Spotlight is a film about true events.
Crash ( also known as The Crash of Flight 401 ) is a made-for-TV docudrama released in 1978 , based on the true story of the first crash of a wide-body aircraft , that of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 , a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar which crashed in the Florida Everglades near Miami on the night of December 29 , 1972 . The film more or less follows the true events of the crash , although the names of key characters were changed and certain dramatic events were fictionalized . Spotlight (film) . The film follows The Boston Globe `` Spotlight '' team , the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States , and its investigation into cases of widespread and systemic child sex abuse in the Boston area by numerous Roman Catholic priests .