List of 2019 films based on actual events
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Films based on actual events |
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This is a list of films and miniseries released in 2019 that are based on actual events. All films on this list are from American production unless indicated otherwise.
2019
[edit]- 4x4 (2019) – Argentine-Spanish thriller crime film based on Ciro, a criminal who breaks into a 4x4 pickup truck owned by an obstetrician medic Enrique Ferrari to steal a car stereo[1]
- 15 Minutes of War (French: L'intervention) (2019) – French-Belgian war film based on real events known at the Prise d'otages de Loyada[2]
- 72 Hours: Martyr Who Never Died (2019) – Indian Hindi-language biographical film based on the life and times of rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat, who fought against the enriching Chinese army during the 1962 Sino-Indian War[3]
- 1917 (2019) – American-British war film based in part on an account told to Mendes by his paternal grandfather, Alfred Mendes, and chronicles the story of two young British soldiers during World War 1 who are given a mission to deliver a message. This warns of an ambush during a skirmish, soon after the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line during Operation Alberich in 1917[4]
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) – biographical drama based on Lloyd Vogel, a troubled journalist for Esquire who is assigned to profile television icon Fred Rogers[5][6]
- A Call to Spy (2019) – historical drama film inspired by the true stories of three women who worked as spies in World War II[7][8]
- A Girl from Mogadishu (2019) – Irish-Belgian semi-biographical film based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed, who having escaped war-torn Somalia, emerged as one of the world's foremost international activists against gender-based violence[9]
- A Hidden Life (2019) – epic historical drama film based on the life of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer and devout Catholic who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II[10][11]
- A Regular Woman (German: Nur eine Frau) (2019) – German biographical film based on the life of Hatun "Aynur" Sürücü who was killed by her brother in an honor killing[12]
- Abigail (2019) – a short drama film inspired by a true story dealing with the subject matter of end-of-life decisions.[13][14][15]
- Abducted: The Mary Stauffer Story (2019) – based on the true story of the kidnapping of Mary and Elizabeth Stauffer at the hands of Ming Sen Shiue[16]
- Above Suspicion (2019) – crime thriller film based upon Joe Sharkey's non-fiction book of the same name revolving around the murder of Susan Smith[17][18]
- The Accidental Prime Minister (2019) – Indian Hindi-language biographical drama film about Manmohan Singh, the economist and politician who served as the 13th Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014 under the United Progressive Alliance[19][20]
- The Act (2019) – true crime drama miniseries based on the real life of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and the murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, who was accused of abusing her daughter by fabricating illness and disabilities as a direct consequence of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.[21]
- Adults in the Room (Greek: Enílikoi stin aíthous) (2019) – French-Greek film based on the 2015 Greek bailout[22]
- The Aeronauts (2019) – biographical adventure film follows the balloon expedition of James Glaisher, whose life goal is to travel into the sky to predict the weather and breaks the world record for altitude after reaching a height of 36,000 feet[23][24]
- Amundsen (2019) – Norwegian biographical film that details the life of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen[25][26]
- An Officer and a Spy (French: J'Accuse) (2019) – French historical drama film about the Dreyfus affair[27]
- Apache: The Life of Carlos Tevez (Spanish: Apache: La vida de Carlos Tevez) (2019) – Argentine miniseries about Carlos Tevez's rise as a football player amid the conditions in Argentina's Ejército de Los Andes, better known as Fuerte Apache[28]
- Article 15 (2019) – Indian Hindi-language crime drama film inspired by multiple real-life cases involving crimes driven by caste-based discrimination, including the 2014 Badaun gang rape allegations and 2016 Una flogging incident.[29][30]
- Bad Education (2019) – crime drama film based on the true story of the largest public school embezzlement in American history[31]
- The Balkan Line (Russian: Балканский рубеж) (2019) – Russian-Serbian film depicting a secret operation to capture Slatina Airport in Kosovo after the bombing of Yugoslavia, led by Yunus-bek Yevkurov[32]
- Batla House (2019) – Indian Hindi-language action thriller film inspired by the Batla House encounter case that took place on 19 September 2008[33]
- The Battle of Jangsari (Korean: 장사리) (2019) – Korean action-war film telling the true story of a group of 772 student soldiers who staged a small diversionary operation at Jangsari beach in Yeongdeok to draw away North Korean attention from Incheon.[34]
- The Best of Enemies (2019) – drama which focuses on the rivalry between civil rights activist Ann Atwater and Ku Klux Klan leader C. P. Ellis[35]
