This is a list of films and miniseries released in that are based on actual events. All films on this list are from American production unless indicated otherwise.
2020 2 Hearts (2020) – romantic drama film based on the true story of Leslie and Jorge Bacardi and Christopher Gregory 18 Presents (Italian: 18 regali) (2020) – Italian drama film based on an actual Italian woman, Elisa Girotto, who had planned and allocated 17 years of birthday gifts for her daughter Anna before her death in September 2017 due to a terminal breast cancer. Adam (2020) – biographical drama film about a hard-living salesman who becomes a quadriplegic after an accident, based on a true story Admitted (Hindi: स्वीकार किया) (2020) – Indian Hindi-language biographical drama film about Dhananjay Chauhan, the first transgender student at Panjab University AK-47 (Russian: Калашников) (2020) – Russian biographical film about the experiences of Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle Alex Wheatle (2020) – historical drama television film about Alex Wheatle, a Black British novelist who was sentenced to a term of imprisonment after the 1981 Brixton uprising All My Life (2020) – romantic drama film based on the true story of Solomon Chau and Jennifer Carter, a young couple that rushes to put their wedding together after Solomon is diagnosed with liver cancer Ammonite (2020) – British-Australian romantic drama film based on the life of English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist Mary Anning The Asadas (Japanese: 浅田家!) (2020) – Japanese biographical drama film based on the real-life photographer, Masashi Asada BAC Nord (2020) – French crime drama film based on a scandal that took place in 2012 within the anti-crime brigade (BAC) of Marseille: eighteen of its members had been referred to correctional for drug trafficking and racketeering The Bad Poet (Italian: Il bad poet) (2020) – Italian biographical drama film focusing on the last years of the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio and on his ambiguous relationship with fascism The Banker (2020) – drama film following Joe Morris and Bernard Garrett, two of the first African-American bankers in the United States who bought banks in Texas to give lending opportunities to blacks who aspired to own homes and start business, while Jim Crow laws made such ambitions nearly impossible in the Deep South in the 1950s Barbarians (German: Barbaren) (2020) – German historical war drama miniseries based on events during the Roman Empire's occupation of Germania, and the resulting rebellion of the Germanic tribes led by Arminius. Beans (2020) – Canadian drama film directed by Mohawk filmmaker Tracey Deer, telling the story of the Oka Crisis, which Deer experienced herself as a child, through the story of Tekehentahkhwa (nicknamed "Beans"), a young Mohawk girl whose perspective on life is radically changed by the events of the crisis The Best Is Yet to Come (Chinese: 不止不休) (2020) – Chinese drama film based on the real figure of journalist Han Fudong, who exposed the social stigma against hepatitis B-suffering people in China Betrayed (Norwegian: Den største forbrytelsen) (2020) – Norwegian sports drama film based on the true story of the Norwegian boxer Charles Braude and his family being persecuted, arrested and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with the collaboration of the Norwegian government as part of their operation to exterminate all Jews in Europe Betrayer (2020) – Czech historical drama television film about Emanuel Moravec Beyond That Mountain (Korean:저 산 너머) (2020) – South Korean biographical film about the childhood of Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, former Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Seoul The Big Hit (French: Un triomphe) (2020) – French comedy drama film based on the experiences of Jan Jönson when he staged a theatre performance with prison inmates Blackjack: The Jackie Ryan Story (2020) – biographical sports drama film depicting the story of Brooklyn-based streetball player Jack Ryan Capone (2020) – biographical gangster film about the notorious gangster Al Capone Caught in Time (Chinese: 除暴) (2020) – Chinese-Hong Kong crime action film based on the robber and serial killer Zhang Jun Centigrade (2020) – survival thriller film based on the real-life case of Peter Skyllberg, a Swedish man who was pulled barely alive from his snow-covered car having survived on nothing but snow for two months in sub-zero temperatures The Champion (Polish: Mistrz) (2020) – Polish sports drama film about Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, a real-life Polish boxer who became famous for his nearly undefeated strings of victories in the Nazi concentration camps Charlatan (Czech: Šarlatán) (2020) – Czech-Polish-Irish-Slovak drama film based on the healer Jan Mikolášek, who cured hundreds of people using plant-based remedies Chhapaak (Hindi: छपाक) (2020) – Indian Hindi-language drama film based on the life of Laxmi Agarwal The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel (2020) – biographical film about Gospel group The Clark Sisters Clouds (2020) – biographical romantic musical drama teen film about the life of Zach Sobiech, a teenager from Minnesota who had osteosarcoma and decided to follow his dream of becoming a musician, after finding out he is dying The Comey Rule (2020) – political drama miniseries following FBI director James Comey in the run-up to the 2016 election, and later in the early months of Donald Trump's presidency The Courier (2020) – historical spy film about Greville Wynne, a British businessman who was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service to deliver messages to secret agent Oleg Penkovsky during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1960s Coven (Basque: Akelarre) (2020) – Spanish historical drama film based on real events from the 17th-century Spanish Inquisition and the witch trials that occurred in the Basque region of Spain