Just seen the trailer for Spotlight:

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg5zSVxx9JM[/video]

and it got me to thinking, what are your recommendations for best films based on a true story?

Sound of music .

All the Presidents Men
Apollo 13

U571

Life of Brian

Death Race 2000

Every day’s a school day

I never knew Sound of Music had even the remotest connection to reality…

Debbie does Dallas.

A beautiful mind
The intouchables

Changeling

Midnight Express

Touching the void – one of the few occasions that a film > book

Midnight Express +1 .

Fargo… 🙂

Ah yes the intouchables was fantastic

Deep throat? No?

Goodfellas. Obviously.

Rush

And Star Wars

Machine Gun Preacher

Cry freedom.

Come on the right stuff is literally out of this world, mostly true.

Schindlers List

Chatty chitty gang bang
Forrest Hump
Natural born drillers
Pump friction

Chatty chitty gang bang
Forrest Hump
Natural born drillers
Pump friction

Shaving Ryan’s Privates

Munich

Good topic. The answer has got to be Goodfellas. It’s an immense film. But there are so many great films based on or inspired by real events. Where to start…

Midnight Express is a great film but apparently takes massive liberties with the actual events?

Raging Bull. Papillon. Badlands. Salvador. Platoon. Mississippi Burning. Zodiac was very good. I feel like i’m forgetting something really obvious. Citizen X was good too.

Max Manus

for jivehoney, surely it’s

Walk the line.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was well done.

ET

The Right Stuff. Even if you just watch the last scene.

Driving miss daisy

Robocop. ok it’s a true story that’s yet to happen, but so is Predator and that’s pretty awesome too.

Max Manus

I keep forgetting I worked on that – must get round to seeing it

Judge Dredd

Judge Dredd

GET OUT!

No based on true story bollocks.

Dredd.

Ghandi
Apollo 13
All The Presidents Men
Bridge Too Far

The World’s Fastest Indian is a good one.