- Blinded by the Light (2019) – British comedy-drama film inspired by the life of journalist Sarfraz Manzoor and his love of the works of Bruce Springsteen[36][37]
- Bolden (2019) – drama film based on the life of cornetist Buddy Bolden[38]
- Bombshell (2019) – biographical drama film based upon the accounts of the women at Fox News who set out to expose CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment[39]
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019) – British drama film based on the memoir The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer[40]
- Brave Father Online: Our Story of Final Fantasy XIV (2019) – Japanese comedy drama film based on a Japanese television drama miniseries Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light, which is based on blog post Dad of Light written by Maidy[41]
- Breakthrough (2019) – Christian drama film about St. Louis author Joyce Smith's son John who slipped through an icy lake in January 2015 and was underwater for 15 minutes before resuscitative efforts were started. Although being rescued, he is in a coma, and his family must rely on their faith to get through the ordeal[42]
- Brecht (2019) – German made-for-television biographical film dealing with the life and work of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht[43][44]
- Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019) – British made-for-television drama film based on the lead-up to the 2016 referendum through the activities of the strategists behind the Vote Leave campaign, that prompted the United Kingdom to exit the European Union, known as Brexit[45]
- Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) – Comedy film based on the true story of an overweight woman in New York City who sets out to lose weight and train for the city's annual marathon[46]
- Brotherhood (2019) – Canadian drama based on the true story of a group of youth at a summer camp on Balsam Lake in the Kawartha Lakes, who had to fight for survival when an unforeseen thunderstorm overwhelmed their canoe trip[47]
- Capsized: Blood in the Water (2019) – biographical natural horror-survival film, based on the 1982 true story of a small boat crew aboard a private yacht who are stranded in shark infested waters, following a storm that overturns their vessel[48]
- Catherine the Great (2019) – British-American drama miniseries depicts Empress Catherine II of Russia's reign from 1764, two years after taking power, until her death in 1796.[49]
- The Cave (Thai: นางนอน) (2019) – Thai action-drama film about the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand[50]
- Cherkasy (2019) – Ukrainian drama film about the defense of the eponymous naval Natya-class minesweeper, blocked by Russian troops in Donuzlav Bay, Crimea during the 2014 capture of Southern Naval Base[51]
- Chernobyl (2019) – historical drama miniseries revolving around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed[52]
- Claws of the Red Dragon (2019) – Canadian made-for-television drama film depicting a fictionalization of the political and diplomatic issues surrounding the 2018 arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police[53]
- Close (2019) – action thriller based on Jacquie Davis, one of the world's leading female bodyguards, whose clients have included J. K. Rowling, Nicole Kidman, and members of the British royal family[54]
- The College Admissions Scandal (2019) – made-for-television film is based on the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal[55]
- Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019) – Australian war film about the Battle of Long Tan during the Vietnam War[56]
- Daniel (Danish: Ser du månen, Daniel) (2019) – Danish biographical film about Daniel Rye who was held hostage by ISIS for 13 months.[57][58]
- Dark Waters (2019) – legal thriller film based on Robert Bilott's real-life legal battle against DuPont over the release of a toxic chemical into Parkersburg, West Virginia's water supply, affecting 70,000 townspeople and livestock[59]
- Dauntless: The Battle of Midway (2019) – Action film based on a true story of United States Navy aviators at the Battle of Midway[60]
- Death of a Cheerleader (2019) – made-for-television film about the Murder of Kirsten Costas[61]
- The Devil Has a Name (2019) – dark comedy based on the decades-long legal battle between Fred Starrh and Aera Energy over allowing 600 million barrels of oil waste, from unlined wastewater ponds, to contaminate California's Central Valley groundwater where more than half the nuts, fruits and vegetables in the U.S. are grown[62]
- The Dirt (2019) – biographical comedy-drama film about Heavy metal band Mötley Crüe[63]
- Dolemite Is My Name (2019) – biographical comedy film about filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore, best known for portraying the character of Dolemite in both his stand-up routine and a series of blaxploitation films, starting with Dolemite in 1975[64]
- Effigy: Poison and the City (German: Effigie – Das Gift und die Stadt) (2019) – German-American historical thriller film about German 19th century female serial killer Gesche Gottfried[65]
- Elcano & Magellan: The First Voyage Around the World (Spanish: Elcano y Magallanes: La primera vuelta al mundo) (2019) – Spanish computer-animated adventure film telling the story of 1519 circumnavigation led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano[66]
