At this year's Academy Awards, "12 Years a Slave," based on a memoir by Solomon Northup, took home Best Picture, and a number of other adaptions, including Baz Luhrman's take on The Great Gatsby, took home awards, too. read more
its your call whether to call it fiction or non-fiction, but i would bet that the Indian epic "Mahabharatha" would make an awesome movie (a TV series would be a realistic option actually, its that huge). read more