Movies and TvShows featuring "based-on-newspaper-article" theme.

Modern Love is an anthology series that explores love in all its forms, from romantic to familial to platonic. Each episode tells a different story that is inspired by true events and based on the popular New York Times column of the same name.

Trial by Fire tells the true story of Cameron Todd Willingham, a man who was convicted of setting a fire that killed his three daughters. Despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence, Willingham found himself on death row and fought to prove his case.

Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt, who becomes captivated with Forrest's commitment to his craft, and a woman who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.

An elite Mexican police unit hunts fugitives, many of them American, on the run to Mexico.

A man from the future arrives at a diner in Los Angeles where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night-six-block quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.

A married guy spends too much time with an online fantasy role-playing game.

The story follows a slew of museum art robberies that occurred in Europe, in which Chinese antiquities were stolen, chiefly those that came from the country’s old Summer Palace which was raided in 1860 by French soldiers. No one knows who the thieves are, but the works of art continually wind up back in China. Essentially, there’s a new generation of wealthy Chinese people who are collecting artifacts from the old Summer Palace. Is China’s government behind the art theft wave? The feature questions who gets to own art, and who gets to own history and culture.

Based on news article about a noted Detroit car designer who hired a beautiful girl from Sweden as his maid. Her beauty quickly becomes so legendary that she ends up having countless rich and famous admirers and leaving for Hollywood.

After neutralizing the original curse, Guido, the jewel smuggler who was the only gangster to survive the shoot out in the warehouse, has learned that the spirits of those who were deceased in the gunfight have returned to once again torment the ladies. Guido must know gather himself and figure out who is responsible for the black magic that has brought back the curse.

Jan at Blue Fox was an early light entertainment show created by the BBC in 1952, and in total it lasted for four episodes; little else is known about this early show. No footage remains of this programme, as all of the episodes were aired live and never recorded for posterity. The only existing visual record today of this show consists of still photographs.