| TROJANWAR | Its story is told in Homer's Iliad (6,3) |
| LUMIERE | Night-time light and sound presentation typically staged outside a historic building and telling its story; from French (7) |
| SONET | Night-time light and sound presentation typically staged outside a historic building and telling its story; from French (3,2) |
| JOHNBROWN | He led an abolitionist raid on Harpers Ferry and his story is told in an upcoming 2020 Showtime miniseries: 2 wds. |
| NAOMI | Who is the mother-in-law of Ruth, whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament? (5) |
| ROGETS | Its origin story is told in The Man Who Made Lists |
| LADYSMITH | Here was relief for a woman, as the old story is told |
| PASTTENSE | Finished anxious, as story is told (4,5) |
| FOSSEY | Dian, anthropologist whose story is told in the Michael Apted film Gorillas in the Mist (6) |
| KRISHNA | In Hinduism, the most celebrated of the deities whose story is told in the Mahabharata |
| BROADWAYDANNYROSE | 1984 Woody Allen film whose story is told in flashback by a group of comedians in New York's Carnegie Deli (8,5,4) |
| SIGMUND | Norse hero whose story is told in the Volsunga saga (7) |
| VONTRAPP | Family whose story is told in The Sound of Music (3,5) |
| LAMOTTA | Jake, boxer whose story is told in Raging Bull (7) |
| COHAN | George M, US actor whose story is told in the film Yankee Doodle Dandy (5) |
| GRAZIANO | Rocky ?, boxer whose story is told in 1956 biopic Somebody Up There Likes Me (8) |
| ELI | High priest and judge of Israel whose story is told in the books of Samuel, etc. (3) |
| RUTH | Moabite woman whose story is told in the eighth book of the Old Testament (4) |
| NEHEMIAH | Jewish leader whose story is told in the Old Testament after the book of Ezra (8) |
| ADAMS | Athlete whose life story is told in the film More Than Gold (5) |
