# List of 1990s films based on actual events

This is a list of films and miniseries that are based on actual events. All films on this list are from American production unless indicated otherwise.

## 1990

* A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1990) – British biographical drama television film depicting the experiences of T. E. Lawrence and Emir Faisal of the Hejaz at the Paris Peace Conference, after the end of the First World War
* A Killing in a Small Town (1990) – crime drama television film based on the story of Candy Montgomery
* A Season of Giants (Italian: La primavera di Michelangelo) (1990) – American-Italian biographical drama television film depicting real life events of Michelangelo, his youth, his approach with art, his friendship with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, and his involvement in great political and religious events
* A Violent Life (Italian: Una vita scellerata) (1990) – Italian biographical drama film depicting real life events of goldsmith and sculptor Benvenuto Cellini
* After the Shock (1990) – disaster drama television film about the aftermath of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that hit San Francisco on 17 October 1989
* An Angel at My Table (1990) – biographical drama film depicting a dramatization of the autobiographies of New Zealand author Janet Frame – following from when she grows up in a poor family, through her years in a mental institution, and into her writing years after her release
* Anything to Survive (1990) – Canadian-American disaster survival television film based on the true story of the Wortman family of Prince of Wales Island, Alaska
* Artificial Paradise (Slovene: Umetni raj) (1990) – Yugoslav biographical drama film portraying a fictionalized depiction of Fritz Lang's life in 1935
* The Austrian (French: L'Autrichienne) (1990) – French biographical drama film depicting the last days of Marie-Antoinette of Austria, showing her trial and execution
* Awakenings (1990) – biographical drama film telling the story of the story of neurologist Oliver Sacks who discovers the beneficial effects of the drug L-DOPA in 1969 administering it to catatonic patients who survived the 1917–1928 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica
* Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990) – historical biographical drama film about the life and death of Norman Bethune, a Canadian physician who served as a combat surgeon during the Chinese Civil War
* Blood Oath (1990) – Australian drama film based on the real-life trial of Japanese soldiers for war crimes committed against Allied prisoners of war on the island of Ambon, in the Netherlands East Indies, such as the Laha massacre of 1942
* Call Me Anna (1990) – biographical drama television film about Patty Duke, detailing her long-time struggle with mental illness
* Captive of the Desert (French: La captive du désert) (1990) – French adventure drama film based in part on the experiences of Françoise Claustre who was captured by Chadian rebels in 1974, later joined by her husband, and the pair finally released in 1977
* Challenger (1990) – disaster drama television film based on the events surrounding the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986
* Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (1990) – British crime drama film inspired by the real-life Hulten/Jones murder case of 1944, otherwise known as the Cleft chin murder
* China Cry (1990) – biographical drama film based on the true story of Sung Neng Yee
* The Civil War (1990) – historical miniseries about the American Civil War
* Close-Up (Persian: کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک) (1990) – Iranian biographical drama film telling the story of the real-life trial of a man who impersonated film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, conning a family into believing they would star in his new film
* The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990) – biographical drama television film about the early life of the baseball star in the army and in particular his court-martial for insubordination regarding segregation
* Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 (1990) – disaster drama television film telling the story about a bomb hoax aboard a passenger plane, usually advertised as being based on true events
* Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) – French-Hungarian historical comedy drama film depicting a fictionalisation following the broad outlines of Cyrano de Bergerac's life
* Dear Sarah (1990) – Irish biographical television film about Giuseppe Conlon who was wrongfully sentenced to twelve years imprisonment after being implicated as one of the Maguire Seven during the 1970s
* Death of a Doctor (Hindi: एक डॉक्टर की मौत) (1990) – Indian Hindi-language biographical drama film loosely based on the life of Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay, an Indian physician who pioneered the In vitro fertilisation treatment
* Diary for My Father and Mother (Hungarian: Napló apámnak, anyámnak) (1990) – Hungarian biographical drama film following a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising
* Divided Loyalties (1990) – Canadian biographical drama television film about Mohawk leader Joseph Brant, portraying his "divided loyalties" between British and American allies during the American Revolutionary War
* Dr. Petiot (French: Docteur Petiot) (1990) – French crime drama film presenting the exploits of real-life serial killer Marcel Petiot during the Second World War
* The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story (1990) – biographical drama television film depicting how L. Frank Baum came to create The Wonderful Wizard of Oz while undergoing and eventually overcoming professional and personal failures
* Europa Europa (German: Hitlerjunge Salomon) (1990) – German-French-Polish historical war drama film based on the 1989 autobiography of Solomon Perel, a German-Jewish boy who escaped the Holocaust by masquerading as a Nazi and joining the Hitler Youth
* Fall from Grace (1990) – biographical drama television film about the lives of Jim Bakker and his then-wife, Tammy Faye Bakker, during the 1980s
* Family of Spies (1990) – drama television film based on the espionage of John A. Walker Jr.
* Forbidden Nights (1990) – drama television film focuses on Judith Shapiro, an American teacher who falls in love with Liang Heng, a Chinese radical, trying to bring political reform to his homeland
* The Fourth Reich (1990) – South African biographical drama film revolving around the life of Robey Leibbrandt, a South African boxer who participated in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
* Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (Swedish: God afton, Herr Wallenberg – En Passionshistoria från verkligheten) (1990) – Swedish biographical war drama film about Swedish World War II diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who was instrumental in saving the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust
* Goodfellas (1990) – biographical war film narrating the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980
* Hello Hemingway (1990) – Cuban drama film set in Havana in 1956, near the end of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship
* Henry & June (1990) – biographical drama film telling the story of Anaïs Nin's relationship with Henry Miller and his wife, June
* Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (1990) – historical war drama television film about the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima
* I Love You to Death (1990) – black comedy crime film loosely based on an attempted murder that happened in 1983, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where Frances Toto repeatedly tried to kill her husband, Anthony
* I, the Worst of All (Spanish: Yo, la peor de todas) (1990) – Argentine biographical drama film about the life of Juana Inés de la Cruz
* Iron & Silk (1990) – Canadian action comedy drama film detailing Mark Salzman's journey to China after college to study Chinese wu shu, better known in the west as kung fu, and to teach English
* Jiao Yulu (Mandarin: 焦裕祿) (1990) – Chinese biographical film telling the story of Jiao Yulu overseeing the development of Lankao County in Henan from 1962 to 1964
* Judgment (1990) – drama television film loosely based on Louisiana priest, Gilbert Gauthe who faced a widely publicized criminal trial for child sexual abuse and was sentenced to 20 years in prison
* Kawashima Yoshiko (Cantonese: 川島芳子) (1990) – Hong Kong historical crime drama film based on the life of Yoshiko Kawashima, a Manchu princess who was brought up as a Japanese and served as a spy in the service of the Japanese Kwantung Army and Manchukuo during the Second World War
* Korczak (1990) – biographical war film about Polish-Jewish humanitarian Janusz Korczak
* The Krays (1990) – British biographical crime drama film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangster twins Ronald and Reginald Kray, often referred to as The Krays
* The Long Walk Home (1990) – historical drama film about the Montgomery bus boycott
* The Man Inside (1990) – drama film about German writer and undercover journalist, Günter Wallraff
* Max and Helen (1990) – war drama television film based on Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal's 1962 prosecution of the head of a German factory whom he learns was a murderous labor camp commandant
* Mayumi (Korean: 마유미) (1990) – South Korean drama film based on the life of Kim Hyon Hui, a North Korean agent whose Japanese teacher was Yaeko Taguchi, a Japanese abductee; she was paroled in 1998, and 12 years later she met Yaeko's son Kochi and told him that his mother was still alive
* Memphis Belle (1990) – British-American war drama film about the 25th and last mission of an American Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, the Memphis Belle, based in England during World War II
* Miracle Landing (1990) – disaster drama television film based on an in-flight accident aboard Aloha Airlines Flight 243 that occurred in April 1988
* Mountains of the Moon (1990) – biographical drama film depicting the 1857–1858 journey of Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke in their expedition to Central Africa, which culminated in Speke's discovery of the source of the Nile River and led to a bitter rivalry between the two men
* Murder in Mississippi (1990) – crime drama television film dramatizing the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder during Freedom Summer in 1964
* My Mother's Castle (French: Le château de ma mère) (1990) – French biographical adventure film about Marcel Pagnol's early life, a sequel to My Father's Glory
* My Father's Glory (French: La Gloire de mon père) (1990) – French biographical drama film about Marcel Pagnol's early life
* Nambugun (Korean: 남부군: 남한의 북한 빨치산) (1990) – South Korean war drama film based upon the experiences of Lee Tae, a war correspondent and pro-North Korean Partisan during the Korean War
* The Nasty Girl (German: Das schreckliche Mädchen) (1990) – West German drama film based on the true story of Anna Rosmus, a young woman who investigated her town's Nazi past
* Pacific Heights – psychological thriller film based on a true story about a couple who rent out an apartment to a crazy scam man
* Portrait of a Marriage (1990) – British biographical drama miniseries detailing the real-life love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Violet Keppel, as well as the strength of Vita's enduring marriage to the diplomat Harold Nicolson
* Reversal of Fortune (1990) – biographical mystery film recounting the true story of the unexplained coma of socialite Sunny von Bülow, the subsequent attempted murder trial, and the eventual acquittal of her husband, Claus von Bülow
* Rock Hudson (1990) – biographical drama television film telling the story of Phyllis Gates and Rock Hudson's marriage, written after Hudson's 1985 death from AIDS
* The Rose and the Jackal (1990) – Western adventure television film revolving around Union agent Allan Pinkerton, falling in love with female spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow
* Sandino (1990) – Spanish-Nicaraguan biographical drama film about Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto César Sandino
* Santha Shishunala Sharifa (Kannada: ಸಂತ ಶಿಶುನಾಳ ಶರೀಫ) (1990) – Indian Kannada-language biographical drama film based on the life of acclaimed saint poet Shishunala Sharif who wrote several moral poems striving towards social reformation
* Schweitzer (1990) – adventure biographical film about Albert Schweitzer's life in Africa
* Secret Weapon (1990) – American-Australian biographical drama television film depicting the true story of Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear technician who revealed to the world his country's nuclear weapons capabilities
* Shoot to Kill (1990) – biographical drama miniseries depicting the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation
* Silent Scream (1990) – biographical crime drama film about convicted murderer Larry Winters
* Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990) – biographical drama television film depicting the life of Ian Fleming, creator of the James Bond spy character, retracing his playboy youth, his expulsion from several colleges, his experiences as a newspaper writer and his tour of duty for the British intelligence agency during World War II
* Stalingrad (Russian: Сталинград) (1990) – Soviet-Slovak-East German-American war drama film about the eponymous Battle of Stalingrad
* The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner (1990) – biographical drama television film about the life of Anton Bruckner
* Sudie and Simpson (1990) – romantic drama television film based on Sarah Flanigan Carter's autobiographical novel about growing up in World War II-era Georgia, United States
* Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys (1990) – biographical drama television film covering the history of the Beach Boys
* Too Young to Die? (1990) – crime drama television film loosely based on the story of Attina Marie Cannaday, who along with David Gray killed Ronald Wojcik with a knife, in Harrison County, Mississippi, on 3 June 1982
* Unspeakable Acts (1990) – biographical drama television film telling the story of child psychologists Dr. Laurie and Joseph Braga and their involvement in one of the worst child sex abuse scandals in the U.S
* Vincent & Theo (1990) – biographical drama film about the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theo, an art dealer
* Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase (1990) – drama miniseries about Truddi Chase, a woman who was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder who allegedly had 92 separate personalities
* Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (1990) – thriller drama miniseries based on the 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking
* When You Remember Me (1990) – biographical drama television film based on the life of Michael Patrick Smith, a young man who filed a lawsuit in the early '70s that led to improved conditions for nursing home patients nationwide
* White Hunter Black Heart (1990) – adventure drama film depicting a thinly disguised account of Peter Viertel's experiences while working on the 1951 film The African Queen, which was shot on location in Africa at a time when location shoots outside of the United States for American films were very rare
* Young Guns II (1990) – Western action film following the life of Billy the Kid, in the years following the Lincoln County War in which Billy was part of "The Regulators" – a group of around six highly skilled gunmen avenging the death of John Tunstall – and the years leading up to Billy's documented death

