Ahead of the UK release of Nathan Fielder’s hotly anticipated Elizabeth Holmes flick, we count down the most shocking and affecting true stories ever committed to film
A 50-second dispatch from daily life blew the whistle on the approaching juggernaut of cinema and its unbeatable horsepower of verisimilitude. But if we must be strictly factual about the iconic Lumière brothers’ short, the anecdote about audience members fleeing their seats in fear of being crushed by the oncoming locomotive probably never happened.
