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Film adaptation(s)
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84, Charing Cross Road (1970),
Helene Hanff
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84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
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Act One (1959),
Moss Hart
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Act One (1963)
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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1971), Spike Milligan
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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1972)
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American Sniper (2012),
Chris Kyle
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American Sniper (2014)
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Angela's Ashes (1996),
Frank McCourt
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Angela's Ashes (1999)
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (2004),
Nick Flynn
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Being Flynn (2012)
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965),
Malcolm X and
Alex Haley
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Malcolm X (1992)
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The Basketball Diaries (1978),
Jim Carroll
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The Basketball Diaries (1995)
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Before Night Falls (1992),
Reinaldo Arenas
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Before Night Falls (2000)
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Belles on Their Toes (1950),
Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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Belles on Their Toes (1952)
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place (2004),
Aron Ralston
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127 Hours (2010)
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Born on the Fourth of July (1976),
Ron Kovic
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Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
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Bound for Glory (1943),
Woody Guthrie
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Bound for Glory (1976)
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Bravo Two Zero (1993),
Andy McNab
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Bravo Two Zero (1999)
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Breaking the Surface (1996),
Greg Louganis
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Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story (1997) (TV)
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Cash: The Autobiography (1997),
Johnny Cash
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Walk the Line (2005)
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Castaway (1983),
Lucy Irvine
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Castaway (1986)
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Catch Me If You Can (1980),
Frank Abagnale
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Catch Me If You Can (2002)
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Cheaper by the Dozen (1948), Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
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Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
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Chopper (1991–2011) (series),
Mark Brandon Read
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Chopper (2000)
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Crazy (1999),
Benjamin Lebert
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Crazy (2000)
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Day of the Stranger (1989),
Novalyne Price Ellis
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The Whole Wide World (1996)
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The Devil's Double (2003),
Latif Yahia
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The Devil's Double (2011)
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The Devil's Workshop (
Czech: Komando padělatelů) (1983),
Adolf Burger
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The Counterfeiters (2007)
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A Diary of A Demonstrator (1983),
Soe Hok Gie
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Gie (2005)
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The Diary of a Young Girl (
German: Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 – 1 Augustus 1944, The Annex: Diary Notes from 12 June 1942 – 1 August 1944) (1947),
Anne Frank
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The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
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Diary of Anne Frank (
Dutch: Dagboek van Anne Frank) (1962) (TV)
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The Diary of Anne Frank (1967) (TV)
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Anne no Nikki: Anne Frank Monogatari (アンネの日記 アンネ·フランク物語, Anne no nikki: Anne Furanku monogatari) (1979) (TV)
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The Diary of Anne Frank (1980) (TV)
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The Diary of Anne Frank (
Dutch: Het dagboek van Anne Frank) (1985)
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Anne no nikki (アンネの日記) (1995)
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Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) (TV) (mini)
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The Diary of Anne Frank (
German: Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank) (2016)
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Where Is Anne Frank (2021)
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The Disaster Artist (2013),
Greg Sestero and
Tom Bissell
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The Disaster Artist (2017)
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Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia (1988),
Joseph D. Pistone
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Donnie Brasco (1997)
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot: The Autobiography of a Dangerous Man (1989),
John Callahan
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
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Elegy for Iris (1999),
John Bayley
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Iris (2001)
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Enemy Coast Ahead (1946),
Guy Gibson
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The Dam Busters (1954)
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Carandiru Station (
Portuguese: Estação Carandiru) (2001),
Drauzio Varella
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Carandiru (2003)
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Fair Game (2007),
Valerie Plame
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Fair Game (2010)
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Finding Fish (2001),
Antwone Quenton Fisher
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Antwone Fisher (2002)
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990),
Ben Carson
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009) (TV)
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Girl, Interrupted (1993),
Susanna Kaysen
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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
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A Gloomy Soliloquy (1946),
Olavi Paavolainen
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Sign of the Beast (1981)
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Gorillas in the Mist (1983),
Dian Fossey
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Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
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Growing Up Brady: I Was a Teenage Greg (1992),
Barry Williams
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Growing Up Brady (2000) (TV)
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Gypsy: A Memoir,