## 1991

* 29th Street (1991) – comedy drama film based on the true-life story of actor Frank Pesce, who won the first New York State Lottery in 1976
* A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story (1991) – biographical drama television film recounting the life of Ricky Bell, a Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back sickened with dermatomyositis, and Ryan Blankenship, a physically impaired child
* A Woman Named Jackie (1991) – biographical drama miniseries chronicling the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
* Absolute Strangers (1991) – biographical drama television film based on the true story of a husband's controversial decision to have his wife undergo an abortion to aid her recovery after a head-trauma accident had left her comatose
* American Friends (1991) – British romantic drama film based on a real-life incident involving Michael Palin's great-grandfather, Edward Palin
* And the Sea Will Tell (1991) – crime drama television film recounting an apparent double murder on Palmyra Atoll although only one body was ever found; the subsequent arrest, trial, and conviction of Wesley G. "Buck Duane" Walker; and the acquittal of his girlfriend, Stephanie Stearns, whom Bugliosi and Leonard Weinglass had defended
* Babe Ruth (1991) – biographical sport drama television film based on the life of Babe Ruth
* The Best Intentions (Swedish: Den goda viljan) (1991) – Swedish biographical drama film telling the story of the complex relationship between Ingmar Bergman's parents, Erik Bergman and Karin Åkerblom
* The Best of Friends (1991) – biographical television film about the friendship of George Bernard Shaw, Sydney Cockerell and Dame Laurentia McLachlan, based on the lengthy correspondence that passed between them for over 25 years
* Billy Bathgate (1991) – biographical gangster film about a teen named Billy Bathgate who finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz
* Bix (1991) – Italian biographical drama film about the final years of cornet player Bix Beiderbecke
* Black Robe (1991) – historical drama film depicting the adventures of a Jesuit missionary tasked with founding a mission in New France
* The Boys from St. Petri (Danish: Drengene fra Sankt Petri) (1991) – Danish war drama film inspired by the activities of the Churchill Club
* Bugsy (1991) – biographical crime drama film based on the life of American mobster Bugsy Siegel and his relationship with wife and starlet Virginia Hill
* Cabeza de Vaca (1991) – Mexican adventure drama film about the adventures of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, an early Spanish explorer, as he traversed what later became the American South
* Center Stage (Cantonese: 阮玲玉) (1991) – Hong Kong biographical drama film following the life and career of silent film actress Ruan Lingyu
* Charuga (Croatian: Čaruga) (1991) – Yugoslav biographical adventure film telling the true story about legendary Slavonian bandit Jovo Stanisavljević Čaruga
* The Chase (1991) – crime drama television film based on the true story of American criminal Phillip Hutchinson, who robbed a bank, killed a police officer, and took a man hostage in a 1988 rampage in Denver, Colorado
* Chernobyl: The Final Warning (1991) – disaster drama television film telling the true story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl and how one American specialist, Dr. Robert Gale, helped the soviet doctors treat the survivors
* Conspiracy of Silence (1991) – Canadian crime drama miniseries based on the true story of the Murder of Helen Betty Osborne, a Canadian cold case that was legally resolved after roughly twenty years of inaction
* Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann (1991) – crime drama television film based on the true story of the abduction of Peggy Ann Bradnick by an ex-convict and ex-mental patient William Diller Hollenbaugh which took place in Shade Gap, Pennsylvania on 11 May 1966
* Deadly Intentions... Again? (1991) – thriller television film based on the true story of a troubled young doctor jailed for plotting the murder of his first wife
* Deadly Medicine (1991) – thriller drama television film chronicling the murder case of convicted serial killer Genene Jones, a pediatric nurse from San Antonio, Texas, who murdered between 11 and 46 infants during 1981 and 1982 by inducing Code blue emergencies through fatal overdoses of prescription medications such as heparin
* Death Song Korean: 사의 찬미) (1991) – South Korean biographical drama film about the life and death of famous Korean singer, Yun Sim-deok in the 1920s
* Decisive Engagement: The Liaoxi-Shenyang Campaign (Mandarin: 大決戰之遼沈戰役) (1991) – Chinese epic war film about the Liaoshen Campaign of the Chinese Civil War
* Dillinger (1991) – action crime television film based on the actual events of the pursuit of American bank robber John Dillinger during the 1930s
* The Doctor (1991) – drama film about a doctor who undergoes a transformation in his views about life, illness and human relationships, loosely based on Dr. Edward Rosenbaum's 1988 memoir A Taste of my Own Medicine
* The Doors (1991) – biographical drama film telling the story of the American rock band the Doors and their influence on music and counterculture
* False Arrest (1991) – drama television film based on the real-life murders of William Redmond and Helen Phelps and the true story of Joyce Lukezic, who was wrongfully convicted of being one of the masterminds behind the murders
* Fire: Trapped on the 37th Floor (1991) – disaster drama television film about the high-rise fire fire at the First Interstate Tower (now Aon Center) in Los Angeles, California
* The Haunted (1991) – horror drama television film depicting the events surrounding the Smurl haunting
* Hear My Song (1991) – British comedy drama film based on the story of Irish tenor Josef Locke
* Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem (Swedish: Il Capitano) (1991) – Swedish-Finnish biographical drama film about the 1988 Åmsele murders in which a family of three was murdered by Juha Valjakkala over a stolen bicycle
* Impromptu (1991) – historical drama film about the romantic relationship between Frédéric Chopin and Amantine Dupin
* In a Child's Name (1991) – biographical thriller drama miniseries depicting a true story about a woman who fights her brother-in-law's parents for custody of her deceased sister's baby upon learning that her brother-in-law murdered her sister
* In Broad Daylight (1991) – thriller drama television film about the life of Ken McElroy, the town bully of Skidmore, Missouri who became known for his unsolved murder
* The Inner Circle (1991) – biographical crime drama film telling the story of Joseph Stalin's private projectionist and KGB officer Ivan Sanchin between 1939 and 1953, the year Stalin died
* Isabelle Eberhardt (1991) – Australian-French biographical drama film following the adult life of Isabelle Eberhardt
* Jacquot de Nantes (1991) – French biographical drama film recreating the early life of Agnès Varda's husband, Jacques Demy, in Occupied France and his interest in the various crafts associated with film making, such as casting, set design, animation and lighting
* JFK (1991) – epic political thriller film examining the investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, who came to believe there was a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy and that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone
* The Josephine Baker Story (1991) – biographical drama television film about Josephine Baker, who was an international African-American star, who was especially successful in Europe
* Let Him Have It (1991) – British crime drama film based on the true story of Derek Bentley, who was convicted of the murder of a police officer by joint enterprise and was hanged in 1953 under controversial circumstances
* Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story (1991) – drama television film based on the true story of Morris Dees, a civil rights lawyer from Alabama, whose Southern Poverty Law Center battles neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan
* The Longest Night (Spanish: La noche más larga) (1991) – Spanish historical drama film concerning the last executions carried out by the Francoist dictatorship on 27 September 1975
* Love, Lies and Murder (1991) – crime drama miniseries based on the 1985 murder of Linda Bailey Brown
* Lovers (Spanish: Amantes) (1991) – Spanish neo-noir drama film telling the story of Paco, a young man who finds himself in Madrid in search of a job after leaving the army, based on a true story and set in 1950s Spain
* Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter (1991) – biographical historical drama television film about the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
* Milena (1991) – French biographical drama film about Czech writer Milena Jesenská
* Mobsters (1991) – crime drama film detailing the creation of The Commission
* Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story (1991) – crime drama television film based on the true story of Pamela Smart seducing one of her 15-year-old students into sex and to murdering her husband, Gregg Smart, in Derry, New Hampshire
* My Best Friend, General Vasili, Son of Joseph Stalin (Russian: Мой лучший друг генерал Василий, сын Иосифа) (1991) – Soviet-Belgian biographical drama film based on a true story of a sport star Vsevolod Bobrov, who happened to become befriended by Vasily Stalin, the son of Joseph Stalin
* Nelligan (1991) – Canadian biographical drama film about Quebec poet Émile Nelligan
* Never Forget (1991) – historical drama television film telling the story of Mel Mermelstein, an American holocaust survivor who confronted a Holocaust denial organization's lies in court
* Not Without My Daughter (1991) – thriller drama film depicting the escape of American citizen Betty Mahmoody and her daughter from her abusive husband in Iran
* One Man's War (1991) – British drama television film based on the true story of Joel Filártiga, who sought justice for his son's death at the hands of Alfredo Stroessner's secret police
* The Ox (Swedish: Oxen) (1991) – Swedish drama film based on a true story of devastating hardship during the great Swedish drought of the late 1860s
* The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend (1991) – biographical sport drama film about the 1959 8th grade basketball season of Pete Maravich, presenting his early beginnings and the origin of the "Pistol" nickname
* Prisoner of Honor (1991) – British biographical drama television film centering on the famous Dreyfus Affair
* Rose Against the Odds (1991) – Australian biographical sport drama miniseries chronicling the life of Australian Aboriginal boxer Lionel Rose
* Rossini! Rossini! (1991) – Italian biographical drama film depicting real life events of composer Gioachino Rossini
* Selling Hitler (1991) – comedy drama miniseries about the Hitler Diaries hoax
* Son of the Morning Star (1991) – Western historical miniseries telling the story of George Custer, Crazy Horse and the events prior to the battle of the Little Bighorn, told from the different perspectives of two women
* Switched at Birth (1991) – drama miniseries based on the true story of Kimberly Mays and Arlena Twigg, babies switched soon after birth in a Florida hospital in 1978
* To Be Number One (Cantonese: 跛豪) (1991) – Hong Kong biographical gangster film based on the rise and fall of a real-life gangster Ng Sik-ho
* All the Mornings of the World (French: Tous les Matins du Monde) (1991) – French biographical drama film telling the story of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, grand master of the viola da gamba, and Marin Marais, prestigious musician in the court of Louis XIV
* Van Gogh (1991) – French biographical drama film following the last 67 days of Vincent van Gogh's life and explores his relationships with his brother Theo, his physician Paul Gachet (most famous as the subject of Van Gogh's painting Portrait of Dr. Gachet), and the women in his life, including Gachet's daughter, Marguerite
* Walerjan Wrobel's Homesickness (German: Das Heimweh des Walerjan Wróbel) (1991) – German historical drama film about Walerian Wróbel, a Polish forced laborer who was executed by the National Socialists at the age of only 17
* Walking a Tightrope (French: Les Équilibristes) (1991) – French drama film about a famous homosexual writer during the sixties in Paris who is trying to make a young Arab into the greatest tightrope walker in the world, allegedly based on a true story witnessed by the director Nikos Papatakis
* Wife, Mother, Murderer (1991) – drama television film concerning Alabama murderer Marie Hilley
* Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991) – romantic drama film concerning Sonora Webster Carver, a rider of diving horses
* Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991) – drama television film focuses on James Brady, the press secretary to Ronald Reagan who was severely injured in an attempt on the president's life in 1981
* Young Catherine (1991) – British historical drama miniseries based on the early life of Catherine II of Russia

## 1992

* 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) – epic historical drama film portraying a version of the travels to the New World by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and the effect this had on indigenous people
* A Killer Among Friends (1992) – crime drama television film based on the real life murder of Michele Avila
* A League of Their Own (1992) – sport comedy drama film depicting a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
* A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story (1992) – drama television film chronicling the story behind the Elizabeth Morgan case, in which a woman suspected her ex-husband was sexually abusing their three-year-old daughter
* A Private Matter (1992) – drama television film based on the true 1962 story of Sherri Finkbine, a woman who sought a medically recommended abortion, following thalidomide usage during her pregnancy, and endured a firestorm of public controversy about her decision
* A River Runs Through It (1992) – drama film following two sons of a Presbyterian minister, one studious and the other rebellious, as they grow up and come of age in the Rocky Mountain region during a span of time from roughly World War I to the early days of the Great Depression, including part of the Prohibition era, based on the 1976 semi-autobiographical novella A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
* A Thousand Heroes (1992) – disaster drama film based on a true story of United Airlines Flight 232, which crash-landed at Sioux City, Iowa on 19 July 1989
* All That Really Matters (Polish: Wszystko, co najważniejsze) (1992) – Polish biographical drama film about Aleksander Wat and his family's experiences with the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939
* American Me (1992) – crime drama film loosely based on mafia boss Rodolfo Cadena
* Amy Fisher: My Story (1992) – thriller drama film based on the story of Amy Fisher's affair with Joey Buttafuoco, and her conviction for aggravated assault for shooting Buttafuoco's wife
* The Babe (1992) – biographical sport drama film about the life of famed baseball player Babe Ruth
* Baby Snatcher (1992) – drama television film based on a true story of the kidnapping of Rachael Ann White
* Becoming Colette (1992) – German-British-French biographical drama film about Henri Gauthier-Villars and Colette
* Bonnie & Clyde: The True Story (1992) – crime drama television film about American crime duo, Bonnie and Clyde
* The Boys of St. Vincent (1992) – Canadian biographical drama miniseries inspired by real events that took place at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, Newfoundland, one of a number of child sexual abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church
* Chaplin (1992) – biographical comedy drama film about the life of English comic actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin
* Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After (1992) – biographical drama television film telling the real-life story of the failed marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales, and his first wife, Diana, Princess of Wales
* Child of Rage (1992) – biographical drama television film based on the true story of Beth Thomas, who had severe behavioral problems as a result of being sexually abused as a child
* Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) – historical adventure film following events after the fall of the Emirate of Granada (an Arab principality which was located in the south of Spain), and leads up to the voyage of Columbus to the New World in 1492
* Citizen Cohn (1992) – biographical drama television film covering the life of Joseph McCarthy's controversial chief counsel Roy Cohn
* Daens (1992) – Belgian historical drama film telling the true story of Adolf Daens, a Catholic priest in Aalst who strives to improve the miserable working conditions in the local factories
* Day of Despair (Portuguese: O Dia do Desespero) (1992) – Portuguese drama film based on the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco
* De Bunker (1992) – Dutch war drama film about Gerrit Kleinveld, a Dutch resistance fighter during the Second World War
* Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992) – disaster drama television film depicting the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster off the coast of Alaska
* Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (Italian: Morte di un matematico napoletano) (1992) – Italian biographical drama film about the death of Renato Caccioppoli, an Italian mathematician, known for his contributions to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, measure theory
* Diên Biên Phu (1992) – French epic war drama film portraying the 55-day siege of Dien Bien Phu, the last battle by the French Union's colonial army in the First Indochina War during the final days of French Indochina, which was soon after divided into North and South Vietnam
* Dreams of Russia (Russian: Сны о России; Japanese: おろしや国酔夢譚) (1992) – Soviet-Japanese historical drama film about real historical events in the interstate relations of the Russian Empire, during the time of Catherine II, and Japan, during the time of the Tokugawa shogunate
* Faraway Sunset (Japanese: 遠き落日) (1992) – Japanese biographical drama film about the Japanese scientist Hideyo Noguchi
* Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story (1992) – biographical sport drama television film about the life of Loyola Marymount basketball player Eric "Hank" Gathers
* Frankie's House (1992) – British-Australian biographical drama miniseries based on the biography of British photographer Tim Page, especially focusing on his relationship with Sean Flynn – the son of Errol Flynn – during the Vietnam War
* The Girl in the Air (1992) – French drama film based on the true story of Nadine Vaujour who tried to spring her husband from prison by helicopter in 1986
* Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive (1992) – mystery horror television film about the residents of new houses who experience disturbing supernatural phenomena, supposedly based on real events
* Hoffa (1992) – biographical crime drama film based on the life of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa
* In the Best Interest of the Children (1992) – biographical drama television film telling the true story of a legal battle fought over custody of five siblings
* The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992) – biographical drama miniseries based upon the history of the Jackson family, one of the most successful musical families in show business, and the early and successful years of the popular Motown group The Jackson 5
* Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted (1992) – biographical drama television film inspired by a true story concerning a landmark legal decision for rights of the disabled
* The Last of His Tribe (1992) – drama television film based on the experiences Alfred L. Kroeber who made friends with Ishi, thought to be the last of his people, the Yahi tribe
* The Long Day Closes (1992) – British biographical drama film portraying a semi-autobiographical account of Terence Davies' adolescence
* Lorenzo's Oil (1992) – biographical drama film based on the true story of Augusto and Michaela Odone, parents who search for a cure for their son Lorenzo's adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), leading to the development of Lorenzo's oil
* The Lover (French: L'Amant) (1992) – French-Vietnamese romantic drama film based on the semi-autobiographical 1984 novel of the same name by Marguerite Duras, the film details the illicit affair between a teenage French girl and a wealthy Chinese man in 1929 French Indochina
* Malcolm X (1992) – epic biographical drama film about the African-American activist Malcolm X
* My Companions in the Bleak House (Czech: Přítelkyně z domu smutku) (1992) – [[Cinema of Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovak]] drama miniseries depicting a fictionalised account of Eva Kantůrková's time in prison on charges of sedition in Communist Czechoslovakia
* Newsies (1992) – historical musical drama film loosely based on the New York City Newsboys' strike of 1899
* Once Upon a Time in China II (Cantonese: 黃飛鴻之二男兒當自強) (1992) – Hong Kong martial arts film about Chinese martial arts master and folk hero of Cantonese ethnicity, Wong Fei-hung
* Orlando (1992) – British historical drama film inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West
* The Quest for Freedom (1992) – historical drama television film about abolitionist Harriet Tubman
* Requiem for a Doll (Czech: Requiem pro panenku) (1992) – Czechoslovak psychological thriller drama film inspired by a real-life tragedy that cost the lives of 26 mentally disabled girls
* Ruby (1992) – biographical crime drama film about Jack Ruby, the Dallas, Texas nightclub owner who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement garage of a Dallas city police station in 1963
* Savage Nights (French: Les Nuits Fauves) (1992) – French biographical crime drama film based on Cyril Collard's semi-autobiographical novel Les Nuits Fauves, published in 1989
* Schtonk! (1992) – German satirical drama film retelling the story of the 1983 Hitler Diaries hoax
* Sinatra (1992) – biographical drama miniseries about singer Frank Sinatra
* Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992) – drama television film based on the life of prominent AIDS activist Alison Gertz
* The Sound and the Silence (1992) – Canadian-New Zealander biographical drama television film about the life and works of Scottish inventor, Alexander Graham Bell
* Stalin (1992) – political drama television film telling the story of Stalin's rise to power until his death and spans the period from 1917 to 1953
* Stay the Night (1992) – crime drama miniseries depicting the true story of the controversial romance between a small town teenage boy named Michael Kettman and a free-spirited older married woman named Jimmie Sue Finger
* Sunday's Children (Swedish: Söndagsbarn) (1992) – Swedish biographical drama film about the life of Church of Sweden minister Erik Bergman
* Swoon (1992) – crime drama film recounting the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, focusing more on the homosexuality of the killers than other films based on the case
* Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story (1992) – drama television film about a rape victim who spoke out about her experiences and raised awareness of the fact that rape and sexual assault are never the victim's fault
* Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story (1992) – crime drama film about the life of Jackie Presser, an American labor leader and president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1983 until his death in 1988
* Those Old Love Letters (Estonian: Need vanad armastuskirjad) (1992) – Estonian biographical drama film about the life of Raimond Valgre, an Estonian songwriter of the 1930s and the 1940s
* Thunderheart (1992) – Neo-Western mystery film loosely based on a fictional portrayal of events relating to the Wounded Knee incident in 1973, when followers of the American Indian Movement seized the South Dakota town of Wounded Knee in protest against federal government policy regarding Native Americans
* To Catch a Killer (1992) – biographical crime miniseries based on the true story of the pursuit of American serial killer John Wayne Gacy
* The Waterdance (1992) – romantic drama film depicting a semi-autobiographical story about a young fiction writer who becomes tetraplegic fully paralyzed in a hiking accident and works to rehabilitate his body and mind at a rehabilitation center
* Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story (1992) – thriller drama television film about Wanda Holloway, an American woman from Channelview, Texas who was convicted of attempting to hire a hitman to kill the mother of her daughter's junior high school cheerleading rival

