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A delimitation of the concepts of history and story serves to open the discussion concerning the fragility of what is meant by telling a truthful reality. This takes place mainly because history can be told from many different viewpoints and aspects, depending on the perspective of the evaluator. Traditionally, the winners, those that hold power, establish their version of events in recorded history; however, such historical narrative should be understood merely as one of many possible stories. When referring to people, biographies fit the needs of learning about individuals by allowing the authors to draw their interpretations of the lives that are meant to be told. Among the formats in which these biographies may be presented, biographical films, or biopics, are a useful and appealing tool due to their depiction of any person's life with intriguing and entertaining audiovisual language and movement. Taking into account the interrelationship between the terms history and story, an analysis of a case study on the musical biopic Hamilton: An American Musical is made, in order to find out how it has been able to challenge culture and history while retelling past events from today's context and frame of reference.