deep' Rises Above Formulaic Plot|work= Los Angeles Times|last=Seymour|first=Gene|date=25 August 1999|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-25-ca-3343-story.html|access-date=2012-06-03}}
Inherit the Wind (1999) – drama television film fictionalizing the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a means of discussing the 1950s McCarthy trials{{Cite web |url=http://www.cjonline.com/stories/030201/wee_inherit.shtml |title=Inherit the controversy |access-date=2009-05-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113051143/http://cjonline.com/stories/030201/wee_inherit.shtml |archive-date=2014-11-13 |url-status=dead }}
The Insider (1999) – biographical thriller drama film about Jeffrey Wigand, a whistleblower in the tobacco industry, covering his and CBS producer Lowell Bergman's struggles as they defend his testimony against efforts to discredit and suppress it by CBS and Wigand's former employer{{cite video|date=1999|title=The Insider |medium=Motion picture|publisher=Touchstone Pictures|time=2:33:32|quote=Although based on a true story, certain elements in this motion picture have been fictionalized for dramatic effect.}}
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) – biographical drama television film about actress and singer Dorothy Dandridge{{cite magazine |title=Halle Berry Brings the Passion and Pain of Dorothy Dandridge to HBO Movie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fj0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60 |magazine=Jet |volume=96 |issue=12 |date=23 August 1999 |page=60 |issn=0021-5996}}
The Jesse Ventura Story (1999) – biographical drama television film about the life of ex-pro wrestler Jesse Ventura who became the 38th governor of Minnesota{{cite web|author=Ray Richmond |url=https://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/the-jesse-ventura-story-1117499799/ |title=The Jesse Ventura Story |publisher=Variety.com |date=21 May 1999 |access-date=2019-02-09}}
Jesus (1999) – Italian-American Christian drama miniseries about the historical events of Jesus Christ{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/1999/tv/news/italians-flock-to-jesus-mini-1117760324/|title = Italians flock to 'Jesus' mini|date = 29 December 1999}}
Joan of Arc (1999) – Canadian historical biographical drama miniseries about the 15th-century Catholic saint of the same name{{cite web |title=Joan of Arc |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1088045-joan_of_arc |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=1 November 2023}}
Man on the Moon (1999) – biographical comedy drama film about the late American entertainer Andy Kaufman{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/man-on-the-moon-1200460052/ |title=Man on the Moon|work=Variety|last=McCarthy|first=Todd|date=12 December 1999|access-date=20 September 2018}}
Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999) – Christian drama television film retelling the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother{{cite web |title=Mary, Mother of Jesus |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mary_mother_of_jesus |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=3 November 2023}}
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc) (1999) – French epic historical drama film portraying the story of St. Joan of Arc, the French war heroine and religious martyr of the Hundred Years War{{cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/people/luc-besson/AA3lA7Q |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141128094437/http://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/people/luc-besson/AA3lA7Q |archive-date=28 November 2014 |url-status=dead |title=Luc Besson |work=MSN |access-date=5 October 2014 }}
Michael Jordan: An American Hero (1999) – biographical sport drama television film about the life of professional basketball player, Michael Jordan{{cite web|last=Huff|first=Richard|title=Fox Family Channel Goes Buggy With 'Jordan' Alert|url=http://articles.nydailynews.com/1999-04-20/entertainment/18098911_1_worthy-programs-fox-family-channel-jordan-promotion|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531081811/http://articles.nydailynews.com/1999-04-20/entertainment/18098911_1_worthy-programs-fox-family-channel-jordan-promotion|archive-date=31 May 2012|work=New York Daily News|access-date=13 July 2011}}
Milgaard (1999) – Canadian biographical drama miniseries centring on David Milgaard, a Canadian man who was wrongfully convicted in the 1969 rape and murder of Gail Miller, and his 22-year quest for justice until being released from prison in 1992Tony Atherton, "23 years of pain better told in miniseries". Ottawa Citizen, 25 March 1999.