## 1993

* A Bronx Tale (1993) – coming-of-age crime drama film largely based on Chazz Palminteri's childhood
* A Child Too Many (1993) – Canadian drama television film exploring the story of a family impacted by an ethical dilemma when they agree to get involved in surrogacy with a wealthy older couple, allegedly based on true events
* A Home of Our Own (1993) – comedy drama film based on the story on Patrick Sheane Duncan's childhood experiences as one of twelve children growing up in the Midwest with a single mother
* A Matter of Justice (1993) – thriller drama television film based on a true story about the mother of a murder victim seeking to bring her son's widow to justice and gain custody of her granddaughter
* A Place to Be Loved (1993) – biographical drama television film about Gregory Kingsley, a boy who is abused by his father and placed with social services
* A Year in Provence (1993) – biographical comedy drama miniseries based on the 1989 best-selling memoir by Peter Mayle about his first year in Provence, and the local events and customs
* Abraham (1993) – Christian drama television film based on the life of the Biblical patriarch Abraham
* Alex Haley's Queen (1993) – biographical romantic drama miniseries based on the life of Queen Jackson Haley, showing the problems which biracial slaves and former slaves faced in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries
* Alive (1993) – biographical survival drama film detailing a Uruguayan rugby team's crash aboard Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 into the Andes mountains on 13 October 1972
* The Amy Fisher Story (1993) – crime drama television film dramatizing the events surrounding Amy Fisher's teenage affair with Joey Buttafuoco and her conviction for aggravated assault for shooting Buttafuoco's wife
* And the Band Played On (1993) – historical drama television film depicting the story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it
* The Ballad of Little Jo (1993) – Western drama film inspired by the real-life story of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman who lived as a man in the late 19th century
* Barbarians at the Gate (1993) – biographical comedy drama television film about the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco
* Belle van Zuylen – Madame de Charrière (1993) – Dutch historical drama film about Isabelle de Charrière and her friendship with Benjamin Constant
* Benito (Italian: Il Giovane Mussolini) (1993) – Italian biographical drama miniseries regarding the story of Benito Mussolini's early rise to power in the Socialist International and his relationship with Angelica Balabanoff
* Beyond the Law (1993) – crime drama film telling the story of Dan Saxon, an undercover cop who infiltrates a group of criminal outlaw bikers behind a drug-smuggling and arms-dealing operation, based on a true story
* Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story (1993) – crime drama television film based on the true story of a North Carolina woman (Blanche Taylor Moore) who murdered her first husband and a lover with arsenic
* Blood in Blood Out (1993) – epic crime drama film based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, focusing on step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo
* Bloom in the Moonlight (Japanese: わが愛の譜 滝廉太郎物語) (1993) – Japanese biographical drama film about the life of pianist Rentarō Taki
* Blue (1993) – British biographical drama film about Derek Jarman
* The Blue Exile (Turkish: Mavi Sürgün) (1993) – Turkish biographical drama film inspired by the autobiographical memoir, also titled Mavi Sürgün, of Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, who wrote under the pen name Halikarnas Balıkçısı – the Fisherman of Halicarnassus
* Bread and Roses (1993) – New Zealander biographical drama film showing significant episodes in the political life of socialist and feminist Sonja Davies
* Cannibal! The Musical (1993) – black comedy musical film depicting a heavily fabricated version on the true story of Alferd Packer and the sordid details of the trip from Utah to Colorado that left his five fellow travellers dead and partially eaten
* Casualties of Love: The "Long Island Lolita" Story (1993) – crime drama television film based on the story of Amy Fisher and Joey Buttafuoco
* Charlemagne (French: Charlemagne, le prince à cheval) (1993) – French action biographical miniseries about the life of Charlemagne, covering the period from the death of Charlemagne's father Pepin the Short in AD 768 to his coronation as the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, AD 800
* Cool Runnings (1993) – sport comedy film loosely based on the debut of the Jamaican national bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics
* Countess Dora (Croatian: Kontesa Dora) (1993) – Croatian biographical drama film about Croatian composer Dora Pejačević
* Crime Story (Cantonese: 重案組) (1993) – Hong Kong action crime thriller film based on actual events surrounding the 1990 kidnapping of Chinese businessman Teddy Wang
* The Crush (1993) – romantic crime drama film based on events from, writer and director, Alan Shapiro's real life
* Dead Before Dawn (1993) – thriller drama television film based on a true event involving the publicized mid-1980s bitter divorce of Linda and Robert Edelman
* Deadly Relations (1993) – crime drama television film about Leonard Fagot, a New Orleans attorney whose obsession with controlling his daughters led to him murdering their husbands for hefty insurance pay outs
* Dear Diary (Italian: Caro diario) (1993) – Italian-French biographical comedy drama film based on three incidents in, or three aspects of, Nanni Moretti's life
* Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story (1993) – action drama television film based on a true story of a woman who tries to rescue her 7-year-old daughter from the Middle East after she is abducted by her Jordanian father
* Diana: Her True Story (1993) – biographical drama television film based on the life of Diana, Princess of Wales
* Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) – biographical drama film following the life of actor and martial artist Bruce Lee, from his relocation to the United States from Hong Kong to his career as a martial arts teacher, and then as a television and film actor
* The Ernest Green Story (1993) – biographical drama television film following the true story of Ernest Green and eight other African-American high-school students (dubbed the "Little Rock Nine") as they embark on their historic journey to integrate Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957
* The Escort (Italian: La scorta) (1993) – Italian crime drama film based on the true story of a magistrate who became isolated and threatened after he sniffed out mob infiltration of a local city government
* Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993) – biographical drama television film telling the story of Marina Oswald, the widow of Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
* Fire in the Sky (1993) – biographical science fiction mystery film based on the alleged alien abduction of Travis Walton in 1975
* Fong Sai-yuk (Cantonese: 方世玉) (1993) – Hong Kong action comedy film about the life of semi-fictional Chinese martial artist and folk hero from Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province of the Qing dynasty
* Gatica, the Monkey (Spanish: Gatica, el Mono) (1993) – Argentine biographical drama film about Argentine boxer José María Gatica
* Geronimo (1993) – Western historical drama television film depicting a fictionalized account of the Apache leader Geronimo
* Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) – Western historical drama film depicting a fictionalized account of the Apache Wars and how First Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood convinced Apache leader Geronimo to surrender in 1886
* Gettysburg (1993) – epic war drama film about the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War
* Giovanni Falcone (1993) – Italian biographical drama film based on real life events of the prosecuting magistrate Giovanni Falcone who was killed by mafia in 1992
* The Gray Wolves (Russian: Серые волки) (1993) – Russian political drama film centring on the displacement of Nikita Khrushchev, against which the story of a man who tried to uncover a plot against him is told
* Gross Misconduct (1993) – Australian thriller drama film inspired by a 1955 scandal in Hobart, where university professor Sydney Orr had been sacked from his job on grounds of gross misconduct
* Gypsy (1993) – biographical musical drama television film about the life of Gypsy Rose Lee
* Heaven & Earth (1993) – biographical war drama film about Le Ly Hayslip's experiences during and after the Vietnam War
* I Can Make You Love Me (1993) – psychological thriller television film based on the real-life story of American mass murderer Richard Farley, a former employee of ESL Incorporated whose romantic obsession and subsequent stalking of co-worker Laura Black culminated in the mass murder of several co-workers at ESL's headquarters in California, resulting in the first anti-stalking laws to be enacted in the United States
* In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco (1993) – action drama television film portraying the events leading up to and at the start of the Waco siege
* In the Name of the Father (1993) – biographical crime drama film based on the true story of the Guildford Four, four people falsely convicted of the 1974 Guildford pub bombings that killed four off-duty British soldiers and a civilian
* JFK: Reckless Youth (1993) – biographical drama miniseries portraying the early life of American president John F. Kennedy
* Johnny 100 Pesos (Spanish: Johnny cien pesos) (1993) – Chilean crime drama film based on the first ever hostage taking robbery in Chile by Juan García, a 17-year-old thief
* Jonah Who Lived in the Whale (Italian: Jona che visse nella balena) (1993) – Italian-French drama film based on the autobiographical novel by the writer Jona Oberski entitled Childhood (Dutch: Kinderjaren), focusing on the drama of the Holocaust
* Judgment Day: The John List Story (1993) – crime drama television film depicting a fictionalized version of the crime of John List, who killed his mother, wife, and three children in 1971, before assuming a new identity, and eluding capture for over 17 years
* Just a Matter of Duty (German: Die Denunziantin) (1993) – German war drama film about a German war crimes trial following World War II
* The Last Lieutenant (Norwegian: Secondløitnanten) (1993) – Norwegian war film loosely based on the actions of 2nd Lt. Thor O. Hannevig, Norwegian Army (Reserve)
* Lost in the Wild (1993) – adventure drama television film based on a true story about a life-saving mission that turned into a life-threatening ordeal when a plane carrying a group of doctors and nurses crashes in the jungles of Mexico
* Lost in Transit (French: Tombés du ciel) (1993) – French comedy drama film about a man who loses his passport and spends a couple of days at a Paris airport – inspired by the predicament of Mehran Karimi Nasseri
* Louis, the Child King (French: Louis, enfant roi) (1993) – French historical drama film about the formative years of the young king Louis XIV, before he became the Sun-king at Versailles
* M. Butterfly (1993) – romantic drama film loosely based on true events which involved French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Chinese opera singer Shi Pei Pu
* Mancao (1993) – Filipino biographical action film based on the life of former policeman Cezar Mancao and his encounter with Red Scorpion Gang leader Joey de Leon
* Moment of Truth: Stalking Back (1993) – crime drama television film based on the true story of a teen girl who is stalked and harassed by a perverted man ten years older than she is, but despite help from her family, there's little the police can do to get rid of him
* Money for Nothing (1993) – biographical comedy crime film loosely based on the life of Joey Coyle who, in 1981, discovered $1.2 million that had fallen out of an armored van in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* Murder in the Heartland (1993) – crime drama miniseries based on the 1957–58 murder spree carried out by 19-year-old Charles Starkweather throughout Nebraska and Wyoming
* My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud (French: En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud) (1993) – French biographical drama film following Jacques Prevel's journal of a two-year friendship with Antonin Artaud until his death in 1948
* Once Upon a Time in China III (Cantonese: 黃飛鴻之三獅王爭霸) (1993) – Hong Kong martial arts film about Chinese martial arts master and folk hero of Cantonese ethnicity, Wong Fei-hung
* Ordeal in the Arctic (1993) – drama television film depicting the events of when a Canadian military flight from Thule Air Base to Edmonton crashed on Ellesmere Island resulting in the death of four of the 18 passengers and crew
* The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993) – biographical black comedy television film based on the true story of Wanda Holloway, a woman who tried to put out a hit on one of her daughter's classmates (and the girl's mother) to advance her own daughter's Middle school cheerleading career
* Precious Victims (1993) – crime mystery television film based on the investigation of the death of two baby girls Lorelei and Heather Sims who were claimed to have been snatched from their bassinets by unknown kidnappers
* Pugoy – Hostage: Davao (1993) – Filipino action drama film based on the 1989 Davao hostage crisis
* The Puppetmaster (1993) – Taiwanese biographical drama film about Li Tian-lu, Taiwan's most celebrated puppeteer
* Rail of the Star (Japanese: お星さまのレール) (1993) – Japanese animated biographical drama film based on Chitose Kobayashi's autobiographical novel of the same name, narrating the vicissitudes suffered by the Kobayashi family after the armed conflict of the World War II, focused according to Chitose's vision at the time
* The Rainbow Warrior (1993) – drama television film based on the true story of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, which was sunk in Waitematā Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand on 10 July 1985 by French DGSE operatives, when it was preparing for a Pacific voyage to protest against French nuclear testing
* Rudy (1993) – biographical sport drama film depicting the life of Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, who harbored dreams of playing football at the University of Notre Dame despite significant obstacles
* Sakay (1993) – Filipino historical drama film portraying the latter part of the life of Filipino patriot and hero Macario Sakay, who was declared an outlaw and a criminal for continuing hostilities against the United States after the "official" end of the Philippine–American War
* Sardar (Hindi: सरदार) (1993) – Indian Hindi-language biographical drama film about Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of India's greatest freedom fighters
* Scattered Dreams (1993) – drama television film based on a true story of a loving couple trying to make a living in 1951 Florida, when they are arrested for a crime they didn't commit
* Schindler's List (1993) – epic historical drama film following Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved more than a thousand mostly Polish–Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II
* Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) – biographical sport drama film based on the life of prodigy chess player Joshua Waitzkin
* The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer (1993) – biographical crime drama film based on the life of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered 17 men and ate many of them before he was caught in 1991
* Shadowlands (1993) – British biographical romantic drama film about the relationship between academic C. S. Lewis and Jewish American poet Joy Davidman, her death from cancer, and how this challenged his Christianity
* Six Degrees of Separation (1993) – comedy drama film inspired by the real-life story of David Hampton, a con man and robber who convinced a number of people in the 1980s that he was the son of actor Sidney Poitier
* Stalingrad (1993) – German war film portraying the Battle of Stalingrad
* Telling Secrets (1993) – mystery crime television film based on the true story of Joy Aylor, who plots the murder of her adulterous husband's mistress
* Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) – Canadian biographical anthology film about the pianist Glenn Gould
* This Boy's Life (1993) – biographical coming-of-age drama film about the relationship between a rebellious 1950s teenager and his abusive stepfather, based on the memoirs of writer Professor Tobias Wolff
* Tombstone (1993) – Western biographical drama film loosely based on real events that took place in the 1880s in Southeast Arizona, including the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the Earp Vendetta Ride
* Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story (1993) – disaster drama television film about Hurricane Andrew
* The Trust (1993) – crime drama film depicting the story of William Marsh Rice's mysterious death in 1900 and the people involved with it
* Wild Tango (Spanish: Tango Feroz) (1993) – Argentine biographical musical drama film loosely based in the life of Tanguito, one of the first artists of Argentine rock
* The Visual Bible: Matthew (1993) – Christian drama film portraying the life of Jesus as it is found in the Gospel of Matthew
* What's Love Got to Do with It (1993) – biographical drama film based on the life of American singer-songwriter Tina Turner
* Wide-Eyed and Legless (1993) – British drama television film telling the story of the final years of Deric Longden's marriage to his wife, Diana, who contracted a degenerative illness which left her wheelchair-bound and in almost constant pain and which medical officials were unable to understand at the time, though now believed to be a form of chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis
* Wittgenstein (1993) – experimental comedy drama film loosely based on the life story, as well as the philosophical thinking of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein
* Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story (1993) – biographical drama television film based on the true story of Laurie Bembenek, an American former police officer, convicted for the 1981 murder of her husband's ex-wife
* Zelda (1993) – biographical drama television film based on the lives of author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald, artist and fellow author