Gypsy Rose Lee
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Gypsy (1962)
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Gypsy (1993) (TV)
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Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman (2005),
Jamie Reidy
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Love & Other Drugs (2010)
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Hideous Kinky (1992),
Esther Freud
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Hideous Kinky (1998)
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Highest Duty (2009),
Sully Sullenberger
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Sully (2016)
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2001),
Toby Young
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
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I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! (1932),
Robert Elliott Burns
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969),
Maya Angelou
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979) (TV)
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I, Tina (1986),
Tina Turner
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What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
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I Was Hitler Youth Salomon (
German: Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon) (1990),
Solomon Perel
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Europa Europa (1990)
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I'll Cry Tomorrow (1954),
Lillian Roth
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I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
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Iron & Silk (1986),
Mark Salzman
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Iron & Silk (1990)
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Jarhead (2003),
Anthony Swofford
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Jarhead (2005)
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Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (2005),
Julie Powell
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Julie & Julia (2009)
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Lady Sings the Blues (1956),
Billie Holiday
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Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
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The Learning Tree (1964),
Gordon Parks
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The Learning Tree (1969)
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Leaving Las Vegas (1990),
John O'Brien
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Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
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Life Is Not a Fairy Tale (2005),
Fantasia Barrino
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Life Is Not a Fairy Tale: The Fantasia Barrino Story (2006) (TV)
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Listen to the Voices of the Sea (日本戦歿学生の手記 きけ、わだつみの声, Nippon senbotsu gakusei no shuki: Kike wadatsumi no koe) (1949),
Elyesa Bazna
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Listen to the Voices of the Sea (1950)
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Live from Baghdad (1991), Robert Wiener
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Live from Baghdad (2002)
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Lone Survivor (2007),
Marcus Lutrell
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Lone Survivor (2013)
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The Man-eaters of Tsavo (1907),
John Henry Patterson
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Bwana Devil (1952)
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The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
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Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words (1975), Johnny Cash
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Walk the Line (2005)
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Marley & Me (2005),
John Grogan
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Marley & Me (2008)
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Midnight Express (1977),
Billy Hayes
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Midnight Express (1978)
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A Mighty Heart (2003),
Mariane Pearl
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A Mighty Heart (2007)
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Mommie Dearest (1978),
Christina Crawford
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Mommie Dearest (1981)
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The Motorcycle Diaries (
Spanish: Diarios de motocicleta) (1995),
Che Guevara
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The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
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Mr. Nice (1996),
Howard Marks
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Mr Nice (2010)
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Murder, Inc. (1951),
Burton Turkus
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Murder, Inc. (1960)
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My Autobiography (1964),
Charlie Chaplin
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Chaplin (1992)
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My Dog Skip (1995),
Willie Morris
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My Dog Skip (2000)
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My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930),
Winston Churchill
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Young Winston (1972)
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My Father and Myself (1968),
J. R. Ackerley
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Secret Orchards (1979)
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My Left Foot (1954),
Christy Brown
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My Left Foot (1989)
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My Life in France (2006),
Julia Child
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Julie & Julia (2009)
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My Posse Don't Do Homework (1992),
LouAnne Johnson
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Dangerous Minds (1995)
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My Week with Marilyn (2000),
Colin Clark
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My Week with Marilyn (2011)
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The Naked Civil Servant (1968),
Quentin Crisp
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The Naked Civil Servant (1975) (TV)
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Never Cry Wolf (1963),
Farley Mowat
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Never Cry Wolf (1983)
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Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair (1978), Elizabeth McNeill
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9½ Weeks (1986)
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One Who Walked Alone (1986), Novalyne Price Ellis
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same as above
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Operation Cicero (
German: Der Fall Cicero) (1950),
Ludwig Carl Moyzisch
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5 Fingers (1952)
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Our Cancer Year (1994),
Harvey Pekar and
Joyce Brabner
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American Splendor (2003)
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Out of Africa (1937),
Karen Blixen
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Out of Africa (1985)
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Papillon (1969),
Henri Charrière
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Papillon (1973)
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Papillon (2017)
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Permanent Midnight (1995),
