7 shows and movies you almost won’t believe are based on real life

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Cape Town - The stories of real-life deadly disasters, doomed romances, salacious scandals, audacious criminals and extraordinary bravery are told in these series and movies on internet TV.The human story of the greatest “unnatural” disaster in history is brought to life by brilliant performances from Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson and Jared Harris in a gripping series that follows the responders who made incredible sacrifices to contain the nuclear fallout in 1981.

When Jennifer was 13, she wrote a story - The Tale - about her relationship with two adults, her running coach and her horse-riding teacher. Now a successful journalist, Jennifer returns to the Carolina horse farm of her childhood to investigate what really happened to her there.Hugh Grant portrays the real-life Jeremy Thorpe, who had tongues wagging in the 1960s. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament engaged in a secret affair with a man at a time when homosexuality was illegal.

 

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