List of films based on magazine articles

This is a list of films based on non-fiction articles published in periodicals such as magazines or newspapers. See also List of films based on short fiction.

• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – "Can You Say Hero", Esquire, November 1998 – Tom Junod[1]
• A Nightmare on Elm Street – "Medical Experts Seek Clues to ‘Nightmare Deaths’ That Strike Male Asian Refugees", Los Angeles Times, January 11, 1987 – Larry Doyle[2]
• Adaptation – "Orchid Fever", The New Yorker, January 23, 1995 – Susan Orlean[3]
• All the President's Men – "GOP Security Aide Among Five Arrested in Bugging Affair", The Washington Post, 1972 – Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein[2]
• Almost Famous – "The Allman Brothers Story", Rolling Stone, December 6, 1973 – Cameron Crowe[2]
• American Gangster – "The Return of Superfly", New York, August 14, 2000 – Mark Jacobson[1]
• Argo – "How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans From Tehran", Wired, April 2007 – Joshuah Bearman[1]
• Bad Education – “The Bad Superintendent”, New York, September 17, 2004 – Robert Kolker[1]
• Beautiful Boy – "My Addicted Son", New York Times, February 6, 2005 – David Sheff[2]
• Bernie – “Midnight in the Garden of East Texas”, Texas Monthly, January 1998 – Skip Hollandsworth[1]
• Bigger Than Life – "Ten Feet Tall", The New Yorker, September 10, 1955 – Berton Roueche[4]
• Biker Boyz – "Biker Boyz", New Times Los Angeles, April 2000 – Michael Gougis[5]
• The Bling Ring – "The Suspects Wore Louboutins", Vanity Fair, March 2010 – Nancy Jo Sales[3]
• Blue Crush – "Life's Swell", Women Outside, September 1998 – Susan Orlean[3]
• Boogie Nights – "The Devil and John Holmes", Rolling Stone, May 1989 – Mike Sager[3]
• The Butler – "A Butler Well Served by this Election", The Washington Post, November 7, 2008 – Wil Haygood[2]
• City by the Sea – "Mark of a Murderer", Esquire, September 1997 – Michael McAlary[3]
• Coyote Ugly – "The Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon", GQ, March 1997 – Elizabeth Gilbert[3]
• Dallas Buyers Club – "Buying time: World traveler Ron Woodroof smuggles drugs — and hope — for people with AIDS", Dallas Morning News, August 9, 1992 – Bill Minutaglio[1]
• Dark Waters – "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare", New York Times, January 6, 2016 – Nathaniel Rich[6]
• Deepwater Horizon – “Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours”, New York Times, December 25, 2010 – David Barstow, David Rohde, and Stephanie Saul[7]
• Dog Day Afternoon – "The Boys in the Bank", Life, September 22, 1972 – P. F. Kluge & Thomas Moore[1]
• The Fast and the Furious – "Racer X", Vibe, May 1998 – Kenneth Li[8]
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", Rolling Stone, November 11 & November 25, 1971 – Hunter S. Thompson[2]
• Four Good Days – "How's Amanda? A Story of Truth, Lies and an American Addiction", Washington Post, July 23, 2016, – Eli Saslow[2]
• Hustlers – "The Hustlers at Scores" New York Magazine, December 28, 2015 – Jessica Pressler[1]
• In Cold Blood – "In Cold Blood: The Last to See Them Alive"' The New Yorker, September 25, 1965 – Truman Capote[3]
• The Insider – "The Man Who Knew Too Much", Vanity Fair, May 1996 – Marie Brenner[3]
• Into the Wild – "Death of an Innocent", Outside, January 1993 – Jon Krakauer[2]
• Kill the Messenger – Dark Alliance, San Jose Mercury News, 1996 – Gary Webb[3]
• The Killing Fields – "The Death and Life of Dith Pran", The New York Times Magazine, January 20, 1980 – Sydney Schanberg[2]
• Ladybug Ladybug – "They Thought the War Was On!", McCall's, April 1963 – Lois Dickert
• Live Free or Die Hard – "A Farewell to Arms", Wired, May 1997 – John Carlin[9]
• Only the Brave – "No Exit", GQ, September 27, 2013 – Sean Flynn
• Our Friend – "The Friend: Love Is Not a Big Enough Word", Esquire, May 10, 2015 – Matthew Teague
• Pain and Gain – Series of articles in Miami New Times – Pete Collins[10]
• Perfect – Series of articles in Rolling Stone – Aaron Latham
• The Perfect Storm – "The Storm", Outside Magazine, October 1994 – Sebastian Junger[11]
• A Private War – "Marie Colvin's Private War" Vanity Fair, August 2012 – Marie Brenner
• Proof of Life – "Adventures in the Ransom Trade" Vanity Fair, May 1998 – William Prochnau[12]
• Pushing Tin – "Something's Got to Give", The New York Times Magazine, March 24, 1996 – Darcy Frey
• Radio – "Someone to Lean On", Sports Illustrated, December 16, 1996 – Gary Smith[3]
• Saturday Night Fever – "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", New York, June 7, 1976 – Nik Cohn[13]
• Searching For Bobby Fischer – "Fathering a Chess Prodigy", The New York Times Magazine, July 21, 1985 – Fred Waitzkin[3]
• The Sessions – "On Seeing a Sex Surrogate" The Sun Magazine, May 1990– Mark O'Brien[14]
• Shattered Glass – "Shattered Glass", Vanity Fair, September 1998 – Buzz Bissinger[2]
• Spare Parts – "La Vida Robot", Wired, April 2005 – Joshua Davis[15]
• Spotlight – "Church Allowed Abuse by Priest for Years", Boston Globe, January 6, 2002– Boston Globe Spotlight Team[2]
• Top Gun – "Top Guns", California, May 1983 – Ehud Yonay[16]
• Tower – "96 Minutes", Texas Monthly, 2006 – Pamela Colloff[17]
• Urban Cowboy – "The Ballad of the Urban Cowboy: America's Search for True Grit", Esquire, September 12, 1978 – Aaron Latham[18]
• War Dogs – "The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders", Rolling Stone, March 16, 2011 – Guy Lawson[8]

See also

• Lists of film source material

References

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