[Closed] Best Film based on a True Story?

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When We Were Kings

Downfall

+1s for Into the Wild, When We Were Kings, Chopper.

Walk the line

Black Hawk Down

Not necessarily the best as such, but powerful and unbelievable was Changeling

We just watched Lawless, which we enjoyed.

Not top of the list though.

Sharknado 2

Machete

Rush
Apollo 13
The Battle of Britain
Cool Runnings

Not Without My Anus

Argo

And to anyone who disagrees - Argo **** yourself

And Withnail and I. It's sort of a true story.

apocolypse now.

127 hours

great story; crap film. imo.

Has no one seen Pride yet? Highly recommended if you haven't. Metropolitan gay activists meet striking coal miners in South Wales, with predictably hilarious results. Rather moving.

Sort of based on true events, but not a specifically true story in itself, but for anyone who foolishly assumes that a three hour musical about the struggles of poor Jewish farmers in the Russian empire, fighting the threats to their way of life from state sponsored persecution and inter-generational conflict, won't be fertile ground for comedy, I heartily recommend Fiddler on the Roof.

Nude Nuns with Big Guns.

A sensitive, thought provoking look at the often violent consequences of Nun abuse.

The matrix.

Minions

Sort of based on true events, but not a specifically true story in itself

This is by far the best way to go.

In that vein, probably Margin Call.

Lone Survivor is an amazing example of a rather dull "based on true events" film to my mind. The true events are that four bearded men have a [i]very long[/i] gunfight in a forest. It almost literally consists of 2 hours of a bearded man kneeling behind a tree firing a rifle. After a while, you wish the filmmakers had taken some more liberties with the source material - introduced a love interest, a talking pig or some sort of sinister conspiracy involving a biotech company harvesting human organs to make irresistible salad dressings. Anything except some more shooting at things in a wood, really.

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conan the barbarian
terminator
gladiator
bedknobs and broomsticks

American Gangster or Catch Me If You Can for me.

The Killing Fields

Lone Survivor

You forgot about them repeatedly throwing themselves off the sides of hills with often [s]hilarious[/s] painful results. Kind of like what we used to do as kids, but with more beard.

Argo +1

zigzag69 - Member

Lone Survivor

You forgot about them repeatedly throwing themselves off the sides of hills with often hilarious painful results. Kind of like what we used to do as kids, but with more beard.

I really struggled with Lone Survivor - Talibani get shot, virtually explodes - SEAL get shot, quick grunt and he's okay - in fact, shot 5-6 times, rolls down a cliff and it only takes a quick quote from an Motivation Poster and they're back in the game, well, until they find themselves in an unfortunately cinematic spot when they finally die.

Wolf Creek

Can't believe The Great Escape hasn't been mentioned yet

Also Bridge on the River Kwai needs to go on the list.

...and Iron Skies 😉

Milkie - Member

Wolf Creek

Very loosely based....

Th expendables 1 then 2 then 3.

Apparently this is loosely based on a true story:

Chatty chitty gang bang
Forrest Hump
Natural born drillers
Pump friction
Shaving Ryan's Privates

Penetrator 2: budgment day
Intheanus Jones and the temple of Poon

+1 for All The President's Men

What a film

Lebanon.

Midnight express +2
The iceman . We all love a serial killer don't we .

Don't we ?

Bridge on the River Kwai is a work of fiction.

Touching the void

mefty - Member
Bridge on the River Kwai is a work of fiction.

Very much this.

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Zodiac

And another vote for World's Fastest Indian

into the wild, but never seen it but heard good things, might watch it tonight.

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Alvin & The chipmunks 2- the squeakuel.

^^into the wild is good

I'd like to shore up my Walk the Line nomination with Zero Dark Thirty, also.

The War of the Worlds.

Well, it was true for a while at least. I think that counts.

I might add, that was a radio broadcast wasn't it...so doesn't count.

Damnit.

Hotel Rwanda

Love & Mercy

Imitation Game

Theory of Everything

The Fighter