A few Hollywood changes, but based on the true story of Homer Hickam and his friends who built their own rockets as teenagers in the late 1950s in West Virginia.
Category: History podcast
A057: L.A. Confidential (1997)
Mostly fictional, but Bloody Christmas is very much based on a real event. And it’s just a great movie!
A056: Devotion (2022)
This Korean War movie features two real-life pilots on a mission in the early days of the conflict.
A055: Trumbo (2015)
Interesting look at one of the primary writers affected by the Blacklist in Hollywood during the second Red Scare.
A054: 42 (2013)
Not the strongest version of this story we could have gotten, but Chadwick Boseman does a great job as Jackie Robinson.