The Miracle Maker (Welsh: Gwr y Gwyrthiau) (1999) – British-Russian animated Christian drama film telling the story of the life of Jesus Christ{{Cite web |year=2000 |title=Bwletin Awdurdod S4C |url=https://www.s4c.cymru/abouts4c/authority/pdf/2000_04c.pdf}}
Moloch (Russian: Молох) (1999) – Russian biographical drama film portraying Adolf Hitler living life in an unassuming manner during an abrupt journey to the Bavarian Alps, a few months before the notorious Battle of StalingradElley, Derek (31 May 1999). [https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117914244.html?categoryid=31&cs=1 Period Drama]. Variety. Retrieved 21 December 2010.
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999) – Australian-Belgian biographical drama film about Father Damien, a Belgian priest working at the Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement on the Hawaiian island of Molokai{{cite web |title=Molokai: The Story of Father Damien |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/526061/molokai-the-story-of-father-damien/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=1 November 2023}}
Mother (Russian: Мама) (1999) – Russian musical drama film based on the capture of an Ovechkin family in 1988[http://kinoart.ru/archive/1999/07/n7-article8 Вынесет всё]
Mr. Rock 'n' Roll: The Alan Freed Story (1999) – biographical drama television film about the life of Alan Freed{{cite web|last=Gates|first=Anita|title=TV WEEKEND; Gonna Have Some Fun When the Clock Strikes 1|date=15 October 1999|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/15/movies/tv-weekend-gonna-have-some-fun-when-the-clock-strikes-1.html|accessdate=14 June 2020}}
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence (1999) – British crime drama television film based on the murder of Stephen Lawrence committed on 22 April 1993, following Stephen's parents' ,Doreen and Neville, quest for justice as a gang of racists are tried for their son's murder{{Cite web | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/276131.stm |title=ITV to screen Lawrence drama| newspaper=BBC News| date=10 February 1999}}
Music of the Heart (1999) – biographical musical drama film dramatizing the true story of Roberta Guaspari, who co-founded the Opus 118 Harlem School of Music and fought for music education funding in New York City public schools{{cite news | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1999/10/16/streep-takes-violin-immersion-course-for-role-in-music-of-the-heart/ | first=Bonnie | last=Churchill | title=Streep Takes Violin Immersion Course For Role In 'Music Of The Heart' | newspaper=Chicago Tribune | date=16 October 1999}}
Mutiny (1999) – war drama television film based on the story of the Port Chicago disaster during World War II where 50 African-American sailors were accused of mutiny because they declined to continue loading munitions after an explosion caused by failures in training and management{{cite web|last1=Webb|first1=Andy|title=Mutiny (1999) starring Michael Jai White, Duane Martin, David Ramsey, Matthew Glave, David Barry Gray, Lark Voorhies, James Sikking directed by Kevin Hooks – movie review on The Movie Scene|url=http://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/mutiny-1999/mutiny-1999.html|website=TheMovieScene.co.uk|accessdate=7 August 2017}}
My Life So Far (1999) – American-British biographical drama film based on the memoirs of Denis Forman, a British television executive{{cite web |title=My Life So Far |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/my_life_so_far |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=1 November 2023}}
Not One Less (Mandarin: 一個都不能少) (1999) – Chinese drama film centring on a 13-year-old substitute teacher in the Chinese countryside, addressing education reform in China, the economic gap between urban and rural populations, and the prevalence of bureaucracy and authority figures in everyday life{{cite web |title=Not One Less |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/not_one_less |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=2 November 2023}}
October Sky (1999) – biographical drama film telling the true story of Homer H. Hickam Jr., a coal miner's son who was inspired by the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 to take up rocketry against his father's wishes and eventually became a NASA engineer{{Cite web|url=http://www.coalwoodwestvirginia.com/|title=Coalwood, West Virginia|website=www.coalwoodwestvirginia.com|access-date=29 January 2018|archive-date=18 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218030025/http://www.coalwoodwestvirginia.com/|url-status=live}}
