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  Oppenheimer Has a Long History On Screen, Including the Time the Nuclear Physicist Played Himself Now with 13 Academy Award nominations to its credit, the blockbuster film comes after nearly eight decades of mythologizing the father of the atomic bomb By  Chris Klimek

  The Real History Behind 'Feud: Capote vs. the Swans' Ryan Murphy's new mini-series dramatizes the "In Cold Blood" author's betrayal of an insular group of Manhattan socialites Meilan Solly

  The Real History Behind FX's 'Shogun' A new adaptation offers a fresh take on James Clavell's 1975 novel, which fictionalizes the stories of English sailor William Adams, shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and Japanese noblewoman Hosokawa Gracia Meilan Solly

  The Real History Behind Apple TV+'s 'Manhunt' and the Search for Abraham Lincoln's Killer A new series dramatizes Edwin Stanton's hunt for John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators in the aftermath of the president’s 1865 assassination Vanessa Armstrong

  The True History Behind Netflix's 'Shirley' Movie A new film dramatizes Shirley Chisholm's history-making bid to become the first Black woman president in 1972 Ellen Wexler

  The Real Story Behind 'Mary & George' The new mini-series dramatizes the Villiers family’s scandalous rise to power at the court of England's James I Meilan Solly

  How the Hindu Deity Hanuman Inspired Dev Patel's 'Monkey Man' The story of the half-human, half-monkey god mirrors the journey of the protagonist in Patel's directorial debut Aaron Boorstein