- Elisa & Marcela (Spanish: Elisa y Marcela) (2019) – Spanish biographical romantic drama film based on the story of Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, two women who posed as a heterosexual couple in order to marry in 1901 at the Church of Saint George in A Coruña becoming the first same-sex matrimony recorded in Spain[67]
- En el corredor de la muerte (2019) – Docudrama miniseries depicting the judicial case that began in 1994 when club owner Casimir Sucharski and dancers Sharon Anderson and Marie Rodgers were found shot to death in Sucharski's house in Miramar, Florida[68]
- Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter (2019) – made-for-television biographical film based on Catherine and India Oxenberg and their story of escaping the NXIVM cult[69]
- Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) – biographical crime thriller film about the life of serial killer Ted Bundy[70][71]
- The Farewell (2019) – A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark. Based on Director Lulu Wong's real life.[72]
- Fighting with My Family (2019) – British-American biographical sports comedy-drama film based on the WWE career of English professional wrestler Paige[73]
- Fisherman's Friend's (2019) – British biographical comedy-drama based on a true story about Port Issac's Fisherman's Friends, a group of Cornish fishermen from Port Issac who were signed by Universal Records and achieved a top 10 hit with their debut album of traditional sea shanties[74]
- Ford v Ferrari (2019) – sport drama film about automotive designer Carroll Shelby and race car driver Ken Miles, who lead a team of American engineers and designers from Ford to build a race car that can beat legendary Ferrari[75]
- Fosse/Verdon (2019) – biographical miniseries which tells the story of director–choreographer Bob Fosse and actress and dancer Gwen Verdon's troubled personal and professional relationship[76]
- The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019) – Korean action thriller film based on a true story from 2005 three characters: a serial killer, the gangster who was almost a victim of the killer and the cop who wants to arrest the killer[77]
- Goalie (2019) – Canadian biographical sports film about the hockey goaltender Terry Sawchuk
- The Golden Glove (German: Der Goldene Handschuh) (2019) – German-French horror drama film depicting the story of German serial killer Fritz Honka who murdered four women between 1970 and 1975 and hid the parts of dead bodies in his apartment
- The Great War of Archimedes (2019) – Japanese historical film about the building of the battleship Yamato and the political maneuvers, specifically around budget and cost issues, that led to the decision to build the ship.
- Gumnaami (2019) – Indian Bengali-language biographical mystery film based on the mystery of Netaji's death, based on the Mukherjee Commission hearings and the book Conundrum written by Anuj Dhar and Chandrachur Ghose
- Harriet (2019) – biographical drama film based on the life of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery and led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad
- The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019) – horror thriller film based on the 1969 Tate murders mixed with fictional elements[78]
- Hell on the Border (2019) – Western film based on the true story of Bass Reeves, the first African-American deputy U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi River.[79]
- The Highwaymen (2019) – historical crime film drama film about two former Texas Rangers who attempt to track down and apprehend notorious criminals Bonnie and Clyde in the 1930s
- Hustlers (2019) – crime film comedy-drama film which follows a crew of New York City strippers who begin to steal money by drugging stock traders and CEOs who visit their club, then running up their credit cards
- I Am the Night (2019) – drama miniseries inspired by the memoir One Day She'll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel, written by Fauna Hodel, documenting her unusual beginnings and the connection to her grandfather, George Hodel, a prime suspect in the infamous Black Dahlia murder mystery[80]
- I Am Somebody's Child: The Regina Louise Story (2019) – made-for-television film based on the life of Regina Louise
- I Am Woman (2019) – Australian biographical film about Australian feminist icon Helen Reddy[81][82]
- Ip Man 4: The Finale (Mandarin: 葉問4：完結篇) (2019) – Chinese martial arts film, the fourth and final film in the Ip Man film series based on the life of the Wing Chun grandmaster of the same name
- The Irishman (2019) – epic crime drama film about Frank Sheeran, a truck driver who becomes a hitman involved with mobster Russell Bufalino and his crime family, including his time working for the powerful Teamster Jimmy Hoffa
- John the Apostle, the Most Beloved (Spanish: Juan Apóstol, el más amado) (2019) – Mexican made-for-television film based on the life of John the Apostle
- Judy (2019) – biographical drama film about American singer and actress Judy Garland
- Just Mercy (2019) – biographical legal drama film based on Bryan Stevenson's 2014 eponymous memoir, in which he explored his journey to making his life's work the defense of African American prisoners
