Disney Movies: Which Disney movies were based on real life stories?

Remember being based on a true story is different than being historicaly accurate in the world of movies.

• Victory Through Air Power (1943)
  

• An animated documentary promoting of the soundness of strategic aerial bombing in World War II.

• "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" The Magnificent Rebel (TV Episode 1962)
  

• The story of composer Ludwig Von Beethoven.

• Amy (1981)
  

• A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal training she successfully teaches one boy.

• Night Crossing (1982)
  

• Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.

• Love Leads the Way: A True Story (TV Movie 1984)
  

• A recently blinded man becomes one of the first American users of a seeing eye dog and must fight to remove the legal barriers impeding its use.

• Cool Runnings (1993)
  

• When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified to the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team.

• Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)
  

• Historically inaccurate chronicle of Squanto's life prior to and including the arrival of the "Mayflower" in 1620.

• Pocahontas (1995)
  

• Pocahontas (born Matoaka, known as Amonute, and later known as Rebecca Rolfe, c. 1595 – March 1617) was a Virginia Indian[1][2][3] notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. (1)

• Remember the Titans (2000)
  

• "Remember the Titans" is based on the true story of the 1971 Virginia state football champions from T.C. Williams High School. (2)

• Miracle in Lane 2 (TV Movie 2000)
  

• Based on a true story, a 13-year-old boy who uses a wheelchair is determined to win a trophy like his athletic older brother.

• The Color of Friendship (TV Movie 2000)
  

• The Color of Friendship is a 2000 television film based on actual events about the friendship between two girls; Mahree & Piper, one from the United States and the other from apartheid South Africa, who learn about tolerance and friendship.[1] (3)

• The Rookie (2002)
  

• A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.

• Double Teamed (TV Movie 2002)
  

• Double Teamed! è un Disney Channel Original Movie del 2002 basato sulle storie di vita delle giocatrici professioniste di basket Heather e Heidi Burge.[1][2] Il film è andato in onda su Disney Channel il 18 gennaio 2002 ed è stato pubblicato in VHS, ora fuori catalogo.[3] (4)

• Gotta Kick It Up! (TV Movie 2002)
  

• "Si se puede, si se puede" è stato probabilmente detto da un'altra squadra di giovani speranze: la vera squadra di ballo della scuola media sulla cui storia è stato basato questo film. (5)
  

• Full-Court Miracle (TV Movie 2003)
  

• Una star afroamericana del basket del college diventa il capo allenatore di una squadra di basket in difficoltà della yeshiva di Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dopo che un infortunio al ginocchio lo costringe a lasciare il gioco. Based on the true story of Lamont Carr.

• Miracle (2004)
  

• Miracle tells the true story of Herb Brooks (Russell), the player-turned-coach who led the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to victory over the seemingly invincible Russian squad.

• Tiger Cruise (TV Movie 2004)
  

• While not based on any one story in particular, the story finds its roots in the shared experiences of many in the wake of 9/11. (6)

• The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
  

• In the 1913 US Open, 20-year-old Francis Ouimet played against his idol, 1900 US Open champion, Englishman Harry Vardon.

• Glory Road (2006)
  

• In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.

• Invincible (2006)*
  

• Based on the story of Vince Papale, a 30-year-old bartender from South Philadelphia who overcame long odds to play for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles in 1976.

• Secretariat (2010)
  

• Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.

• Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
  

• Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.

• Million Dollar Arm (2014)
  

• A sports agent stages an unconventional recruitment strategy to get talented Indian cricket players to play Major League Baseball.

• McFarland, USA (2015)
  

• Jim White moves his family after losing his last job as a football coach. He sees that some of the students are worth starting a cross country team and turns 7 students with no hope into one of the best cross country teams.

*Go Eagles!

1. Pocahontas
2. Reel Life: 'Remember the Titans'
3. Page on en.Wikipedia/wiki/The_Color_of_Friendship
4. Double Teamed
5. 6 Early '00s DCOMs You Forgot Were Based on True Stories - Teen.com
   
6. 6 Early '00s DCOMs You Forgot Were Based on True Stories - Teen.com

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