THE BUTLER - THE MOVIE BY LEE DANIELS SHOWS US THE INSIDE OF THE WHITE THROUGH THE EYES OF A BLACK PERSON DURING TUMULTUOUS CIVIL RIGHT TIMES in THE USA.  
Italian:

IL Maggiordomo della Casa Bianca e' un film interessante che ci mostra l'interiore di quella casa- di 8 Presidenti americani durante un periodo oscuro degli States.

Starring: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding Jr., Mariah Carey & More stars are in this movie. 

 "The movie tells the story a White House butler who served eight American presidents over three decades. The film traces the dramatic changes that swept American society during this time, from the civil rights movement to Vietnam and beyond, and how those changes affected this man’s life and family."
(Source: http://www.bellanaija.com/2013/08/lee-daniels-the-butler-forest-whitaker-oprah-winfrey-david-oyelowo-jane-fonda-cuba-gooding-jr-mariah-carey-more-star-in-the-biopic-view-photos-trailer/

True (reality, non-fiction)? or False (invention, fiction)? Find out below. Nevertheless, I found it to be a satisfying film.

‘The Butler’ Fact Check: How True Is This True Story? 08.16.134:45 AM ET By Kevin Fallon. www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013  (The meanings/explanations of the bold words are by me, Ottavio Lo Piccolo)

The Butler, based on the story of long-time White House butler Eugene Allen. It was released theaters in 2013. It’s not surprising that some broad creative license (some parts were imagined, made up) was taken with Allen’s life. Still, some of the most remarkable (incredible) episodes (parts) are true. Here’s a run down (summary, a brief account) of The Butler, fact (reality) vs. fiction (invention). (vs = versus, against, in comparison)

It’s an amazing (incredible) story. Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States, will have spent eight years in the Oval Office when he leaves the White House in January 2017. But there’s one black man who spent nearly four times that—34 years—in the White House, watching as eight presidents filed in and out and witnessing the country change from within the walls that were changing it.
The life of that man, Eugene Allen, is the basis for Lee Daniels’ The Butler, which debutts in theaters this weekend (in 2013). The film was inspired by a 2008 Washington Post story titled “A Butler Well Served by This Election,”which first brought Allen’s story to the mainstream (in public): a butler who served every president from Truman to Reagan and weathered the worst of the country’s brutal racial history was about to see the first black president of the United States sworn into office.
Allen was “a black man unknown to the headlines,” Will Haygood wrote in that Post article. Now, however, Allen’s story is playing out on the big screen in an Oscar-baiting film with a sprawling cast including Robin Williams, Terrence Howard, Alan Rickman, Jane Fonda, Liev Schrieber, Oprah Winfrey, and, in the role inspired by Allen, Forest Whitaker. In The Butler, Whitaker’s Cecil Gaines is a slightly fictionalized version of Allen, one whose story—though very close to Allen’s own—plays better as the stylistic, sweeping melodrama the film sets out to be.
So how much is real and how much has been slightly embellished? Here’s your guide. (Beware: Spoilers ahead.)

His early life: FICTIONAL (fake, made up, imagined)

The Butler, with its Forrest Gump-like ambition to touch on every significant moment (important time) and movement (ideals) in the country’s 20th century racial history (the races of whites/blacks), begins by showing Cecil Gaines on a Georgia plantation (a farm oin the south) picking cotton with his father (David Banner). After his mother (Mariah Carey, in a wordless performance- she didn't speak) becomes catatonic after being raped by the plantation owner (Alex Pettyfer) and his father is subsequently (later, afterwards) murdered, Cecil is essentially (basically) orphaned (had no parents). The woman in charge of the plantation (Vanessa Redgrave) takes pity on him and makes him a houseboy, the beginning of his life-long career as a domestic.
Allen, however, was born in Virginia, and, according to Haygood, never spoke bitterly about his upbringing or hinted at the monstrosities depicted in the film. He was a plantation houseboy in Virginia and did, as Cecil does in the film, leave in the pursuit of better employment. And that scene where Cecil lands his first job as a waiter after being caught stealing food by a sympathetic senior butler who helps him turn his life around? Just for the movie.

His family: FICTIONAL
As Cecil’s wife, Gloria, Oprah Winfrey gives the film’s most layered performance. She’s mesmerizing and stunningly nuanced as she battles an alcohol addiction, struggles with guilt over an affair, and weathers the emotional torture of a fractured family—her husband devotes his life to the White House, her eldest son joins the front lines of the dangerous civil rights movement, and her younger son is killed in Vietnam.
In reality, Allen’s wife, Helene, did not have a problem with alcohol nor did she have an affair. The biggest liberty taken, however, was giving Cecil two sons in the film. Eugene and Helene only had one son, Charles. Charles did serve in Vietnam, but is still alive. Louis, the older son in The Butler and a Freedom Rider and early member of the Black Panther Party, is the lens through which much of the film’s depiction of the civil rights movement is seen—he was invented for the film.

The momentous first day: FICTIONAL
Cecil’s first day at the White House, as portrayed in the film, is a doozy. It is the day President Eisenhower decides that the White House must intervene to ensure the safe integration of black students in Little Rock, Arkansas. It’s the first of many historic moments in the civil rights movement that Cecil would witness as a silent servant in the Oval Office.
(Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/16/the-butler-fact-check-how-true-is-this-true-story.html)

“Lee Daniels’ The Butler” –

“One Man overcame his part… and became a part of history.”
Director of Oscar nominated movie Precious, Lee Daniels is back with a stellar new production The Butler.

Forest Whitaker

The star studded production sees Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker play Cecil Gaines (The Butler) and media mogul Oprah Winfrey as his wife Gloria. This is Oprah’s first appearance in a film in over 15 years.
It may interest you to know that Nigerian-Hollywood actor David Oyelowo stars as Forest and Oprah’s rebellious son Louis.
Other acts in the movie include John Cusack, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jane Fonda, Terrence Howard, Minka Kelly, Liev Schreiber, Melisa Leo and Mariah Carey.