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The Real John Dillinger
Is Public Enemies historically accurate?  
Elliott J. Gorn   Jul 01, 2009   Life and Art  
Gaming the Robot Revolution
A military technology expert weighs in on Terminator: Salvation.  
P. W. Singer   May 21, 2009   Life and Art  
My Great-Uncles Tried To Kill Hitler
One family's story of the Valkyrie plot.  
Rose Dakin   Jan 12, 2009   Life and Art  
The Wrestler Is Good
A three-time WWE champion explains what Darren Aronofksy's pro-wrestling movie gets right.   
Mick Foley   Dec 18, 2008   Life and Art  
Piracy on the High C's
A new Broadway musical sexes up the life of Grace O'Malley.  
Barbara Sjoholm   May 10, 2007   Life and Art  
The Lost Baggage of Unaccompanied Minors
Can you mention divorce in a kids' movie?  
Susan Burton   Dec 13, 2006   Life and Art  
The Real Kazakhstan
What does Borat get right and wrong about his native land?  
Eric Weiner   Nov 03, 2006   Life and Art  
Death Becomes Her
Examining the morbid fascination with the Black Dahlia.  
Seth Mnookin   Sep 14, 2006   Life and Art  
Oliver Stone's World Trade Center Fiction
How the rescue really happened.  
Rebecca Liss   Aug 09, 2006   Life and Art  
The Knights Templar
Who were they? And why do we care?  
Malcolm Barber   Apr 20, 2006   Life and Art  
The History Behind Munich
Separating truth from fiction in Spielberg's movie.  
Aaron J. Klein   Dec 23, 2005   Life and Art  
How Accurate Is Jarhead?
What one Marine makes of the Gulf War movie.  
Nathaniel Fick   Nov 09, 2005   Life and Art  
Slim Pickings
The real story behind the sports tout in Two for the Money.  
Jacob Lewis   Oct 07, 2005   Life and Art  
Chocolate Wars
The inspiration for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  
Joël Glenn Brenner   Jul 15, 2005   Life and Art  
It's a Shame About Ray
Why must biopics sentimentalize their subjects?  
David Ritz   Oct 22, 2004   Life and Art  
It's Delightful, It's Delicious—It's Wrong
De-Lovely allows that Cole Porter was gay, but doesn't tell the whole story.  
Franklin Bruno   Jul 21, 2004   Life and Art  
Cops & Robbers
How realistic is The Shield's portrayal of life on the force?  
Lucas Miller   Jun 15, 2004   Life and Art  
A Mirage in the Desert
Viggo Mortensen's Hidalgo is based on a not-so-true story.  
Anuj Desai   Mar 04, 2004   Life and Art  
Steve and Me
How accurate a portrayal of journalism is Shattered Glass?  
David Plotz   Sep 30, 2003   Life and Art  
Love Me Two-Timer
Was Benedict Arnold's wife the real traitor?  
Jason Zinoman   Jan 10, 2003   Life and Art  
October Sky
How close does Thirteen Days come to telling the true story of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis?   
Jared Hohlt   Dec 29, 2000   Life and Art  
Tales of Hoffman 
Steal This Movie! turns Abbie Hoffman into the civil liberties hero he never was.   
Jared Hohlt   Aug 21, 2000   Life and Art  
Hot, Dada, and Still Dead
Man on the Moon puts a happy face on the life and times of Andy Kaufman.  
Jared Hohlt   Dec 23, 1999   Life and Art  
Double Trouble
The two lives and one murder of Teena Brandon.  
Jared Hohlt   Oct 08, 1999   Life and Art  
Seven Years in Tibet
Seven Years in Tibet  
Jared Hohlt   Oct 10, 1997   Life and Art  
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