## 1994

* 8 Seconds (1994) – contemporary Western biographical drama film about American rodeo legend Lane Frost, focusing on his life and career as a bull riding champion
* A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story (1994) – biographical drama television film about the early life of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Margaret Mitchell, who rose to fame after publishing Gone with the Wind
* A Friend to Die For (1994) – crime drama television film based on the real-life murder of Kirsten Costas, who was killed by her classmate, Bernadette Protti, in 1984
* A Soul Haunted by Painting (Chinese: 画魂) (1994) – Chinese biographical drama film loosely based on the life of Pan Yuliang, a former prostitute turned painter
* A Time to Heal (1994) – drama television film based on the true story of a young mother's painful recovery from a stroke
* Against the Wall (1994) – action drama television film based on the true story of the Attica Prison uprising of 1971
* Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight (1994) – biographical adventure television film depicting events in the life of Amelia Earhart, focusing on her final flight and disappearance in 1937, with her exploits in aviation and her marriage to publisher George P. Putnam being revealed in flashbacks
* And Then There Was One (1994) – drama television film about a true story of a family dealing with AIDS
* Andre (1994) – comedy drama film telling the true story of how a seal named Andre befriended a little girl named Toni and her family in 1962
* Armed and Innocent (1994) – drama thriller television film loosely based on actual events of an 11-year-old boy who was left home alone and killed two intruders in self defense
* The Ascent (1994) – war adventure film based on Felice Benuzzi's Italian war memoir, No Picnic on Mount Kenya, about a series of events that took place at Camp 354 near Nanyuki, Kenya
* Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker (1994) – thriller drama television film about Johnson Chesnut Whittaker, one of the first black cadets at West Point, and the trial that followed an assault he suffered in 1880
* The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story (1994) – drama television film based on the true story of Cecil Jacobson, who used his own sperm to impregnate patients, without informing them
* Backbeat (1994) – British-German biographical drama film following The Beatles through their pre-fame Hamburg days when Stuart Sutcliffe, the band's bassist, meets German photographer Astrid Kirchherr.
* Bandit Queen (Hindi: दस्यु रानी) (1994) – Indian Hindi-language biographical action film based on the life of Phoolan Devi
* The Burning Season (1994) – biographical drama television film chronicling environmental activist Chico Mendes' fight to protect the Amazon rainforest
* Carl, My Childhood Symphony (Danish: Min fynske barndom) (1994) – Danish biographical drama film about the childhood of the Danish composer Carl Nielsen
* Cobb (1994) – biographical sport drama film about Al Stump who was hired as a ghostwriter for Ty Cobb and discovers just how dark the baseball legend's real story is
* Col. Billy Bibit, RAM (1994) – Filipino biographical action film based on the life of the late colonel Billy Bibit
* Cries from the Heart (1994) – drama television film about a seven-year-old autistic boy who has trouble with verbalization but a real talent for technology, who uses a computer to plead for help after being molested at school, based on a true story
* Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story (1994) – thriller drama television film telling the story of Donna Yaklich who hired assassins to kill her husband
* The Day the Sun Turned Cold (Mandarin: 天国逆子) (1994) – Hong Kong crime drama film about a real life murder investigation
* The Diary of Evelyn Lau (1994) – Canadian biographical drama television film about Evelyn Lau, a teenager who runs away from home and becomes a drug-addicted prostitute
* Doomsday Gun (1994) – action drama television film dramatizing the life of Canadian supergun designer Dr. Gerald Bull and his involvement in Project Babylon, Saddam Hussein's plan to build a supergun with a range of over 500 miles (800 km)
* Ed Wood (1994) – biographical comedy drama film concerning the period in Ed Wood's life when he made his best-known films as well as his relationship with actor Bela Lugosi
* Farinelli (1994) – biographical drama film centring on the life and career of the 18th-century Italian opera singer Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli, considered the greatest castrato singer of all time; as well as his relationship with his brother, the composer Riccardo Broschi
* The Fatima Buen Story (1994) – Filipino biographical crime drama film based on the actual case of Fatima Buen, a woman jailed for illegal recruitment
* For the Love of Aaron (1994) – Canadian drama television film based on the true story of Margaret Gibson, a noted Canadian writer who suffered from bipolar disorder, dramatizing her custody battle for her son Aaron after her divorce
* For the Love of Nancy (1994) – drama television film based on a true story of a woman suffering from anorexia nervosa
* Frank and Jesse (1994) – biographical Western drama film based on the story of Jesse James
* Getting Gotti (1994) – crime drama television film centring on an Assistant United States Attorney named Diane Giacalone, and her attempts to build a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) case against John Gotti and the Gambino crime family
* The Glass Shield (1994) – crime drama film based on a true story about the first black cop to be assigned to a California sheriff's department
* Heavenly Creatures (1994) – New Zealander biographical psychological drama film based on the notorious 1954 Parker–Hulme murder case in Christchurch
* I Can't Sleep (French: J'ai pas sommeil) (1994) – French drama film loosely inspired by the murders committed by Thierry Paulin
* Immortal Beloved (1994) – biographical drama film narrating the life of composer Ludwig van Beethoven
* In the Best of Families (1994) – crime drama miniseries about the North Carolina family murders from 1984 to 1985
* It Could Happen to You (1994) – comedy romantic drama film about a police officer who promises to share his lottery ticket with a waitress in lieu of a tip, inspired by a real-life news story
* Jacob (1994) – Christian drama television film based on a biblical account from the Book of Genesis about Jacob
* Joan the Maid (French: Jeanne la pucelle) (1994) – French historical drama film chronicling the life of Joan of Arc from the French perspective
* Kabloonak (1994) – Canadian adventure drama film about the making of Nanook of the North, a 1922 film about an Inuk called Nanook and his family in the Canadian Arctic
* Ladybird, Ladybird (1994) – British drama film depicting an account of an abused working-class woman whose six children are taken away by the social services, one of them almost immediately after delivery in hospital, based on a true story
* Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994) – drama television film based on Mary Crow Dog's autobiography Lakota Woman, wherein she accounts her troubled youth, involvement with the American Indian Movement, and relationship with Lakota medicine man and activist Leonard Crow Dog
* Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994) – crime drama television film about Laurie Kellogg, who was accused of murdering her husband Bruce in May 1992
* Life with Billy (1994) – Canadian drama television film about Jane Hurshman who shot her common-law husband, Billy Stafford, in his sleep
* The Madness of King George (1994) – British historical comedy drama film telling the true story of George III of Great Britain's deteriorating mental health, and his equally declining relationship with his eldest son, the Prince of Wales, particularly focusing on the period around the Regency Crisis of 1788–89
* Madonna: Innocence Lost (1994) – biographical drama television film about the early years of Madonna's career
* The Maggie dela Riva Story: God... Why Me? (1994) – Filipino crime drama film dramatizing the case of actress Maggie de la Riva's ordeal in 1967
* Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills (1994) – crime drama television film about Lyle and Erik Menendez, who murdered their parents in 1989
* Mesmer (1994) – Austrian-Canadian-British-German biographical drama film about Franz Anton Mesmer and his radical new ways as a pioneering physician
* Mindbender (1994) – American-Israeli biographical drama film about the life of Uri Geller
* Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) – biographical drama film depicting the members of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of writers, actors and critics who met almost every weekday from 1919 to 1929 at Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel
* Murder or Memory? (1994) – crime drama television film about a mother who fights to prove her 14-year-old son is innocent of a murder he confessed to under hypnosis, based on a true story
* Nostradamus (1994) – biographical drama film recounting the life and loves of the physician, astrologer, and famed prognosticator, Nostradamus
* Octobre (1994) – Canadian French-language drama film depicting a version of the October Crisis from the point of view of the Chénier Cell, the FLQ terrorist cell who in 1970 kidnapped and murdered Quebec minister and Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte
* Of Love and Shadows (Spanish: De amor y de sombra) (1994) – Chilean-Argentine-American thriller drama film inspired by journalistic accounts taken from magazines, newspapers, and interviews that Isabel Allende gathered both working as a journalist in Chile before her exile and during her later career as a writer in Venezuela
* One of Her Own (1994) – drama television film based on a true story of a rookie policewoman who was raped by a fellow officer
* Out of Darkness (1994) – biographical drama television film about a paranoid schizophrenic woman who finds treatment to her mental illness after 18 years of suffering, based on a true story
* Pentathlon (1994) – action drama film inspired by the true story of Olympic athlete, Lutz Eigendorf, who escapes East Germany and is tracked down allegedly by Stasi and murdered
* The Postman (Italian: Il Postino) (1994) – Italian-French-Belgian comedy drama film about Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda
* Princess Caraboo (1994) – historical comedy drama film based on the real-life 19th-century character Princess Caraboo, who passed herself off in British society as an exotic princess who spoke a strange foreign language
* The Quality of Mercy (German: Hasenjagd – Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen) (1994) – Austrian war drama film dramatizing the events surrounding the Mühlviertler Hasenjagd, a Nazi war crime that took place near Linz, in the Mühlviertel region of Upper Austria, just before the end of the Second World War
* Queen Margot (French: La Reine Margot) (1994) – historical romantic drama film based on the life of Margaret of Valois
* Quiz Show (1994) – historical mystery drama film dramatizing the Twenty-One quiz show scandals of the 1950s
* Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story (1994) – biographical sport drama television film telling the true story of Dennis Byrd, his football career, his terrible accident, and his miraculous recovery and rehabilitation
* Road to Eilat (Egyptian Arabic: الطريق إلى إيلات) (1994) – Egyptian war drama film about the Egyptian raids on the Israeli port of Eilat during the War of Attrition in 1969
* The Road to Wellville (1994) – comedy drama film telling the story of the doctor and clean-living advocate John Harvey Kellogg and his methods employed at the Battle Creek Sanitarium at the beginning of the 20th century
* Roswell (1994) – mystery drama television film based on a supposedly true story about the Roswell UFO incident, the alleged U.S. military capture of a flying saucer and its alien crew following a crash near the town of Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947
* The Sex Life of the Belgians (French: La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950–1978) (1994) – Belgian biographical comedy film depicting a semi-autobiography of the first 28 years of the director, the Flemish anarchist Jan Bucquoy
* Sister My Sister (1994) – British thriller drama film based on a true incident in Le Mans, France in 1933 called the Papin murder case, where two sisters brutally murdered their employer and her daughter
* Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story (1994) – drama television film based on a true story of Jim and Jennifer Stolpa and their infant son Clayton who were 500 miles from their home in Castro Valley, California, when they lost their way and were stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow in northern Nevada, east of Cedarville, California
* Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994) – historical action adventure film loosely based on the actual historical Native American figure Squanto, and his life prior to and including the arrival of the Mayflower in 1620
* Tarzan of Manisa (Turkish: Manisa Tarzanı) (1994) – Turkish biographical drama film about Ahmet bin Carlak, also known as the "Tarzan of Manisa"
* Terror in the Night (1994) – drama thriller television film about a fugitive killer posing as a policeman who arrests two campers in the Arizona mountains, based on a true story
* Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story (1994) – biographical drama television film based on a true story of a Californian custody battle
* Tom & Viv (1994) – American-British biographical romantic drama film about the early love life of American poet T. S. Eliot
* Tonya and Nancy: The Inside Story (1994) – biographical sport drama television film focusing on the 1994 Cobo Arena attack on Nancy Kerrigan and the extensive media coverage surrounding the infamous incident
* Ultimate Betrayal (1994) – drama television film based on a true story about two sisters who sue their father for incest and child abuse
* White Mile (1994) – thriller drama television film loosely based on a rafting accident, on 1 August 1987, on the White Mile rapids in the Bidwell Canyon section of the Chilko River, in the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada
* Wing Chun (Cantonese: 詠春) (1994) – Hong Kong martial arts film about Yim Wing-chun
* Wyatt Earp (1994) – epic Western adventure film covering the lawman of the same name's life, from an Iowa farmboy, to a feared marshal, to the feud in Tombstone, Arizona that led to the O.K. Corral gunfight
* Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone (1994) – Western biographical adventure television film about American lawman and gambler in the American West, Wyatt Earp