- Kardec (2019) – Brazilian drama about Léon Denizard Rivail, a French educator who, when studying the phenomenon of “Spinning tables”, discovers that there is the possibility of communicating with the spirits[83]
- Kesari (2019) – Indian Hindi-language action-war film following the events leading to the Battle of Saragarhi, a battle between 21 soldiers of the 36th Sikhs of the British Indian Army and 10,000 Afridi and Orakzai Pashtun tribesmen in 1897
- The Kid (2019) – semi-biographical western action film centering around Rio Cutler who forms and unlikely alliance with local sheriff Pat Garret and infamous outlaw Billy the Kid in a mission to rescue his sister Sara from Grant Cutler, the boy's thuggish uncle and gang leader
- The Kill Team (2019) – war film, a fictionalised adaption of the events explored by an earlier documentary of the same name
- The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain (2019) – biographical drama based on the police shooting of Chamberlain in 2011
- The King (2019) – epic war film based on King Henry V of England
- Kingdom (Japanese: キングダム) (2019) – Japanese action adventure film that portrays the life of Li Xin, a general of Qin, from his childhood as an orphan through his military career during the Warring States period of ancient China
- Lakshmi's NTR (2019) – Indian Telugu-language biographical drama film based on the life of former film actor and chief minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh, N. T. Rama Rao
- Lancaster Skies (2019) – British war film focusing on the British bomber campaign in World War II
- The Last Vermeer (2019) – drama film based on the story of Han van Meegeren, an art maker who swindled millions of dollars from the Nazis, alongside Dutch Resistance fighter Joseph Piller[84]
- The Laundromat (2019) – biographical comedy-drama film based on the Panama Papers scandal
- The Last Full Measure (2019) – war drama that tells the true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen (also known as a PJ) who personally saved over sixty men and flew on almost 300 rescue missions during the war to aide downed soldiers and pilots[85][86]
- The Lighthouse (2019) – American-Canadian horror psychological thriller survival film about two lighthouse keepers start to lose their sanity when a storm strands them on the remote island on which they are stationed (based, in part, on the Smalls Lighthouse incident, which occurred in 1801)
- Lillian (2019) – Austrian drama film inspired by the true story of Lillian Alling, an Eastern European immigrant to the United States who, in the 1920s, attempted a return by foot to her homeland. Starting in New York, she walked across the United States and Canada trying to cross the Bering Strait[87]
- The Loudest Voice (2019) – drama biographical miniseries depicting Roger Ailes as he creates and guides the rise of Fox News
- Love You to Death (2019) – made-for-television crime film drama depicting the events of the Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard
- Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi (2019) – Indian Hindi-language period drama film based on the life of Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi
- Maria's Paradise (Finnish: Marian paratiisi) (2019) – Finnish drama based on the life of Maria Åkerblom[88]
- Mercy Black (2019) – horror film loosely based on the story was Mary Bell, who had murdered two toddlers when she was a child. Bell had been granted a new identity after being released from jail, but tabloid reporters discovered her new identity[89]
- Midway (2019) – war film based on the attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Battle of Midway during World War II
- Military Wives (2019) – British comedy-drama film inspired by the true story of the Military Wives Choir
- Mission Mangal (2019) – Indian Hindi-language drama film loosely based on the life of scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation who contributed to India's first interplanetary expedition Mars Orbiter Mission[90]
- Moffie (2019) – South African-British biographical war romantic drama film revolving around two gay characters Nicholas van der Swart and Dylan Stassen who attempt to come to terms with their homosexuality
- Mosul (2019) – Arabic-language war action film based on the 2016 Battle of Mosul, which saw Iraqi Government forces and coalition allies defeat ISIS who had controlled the city since June 2014[91]
- Mr Jones (2019) – biographical thriller film that tells the story of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, who in 1933 travels to the Soviet Union and Ukraine and uncovers the Soviet famine of 1932–33
- Mrs Lowry & Son (2019) – biographical drama set in Pendlebury Greater Manchester, chronicling the life of the renowned artist L. S. Lowry
- The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson (2019) – crime film horror film based on the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, presenting an alternative theory of who her killer could have been, serial killer Glen Edward Rogers, as opposed to the main suspect, her ex-husband, O. J. Simpson
- My Name is Sara (2019) - An American biographical drama film.It is based on the life of Holocaust survivor Sara Góralnik.
