List of films based on magazine articles
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 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.
- Adaptation. - "The Orchid Thief", The New Yorker - Susan Orlean
- Almost Famous - "The Allman Brothers Story", Rolling Stone cover story by Cameron Crowe
- American Gangster - "The Return of Superfly", New York, 2000 - Mark Jacobson
- Argo - "How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans From Tehran" Wired Article -2007- Joshuah Bearman
- Bigger Than Life - "Ten Feet Tall", The New Yorker - Berton Roueche
- Biker Boyz - Michael Gougis
- The Bling Ring - "The Suspects Wore Louboutins"'Vanity Fair, 2010 - Nancy Jo Sales
- Blue Crush - "Life's Swell", Women Outside - Susan Orlean
- Boogie Nights - "The Devil and John Holmes", Rolling Stone, 1989 - Mike Sager
- City by the Sea - "Mark of a Murderer", Esquire, 1997 - Michael McAlary
- Coyote Ugly - "The Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon", GQ, 1997 - Elizabeth Gilbert
- Dog Day Afternoon - "The Boys in the Bank", Life, 1972 - P. F. Kluge
- The Fast and the Furious - "Racer X", Vibe - Ken Li
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, - adapted from a two-part article of the same title which appeared in Rolling Stone - Hunter S. Thompson
- In Cold Blood - "In Cold Blood: The Last to See Them Alive"' The New Yorker, September 25, 1965 - Truman Capote
- The Insider - "The Man Who Knew Too Much", Vanity Fair, 1996 - Marie Brenner
- Into the Wild - "Death of an Innocent", Outside, January 1993 - Jon Krakauer
- The Killing Fields - "The Death and Life of Dith Pran", The New York Times Magazine - Sydney Schanberg
- Live Free or Die Hard - "A Farewell to Arms", Wired, 1997 - John Carlin
- Perfect -- Series of articles in Rolling Stone - Aaron Latham
- Proof of Life - "Adventures in the Ransom Trade" Vanity Fair - William Prochnau
- Pushing Tin - The New York Times Magazine - Darcy Frey
- Radio - Gary Smith
- Saturday Night Fever - "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", New York - Nik Cohn
- Shattered Glass - Vanity Fair, 1998 - Buzz Bissinger
- Top Gun - "Top Guns", California, May 1983 - Ehud Yonay
- Urban Cowboy - "The Ballad of the Urban Cowboy: America's Search for True Grit", Esquire, 1978 - Aaron Latham