One Man's Hero (1999) – American-Mexican-Spanish historical war drama film dramatizing the true story of John Riley and the Saint Patrick's Battalion, a group of Irish Catholic immigrants who desert the mostly Protestant U.S. Army to join the mostly Catholic Mexican side during the Mexican–American War of 1846 to 1848{{cite book|last=Wagenen|first=Michael Van|title=Remembering the Forgotten War: The Enduring Legacies of the U.S./Mexican War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rN2iIORgBzAC&pg=PA231|year=2012|publisher=Univ of Massachusetts Press|location=Massachusetts|isbn=978-1-55849-930-0|pages=230–232}}
Otomo (1999) – German drama film telling the true story of Frederic Otomo, a black man seeking work and asylum in the German city of Stuttgart, however, all he finds is racism{{Citation |title=Otomo |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/otomo |work=Rotten Tomatoes |language=en |access-date=2022-11-09}}
Passion (1999) – Australian biographical drama film about some episodes in the life of the pianist and composer Percy Grainger{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1999 |title=21st Moscow International Film Festival (1999) |accessdate=2013-03-23 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130322163246/http://moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1999 |archivedate=22 March 2013 }}
The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999) – biographical drama television film about Russian-born American writer and public philosopher, Ayn Rand{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/peter-fonda-10-phases-acting/|title=Peter Fonda – 10 Phases of Acting|date=26 October 2019 }}
Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) – biographical drama television film exploring the impact that the rivalry between Steve Jobs (Apple Computer) and Bill Gates (Microsoft) had on the development of the personal computer{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/1999/tv/reviews/pirates-of-silicon-valley-1200458078/|title=Review: 'Pirates of Silicon Valley'|access-date=2015-12-12|last=Richmond|first=Ray|date=16 June 1999|magazine=Variety|archive-date=12 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171212062136/http://variety.com/1999/tv/reviews/pirates-of-silicon-valley-1200458078/|url-status=live}}
Propaganda (1999) – Turkish comedy drama film based on a true story from 1948 about a customs officer who is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown{{cite web |title=Propaganda (1999) |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/propoganda |website=MUBI |access-date=1 November 2023}}
Ravenous (1999) – horror cannibal film combining elements from the Donner Party and that of the real life "The Colorado Cannibal", Alferd Packer, who survived by eating five companions after becoming snowbound in the San Juan Mountains in the 1870s{{cite web |last=Draper |first=Sam |date=6 May 2020 |title=Ravenous – Damon Albarn & Michael Nyman |url=https://lovehorror.co.uk/horror-features/41584/ravenous-damon-albarn-michael-nyman/ |website=www.lovehorror.co.uk}}
Rembrandt (1999) – international coproduction biographical drama film about the life of iconic artist Rembrandt van Rijn{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/rembrandt-2-1200459428/|title = Rembrandt|date = 18 October 1999}}
RKO 281 (1999) – historical drama television film depicting the troubled production behind the 1941 film Citizen Kane{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/1996/tv/reviews/the-battle-over-citizen-kane-1200444283/|title=The Battle Over Citizen Kane|work=Variety|first=Sheri|last=Linden|date=28 January 1996|accessdate=27 December 2020}}
Rocky Marciano (1999) – biographical sport drama film telling the story of the rise to fame of legendary boxer Rocky Marciano{{cite web | title= Rocky Marciano [Subscription required]| url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/179629/Rocky-Marciano/overview| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123031148/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/179629/Rocky-Marciano/overview| url-status=dead| department=Movies & TV Dept.| work=The New York Times| author=Mark Deming| date=2015| archive-date=2015-01-23|url-access=subscription}}
Rogue Trader (1999) – British biographical drama film centring on the life of former derivatives broker Nick Leeson and the 1995 collapse of Barings Bank{{Citation | title = Risky business | newspaper = The Guardian | date = 8 June 1999 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/jun/08/comment | access-date = 23 February 2012}}
Seventeen Years (Mandarin: 過年回家) (1999) – Chinese crime drama film inspired by real-life testimonies of prison inmates in ChinaBerry, Michael (2002). "Zhang Yuan" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=a5oy2HlLth8C Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers].