## 1995

* A Single Spark (Korean: 아름다운 청년 전태일) (1995) – South Korean biographical drama film about Jeon Tae-il, a worker who protested labor conditions through self-immolation
* A Trick of Light (German: Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky) (1995) – German biographical drama film showing the birth of cinema in Berlin where Max Skladanowsky and his brother Emil built a projector they called the Bioscop
* Across the Sea of Time (1995) – adventure drama film centring around a real life Russian immigrant, searching for his family, who is given the name Leopold Minton by the Ellis Island immigration officials
* The Affair (1995) – romantic war drama television film about an African-American soldier in the United States Army who is deployed to England during World War II and has an affair with a British officer's wife
* Aletta Jacobs: The Highest Aspiration (Dutch: Aletta Jacobs: Het Hoogste Streven) (1995) – Dutch biographical drama film telling the story of a Dutch female student, doctor, feminist and campaigner for women's suffrage and birth control, Aletta Jacobs
* Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story (1995) – biographical drama television film depicting the rapid rise to fame and untimely death of Jessica Savitch – one of America's first female news anchors
* Anne no Nikki (Japanese: アンネの日記) (1995) – animated biographical drama film based on Anne Frank's 1942–1944 The Diary of a Young Girl
* Apollo 13 (1995) – adventure biographical drama film dramatizing the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission
* Bach's Fight for Freedom (1995) – Canadian-Czech biographical drama television film about Johann Sebastian Bach
* The Bait (French: L'Appât) (1995) – French crime drama film based on the "Valérie Subra affair", a true event that happened in 1984
* Balto (1995) – animated family adventure film loosely based on the true story of the eponymous dog who helped save children infected with diphtheria in the 1925 serum run to Nome
* The Basketball Diaries (1995) – biographical crime drama film telling the story of Jim Carroll's teenage years as a promising high school basketball player and writer who develops an addiction to heroin
* Big Dreams and Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story (1995) – biographical drama television film about the life of country music singer Dottie West
* Blue Murder (1995) – Australian crime drama miniseries concerning the relationship between controversial former detective Roger "the Dodger" Rogerson and notorious criminal Arthur "Neddy" Smith
* Bombay (Tamil: பம்பாய்) (1995) – Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film telling the story of an inter-religious family in Bombay before and during the Bombay riots, which took place between December 1992 and January 1993 after the demolition of the Babri Masjid led to religious tensions between Hindu and Muslim communities
* Braveheart (1995 – epic historical drama film about Sir William Wallace, a late-13th century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England
* Butterbox Babies (1995) – Canadian drama film based on the true story of the Ideal Maternity Home, a home for unwed pregnant mothers, during the Great Depression and Second World War
* Cafe Society (1995) – mystery drama film about New York society playboy Mickey Jelke who inherits a large sum of money and soon becomes embroiled in shadowy web of political exploitation and scandal in 1952, based on a true story covered in the national press
* Carrington (1995) – British biographical drama film about the life of the English painter Dora Carrington, who was known simply as "Carrington"
* Casino (1995) – epic crime drama film depicting the story of the alliance of Mafia mobsters Lefty Rosenthal and Tony Spilotro and their exploits working in Mafia controlled casinos in Las Vegas
* Catherine the Great (1995) – biographical drama television film based on the life of Catherine II of Russia
* Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story (1995) – biographical drama television film about the controversial nurse Margaret Sanger who campaigned in the earlier decades of the 20th century in the United States for women's birth control
* Citizen X (1995) – biographical crime drama television film based upon the true story of Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted in 1992 of the murder of 52 women and children committed between 1978 and 1990
* Dangerous Minds (1995) – biographical drama film about retired U.S. Marine LouAnne Johnson, who in 1989 took up a teaching position at Carlmont High School in Belmont, California, where most of her students were African-American and Latino teenagers from East Palo Alto, a racially segregated and economically deprived city
* Dead Man Walking (1995) – crime drama film about Sister Helen Prejean who establishes a special relationship with Matthew Poncelet, a character based on convicted murderers Elmo Patrick Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie
* Dead presidents (1995) – action crime drama film chronicling the life of Anthony Curtis, focusing on his teenage years as a high school graduate and his experiences during the Vietnam War as a Recon Marine
* Deadly Whispers (1995) – crime thriller television film depicting a father with dissociative identity disorder who murders his daughter, inspired by the murder of Kathy Bonney in 1987
* Death in Small Doses (1995) – crime drama television film dramatizing the 1991 death of wealthy Dallas resident Nancy Lyon by arsenic poisoning, a crime for which her husband Richard Lyon was the police's main suspect
* Deathmaker (German: Der Totmacher) (1995) – German crime drama film based on the transcripts of the interrogation of the notorious serial killer Fritz Haarmann
* England, My England (1995) – British historical drama film depicting the life of the composer Henry Purcell, seen through the eyes of a playwright in the 1960s who is trying to write a play about him
* Escape from Terror: The Teresa Stamper Story (1995) – crime drama television film based on the true story of Teresa Walden-Stamper
* Eskapo (1995) – Filipino historical thriller film about Sergio "Serge" Osmeña III and Eugenio "Geny" Lopez Jr. who were wrongly accused of plotting to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos
* Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (1995) – Canadian drama thriller film based on the events of Air Canada Flight 143
* Faustina (Polish: Faustyna) (1995) – Polish biographical drama film about Faustina Kowalska, a Roman Catholic nun and mystic whose apparitions of Jesus Christ inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy
* The Flor Contemplacion Story (1995) – Filipino crime drama film about Flor Contemplacion, a Filipina domestic helper who was hanged in Singapore for allegedly killing her fellow maid
* The Great White Man of Lambaréné (French: Le grand blanc de Lambaréné) (1995) – Cameroonian-Gabonese-French biographical drama film about Albert Schweitzer, the Alsatian polymath
* Heat (1995) – crime drama film loosely based on Chicago police officer Chuck Adamson's pursuit of career criminal Neil McCauley in the 1960s
* Hiroshima (Japanese: 広島) (1995) – Japanese-Canadian war drama television film about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the end of World War II
* Houses of Fire (Spanish: Casas de fuego) (1995) – Argentine historical biographical drama film following the life of Salvador Mazza, the Argentine physician who began investigating the Chagas disease in 1926 and over the years became the principal researcher in the country
* If Someone Had Known (1995) – crime drama television film about a young wife and mother who is abused by her husband but keeps it a secret from her friends and family, based on a true story
* Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995) – thriller drama television film based on the true story of the McMartin preschool trial
* The Infiltrator (1995) – thriller drama television film about an Israeli freelance journalist who travels to Germany in the early 1990s and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction with the intent to bring Nazism back to the forefront in Germany
* Jefferson in Paris (1995) – historical drama film about Thomas Jefferson's tenure as the Ambassador of the United States to France before his presidency and of his alleged relationships with Italian-English artist Maria Cosway and his slave, Sally Hemings
* Joseph (1995) – German-Italian-American Christian drama television film about the life of Joseph from the Old Testament
* Kathapurushan (Malayalam: കഥാപുരുഷൻ) (1995) – Indian-Japanese Malayalam-language historical drama film exploring the history of the state of Kerala in India
* Kidnapped (1995) – adventure drama television film set around real 18th-century Scottish events, notably the "Appin Murder", which occurred in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745
* Kidnapped: In the Line of Duty (1995) – thriller drama television film loosely based on a true story about an IRS official with access to detailed personal and financial data, who chose kidnap victims from the files
* Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995) – biographical crime drama film based on the life of American serial killer Carl Panzram, who was active in the early 20th century and executed in 1930
* Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995) – biographical drama television film about Louisiana politician Huey Long, whose nickname was The Kingfish
* Les Milles (1995) – French war drama film about Germans, Jews, Communists or opponents of Nazism who had taken refuge in France, who were interned in the Camp des Milles, near Aix-en-Provence and get on a train to evacuate to Bayonne in May 1940, based on a true story about Charles Perrochon
* Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995) – biographical drama television film chronicling the life of British-American actress Elizabeth Taylor
* Losing Isaiah (1995) – drama film about the biological and adoptive mothers of a young boy who are involved in a bitter, controversial custody battle
* Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story (1995) – biographical drama miniseries about Mia Farrow's relationship with Woody Allen
* Moses (1995) – Christian drama miniseries based on the biblical story of Moses, an Israelite raised by the Egyptian royal family, is chosen by God to release the Hebrew people from slavery and lead them to the Promised Land
* Murder in the First (1995) – legal drama film telling the alternate history of a petty criminal named Henri Young who is sent to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and later put on trial for murder in the first degree
* Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge (1995) – biographical drama television film about the mother-daughter country music duo The Judds
* Neurosia: 50 Years of Perversity (German: Neurosia – 50 Jahre pervers) (1995) – German biographical comedy drama film depicting an ironic life review of Rosa von Praunheim based on a fictional story about his murder
* Nixon (1995) – epic historical drama film telling the story of the political and personal life of former U.S. President Richard Nixon
* The O. J. Simpson Story (1995) – biographical drama television film dramatizing some of the more tawdry events in the relationship between O. J. Simpson and his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, up to and including his arrest for Brown's murder
* Operation Dumbo Drop (1995) – action war drama film about the Green Berets during the Vietnam War in 1968, who attempt to transport an elephant through jungle terrain to a local South Vietnamese village which in turn helps American forces monitor Viet Cong activity
* Panther (1995) – American-British drama film portraying the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, tracing the organization from its founding through its decline in a compressed timeframe
* Pocahontas (1995) – animated family musical historical film based on the life of Powhatan woman Pocahontas and the arrival of English colonial settlers from the Virginia Company
* Pocahontas: The Legend (1995) – Canadian historical drama film fictionalizing the young life of the historical figure of Chief Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas and her relationship with Captain John Smith
* Policemen (Italian: Poliziotti) (1995) – Italian crime drama film based on a policeman who committed suicide while in jail
* Ravan Raaj: A True Story (Hindi: रावण राज एक सच्ची कहानी) (1995) – Indian Hindi-language action film based on a doctor's story, loosely based on the serial killer Auto Shankar
* Red Cherry (Mandarin: 紅櫻桃) (1995) – Chinese war drama film based on the true story of Chuchu (based on Zhu De's daughter Zhu Min), a 13-year-old Chinese girl, and Luo Xiaoman, a 12-year-old Chinese boy, who were sent to Moscow, Russia in the 1940s and enrolled into an international boarding school during World War Two
* Restoration (1995) – American-British biographical historical drama film about a 17th-century medical student exploited by King Charles II
* Rob Roy (1995) – historical biographical drama film about Rob Roy MacGregor, an 18th-century Scottish clan chief who battles a sadistic nobleman in the Scottish Highlands
* Savate (1995) – Western martial arts film based on the allegedly true story of the world's first kickboxer
* Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995) – biographical drama television film recounting the events in the life of Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer which led to her retirement from the Washington National Guard under the U.S. military's gay exclusion policy
* The Seventh Room (Hungarian: A hetedik szoba) (1995) – Hungarian biographical war drama film based on the life of Edith Stein
* She Fought Alone (1995) – drama television film about a girl who finds herself shamed in her small rural town after being raped, based on a true story
* Solomon & Sheba (1995) – Christian drama television film about the relationship between Queen Sheba and King Solomon
* Stonewall (1995) – British-American historical comedy drama film depicting a fictionalized account of the weeks leading up to the Stonewall riots, a seminal event in the modern American gay rights movement
* Tears of Stone (Icelandic: Tár úr steini) (1995) – Icelandic biographical drama film about the Icelandic composer Jón Leifs who spent much of his life in Germany before World War Two
* Total Eclipse (1995) – biographical romantic drama film presenting a historically accurate account of the passionate and violent relationship between 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, at a time of soaring creativity for both men
* Truman (1995) – biographical drama television film centring on Harry S. Truman's humble beginnings, his rise to the presidency, World War II, and his decision to use the first atomic bomb
* The Tuskegee Airmen (1995) – biographical war television film based on the exploits of an actual groundbreaking unit, the first African-American combat pilots in the United States Army Air Corps, that fought in World War II
* Tyson (1995) – biographical sport drama television film based on the life of American heavyweight boxer Iron Mike Tyson
* Who Killed Pasolini? (Italian: Pasolini, un delitto italiano) (1995) – Italian-French crime drama film depicting the trial against Pino Pelosi, who was charged with the murder of artist and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini
* Wild Bill (1995) – acid Western biographical drama film about the last days of legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickok
* The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995) – black comedy crime drama film based on the life of Graham Young, more commonly known as "The Teacup Murderer"

