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Radio is a film based on the true story of a football coach and a man with an intellectual disability in South Carolina. It stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, and Alfre Woodard, and was released in 2003.
James "Radio" Kennedy was a man with an intellectual disability who befriended the T. L. Hanna High School football team in South Carolina. His story was made into a 2003 film starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ed Harris.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri, also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, was an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 years. His story inspired several films and documentaries, and he died there in 2022.
The Terminal is a 2004 comedy-drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks as Viktor Navorski, a man stranded in an airport terminal. The film is loosely based on the true story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who lived in Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport for eight years.
Joseph William Coyle (February 26, 1953 – August 15, 1993) was an unemployed longshoreman in Philadelphia who, in February 1981, found $1.2 million in the street, after it had fallen out of the back of an armored car, and kept it. [1]
Aron Ralston is an American mountaineer who survived a canyoneering accident by cutting off his own arm in 2003. His story inspired the 2010 film 127 Hours, starring James Franco as Ralston.
The Hi-Fi murders were a brutal crime in 1974, when five people were taken hostage and tortured at a home audio store in Ogden, Utah. Three of them were killed by gunshots, one was raped and shot, and one survived with life-changing injuries.
Bertrande de Rols was the wife of Martin Guerre, a French peasant who disappeared in 1548 and was replaced by an impostor named Arnaud du Tilh. She testified against the impostor in a famous trial in 1560, after the real Martin Guerre returned to his village.