Films and programs like Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story

Seabiscuit

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 2003 IMDB Rating: 7.3

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.

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Coach Carter

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.

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Secretariat

Film Age rating: 2 Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veter...

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Lords of Dogtown

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 7.1

The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams...

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Ready to Run

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2000 IMDB Rating: 5.4

A 14-year-old girl who works at a racetrack trains a talking racehorse with issues, transforming him into a winner.

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Cinderella Man

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 8

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1920s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.

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Hotel Rwanda

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Ru...

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All Roads Lead Home

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 5.8

The story is about a 12 year old girl who loses her mother in an automobile accident. Her father struggles with the loss of his wife and trying to raise his young daughter who believes her father is p...

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