## 1996

* A Girl Called Rosemary (German: Das Mädchen Rosemarie) (1996) – German biographical crime drama television film based on the life of Rosemarie Nitribitt
* After Jimmy (1996) – drama television film based on a true story of a woman, with her family, mourning the suicide death of her teenage son
* Andersonville (1996) – historical war drama television film about a group of Union soldiers during the American Civil War who are captured by the Confederates and sent to an infamous Confederate prison camp, loosely based on the diary of John Ransom
* Apollo 11 (1996) – biographical drama television film about NASA's Apollo 11 mission which landed the first humans on the Moon
* Basquiat (1996) – biographical drama film based on the life of American postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
* Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) – drama film based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Dorothy Allison, examining the complexities of mother-child relationships, conditions of class, race, and sexuality
* Beaumarchais (French: Beaumarchais l'insolent) (1996) – French biographical drama film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais, depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays
* Breaking the Code (1996) – British biographical drama television film about British mathematician Alan Turing, linking Turing's cryptographic activities with his attempts to grapple with his homosexuality
* The Bruce (1996) – British historical drama film focusing primarily on the rise to power of Robert I of Scotland, culminating in the Battle of Bannockburn in AD 1314
* Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day (1996) – drama film about a Chinese-American's attempt at saving the Yosemite Valley Railroad in post-WWII California
* Crazy Horse (1996) – Western biographical drama television film based on the true story of Crazy Horse, a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota, and the Battle of Little Bighorn
* Crime of the Century (1996) – crime drama television film presenting a dramatization of the Lindbergh kidnapping of 1932
* The Crucible (1996) – historical drama film depicting a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93
* Dead Heart (1996) – Australian mystery thriller film set in the isolated Outback, mainly Aboriginal town of Wala Wala, where an Aboriginal man is found dead in the local police lock up, based on the true story of an Aboriginal who killed someone in the 1930s for traditional reasons
* Deadly Voyage (1996) – American-British survival drama television film about Kingsley Ofosu, the sole survivor of a group of nine African stowaways murdered on the Bahamian-flagged cargo ship MC Ruby in 1992
* Deep Crimson (Spanish: Profundo Carmesí) (1996) – Mexican crime drama film depicting a dramatization of the story of "Lonely Hearts Killers", Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, who committed a string of murders of women in the 1940s
* The Delicate Art of the Rifle (1996) – surrealistic comedy drama film about a school shooting as seen through the eyes of a socially awkward college student named Jay, the shooter is loosely based on Charles Whitman
* Devil's Island (Icelandic: Djöflaeyjan) (1996) – Icelandic comedy drama film depicting a group of otherwise homeless families living in barracks abandoned by the US Air Force after the Second World War
* The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca (1996) – American-Spanish-French-Cinema of Puerto Rican biographical drama film about the life and murder of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca
* Easy Prey (1996) – Canadian historical drama television film reenacting the true story of Australian serial killer Christopher Wilder, also known as "the Beauty Queen Killer", and his kidnapping of victim Tina Marie Risico, a sixteen-year-old girl
* Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996) – biographical drama film about the life of Dorothy Day, the journalist turned social activist and founder of the Catholic Worker newspaper
* Eva Perón: The True Story (1996) – Argentine biographical drama film based on the life of Eva Perón
* Evita (1996) – musical historical drama film depicting the life of Eva Perón, detailing her beginnings, rise to fame, political career and death at the age of 33
* Fly Away Home (1996) – family adventure drama film dramatizing the actual experiences of Bill Lishman who, in 1986, started training Canada geese to follow his ultralight aircraft, and succeeded in leading their migration in 1993 through his program "Operation Migration"
* Flynn (1996) – Australian biographical drama film about the early life of Errol Flynn, focusing on his time in New Guinea
* For My Daughter's Honor (1996) – drama television film based on the true story of Brook Graham and her experience that started when she was a freshman in the fall of 1986 at Taylor High School in Taylor, Texas
* Forgotten Sins (1996) – drama television film based on Lawrence Wright's two-part article "Remembering Satan", about the real-life case of Paul Ingram, which appeared in the 17 and 24 May 1993, issues of The New Yorker
* The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) – historical adventure film depicting a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of male lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898
* Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) – biographical courtroom drama film based on the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers
* Giant Mine (1996) – Canadian disaster drama television film dramatizing the events of the 1992 Giant Mine labour dispute and the subsequent bomb explosion which killed nine replacement workers
* Gone in the Night (1996) – thriller drama television film about the Jaclyn Dowaliby murder case
* Gotti (1996) – crime drama television film about infamous Gambino crime family boss John Gotti
* Gray's Anatomy (1996) – American-British comedy drama film about Spalding Gray who is diagnosed with a rare ocular condition called macular pucker
* The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1996) – historical war drama miniseries dramatizing genuine testimonies of frontline soldiers during World War I
* Hamsun (1996) – Danish-German-Swedish-Norwegian biographical war drama film about the later life of the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, who, together with his wife Marie Hamsun, went from being a national hero to a traitor after supporting Nazi Germany during their occupation of Norway during World War II
* Handel's Last Chance (1996) – Canadian-Slovak biographical drama television film following a fictionalized background of the premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Messiah in 1742
* Hillsborough (1996) – British disaster drama television film depicting a dramatization of the Hillsborough disaster, which saw 97 football supporters lose their lives at Hillsborough in Sheffield
* Hollow Reed (1996) – British-German-Spanish romantic drama film following a divorced gay man who begins to suspect that his son is being physically abused by his ex-wife's new boyfriend, based on a true incident
* Hostile Advances (1996) – drama television film based on Ellison v. Brady, a landmark sexual harassment case
* I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) – biographical drama film about the life of Valerie Solanas and her relationship with the artist Andy Warhol
* In Cold Blood (1996) – crime drama miniseries about the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas
* In Love and War (1996) – romantic drama film based on writer Ernest Hemingway's real-life experiences in the First World War as a young ambulance-driver in Italy
* Infinity (1996) – biographical drama film telling the story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman
* Intimate Relations (1996) – Canadian-British comedy drama film based on the true story of Albert Goozee, who was put on trial in 1956 in England
* It's My Party (1996) – romantic drama film based on the true events of the death of Harry Stein, accomplished architect and designer, who was actually director Randal Kleiser's ex-lover, it was one of the first feature films to address the topic of AIDS patients dying with dignity
* Jerusalem (1996) – Swedish-Norwegian-Danish drama film inspired by real events from the end of the 19th century, a time when many people left Europe to find a better life abroad
* Justice for Annie: A Moment of Truth Movie (1996) – thriller drama television film based on the case of Deana Hubbard Wild, who was pushed to her death from a cliff near Monterey, California
* Kansas City (1996) – crime drama film loosely based on a true story about a 1933 kidnapping and ransom incident involving the city's chief manager
* The Late Shift (1996) – biographical comedy drama television film chronicling the late-night television conflict between Jay Leno and David Letterman in the early 1990s, surrounding NBC's appointment of Leno to succeed Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show, and Late Night host Letterman's resulting efforts to negotiate out of his contract with the network to host his own competing talk show for CBS
* The Making of the Mahatma (1996) – Indian-South African biographical historical drama film about the early life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as Mahatma Gandhi) during his 21 years in South Africa
* Michael Collins (1996) – American-British-Irish biographical historical drama film about Michael Collins, who was a leading figure in the early-20th-century Irish struggle for independence against Britain
* Mr. and Mrs. Loving (1996) – biographical romantic drama film based on the true story of Mildred and Richard Loving
* Nasser 56 (Egyptian Arabic: ناصر) (1996) – Egyptian historical drama film focusing on the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egypt's second President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and the subsequent Suez War with Israel, the United Kingdom, and France
* No One Would Tell (1996) – crime drama television film based on the true story of 14-year-old Amy Carnevale, who was physically abused and murdered by her 16-year-old boyfriend Jamie Fuller, on 23 August 1991, in Beverly, Massachusetts
* Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996) – biographical drama television film about the life of Marilyn Monroe
* Normal Life (1996) – crime drama film based on the real lives of husband-and-wife bank robbers, Jeffrey and Jill Erickson
* The One That Got Away (1996) – South African action drama television film telling the true story of a Special Air Service patrol during the Gulf War in 1991
* Over Here (1996) – British war drama miniseries chronicling the lives of US Army Air Corps B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crews on a Royal Air Force Spitfire base during World War II
* The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) – biographical drama film chronicling the rise of pornographer Larry Flynt and his subsequent clash with religious institutions and the law
* Poznań '56 (1996) – Polish historical drama film about the Poznań 1956 protests
* Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Serbian: Лепа села лепо горе) (1996) – Yugoslav historical drama film inspired by a real-life occurrence in eastern Bosnia from the opening stages of the Bosnian War, with the film's screenplay based on a Vanja Bulić-written, Duga magazine published long-form piece about the actual event
* Private Confessions (Swedish: Enskilda samtal) (1996) – Swedish biographical drama film based on Ingmar Bergman's stories about his parents complicated relationship life in his marriage and also some of his own childhood memories
* Public Enemies (1996) – crime thriller film centring on the 1930s figure Ma Barker and her criminal sons
* Race the Sun (1996) – comedy drama film loosely based on the true story of the Konawaena High School Solar Car Team, which finished 18th in the 1990 World Solar Challenge and first place among high school entries
* Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996) – biographical historical drama television film chronicling the last four years (1912–16) of Grigori Rasputin's stint as a healer to Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia; the heir apparent to the Russian throne as well as the only son of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna; who suffered from hemophilia
* Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault (1996) – biographical sport drama television film about Earl Manigault, a legendary American street basketball player famous under his nickname of "The Goat"
* Rossini's Ghost (1996) – Canadian biographical drama television film centring around Gioachino Rossini, a composer whose friends never lose faith in him—even when things go wrong
* Rowing Through (1996) – Canadian-Japanese sport drama film centring on American sculler Tiff Wood as he tries to qualify for the 1984 Summer Olympics
* Saint-Ex (1996) – British biographical drama television film documenting the life of French author-aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the form of a "tone poem"
* Samson and Delilah (1996) – American-German-Italian Christian drama miniseries telling the biblical story of Samson and Delilah
* Seduced by Madness (1996) – crime thriller television film recounting the story of Wisconsin teacher Diane Borchardt, who hired teen students first to spy on her cheating husband and later to kill him
* Shine (1996) – Australian biographical drama film based on the life of David Helfgott, a pianist who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions
* The Siege at Ruby Ridge (1996) – historical drama television film about the confrontation between the family of Randy Weaver and the US federal government at Ruby Ridge in 1992
* Some Mother's Son (1996) – American-Irish historical drama film based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in the Maze Prison, in Northern Ireland
* Stand Against Fear (1996) – drama television film about a cheerleader who takes action when she faces sexual intimidation from football players at her schoolbased on a real-life incident, which occurred at Santa Clara High School in California
* Surviving Picasso (1996) – biographical drama film about Françoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty, and move on with her life
* To Brave Alaska (1996) – survival adventure drama television film based on the true story of a yuppie couple's Alaskan trip turning into a wilderness survival struggle
* Twisted Desire (1996) – crime drama television film based on the 1990 murders of the parents of 14-year-old Jessica Wiseman
* Unabomber: The True Story (1996) – biographical drama television film telling the stories of three men: one who terrorized the U.S. from 1978 to 1995 by sending bombs through the mail; his brother who suspected him of being the Unabomber; and the postal inspector who investigated the bombings from the beginning
* Unforgivable (1996) – drama television film telling the story of the real life couple, Paul and Judy Hegstrom
* Voice from the Grave (1996) – mystery crime television film inspired by the February 1977 murder of 47-year-old respiratory therapist Teresita Basa in Chicago, Illinois
* White Squall (1996) – disaster survival coming-of-age drama film based on the fate of the brigantine Albatross, which sank 2 May 1961, allegedly because of a white squall
* The Whole Wide World (1996) – biographical romantic drama film depicting the relationship between pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard and schoolteacher Novalyne Price Ellis
* Without Evidence (1996) – thriller drama film based on the true story of Michael Francke, who was the Head of Corrections for the state of Oregon before being murdered

