Claim: There is a historical drama produced by Brad Pitt.
Evidence: He produced The Departed -LRB- 2006 -RRB- and 12 Years a Slave -LRB- 2013 -RRB- , both of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture , and also The Tree of Life , Moneyball , and The Big Short -LRB- 2015 -RRB- , all of which garnered Best Picture nominations.
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 period drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 slave narrative memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup , a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington , D.C. , in 1841 and sold into slavery.
The term , historical period drama -LRB- also historical drama , period drama , costume drama , and period piece -RRB- refers to a work set in an earlier time period ; usually used in the context of film and television.