Real Stories

Facts, people, events and historical contexts that inspired productions.

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Homem inspirado em Sylvester Stallone sentado em degraus de museu ao pôr do sol, com gorro, moletom e mãos enfaixadas, ao lado de páginas de roteiro e luvas de boxe, com o horizonte da Filadélfia e uma estátua de boxeador ao fundo.

Real Stories16/09/20268 min read

I Play Rocky: what really happened when Stallone refused to sell the script without starring

The true story behind the Rocky deal: what Stallone turned down, how the producers got the film made, and where I Play Rocky dramatizes the facts.

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Ativista em cadeira de rodas lidera ocupação em um prédio federal dos anos 1970, cercada por manifestantes e cartazes sobre direitos das pessoas com deficiência e Section 504.

Real Stories16/09/20265 min read

Being Heumann and Section 504: the real 1977 protest behind the film

What happened during the 1977 occupation, why Section 504 regulations were stalled, and where the film begins to dramatize the true story.

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Homem de capuz e óculos escuros diante de um campus de Harvard, com agentes do FBI, documentos de experimento psicológico e um pacote suspeito.

Real Stories15/09/20266 min read

UNABOMBER on Netflix: What Is Documented About Harvard and What the Film Dramatizes

The film draws on real facts about Ted Kaczynski and Harvard, but compresses the investigation and does not prove the experiments caused his crimes.

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Equipe jurídica analisa dossiês e fotografias sobre uma mesa, com grades de presídio e ambiente de tribunal ao fundo.

Real Stories02/09/20266 min read

Is Netflix’s Habeas Corpus based on a true story? What is real inspiration and what is fiction

The series is fictional and inspired by real cases and the work of Innocence Project Brasil; there is no public confirmation that it retells one specific real case.

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Mulher em traje vitoriano diante de uma casa antiga, com a cena dividida entre tons sépia históricos e sombras azuladas de suspense, além de uma silhueta ao fundo.

Real Stories02/09/20267 min read

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story: What the Real Case Documents and What the Series Dramatizes

The 1892 case ended with Lizzie Borden's acquittal. See what the record confirms, what remains disputed, and which choices Netflix's series already presents as dramatization.

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Competidora australiana de breaking em movimento no chão de uma arena olímpica, com uniforme verde e amarelo e fundo roxo de Paris 2024.

Real Stories01/09/20265 min read

Untold Raygun: How Rachael Gunn Qualified for Paris 2024 — and What the Official Records Show

Raygun reached Paris 2024 by winning the Oceania continental qualifier. WDSF and Australian Olympic Committee records clarify the rules, judges, and rumors surrounding her spot.

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Coroa dourada com pedras azuis diante de mapa da Queen Anne’s Revenge, bandeira pirata e destroços submersos com canhão.

Real Stories01/09/20267 min read

Outer Banks: Did Blackbeard’s Blue Crown Exist? What Archaeology Found — and What the Show Invented

The Blue Crown in Outer Banks is not a known historical treasure of Blackbeard. See what the series created and what archaeology at Queen Anne’s Revenge actually uncovered.

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Homem de bigode ao centro, policiais mascarados, helicóptero e túnel ao lado de um painel investigativo sobre a captura de 2016.

Real Stories31/08/20269 min read

Facing El Chapo: what was real about the 2016 capture and what the movie dramatizes

Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was really captured in Los Mochis, but the movie uses fictionalized police identities and compresses reported events. Here is what is documented, reported...

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Cena editorial realista de trabalhadores reunidos entre plantações de banana e uma estação ferroviária, diante de soldados e de um trem ao entardecer.

Real Stories23/08/20269 min read

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Was the Banana Massacre real? What lies behind "more than three thousand"

The 1928 massacre in Ciénaga happened, but the death toll remains disputed. See what the series and novel dramatize and what the historical record supports.

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Mulher pensativa diante de documentos e de um mural de evidências, com uma cena de entrevista ao fundo e imagens simbólicas de mãe e criança.

Real Stories15/08/20269 min read

My Own Son: the real story of Alejandra Marín and what the documentary dramatizes

The film starts from Alejandra's version and then confronts her with records, images and other testimonies. Understand what is documented fact, testimony and dramatization.

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