List of 2007 films based on actual events

This is a list of films and miniseries that are based on actual events. All films on this list are from American production unless indicated otherwise.

2007 13 Roses (Spanish: Las 13 Rosas) (2007) – Spanish–Italian historical drama film following the tragic fate of Las Trece Rosas, fighting for their ideals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War 26 Years Diary (Japanese: あなたを忘れない; Korean: 너를 잊지 않을거야) (2007) – Japanese-South Korean biographical drama film telling the story of Lee Su-hyon's life and death"Box office by Country: 26 Years Diary Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2012-06-04 1612 (2007) – Russian epic historical drama film about the 17th century Time of Troubles and the Polish–Muscovite War with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1944: The Final Defence (Finnish: Tali-Ihantala 1944) (2007) – Finnish war drama film based on the Battle of Tali–Ihantala during the Continuation WarFlug Werk's homepage with replica A Life Interrupted (2007) – biographical crime television film depicting events in the life of sexual assault victim Debbie Smith, which led to the passage of the Debbie Smith Act A Mighty Heart (2007) – biographical drama film based on the 2003 memoir of the same name by Mariane Pearl, covering the 2002 kidnapping and murder by terrorists in Pakistan of her late husband Daniel Pearl, an American journalist with The Wall Street Journal Alexandra (Russian: Александра) (2007) – Russian war drama film about the Second Chechen War American Gangster (2007) – biographical crime film loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts American Pastime (2007) – war drama film depicting life inside the Topaz War Relocation Center, a Utah prison camp which held thousands of people during the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II An American Crime (2007) – crime horror drama film based on the true story of the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens by Indianapolis single mother Gertrude Baniszewski And When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007) – British drama film based on the 1993 memoir of the same title by Blake Morrison The Anna Nicole Smith Story (2007) – biographical drama film depicting the life of Anna Nicole Smith The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) – epic revisionist Western dramatizing the relationship between Jesse James and Robert Ford, focusing on the events that lead up to the titular killing Barefoot Gen (Japanese: はだしのゲン) (2007) – Japanese war drama miniseries loosely based on Keiji Nakazawa's own experiences as a Hiroshima atomic bombing survivor Bastard Boys (2007) – Australian drama miniseries telling the story of the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute Battle for Haditha (2007) – British drama film based on the Haditha killings Battle in Seattle (2007) – American-Canadian-German political action thriller film depicting the protest in 1999, as thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 The Beckoning Silence (2007) – British biographical disaster television film following and retracing the 1936 Eiger north face climbing disaster where five climbers perished while attempting to scale the north face of the Eiger mountain in Switzerland Becoming Jane (2007) – biographical romantic drama film depicting the early life of the British author Jane Austen and her lasting love for Thomas Langlois Lefroy The Black Pimpernel (Swedish: Svarta nejlikan) (2007) – Swedish biographical drama film about Harald Edelstam, Sweden's ambassador to Chile, who after the military coup of Augusto Pinochet in 1973, managed to save the lives of more than 1,300 people by taking them to his embassy and transporting them to Sweden Black Water (2007) – Australian horror film inspired by the true story of a crocodile attack in Australia's Northern Territory in December 2003 The Blue-Eyed Giant (Turkish: Mavi Gözlü Dev) (2007) – Turkish biographical drama film about the period Nâzım Hikmet spent in Bursa Prison after 1941 The Border (Finnish: Raja 1918; Russian: Граница 1918) (2007) – Finnish-Russian war drama film based on Kai Donner and his experiences after the Finnish Civil War Borderland (2007) – American-Mexican horror film loosely based on the true story of Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo, a drug lord and the leader of a religious cult that practiced human sacrificeAdolfo de Jesus Constanzo – The Godfather of Matamoros Bordertown (2007) – crime drama film inspired by the true story of the numerous female homicides in Ciudad Juárez and tells the story of an inquisitive American reporter sent in by her American newspaper to investigate the murdersAmedeo, Michael . 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Breach (2007) – spy thriller film based on the true story of Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia for more than two decades The Bronx Is Burning (2007) – sport drama miniseries focusing on baseball's triumph over the turmoil and hysteria of 1977 New York City and how the New York Yankees came to embody the hopes and fears of an unforgettable summer with Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson's warfare under George Steinbrenner's leadership Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007) – Western historical drama television film depicting a history of Native Americans in the American West in the 1860s and 1870s, focusing upon the transition from traditional ways of living to living on reservations and their treatment during that period California Dreamin' (Romanian: California Dreamin' (nesfârșit)) (2007) – Romanian comedy war drama film based on the true story of a train containing American radar equipment required in Kosovo that was stopped for four days in a small village on the Bărăgan Plain during the 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Caravaggio (2007) – Italian historical miniseries based on real life events of Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Cargo 200 (Russian: Груз 200) (2007) – Russian neo-noir thriller film depicting the late Soviet society, set during the culmination of the Soviet–Afghan War in 1984«Груз 200»: жестокое кино Балабанова «не рекомендовано» телеканалам , svobodanews.ru, June 06, 2007 Chapter 27 (2007) – Canadian-American biographical drama film depicting the murder of John Lennon by Mark David Chapman Charlie Wilson's War (2007) – biographical comedy drama film based on the story of U.S. Congressman Charlie Wilson and CIA operative Gust Avrakotos, whose efforts led to Operation Cyclone, a program to organize and support the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War Chicago 10 (2007) – animated crime drama film telling the story of the Chicago Eight Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck (2007) – crime horror film based on the crimes of Chicagoan mass murderer Richard Speck Childhoods (French: Enfances) (2007) – French biographical anthology film depicting formative incidents in the pre-adolescent lives of iconic filmmakers Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Jacques Tati, Jean Renoir, Alfred Hitchcock and Ingmar Bergman, with each segment structured to resemble its subject's familiar signature style Christopher Columbus – The Enigma (Portuguese: Cristóvão Colombo – O Enigma) (2007) – Portuguese historical drama film depicting the true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese Columbus: The Lost Voyage (2007) – American-British historical adventure television film depicting a lifelong account of explorer Christopher Columbus and his founding of what is now often referred to as the New World The Company (2007) – historical drama miniseries about the activities of the CIA during the Cold War Consenting Adults (2007) – British biographical drama television film portraying the events of the Wolfenden Committee Control (2007) – British biographical film about the life of Ian Curtis, singer of the late-1970s English post-punk band Joy Division Corleone (Italian: Il Capo dei Capi) (2007) – Italian biographical crime miniseries telling the story of Salvatore Riina, alias Totò u Curtu (Totò the Short), a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily The Counterfeiters (German: Die Fälscher) (2007) – Austrian-German war drama film fictionalizing Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by Nazi Germany during World War II to destabilize the United Kingdom by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England pound notes Crazy (2007) – biographical musical drama film inspired by the life of Nashville guitarist Hank Garland Curse of the Zodiac (2007) – crime horror film inspired by the true story of the hunt for a notorious serial killer known as "Zodiac" who claimed responsibility for the still unsolved murders Curtin (2007) – Australian biographical television film about John Curtin, the Prime Minister of Australia during the Second World War Daphne (2007) – British biographical drama television film based on the authorised biography, Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller by Margaret Forster about the life of Daphne du Maurier Dark Matter (2007) – drama film loosely inspired by the true story of Gang Lu, a former graduate student who killed four faculty members and one student at the University of Iowa in 1991 Death Defying Acts (2007) – British-Australian historical romance film concerning an episode in the life of Hungarian-American escapologist Harry Houdini at the height of his career in the 1920s Defenders of Riga (Latvian: Rīgas sargi) (2007) – Latvian historical war film depicting the Latvian defense of Riga in November 1919 during its War of Independence Dennis P. (2007) – Dutch crime drama film inspired by the true story of Dennis P, who became Holland's biggest diamond thief, when he walked away with the entire 20 million euros stock of an international diamond trader, using a microwave oven as a swagbag Diana: Last Days of a Princess (2007) – biographical drama television film depicting an account of the last two months in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, leading up to her death on 31 August 1997 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (French: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon) (2007) – French biographical drama film depicting Jean-Dominique Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke that left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny! (Italian: Lascia perdere, Johnny!) (2007) – Italian biographical comedy drama film loosely based on real life events of musician Fausto Mesolella, a member of Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007) – crime horror film based on the crimes of Ed Gein, an American murderer who killed at least two women in Plainfield, Wisconsin during the 1950s Eichmann (2007) – British biographical crime film detailing the interrogation of Adolf Eichmann Eight Miles High (German: Das wilde Leben) (2007) – German biographical drama film depicting the "wild life" of Uschi Obermaier, a West German sex symbol and icon of the era El Greco (2007) – Greek biographical drama film about the life of the Greek painter of the Spanish Renaissance, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known worldwide as El Greco Elijah (2007) – Canadian comedy drama television film about the life and career of Elijah Harper, the provincial MLA in Manitoba whose stand on First Nations rights brought down the Meech Lake Accord in 1990Glen Schaefer, "Native MLA brought gov't down". The Province, May 23, 2008. Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) – British-French-German-American biographical historical drama film portraying events during the latter part of the reign of Elizabeth I