- NTR: Kathanayakudu (transl. NTR: The Hero) (2019) – Indian Telugu-language biographical film, based on the real life and acting career of N. T. Rama Rao
- NTR: Mahanayakudu (transl. NTR: The Great Leader) (2019) – Indian Telugu-language biographical film, based on the real life and political career of N. T. Rama Rao
- Official Secrets (2019) – British-American docudrama based on the life of whistleblower Katharine Gun who leaked a memo detailing that the United States had eavesdropped on diplomats from countries tasked with passing a second United Nations resolution on the invasion of Iraq
- Oh Mercy! (French: Roubaix, une lumière) (2019) – French crime film drama film inspired by the 2008 TV documentary Roubaix, commissariat central, directed by Mosco Boucault.[92]
- Once Upon a Time in London (2019) – British crime film about the notorious gangsters Billy Hill and Jack Comer
- Our Friend (2019) – biographical drama film based on Matthew Teague's 2015 Esquire article "The Friend: Love Is Not a Big Enough Word"
- Panipat (2019) – Indian Hindi-language epic war film depicting the events that took place during the Third Battle of Panipat
- Patsy & Loretta (2019) – made-for-television biographical film based on the friendship between country singers Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn
- The Professor and the Madman (2019) – biographical drama film about the professor, James Murray, who in 1879 began compiling the Oxford English Dictionary and led the overseeing committee, and W. C. Minor, a doctor who submitted over 10,000 entries while he was undergoing treatment at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum[93][94]
- Radioactive (2019) – British biographical film based on the life of Marie Curie
- The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019) – spy thriller film which is loosely based on the events of Operation Moses and Operation Joshua in 1984–1985, in which the Mossad covertly evacuated Jewish Ethiopian refugees to Israel[95]
- The Report (2019) – drama following staffer Daniel Jones and the Senate Intelligence Committee as they investigate the CIA's use of torture following the September 11 attacks
- Richard Jewell (2019) – biographical drama film depicting the Centennial Olympic Park bombing and its aftermath during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, in which security guard Richard Jewell found a bomb and alerted authorities to evacuate, only to later be wrongly accused of having placed the device himself
- Ride Like a Girl (2019) – Australian biographical sports drama based on the true story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup in 2015[96][97]
- Robert the Bruce (2019) – historical drama war film concerning the renowned king of the same name
- Rocketman (2019) – biographical musical drama based on the life of musician Elton John[98][99]
- Roe v. Wade (2019) - Dramatization of the 1973 landmark decision of the same name, rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions.
- Run This Town (2019) – drama based on the final year of Rob Ford's tenure as the mayor of Toronto
- Samurai Marathon (Japanese: サムライマラソン) (2019) – Japanese-British historical action adventure film inspired by the origin story of the Ansei Toashi 30-km footrace held annually in Annaka City[100]
- Seberg (2019) – Political thriller film about Jean Seberg, who in the late 1960s was targeted by the FBI because of her support of the civil rights movement and romantic involvement with Hakim Jamal, among others
- The Shiny Shrimps (French: Les Crevettes pailletées) (2019) – French sports comedy film about an Olympic swimming champion who makes a homophobic comment in a television interview, and is disciplined by the national swim team with the responsibility of coaching a gay water polo team who aspire to compete in the Gay Games, loosely based on Cédric Le Gallo's real-life water polo team[101]
- The Sholay Girl (2019) – Indian Hindi-language biographical period drama film based on India's first stuntwoman, Reshma Pathan
- Shooting Clerks (2019) – British-American biographical comedy-drama film detailing how Kevin Smith bankrolled his $27,000 first film with maxed-out credit cards and garnered career-making critical attention at the Sundance Film Festival when Clerks debuted there in 1994
- Sister Aimee (2019) – biographical film dramatizing the disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
- Soldier Boy (Russian: Солдатик) (2019) – Russian drama film based on the real-life story of the youngest soldier in World War II, Sergei Aleshkov, who was only 6 years old [102]
- Song Without a Name (Spanish: Canción sin nombre) (2019) – Peruvian drama film based on true event of an indigenous Andean woman whose newborn baby is whisked away moments after its birth in a downtown Lima clinic - and never returned[103]
- The Souvenir (2019) – drama film depicting a semi-autobiographical account of Joanna Hogg's experiences at film school[104]
- Spread Your Wings (2019) - Based on the real story of Christian, a specialist on wild goose migrations, and the adventure he and his son embarked.