Critical Thinking (2020) – biographical drama film based on the true story of the 1998 Miami Jackson High School chess team Curveball (2020) – German political satire film based on true events leading up to the Iraq War of 2003 Dance of the 41 (Spanish: El baile de los 41) (2020) – Mexican drama film portraying the events leading up to and around a 1901 party of gay men, half of whom were dressed in drag, known as the Dance of the Forty-One “The Dance of the 41”, Al Día De Gaulle (2020) – French biographical historical drama film based on married couple, Charles de Gaulle and his wife Yvonne, during military and political collapse as the Battle of France rages Dear Comrades! (Russian: Дорогие товарищи!) (2020) – Russian historical drama film about the shooting of a demonstration of workers in Novocherkassk in 1962 Des (2020) – British drama miniseries based on the 1983 arrest of Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen after the discovery of human remains causing the blockage of a drain near his home Doctor Liza (Russian: Доктор Лиза) (2020) – Russian biographical drama film about Elizabeth Glinka, a Russian humanitarian worker and charity activistФильм о создании драмы "Доктор Лиза" представили на Patriki Film Festival в Москве Dream Horse (2020) – drama film about thoroughbred racehorse Dream Alliance who won the 2009 Welsh Grand National Race The Duke (2020) – British drama film based on the real-life theft of the Portrait of the Duke of Wellington The East (Dutch: De Oost) (2020) – Dutch war drama film set in the Dutch East Indies of 1946 during the Indonesian National Revolution Education (2020) – drama film based on real-life events of the 1970s, when some London councils followed an unofficial policy of transferring disproportionate numbers of black children from mainstream education to schools for the so-called "educationally subnormal" The Eight Hundred (Chinese: 八佰) (2020) – Chinese historical war drama film based on real life events: the defense of Sihang Warehouse in 1937 Shanghai by Chinese NRA troops during the Battle of Shanghai and the Second Sino-Japanese War Emperor (2020) – historical drama film based on the true story of Shields Green, an African American slave nicknamed "Emperor", who escaped to freedom and participated in abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry Enfant Terrible (2020) – German biographical drama film about the German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder The English Game (2020) – British historical sport drama miniseries about the origins of modern association football in England Escape from Pretoria (2020) – Australian biographical prison thriller film based on the real-life prison escape by three young political prisoners from jail in South Africa in 1979 Fatima (2020) – faith-based drama film based on the 1917 Our Lady of Fátima events The Forgotten Battle (Dutch: De Slag om de Schelde) (2020) – Dutch World War II film depicting the Battle of the Scheldt in 1944 Forgotten We'll Be (Spanish: El olvido que seremos) (2020) – Colombian drama film based on the true story of Héctor Abad Gómez, a Colombian university professor who challenges the country's establishment. Four Good Days (2020) – drama film based upon Eli Saslow's 2016 Washington Post article "How's Amanda? A Story of Truth, Lies and an American Addiction" Fukushima 50 (Japanese: フクシマフィフティ) (2020) – Japanese drama film based on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster which was caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami The Glorias (2020) – biographical drama film about American activist and journalist Gloria Steinem The Good Traitor (Danish: Vores mand i Amerika) (2020) – Danish historical drama film about Henrik Kauffmann and the signing of the Greenland treaty with the United States after the Nazi occupation of Denmark during World War II Grant (2020) – historical drama miniseries chronicling the life of Ulysses S. Grant, the eighteenth President of the United States The Great (2020) – comedy miniseries loosely based on the rise of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia Gul Makai (Hindi: गुल मकई) (2020) – Indian Hindi-language biographical drama film based on the life of Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl (Hindi: गुंजन सक्सेना) (2020) – Indian Hindi-language biographical drama film about Indian Air Force pilot Gunjan Saxena, one of the first Indian female air-force pilots in combat Hamilton – historical fiction musical drama film covering the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and his involvement in the American Revolution and the political history of the early United States Hammamet (2020) – Italian biographical drama film based on the last years of life of Bettino Craxi, a controversial Italian politician who was the Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party, served as Prime Minister during the 1980s and later fled to Tunisia to avoid legal prosecution on corruption charges during the Mani Pulite scandal Havel (2020) – Czech historical film based on the life of dissident and former Czech president Václav Havel The Heist of the Century (Spanish: El robo del siglo) (2020) – Argentine comedy thriller film based on the robbery of the Banco Río branch in the Buenos Aires town of Acassuso on 13 January 2006, which was attacked by a gang of six robbers armed with toy weapons Hidden Away (Italian: Volevo nascondermi) (2020) – Italian biographical drama film about Italian painter Antonio Ligabue, who lived a notoriously reclusive life, troubled with physical problems and mental illness Hillbilly Elegy (2020) – drama film about the Appalachian values of Vice President-elect JD Vance's family from Kentucky and the socioeconomic problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother's parents moved when they were young Honour (2020) – British drama miniseries depicting the investigation into the real-life disappearance and murder of honour killing victim Banaz Mahmod