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.

Jann

Welcome to celebrity life, Canadian style.

Juana Inés

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

Las Pelotaris 1926

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

Little Ellen

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

Marie Antoinette

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

Modern Love

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

Mom and Me

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

Mrs. America

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

Mujeres Asesinas (Argentina)

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

Mujeres Asesinas (Mexico)

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

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.