Based on a True Story TV Shows (
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While fictionalized and sensationalized, these shows are based on real things that happened to real people in the real world. Who knew!?

It’s a Sin

A chronicle of four friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.

Network:
Airdates: 2021

Jann

Welcome to celebrity life, Canadian style.

Network:
Airdates: 2019 - 2021

Juana Inés

A powerful feminist nun, involved in a forbidden love affair with a woman, faces oppression in 17th-century Mexico.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2016

Las Pelotaris 1926

Basque pelota was a men’s sport… until it wasn’t.

Network:
Airdates: 2023

Little Ellen

The show explores the world through the eyes of a hilarious and unpredictable seven-year-old Ellen DeGeneres.

Network:
Airdates: 2021 - 2022

Marie Antoinette

Follows the famed queen Marie Antoinette, who was the last queen of France before the French Revolution.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2022 - current

Modern Love

Modern Love is an anthology TV series based on a weekly column published by The New York Times.

Network:
Airdates: 2019 - 2021

Mom and Me

What’s the best advice your mom ever gave you?

Network:
Airdates: 2016 - 2018

Mrs. America

The somewhat fictionalized story of conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly leading the fight against the Equal Rights Amendment movement during the 1970s.

Network:
Airdates: 2020

Mujeres Asesinas (Argentina)

A series about women who kill, for a variety of reasons.

Network:
Airdates: 2005 - 2008

Mujeres Asesinas (Mexico)

Anthology series, spanning through three seasons, that deals with a woman or women who have to kill for a specific reason.

Network:
Airdates: 2008 - 2010

Our Flag Means Death

The year is 1717. Wealthy landowner Stede Bonnet has a midlife crisis and decides to blow up his cushy life to become a pirate. It does not go well.

Network:
Airdates: 2022 - 2023