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Shaheed Udham Singh (Punjabi: ਸ਼ਹੀਦ ਊਧਮ ਸਿੰਘ) (1999) – Indian Punjabi-language biographical film based on the life of Udham Singh, an Indian revolutionary who had witnessed the 1919 Amritsar massacre and wanted to avenge the mass killing of his countrymen{{Cite web|date=9 August 2016|title=Pune: A film festival that celebrates freedom|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/pune-a-film-festival-that-celebrates-freedom-2962539/|access-date=2021-06-30|website=The Indian Express}}
Shaheed-e-Mohabbat Boota Singh (Punjabi: ਸ਼ਹੀਦ-ਏ-ਮੁਹੱਬਤ ਬੂਟਾ ਸਿੰਘ) (1999) – Indian Punjabi-language romance film based on the real-life love story of Boota Singh and Zainab{{cite web | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99apr17/saturday/head6.htm | title=Silver lining in the clouds of Partition | work=The Tribune |date=17 April 1999 | accessdate=27 July 2013}}
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box (1999) – biographical drama film about magicians Siegfried & Roy{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-28-ca-26947-story.html|title=Siegfried & Roy's Latest Is No Illusion|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=23 October 2017|date=28 October 1999}}
The Straight Story (1999) – biographical road drama film based on the true story of Alvin Straight's 1994 journey across Iowa and Wisconsin on a lawn mower{{cite web|title=The Straight Story (1999)|website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films|access-date=9 February 2022|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/61718-THE-STRAIGHTSTORY?sid=b9d2126e-1539-4e1c-ba73-6a0c6e1c1296&sr=7.913997&cp=1&pos=0}}
Strange Justice (1999) – political drama television film covering the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/strange-justice-1117752055/|title=Strange Justice|last=Fries|first=Laura|work=Variety|date=27 August 1999|access-date=12 December 2022}}
Summer of Sam (1999) – crime thriller film about the 1977 David Berkowitz (Son of Sam) serial murders and their effect on a group of fictional residents of an Italian-American neighborhood in The Bronx in the late 1970s{{cite news |last=Von Tunzelmann |first=Alex |date=26 April 2012 |title=Summer of Sam is an almost boringly flawless portrait of a real-life monster |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/apr/26/summer-sam-spike-lee |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=2017-02-19 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141007190035/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/apr/26/summer-sam-spike-lee |archive-date=2014-10-07 }}
Suzy Q (1999) – Dutch biographical drama film based on the childhood memories of Frouke Fokkema{{cite web|url=https://torrentfreak.com/director-wants-film-pirate-bay-pirates-deliver-140724/|author=Ernesto Van der Sar|date=24 July 2014|title=Director Wants His Film on The Pirate Bay, Pirates Deliver…|access-date=30 June 2021}}
The Swan and the Wanderer (Finnish: Kulkuri ja joutsen) (1999) – Finnish biographical drama film about two very popular Finnish singer-songwriters, Tapio Rautavaara and Reino Helismaa, who worked together until their relationship got fractious for a long time – covering the years from 1949 to 1965{{cite web |title=The Swan and the Wanderer (1999) |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/the-swan-and-the-wanderer |website=MUBI |access-date=3 November 2023}}
Switched at Birth (1999) – drama television film about two baby boys, born more or less at the same time, were switched soon after they had been born, based on a true story{{cite news |last1=Richmond |first1=Ray |title=Two Babies: Switched at Birth |url=https://variety.com/1999/tv/reviews/two-babies-switched-at-birth-1117759807/ |access-date=2 November 2023 |agency=Variety |date=29 November 1999}}
Tea with Mussolini (Italian: Un tè con Mussolini) (1999) – British-Italian comedy drama film telling the semi-autobiographical story of a young Italian boy's upbringing by a circle of British and American women before and during the Second World War{{cite news |last1=Thomas |first1=Kevin |author-link=Kevin Thomas (film critic) |title='Tea With Mussolini' Offers a Five-Role Feast |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-14-ca-36975-story.html |access-date=19 July 2022 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=14 May 1999}}
To Walk with Lions (1999) – adventure biographical drama film following the later years of Lion advocate George Adamson{{cite web |title=To Walk with Lions (1999) |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/to-walk-with-lions |website=MUBI |access-date=3 November 2023}}