- The Spy (2019) – French espionage-thriller drama miniseries based on the life of Israel's top Mossad spy Eli Cohen[105]
- Super 30 (2019) – Indian Hindi-language biographical drama narrating the life of mathematician Anand Kumar and his educational program of the same name
- Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy (2019) – Indian Telugu-language historical action film inspired by the life of Indian independence activist Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy from the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh
- Tashkent Files (2019) – Indian Hindi-language conpiracy thriller film about the death of former Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri
- Thackeray (2019) – Indian biographical film following the life of Balasaheb Thackeray, the founder of the Indian political party Shiv Sena
- Togo (2019) – drama about "two key figures in the 1925 serum run to Nome, also known as the Great Race of Mercy, in which dog-sled teams relayed to transport diphtheria antitoxin serum through harsh conditions over nearly 700 miles to save the Alaskan town of Nome from an epidemic sickness
- Tolkien (2019) – biographical drama film about the early life of English professor J. J. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as notable academic works[106][107]
- The Traitor (2019) – Italian biographical crime film drama film about the life of Tommaso Buscetta, the first Sicilian Mafia boss who was treated by some as pentito
- Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story (2019) – biographical drama film about Alex Cooper's experience in being sent to a conversion therapy home and the brutalities she endured while there
- The Trial of Christine Keeler (2019) – British drama miniseries based on the chain of events surrounding the Profumo affair in the 1960s.[108]
- True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) – British-Australian biographical western film based on the story of Australian bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang as they flee from authorities during the 1870s
- The Two Popes (2019) – biographical drama film predominantly set in the Vatican City in the aftermath of the Vatican leaks scandal, the film follows Pope Benedict XVI as he attempts to convince Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio to reconsider his decision to resign as an archbishop as he confides his own intentions to abdicate the papacy[109][110]
- Union of Salvation (Russian: Союз спасения) (2019) – Russian war epic period adventure film about veterans of the French invasion of Russia of 1812, who conspired to install Konstantin Pavlovich as the new tsar of the Russian Empire, transform Russia into a constitutional state and abolish serfdom
- Unbelievable (2019) – true crime miniseries about a series of rapes in Washington State and Colorado[111]
- Unplanned (2019) – anti-abortion drama film based on the disputed memoir Unplanned by Abby Johnson
- Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019) – Indian Hindi-language war action film based on the true events of the retaliation to the 2016 Uri attack
- Virus (2019) – Indian Malayalam-language medical thriller film set in backdrop of the 2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala
- Walk. Ride. Rodeo. (2019) – biographical film about the life of Amberley Snyder, a nationally ranked rodeo barrel racer who defies the odds to return to the sport after barely surviving a car crash that leaves her paralysed from the waist down
- The Warrior Queen of Jhansi (2019) – British period drama film on the 1857 Indian Rebellion against the British East India Company
- Wasp Network (2019) – Spy thriller film based on the true story of Cuban spies in American territory during the 1990s[112][113]
- When They See Us (2019) – crime drama based on events of the 1989 Central Park jogger case and explores the lives and families of the five Black and Latino male suspects who were falsely accused then prosecuted on charges related to the rape and assault of a white woman in Central Park, New York City
- While at War (Spanish: Mientras dure la guerra) (2019) – Spanish-Argentine historical drama film following the plight of philosopher and writer Miguel de Unamuno in Salamanca, a city controlled by the Rebel faction[114]
- Yatra (transl. Journey) (2019) – Indian Telugu-language biographical film based on padayatra of Reddy who served as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from May 2004 to June 2009 representing Indian National Congress
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