Must-Watch True Story Movies You Can Watch On Netflix

There's something tremendously compelling about watching world-class talent re-enact major moments in human history, whether they're playing gangsters, popes, or queens. And thanks to Netflix, many of those very stories are available at the push of a button.

Historical biopics are often all lumped into the same tonal category, and when we think of the genre we often think of very ornate, slightly stuffy costume dramas with elaborate recreations of famous faces. Done right, though, biopics can be the stuff of legend, and that's exactly what you get when you take some time to watch Ip Man.

The man of the title is a legendary Chinese martial artist best known in the West as the guy who trained Bruce Lee in Wing Chun Kung fu. The film follows Ip in the 1930s, during the Sino-Japanese War, as he attempts to keep himself alive so he can protect his friends and feed his family while facing Japanese oppression.

Donnie Yen is graceful, captivating, and brilliant in the title role, playing Ip as a man determined to contain his own martial energy until the last possible moment both for the sake of saving his own strength and the safety of those around him. When he finally does explode into pure martial arts might, it's absolutely dazzling. There's a reason Yen has since come back to star in three more Ip Man movies, and it all starts right here.

In 2002, a writer named Julie Powell set out to cook every recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking over the course of a year, while writing a blog about her experience. The blog became a sensation, and within a few years Powell was a bestselling author and her book was optioned for film. A film based on a cooking blog seems like a questionable proposition, but that's where the great Nora Ephron comes in.

In Ephron's hands, Julie & Julia becomes a merger of two stories, intercutting Powell's life experience while starting and writing her blog with Julia Child's experiences in postwar France that led her to become a chef, author, and TV presenter. Keep watching the video to see all the must-watch true story movies you can watch on Netflix!

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Ip Man | 0:14
Julie & Julia | 1:09
The End of the Tour | 2:13
Dolemite Is My Name | 3:11
The Irishman | 4:10
The Two Popes | 5:05

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