Discover four incredible true stories to watch this spring

We all love getting lost in brilliantly written fictional TV shows and movies, but don’t you think there’s something extra special about watching a true story unfold? Like, all this incredible drama really happened.

When you watch a true story, you aren’t just being entertained, you feel like you’re learning. And when you’re finished, you can hop onto the internet and get lost down a rabbit hole, emerging days later as an expert.

Three TV shows and a movie that will broaden your horizons and blow your mind. Get stuck in…

Now Black Monday's a TV show which is well worth investing in. Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells and Regina Hall find the funny side of the chaotic 1987 Wall Street Crash, playing hotshot traders in New York City. And yes, that means afro haircuts, big gold chains and pop culture references which have your nostalgia bells constantly ringing. This show is loud, colourful, and most importantly a boatload of fun.

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No gold stars for guessing what this critically acclaimed show is about. Everyone knows a little bit about what happened to Chernobyl, the nuclear power plant in Ukraine in 1986, but the full story is absolutely mind-boggling.

This five-part mini-series is a dramatised deep dive into one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history, and a remarkable telling of the unheralded heroes who helped clean up the mess.

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BlackKkKlansman is the story of an African-American police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s, directed by Spike Lee, starring Alec Baldwin and Jon David Washington and produced by the team behind Get Out… yeah, it’s no surprise BlacKkKlansman won an Oscar. This incredibly witty film finds humour where there shouldn’t be any and is a razor sharp, cutting satire on race relations in the United States.

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Project Blue Book explores a true story… about aliens? Nope, you haven’t been abducted, we promise this is real life. The fact that it took until 2019 for someone to make a TV show about Air Force investigations into a bizarre series of possible UFO sightings throughout the 1950s and ‘60s is something of a crime. Every episode explores a new (and real, remember!) case of potential alien life and the supposed government conspiracy to cover it all up. Game of Thrones’ Aiden Gillen stars in this 10-part series which will keep your head spinning for weeks.

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