Jerry Stahl
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Permanent Midnight (1998)
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The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy (1981), Elizabeth Kendall
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
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The Pianist (1946),
Władysław Szpilman
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The Pianist (2002)
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957),
Jean Kerr
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
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Pour en finir avec Octobre (1982),
Francis Simard
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Octobre (1994)
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Prisoners are People (1952), Kenyon J. Scudder
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Unchained (1955)
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Private Parts (1993),
Howard Stern
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Private Parts (1997)
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Proved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four (1990),
Gerry Conlon
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In the Name of the Father (1993)
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Prozac Nation (1994),
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Prozac Nation (2001)
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Raging Bull: My Story,
Jake LaMotta
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Raging Bull (1980)
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Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case (1985),
Alan Dershowitz
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Reversal of Fortune (1990)
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Riding in Cars with Boys (1992),
Beverly D'Onofrio
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Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
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Rocket Boys (1998),
Homer Hickam
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October Sky (1999)
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Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World (1995),
Nick Leeson
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Rogue Trader (1999)
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A Rumor of War (1977),
Philip Caputo
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A Rumor of War (1980) (TV) (mini)
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Running with Scissors (2002),
Augusten Burroughs
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Running with Scissors (2006)
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See No Evil (2003),
Robert Baer
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Syriana (2005)
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926),
T. E. Lawrence
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
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A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1990)
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Seven Years in Tibet (
German: Sieben Jahre in Tibet. Mein Leben am Hofe des Dalai Lama) (1952),
Heinrich Harrer
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Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (2003),
Roméo Dallaire
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Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)
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The Short-Timers (1979),
Gustav Hasford
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Full Metal Jacket (1987)
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The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music (2008), Steve Lopez
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The Soloist (2009)
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Somebody Up There Likes Me (1955),
Rocky Graziano
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Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
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The Story of My Life (1903),
Helen Keller
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The Miracle Worker (1962)
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The Miracle Worker (1979) (TV)
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Helen Keller Monogatari: Ai to Hikari no Tenshi (ヘレン·ケラー物語 愛と光の天使) (1981) (TV)
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The Miracle Worker (2000) (TV)
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Black (2005)
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Soul Surfer (2004),
Bethany Hamilton
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Soul Surfer (2011)
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The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (1949),
Maria von Trapp
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The Trapp Family (
German: Die Trapp-Familie) (1956)
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The Trapp Family in America (
German: Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika) (1958)
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The Sound of Music (1965)
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The Strawberry Statement (1969),
James Simon Kunen
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The Strawberry Statement (1970)
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A Tale of Love and Darkness (2002),
Amos Oz
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A Tale of Love and Darkness (2012)
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The Taliban Shuffle (2011),
Kim Barker
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)
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A Taste of My Own Medicine (1988),
Edward Rosenbaum
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The Doctor (1991)
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Then They Came for Me (2011),
Maziar Bahari
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Rosewater (2014)
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To America with Love (1976),
Abbie Hoffman
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Steal This Movie! (2000)
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Touching the Void (1988),
Joe Simpson
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Touching the Void (2003)
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Truth and Duty: The Press, the President and the Privilege of Power (2005),
Mary Mapes
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Truth (2015)
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Tuesdays with Morrie (1997),
Mitch Albom
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Tuesdays with Morrie (1999)
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Twelve Years a Slave (1853),
Solomon Northup
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Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984) (TV)
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12 Years a Slave (2013)
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UFO Crash at Roswell (1991), Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt
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Roswell (1994)
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Under the Tuscan Sun (1996),
Frances Mayes
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Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
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The Walton Experience (1978),
Travis Walton
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Fire in the Sky (1993)
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Wild (2012),
Cheryl Strayed
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Wild (2014)
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2007),
Jordan Belfort
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
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Yes Man (2005),
Danny Wallace
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Yes Man (2008)
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