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!?

Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story

A prostitute- turned-serial killer who preyed mostly on truck drivers.

Network:
Airdates: 1992

Project Blue Book

A tough US Air Force officer and a skeptical scientist investigate UFO and alien conspiracies as Cold War paranoia spreads.

Network:
Airdates: 2019 - 2020

Rebel

Annie “Rebel” Bello is a blue-collar legal advocate without a law degree.

Network:
Airdates: 2021

Second Serve

Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was transgender.

Network:
Airdates: 1986

Self Made

The inspiring story of trailblazing African American entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker who built a haircare empire that made her America’s first female self-made millionaire.

Network:
Airdates: 2020

Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

The true story of a decorated officer’s legal challenge to her involuntary discharge when she admitted she was homosexual.

Network:
Airdates: 1995

Soldier’s Girl

The true story of the price a young soldier paid for falling in love with a transsexual night-club performer.

Network:
Airdates: 2003

Special

Ryan Hayes, a gay millennial with mild cerebral palsy, decides to rewrite his story and finds his identity and voice along the way.

Network:
Airdates: 2019 - 2021

Take My Wife

Standing up as gay has never been so funny.

Network:
Airdates: 2016 - 2018

The First Lady

In the East Wing of the White House, many of history’s most impactful and world-changing decisions have been hidden from view, made by America’s charismatic, complex and dynamic first ladies.

Network:
Airdates: 2022

The Full Monty

The original band of brothers as they navigate Sheffield and its crumbling healthcare, education and employment sectors, exploring the brighter, sillier and more humane way forward where communal effort can still triumph over adversity.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2023

The Ms. Pat Show

A woman from Atlanta finds herself in conservative middle America where she lives her life as a reluctant suburban mom.

Network:
Airdates: 2021 - current