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke (1999) – biographical drama miniseries about billionaire tobacco heiress Doris Duke{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/454346/too-rich-the-secret-life-of-doris-duke/|title=Too Rich: the Secret Life of Doris Duke (1999) - Overview - TCM.com|publisher=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=2015-04-13}}
Topsy-Turvy (1999) – British historical musical drama film concerning the 15-month period in 1884 and 1885 leading up to the premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan's The MikadoDixon, Wheeler Winston. [http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/05/37/topsy_turvy.html "Mike Leigh, Topsy-Turvy and the Excavation of Memory"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090204010312/http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/05/37/topsy_turvy.html |date=4 February 2009 }}. Senses of Cinema, 2005, accessed 22 March 2010
Tuesdays with Morrie (1999) – biographical drama television film based on journalist Mitch Albom's 1997 memoir of the same title, particularly the bond with his former professor, Morrie Schwartz, who was dying of ALS{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-05-ca-40514-story.html|title=Going Against the Usual Wisdom|last=Noxon|first=Christopher|author-link=Christopher Noxon|work=Los Angeles Times|date=5 December 1999|access-date=11 May 2023}}
Tumbleweeds (1999) – comedy drama film based on Angela Shelton's childhood memories spent on the road with her serial-marrying mother{{Cite web |last=Wallace |first=Amy |date=23 November 1999 |title=Two Sides of the Same Conundrum |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-23-ca-36608-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913043155/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-23-ca-36608-story.html |archive-date=2022-09-13 |access-date=2022-09-13 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}
Ultimate Deception (1999) – crime drama television film based on the story of how Ralph Takemire murdered a young Colorado woman to steal her baby and bring the infant to his childless wife in Overbrook{{cite web |title=Ultimate Deception |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ultimate_deception_1999 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=1 November 2023}}
Vicious Circle (1999) – British crime drama television film following notorious Irish criminal Martin Cahill as he undertakes a high stakes jewellery robbery, stealing loot worth more than a million pounds{{cite web |url=https://www.catawiki.com/catalog/dvd-video-blu-ray/carriers/dvd/3467009-vicious-circle|title=Vicious Circle – DVD – Catawiki|work=Catawiki|date=7 February 2013|accessdate=12 January 2019}}
The Winslow Boy (1999) – historical drama film based on an incident involving George Archer-Shee in the Edwardian era{{cite web|title=The Winslow Boy (1999)|website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films|access-date=15 July 2023|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/61779-THE-WINSLOWBOY?sid=5d29197b-0900-4efa-87d9-962fbde28c2a&sr=8.859503&cp=1&pos=0}}
Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) – biographical drama film dramatizing a series of macabre incidents that took place in and around Black River Falls, Wisconsin in the late-19th century{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wisconsin_death_trip|work=Rotten Tomatoes|title=Wisconsin Death Trip|access-date=18 December 2022}}
Witch Hunt (1999) – Australian crime drama television film about a young girl who goes missing and her father who accuses his mother-in-law of abducting her, based on a true story[http://www.jacquelinebissetfans.org/bis/witch.html Witch Hunt (1999) [Australian] ] Jacqueline Bisset fans. Retrieved 15 October 2010
Wojaczek (1999) – Polish biographical drama film about rebellious Polish poet Rafał Wojaczek{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmweb.pl/film/Wojaczek-1999-774&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiUstynjNftAhURVH0KHZ-BCbAQFjAZegQICRAB&usg=AOvVaw38BPoV6BeuvfdUshF_L_JS|title=Wojaczek (1999) film details at Filmweb}}
You Know My Name (1999) – Western biographical drama television film based on the real-life story of lawman and gunslinger Bill Tilghman, who also directed and produced the 1915 Western film The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws{{Cite web|title=You Know My Name|url=https://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/you-know-my-name-1200456701/|last=Gaydos|first=Steven|date=2 February 1999|website=Variety|language=en|access-date=2020-05-09}}

External links

[http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/historymovies.html History at the Movies: Historical and Period Films]
[https://www.imdb.com/keyword/based-on-true-story/ Internet Movie Database list]
[http://hudsonfla.com/films.htm Films based on historical events and people]

References

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