May 12 (UPI) -- Storytellers for stage and screen seem once again to be enamored by the gritty, low-tech, brown-orange-and-mustard, polyester world of the 1970s.

The past couple of years have seen numerous true stories from the era made into films and TV shows, while remakes of classics from the '70s and original content that takes place in the decade of anti-heroes, disco music, the Vietnam War and the Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter administrations abounds.

Here are 11 projects that are either coming up or that you might have missed.

'Dead Man's Wire' -- Premieres on Netflix May 25

The movie is based on the extraordinary true story of how Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgard) held mortgage broker Richard Hall (Dacre Montgomery) at gunpoint in a stand-off with police for Lena Headey, 63 hours in 1977 Indianapolis.