## 1997

* ...First Do No Harm (1997) – drama television film about a boy whose severe epilepsy, unresponsive to medications with terrible side effects, is controlled by the ketogenic diet, aspects of the story mirror Jim Abrahams' experience with his son Charlie
* A Child's Wish (1997) – drama television film based on actual events of a family who discovers their 16-year-old daughter has cancer
* Amistad (1997) – historical drama film based on the events in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by the Washington, a U.S. revenue cutter
* An Eyewitness Account (Italian: Testimone a rischio) (1997) – Italian thriller drama film based on real life events of Sicilian Mafia hit eyewitness Piero Nava
* Anastasia (1997) – animated musical drama film based on the legend of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
* Annamayya (Telugu: అన్నమయ్య) (1997) – Indian Telugu-language biographical drama film portraying the life of the 15th century composer Annamacharya
* Any Mother's Son (1997) – crime drama television film based on the murder of Allen Schindler, a United States Navy sailor who was killed for being gay
* The Arrow (1997) – Canadian historical drama miniseries about Crawford Gordon, experienced wartime production leader after World War II and president of Avro Canada during its attempt to produce the Avro Arrow supersonic jet interceptor aircraft
* Artemisia (1997) – French-Italian-German biographical drama film about Artemisia Gentileschi, the female Italian Baroque painter
* Black Circle Boys (1997) – thriller drama film loosely based on real events filled with drugs, satanism & murder
* Boogie Nights (1997) – historical comedy drama film focusing on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s through his fall during the excesses of the 1980s, based on actor John Holmes
* Border (Hindi: सीमा) (1997) – Indian Hindi-language epic war film inspired by real life events that happened during the Battle of Longewala in 1971
* Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story (1997) – biographical sport drama television film about American diver Greg Louganis
* Buddy (1997) – family comedy drama film based on the life of a gorilla called Massa with elements of Gertrude Lintz's other gorilla Gargantua (who was called "Buddy" at the time)
* Comedian Harmonists (1997) – German biographical drama film about the popular German vocal group of the 1920s and '30s, the Comedian Harmonists
* Country Justice (1997) – crime drama television film based on a true story of a 1981 West Virginia court case
* Crowned and Dangerous (1997) – crime drama television film about the murder of a beauty queen, an investigation which reveals the suspects to be a former lover, a rival contestant, and a stage mother, based on a true story
* Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters (Thai: 2499 อันธพาลครองเมือง) (1997) – Thai crime drama film about young Thai gangsters in 1950s Thailand
* Daughters (1997) – thriller drama television film based on the true crime story about the murder of publishing heiress Anne Scripps Douglas who, in 1989, married a young hunk who eventually killed her
* David (1997) – Christian drama television film telling the biblical story of David
* Detention: The Siege at Johnson High (1997) – thriller drama television film based on the 1992 Lindhurst High School shooting and siege that resulted in the death of four people
* Don King: Only in America (1997) – biographical sport drama television film telling the story of Don King becoming a famous fight promoter and boxing manager
* Donnie Brasco (1997) – biographical crime drama film loosely based on the true story of Joseph D. Pistone, a FBI undercover agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family in New York City during the 1970s, under the alias Donnie Brasco, a jewel thief from Vero Beach, Florida
* Dukhai (Bengali: দুখাই) (1997) – Bangladeshi drama film showing the struggle of the people of the shore in the 1970 Bhola cyclone
* Elvis Meets Nixon (1997) – Canadian-American biographical drama television film depicting an embellished account of the true story of American singer Elvis Presley meeting President Richard Nixon on 21 December 1970
* FairyTale: A True Story (1997) – fantasy drama film loosely based on the story of the Cottingley Fairies, and following two children in 1917 England who take a photograph soon believed to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies
* Fever Pitch (1997) – British comedy drama film loosely on Nick Hornby's best-selling memoir, Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life (1992), concentrating on Arsenal's First Division championship-winning season in 1988–89
* First Time Felon (1997) – crime drama film telling the story of the arrest, incarceration, shock incarceration program, home detention with electronic surveillance, and efforts to find employment experienced by a young black male who lived in Chicago and was arrested for drug possession, based on a true story
* For All: Springboard to Victory (Portuguese: For All – O Trampolim da Vitória) (1997) – Brazilian comedy drama film about a US established military base in Natal, Brazil during World War II
* Four Days in September (Portuguese: O Que É Isso, Companheiro?) (1997) – Brazilian thriller film depicting a dramatization of the 1969 kidnapping of the United States Ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick, by members of Revolutionary Movement 8th October (MR-8) and Ação Libertadora Nacional (ALN)
* Frozen (Mandarin: 极度寒冷) (1997) – Chinese drama film following a young performance artist, Qi Lei, who attempts to create a masterpiece centred on the theme of death, supposedly based on a true story
* The Gambler (1997) – biographical drama film set around the writing of the 1866 novel The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
* Gaston's War (1997) – Belgian war drama film telling the story of a Belgian resistance fighter, Gaston Vandermeerssche, who tries to discover who betrayed them to the Nazis
* George Wallace (1997) – biographical drama miniseries following Alabama governor George Wallace through segregation, presidential elections, an assassination attempt and personal trauma
* Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story (1997) – biographical drama television film chronicling country music singer Barbara Mandrell's life and career, from her early years in her family's band to her rise to country music fame, and the 1984 car accident that nearly ended her career
* Hav Plenty (1997) – romantic comedy film based on the true story of Christopher Scott Cherot's unrequited romance with Def Jam A&R executive Drew Dixon
* Hoodlum (1997) – crime drama film depicting a fictionalized account of the gang war between the Italian/Jewish mafia alliance and the black gangsters of Harlem that took place in the late 1920s and early 1930s
* Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997) – disaster drama television film telling the story of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster
* Iruvar (Tamil: இருவர்) (1997) – Indian Tamil-language epic political drama film inspired by the lives of M. Karunanidhi, M. G. Ramachandran and J. Jayalalithaa and is set against the backdrop of cinema and politics in Tamil Nadu
* Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way (1997) – biographical sport drama television film chronicling Joe Torre's first year as manager of the New York Yankees when they won the World Series in 1996
* Keeping the Promise (1997) – American-Canadian historical drama television film based on a factual story that Elizabeth George Speare discovered in Milo, Maine about a young boy who was left alone for a summer in the wilderness and was befriended by a Native American, named Attean, and his grandfather
* Kundun (1997) – epic biographical film based on the life and writings of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet
* The Last of the Ryans (1997) – Australian biographical drama television film following the escape, re capture and hanging of Ronald Ryan for the murder of prison guard George Hodson
* The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) – biographical drama film based on a 1950 letter written by Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac
* Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997) – biographical drama miniseries about the Lewis and Clark Expedition
* Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder (1997) – drama television film based on the real life murder of Adrianne Jones by Diane Zamora in Texas
* Lucie Aubrac (1997) – French biographical drama film about World War II French Resistance member Lucie Aubrac
* The Manson Family (1997) – crime exploitation horror film covering the lives of Charles Manson and his family of followers
* The Mad Phoenix (Cantonese: 南海十三郎) (1997) – Hong Kong biographical drama film depicting the life of the legend Cantonese Opera playwright Kong Yu-Kau
* Marquise (1997) – French historical drama film based on the historical actress Marquise-Thérèse de Gorla, who rises from obscurity to win the hearts of some of France's most prominent citizens, including Moliere, Racine, and King Louis XIV
* Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) – mystery thriller film following the story of antiques dealer Jim Williams on trial for the murder of a male prostitute who was his lover
* Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor (1997) – biographical drama television film about the life of Mother Teresa
* Mrs Brown (1997) – British biographical historical drama film telling the story of a recently widowed Queen Victoria and her relationship with a Scottish servant, John Brown, a trusted servant of her deceased husband, and the subsequent uproar it provoked
* My Heart Is Mine Alone (German: Mein Herz – niemandem!) (1997) – German drama film depicting the real-life love affair between Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn
* Night Bus 807 (Swedish: Nattbuss 807) (1997) – Swedish crime thriller film based on a true story and events of the 1992 murder of a young boy in Vendelsömalm during the Stockholm Water Festival
* No Child of Mine (1997) – British biographical drama television film documenting the true case of a girl named Kerry who was sexually abused throughout her childhood
* The Opium War (Mandarin: 鸦片战争) (1997) – Chinese historical epic film telling the story of the First Opium War of 1839–1842, which was fought between the Qing Empire of China and the British Empire, from the perspectives of key figures such as the Chinese viceroy Lin Zexu and the British naval diplomat Charles Elliot
* Paradise Road (1997) – Australian war drama film telling the story of a group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women who are imprisoned by the Japanese in Sumatra during World War II
* Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing (1997) – drama television film depicting the events surrounding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
* Pierre and Marie (French: Les Palmes de M. Schutz) (1997) – French biographical drama film about the lives of Marie and Pierre Curie and their discoveries around radioactivity
* The Place of the Dead (1997) – British adventure thriller television film based on a true account of a British Army expedition in Malaysia that made headlines in 1994 when it went badly wrong
* Prefontaine (1997) – biographical drama film chronicling the life of the American long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine and his death at age 24
* Prison of Secrets (1997) – crime drama television film based on a true story and focusing on a female prison inmate who fights for women's rights while still in jail
* Private Parts (1997) – biographical comedy film following radio personality Howard Stern's life from boyhood and his rise to success in radio
* Regeneration (1997) – British biographical drama film following the stories of a number of officers of the British Army during World War I who are brought together in Craiglockhart War Hospital where they are treated for various traumas, featuring the story of Siegfried Sassoon
* Rizal in Dapitan (Filipino: Rizal sa Dapitan) (1997) – Filipino biographical drama film about the four-year exile of Filipino propagandist and patriot José Rizal in Dapitan
* Rosewood (1997) – historical drama film inspired by the 1923 Rosewood massacre in Florida, when a white mob killed black people and destroyed their town
* Rough Riders (1997) – historical biographical drama miniseries about future President Theodore Roosevelt and the regiment known as the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry; a.k.a. the Rough Riders
* The Sarah Balabagan Story (1997) – Filipino biographical drama film about Sarah Balabagan, an OFW who was sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates for killing her employer who was attempting to rape her
* Selena (1997) – biographical musical drama film about Tejano music star Selena Quintanilla-Pérez
* Seven Years in Tibet (1997) – biographical war drama film about Heinrich Harrer and Peter Aufschnaiter's experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951
* Shanghai 1937 (1997) – German war drama miniseries about the Japanese invasion of China also known as the Second Sino-Japanese War begins in 1937 as a precursor to World War II
* Sins of the Mind (1997) – psychological drama television film telling the story of a conservative young woman who develops uncontrollable sexual urges as a result of a traffic accident and subsequent brain damage, inspired by a true story
* Sleeping with the Devil (1997) – thriller drama television film based on a true story about a woman recovering from a domestic-violence relationship who finds out that her former partner still wants her, even if it means killing her
* The Sleepwalker Killing (1997) – crime drama television film inspired by a true story about a man who claims he was sleepwalking when he killed his mother-in-law
* Solomon (1997) – Christian drama miniseries retelling the biblical story of Solomon
* The Soong Sisters (Cantonese: 宋家皇朝) (1997) – Hong Kong historical drama film based on the lives of the Soong sisters from 1911 to 1949
* Stolen Women: Captured Hearts (1997) – Western romantic drama television film about a woman living on the plains of Kansas in 1868 who is kidnapped by a band of Lakota Indians, loosely based on the real Anna Morgan who was taken by Cheyenne Indians for approximately one year before being returned to her husband
* Subway Stories (1997) – anthology drama film based on the actual experiences of New York City subway riders and dramatized in a collection of 10 intriguing and very different vignettes
* Thomas Jefferson (1997) – historical biographical miniseries covering the life and times of Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the United States
* Titanic (1997) – disaster drama film based on accounts of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912
* True Women (1997) – Western adventure miniseries covering five decades, from the Texas Revolution through Native American uprisings and the Civil War to the early stages of the women's suffrage movement
* Vasiliki (Greek: Βασιλική) (1997) – Greek drama film presenting the riotous years immediately after the Greek Civil War
* Wild America (1997) – adventure comedy film based on the life of wildlife documentarian Marty Stouffer
* Wilde (1997) – British biographical romantic drama film chronicling the turmoil in Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality

## 1998

* 23 (German: 23 – Nichts ist so wie es scheint) (1998) – German drama thriller film about young hacker Karl Koch, who died on 23 May 1989, a presumed suicide
* 54 (1998) – drama film focusing on the rise and fall of Studio 54, a famous nightclub in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s
* A Bright Shining Lie (1998) – war drama television film telling the true story of John Paul Vann's experience in the Vietnam War
* A Civil Action (1998) – courtroom drama film telling the true story of a court case about environmental pollution that took place in Woburn, Massachusetts in the 1980s
* A Father for Brittany (1998) – drama television film based on a true story of a husband and wife who try to adopt a baby, only for cancer to get in the way
* Abgehauen (1998) – German biographical drama television film about the life of Manfred Krug
* Aftershocks (1998) – Australian drama television film about the 1989 Newcastle earthquake
* The Apple (Persian: سیب) (1998) – Iranian drama film based on the true story of two sisters who were imprisoned for twelve years by their parents
* April (Italian: Aprile) (1998) – Italian biographical drama film about Nanni Moretti
* At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story (1998) – Canadian drama television film about the life of Canadian right to die advocate Sue Rodriguez
* Bad As I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story (1998) – biographical sport drama television film about basketball player Dennis Rodman
* The Boys (1998) – Australian crime drama film influenced by the 1986 murder of Anita Cobby
* The Brylcreem Boys (1998) – British romantic comedy film set against the extraordinary neutrality arrangements in Ireland during World War II
* Cider with Rosie (1998) – British biographical drama television film depicting an account of Laurie Lee's childhood in the village of Slad, Gloucestershire, England, in the period soon after the First World War
* Dangerous Beauty (1998) – historical biographical drama film about Veronica Franco, a courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice who becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft
* The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1998) – historical biographical drama television film depicting the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
* The Day of the Roses (1998) – Australian disaster drama miniseries based on the events of the 1977 Granville railway disaster
* Diana: A Tribute to the People's Princess (1998) – biographical drama television film about Diana, Princess of Wales
* Elizabeth (1998) – British historical biographical drama film based on the early years of Elizabeth I of England's reign, where she is elevated to the throne after the death of her half-sister Mary I, who had imprisoned her
* Endurance (1998) – biographical drama film about the famous distance runner Haile Gebrselassie
* Escape: Human Cargo (1998) – action television film based on the true story of an American businessman who loses his passport and exit visa in Saudi Arabia
* Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) – stoner black comedy road film detailing Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo's journey through Las Vegas as their initial journalistic intentions devolve into an exploration of the city under the influence of psychoactive substances
* Fifteen and Pregnant (1998) – drama television film based on the true story of a pregnant 15-year-old girl
* Forever Love (1998) – romantic drama television film partially based on Annie Shapiro's awakening
* The General (1998) – Irish crime drama film about Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill, who undertook several daring heists in the early 1980s and attracted the attention of the Garda Síochána, IRA and Ulster Volunteer Force
* Genghis Khan (Mandarin: 代天骄成吉思汗) (1998) – Chinese biographical drama film telling the story of Genghis Khan
* Glory & Honor (1998) – biographical drama television film based on the true story of Robert Peary and Matthew Henson's 1909 journey to the Geographic North Pole, and their nearly 20-year history of exploring the Arctic together
* Gods and Monsters (1998) – historical drama film depicting a partly fictionalized account of the last days of the life of film director James Whale, known for directing Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
* Gia (1998) – biographical drama film about the life and times of one of the first supermodels, Gia Carangi
* Hilary and Jackie (1998) – British biographical drama film about British classical musician sisters Jacqueline du Pré and Hilary du Pré, covering Jacqueline's meteoric rise to fame, her alleged affair with Hilary's husband Christopher Finzi, and her struggle with multiple sclerosis starting in her late 20s ultimately leading to her death at the age of 42
* Houdini (1998) – biographical drama television film about the life of the magician Harry Houdini
* Jeremiah (1998) – Christian drama television film depicting the biblical story of Jeremiah
* Jinnah (1998) – Pakistani-British epic biographical film following the life of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah
* José Rizal (1998) – Filipino historical drama film based on the true story of Filipino patriot José Rizal, who was imprisoned under the Spanish colonization and tells Rizal's story until the final day of his execution
* Lautrec (1998) – French biographical drama film about the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, focusing on his love affair with painter Suzanne Valadon
* Leaf on a Pillow (Indonesian: Daun di Atas Bantal) (1998) – Indonesian drama film based on true stories in the lives of three street boys in Yogyakarta who all die under tragic circumstances, also dealing with poverty in Indonesia, as seen through the experiences of the poor
* The Long Island Incident (1998) – drama television film about the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting
* Love and Rage (1998) – British-Irish-German drama film about a romantic obsession which turned violent, inspired by a true story and partially filmed in the home where the actual events occurred
* Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) – British biographical drama film depicting a biography of painter Francis Bacon, concentrating on his strained relationship with George Dyer, a small-time thief
* Miracle at Midnight (1998) – war drama television film based on the rescue of the Danish Jews in Denmark during the Holocaust
* Mulan (1998) – animated musical adventure film based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan
* My Own Country (1998) – drama television film telling the story of Abraham Verghese, a young infectious-disease physician in the mid-1980s in Johnson City, Tennessee, who began to treat patients with a then unknown disease (later identified as AIDS)
* Never Tell Me Never (1998) – Australian biographical drama television film about cross-country skier Janine Shepherd
* The Newton Boys (1998) – Western crime film telling the true story of the Newton Gang, a family of bank and train robbers from Uvalde, Texas
* Nicholas' Gift (1998) – American-Italian drama television film about an American couple on vacation in Italy in 1994 with their two children who are attacked and shot by highway bandits, based on a true story
* Patch Adams (1998) – biographical comedy drama film loosely based on the life story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams
* The Pentagon Wars (1998) – war comedy film about the development of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle
* Permanent Midnight (1998) – drama film about Jerry Stahl, a successful TV writer for popular series like thirtysomething, Twin Peaks, and ALF, and his struggles with substance abuse
* Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998) – animated musical adventure film focusing on Pocahontas's journey to England with John Rolfe to negotiate for peace between the two nations
* Point Last Seen (1998) – action drama television film about a tracker who searches for a little girl who was lost in the desert, but suffers internally because her own children were kidnapped by her ex-husband, based on a true story
* The Prince of Egypt (1998) – animated religious musical drama film following the life of Moses from being a prince of Egypt to a prophet of the Lord, chosen by God to carry out his ultimate destiny of leading the Hebrews out of Egypt
* Psycho (1998) – psychological horror film inspired by the crimes of the real-life serial killer, Ed Gein
* The Rat Pack (1998) – biographical drama television film about the Rat Pack
* Resurrection Man (1998) – Northern Irish extreme horror drama film loosely based on the real-life "Shankill Butchers", an Ulster loyalist gang in 1970s Belfast who conducted random killings of Catholic civilians until their leader, Lenny Murphy, was assassinated by a Provisional IRA hit squad
* Ruby Bridges (1998) – biographical drama television film based on the true story of Ruby Bridges, one of the first black students to attend integrated schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1960
* Sada (Japanese: SADA〜戯作・阿部定の生涯) (1998) – Japanese drama film based on the true story of Sada Abe
* Saving Private Ryan (1998) – epic war drama film inspired by accounts of casualties among members of a single family such as the Niland brothers during World War II
* Savior (1998) – war drama film about a U.S. mercenary escorting a Bosnian Serb woman and her newborn child to a United Nations safe zone during the Bosnian War
* Shot Through the Heart (1998) – war drama television film covering the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, based on a true story
* The Sleep Room (1998) – Canadian biographical drama television film about experiments on Canadian mental patients that were carried out in the 1950s and 1960s by Donald Ewen Cameron and funded by the CIA's MKUltra program
* Swami Vivekananda (1998) – Indian biographical drama film about Swami Vivekananda, the 19th-century Hindu monk
* The Temptations (1998) – biographical musical drama miniseries based upon the history of one of Motown's longest-lived acts, The Temptations
* Terra Nova (1998) – Australian drama film based on a young woman who runs away from her home in New Zealand and hides with her child in an Australian boarding house named Terra Nova
* The Thin Red Line (1998) – epic war film depicting a fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen, which was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War
* The Tichborne Claimant (1998) – British drama film based on the Tichborne case, a historical case of identity theft
* The Tiger Woods Story (1998) – biographical sport drama television film about the life of Tiger Woods
* The Versace murder (1998) – biographical crime drama film focusing on the true story of the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace by alleged serial killer Andrew Cunanan
* Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998) – romantic drama film about Frankie Lymon, lead singer of the pioneering rock and roll group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers
* Winchell (1998) – biographical drama television film telling the true story of the influential and controversial columnist, Walter Winchell
* Windhorse (1998) – drama film about the lives of three young Tibetans who struggle for freedom against the Chinese communist regime, based on true events
* Without Limits (1998) – biographical sport drama film following the relationship between record-breaking distance runner Steve Prefontaine and his coach Bill Bowerman, who later co-founded Nike, Inc.
* Witness to the Mob (1998) – crime drama television film following the rise of Sammy Gravano in ranks in the Gambino crime family, one of the "Five Families" of the New York Cosa Nostra that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, his turning to government witness in the legal trials of John Gotti and his life in federal Witness Protection Program

