15+ True Stories That Inspired Hollywood Films That Charity Had No Part Of

Published on 11/22/2017
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Hidden Figures

Please meet Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. Three African American female mathematicians that work at NASA. Johnson is known for developing flight trajectories for Project Mercury and other missions. Hidden Figures celebrates one of the most crucial, yet overlooked, moments in American history.

Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures

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50 First Dates

While the film seemed like a sweet romantic comedy, it’s actually based on a true story. Barrymore plays a woman suffering from a rare kind of amnesia caused by a car accident. Whenever she sleep, all of her most recent memories are forever erased. Until she meets a man and falls in love, he reminds her who she is, who he is, and what they life is like every day. Michelle Philpots is the source, she suffers from the same kind of amnesia but she actually met her husband prior to her amnesia.

50 First Dates

50 First Dates

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