In 1970, William Goldman received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. That film tells the story of two real-life historical figures whose legendary status is enhanced partly by Goldman’s...

In Cold Blood, All the President's Men and Midnight in the Garden of Good of Evil all deal with real-life crimes. Each of the authors takes a different approach to point of view, depending upon their unique relationships to the setting in which...

In the realm of assassination drama, The Parallax View is in some ways an inversion of the similarly speculative plot of The Manchurian Candidate. In the latter film, Korean War soldiers are brainwashed by an external force (Communists) into...