## 1999

* The 13th Warrior (1999) – historical action drama film depicting a loose adaptation of the tale of Beowulf combined with Ahmad ibn Fadlan's historical account of the Volga Vikings
* A Respectable Man (Italian: Un uomo perbene) (1999) – Italian biographical drama film depicting the judicial case of television presenter Enzo Tortora, who was falsely accused by several pentiti to be a camorra man and who died of cancer a short time after being acquitted
* Aimée & Jaguar (1999) – German war drama film chronicling the actual lives of Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim during World War II
* All My Loved Ones (Czech: Všichni moji blízcí) (1999) – Czech-Polish-Slovak war drama film about Nicholas Winton and the Czech Kindertransport
* All the King's Men (1999) – British war drama television film based on the story of the 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment which included men from the King's estate at Sandringham House who had initially been formed in a "Sandringham Company"
* Angela's Ashes (1999) – biographical drama film based on the memoir of the same name by Frank McCourt following the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick
* Anna and the King (1999) – biographical historical drama film giving a fictionalized account of the diaries of Anna Leonowens
* Aristocrats (1999) – British-Irish-American historical drama miniseries about the four aristocratic Lennox sisters in 18th century England
* At First Sight (1999) – romantic drama film inspired by the true life story of Shirl Jennings
* Bad Company (French: Mauvaises Fréquentations) (1999) – French romantic drama film about an innocent 14-year-old girl ends up prostituting herself (and her best friend) for her tortured, disturbed boyfriend, in the name of love, based on a true story
* Beefcake (1999) – biographical drama film about the muscle magazines of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s—in particular, Physique Pictorial magazine, published quarterly by Bob Mizer of the Athletic Model Guild
* Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1999) – biographical Western miniseries about the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
* Bhopal Express (Hindi: भोपाल एक्सप्रेस) (1999) – Indian Hindi-language drama film set against the gas tragedy in Bhopal, India, in 1984, and examines the irresponsible methods of large corporations and the effects of their actions on common people
* The Blonde Bombshell (1999) – British biographical drama miniseries based on the life and death of actress Diana Dors
* Boys Don't Cry (1999) – biographical drama film depicting a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, an American trans man who attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances
* Bravo Two Zero (1999) – British war drama film covering real life events – from the perspective of Andy McNab, patrol commander of Bravo Two Zero, a British SAS patrol, tasked to find Iraqi Scud missile launchers during the Gulf War in 1991
* Breaking Out (Swedish: Vägen ut) (1999) – Swedish comedy drama film inspired by the true event when Jan Jönson directed Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" at Kumla Prison and took the ensemble of inmates to Gothenburg City Theatre for an official opening performance, whereby four out of five of the inmates escaped
* Brotherhood of Murder (1999) – crime thriller television film based on the white supremacist group The Order, its founder Robert Jay Mathews, and the largest cash robbery in US history
* Children of the Century (French: Les Enfants du Siècle) (1999) – French biographical romance drama film based on the true tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset
* Come On Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story (1999) – biographical drama television film about the 1970–1974 television series The Partridge Family, focusing on star David Cassidy and co-star Danny Bonaduce through the four years the show was on
* Cradle Will Rock (1999) – historical drama film fictionalizing the true events that surrounded the development of the 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein
* Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly (1999) – Canadian crime drama television film based on the life of Alex Kelly
* The Cup (Tibetan: ཕོར་པ།) (1999) – Bhutanese sport comedy film about two young football-crazed Tibetan refugee novice monks in a remote Himalayan monastery in India who desperately try to obtain a television for the monastery to watch the 1998 World Cup final, based on a true story
* The Debt (Polish: Dług) (1999) – Polish thriller film based on the true story of Sławomir Sikora and Artur Bryliński in the early 1990s
* Dockers (1999) – British drama television film about the struggles of a small group of Liverpool dockers who were sacked and subsequently spent nearly 2+1⁄2 years picketing during the Liverpool Dockers' Strike of 1995 to 1998
* The Einstein of Sex (German: Der Einstein des Sex) (1999) – German biographical drama film following the life of the Jewish doctor, sexologist, and gay socialist Magnus Hirschfeld
* Esther (1999) – American-Italian-German Christian drama television film telling the biblical story of Esther
* Excellent Cadavers (Italian: I giudici) (1999) – American-Italian crime drama television film telling the real life events of judge Giovanni Falcone
* General Sutter (1999) – Swiss historical drama film based on the life of John August Sutter, a German-born Swiss figure who participated in the American gold rush in the years before the American Civil War
* Girl, Interrupted (1999) – psychological drama film following a young woman who spends 18 months institutionalized at a psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt, based on Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a psychiatric hospital in the late 1960s
* Goya in Bordeaux (Spanish: Goya en Burdeos) (1999) – Spanish historical drama film about the life of Francisco Goya, the Spanish painter
* Grey Owl (1999) – American-Canadian-British biographical drama film about the real-life British schoolboy turned Native American trapper "Grey Owl", Archibald Belaney
* Guardami (1999) – Italian erotic thriller drama film loosely based on the life of Moana Pozzi
* Hefner: Unauthorized (1999) – biographical drama film about Hugh Hefner and the birth of the Playboy empire
* The Hunley (1999) – historical drama television film based on the true story of the H. L. Hunley submarine and the action of 17 February 1864
* The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999) – thriller drama miniseries depicting an account of early-1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who murdered his girlfriend and then fled the country
* The Hurricane (1999) – biographical sport drama film about Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter, a former middleweight boxer who was wrongly convicted for a triple murder in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey
* In a Class of His Own (1999) – drama television film about a high school janitor must go back to school to get his GED to keep his job, based on a true story
* In Too Deep (1999) – crime thriller hood film loosely based on a true story of an undercover police officer who infiltrated an inner-city drug empire and took down the crime lord in charge
* Inherit the Wind (1999) – drama television film fictionalizing the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a means of discussing the 1950s McCarthy trials
* The Insider (1999) – biographical thriller drama film about Jeffrey Wigand, a whistleblower in the tobacco industry, covering his and CBS producer Lowell Bergman's struggles as they defend his testimony against efforts to discredit and suppress it by CBS and Wigand's former employer
* Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) – biographical drama television film about actress and singer Dorothy Dandridge
* The Jesse Ventura Story (1999) – biographical drama television film about the life of ex-pro wrestler Jesse Ventura who became the 38th governor of Minnesota
* Jesus (1999) – Italian-American Christian drama miniseries about the historical events of Jesus Christ
* Joan of Arc (1999) – Canadian historical biographical drama miniseries about the 15th-century Catholic saint of the same name
* Man on the Moon (1999) – biographical comedy drama film about the late American entertainer Andy Kaufman
* Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999) – Christian drama television film retelling the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother
* The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc) (1999) – French epic historical drama film portraying the story of St. Joan of Arc, the French war heroine and religious martyr of the Hundred Years War
* Michael Jordan: An American Hero (1999) – biographical sport drama television film about the life of professional basketball player, Michael Jordan
* Milgaard (1999) – Canadian biographical drama miniseries centring on David Milgaard, a Canadian man who was wrongfully convicted in the 1969 rape and murder of Gail Miller, and his 22-year quest for justice until being released from prison in 1992
* The Miracle Maker (Welsh: Gwr y Gwyrthiau) (1999) – British-Russian animated Christian drama film telling the story of the life of Jesus Christ
* Moloch (Russian: Молох) (1999) – Russian biographical drama film portraying Adolf Hitler living life in an unassuming manner during an abrupt journey to the Bavarian Alps, a few months before the notorious Battle of Stalingrad
* Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999) – Australian-Belgian biographical drama film about Father Damien, a Belgian priest working at the Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement on the Hawaiian island of Molokai
* Mother (Russian: Мама) (1999) – Russian musical drama film based on the capture of an Ovechkin family in 1988
* Mr. Rock 'n' Roll: The Alan Freed Story (1999) – biographical drama television film about the life of Alan Freed
* The Murder of Stephen Lawrence (1999) – British crime drama television film based on the murder of Stephen Lawrence committed on 22 April 1993, following Stephen's parents' ,Doreen and Neville, quest for justice as a gang of racists are tried for their son's murder
* Music of the Heart (1999) – biographical musical drama film dramatizing the true story of Roberta Guaspari, who co-founded the Opus 118 Harlem School of Music and fought for music education funding in New York City public schools
* Mutiny (1999) – war drama television film based on the story of the Port Chicago disaster during World War II where 50 African-American sailors were accused of mutiny because they declined to continue loading munitions after an explosion caused by failures in training and management
* My Life So Far (1999) – American-British biographical drama film based on the memoirs of Denis Forman, a British television executive
* Not One Less (Mandarin: 一個都不能少) (1999) – Chinese drama film centring on a 13-year-old substitute teacher in the Chinese countryside, addressing education reform in China, the economic gap between urban and rural populations, and the prevalence of bureaucracy and authority figures in everyday life
* October Sky (1999) – biographical drama film telling the true story of Homer H. Hickam Jr., a coal miner's son who was inspired by the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 to take up rocketry against his father's wishes and eventually became a NASA engineer
* One Man's Hero (1999) – American-Mexican-Spanish historical war drama film dramatizing the true story of John Riley and the Saint Patrick's Battalion, a group of Irish Catholic immigrants who desert the mostly Protestant U.S. Army to join the mostly Catholic Mexican side during the Mexican–American War of 1846 to 1848
* Otomo (1999) – German drama film telling the true story of Frederic Otomo, a black man seeking work and asylum in the German city of Stuttgart, however, all he finds is racism
* Passion (1999) – Australian biographical drama film about some episodes in the life of the pianist and composer Percy Grainger
* The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999) – biographical drama television film about Russian-born American writer and public philosopher, Ayn Rand
* Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) – biographical drama television film exploring the impact that the rivalry between Steve Jobs (Apple Computer) and Bill Gates (Microsoft) had on the development of the personal computer
* Propaganda (1999) – Turkish comedy drama film based on a true story from 1948 about a customs officer who is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown
* Ravenous (1999) – horror cannibal film combining elements from the Donner Party and that of the real life "The Colorado Cannibal", Alferd Packer, who survived by eating five companions after becoming snowbound in the San Juan Mountains in the 1870s
* Rembrandt (1999) – international coproduction biographical drama film about the life of iconic artist Rembrandt van Rijn
* RKO 281 (1999) – historical drama television film depicting the troubled production behind the 1941 film Citizen Kane
* Rocky Marciano (1999) – biographical sport drama film telling the story of the rise to fame of legendary boxer Rocky Marciano
* Rogue Trader (1999) – British biographical drama film centring on the life of former derivatives broker Nick Leeson and the 1995 collapse of Barings Bank
* Seventeen Years (Mandarin: 過年回家) (1999) – Chinese crime drama film inspired by real-life testimonies of prison inmates in China
* Shaheed Udham Singh (Punjabi: ਸ਼ਹੀਦ ਊਧਮ ਸਿੰਘ) (1999) – Indian Punjabi-language biographical film based on the life of Udham Singh, an Indian revolutionary who had witnessed the 1919 Amritsar massacre and wanted to avenge the mass killing of his countrymen
* Shaheed-e-Mohabbat Boota Singh (Punjabi: ਸ਼ਹੀਦ-ਏ-ਮੁਹੱਬਤ ਬੂਟਾ ਸਿੰਘ) (1999) – Indian Punjabi-language romance film based on the real-life love story of Boota Singh and Zainab
* Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box (1999) – biographical drama film about magicians Siegfried & Roy
* The Straight Story (1999) – biographical road drama film based on the true story of Alvin Straight's 1994 journey across Iowa and Wisconsin on a lawn mower
* Strange Justice (1999) – political drama television film covering the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination
* Summer of Sam (1999) – crime thriller film about the 1977 David Berkowitz (Son of Sam) serial murders and their effect on a group of fictional residents of an Italian-American neighborhood in The Bronx in the late 1970s
* Suzy Q (1999) – Dutch biographical drama film based on the childhood memories of Frouke Fokkema
* The Swan and the Wanderer (Finnish: Kulkuri ja joutsen) (1999) – Finnish biographical drama film about two very popular Finnish singer-songwriters, Tapio Rautavaara and Reino Helismaa, who worked together until their relationship got fractious for a long time – covering the years from 1949 to 1965
* Switched at Birth (1999) – drama television film about two baby boys, born more or less at the same time, were switched soon after they had been born, based on a true story
* Tea with Mussolini (Italian: Un tè con Mussolini) (1999) – British-Italian comedy drama film telling the semi-autobiographical story of a young Italian boy's upbringing by a circle of British and American women before and during the Second World War
* To Walk with Lions (1999) – adventure biographical drama film following the later years of Lion advocate George Adamson
* Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke (1999) – biographical drama miniseries about billionaire tobacco heiress Doris Duke
* Topsy-Turvy (1999) – British historical musical drama film concerning the 15-month period in 1884 and 1885 leading up to the premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado
* Tuesdays with Morrie (1999) – biographical drama television film based on journalist Mitch Albom's 1997 memoir of the same title, particularly the bond with his former professor, Morrie Schwartz, who was dying of ALS
* Tumbleweeds (1999) – comedy drama film based on Angela Shelton's childhood memories spent on the road with her serial-marrying mother
* Ultimate Deception (1999) – crime drama television film based on the story of how Ralph Takemire murdered a young Colorado woman to steal her baby and bring the infant to his childless wife in Overbrook
* Vicious Circle (1999) – British crime drama television film following notorious Irish criminal Martin Cahill as he undertakes a high stakes jewellery robbery, stealing loot worth more than a million pounds
* The Winslow Boy (1999) – historical drama film based on an incident involving George Archer-Shee in the Edwardian era
* Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) – biographical drama film dramatizing a series of macabre incidents that took place in and around Black River Falls, Wisconsin in the late-19th century
* Witch Hunt (1999) – Australian crime drama television film about a young girl who goes missing and her father who accuses his mother-in-law of abducting her, based on a true story
* Wojaczek (1999) – Polish biographical drama film about rebellious Polish poet Rafał Wojaczek
* You Know My Name (1999) – Western biographical drama television film based on the real-life story of lawman and gunslinger Bill Tilghman, who also directed and produced the 1915 Western film The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws