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- There’s a reason there have been so many incredible movies based on true stories: It’s because the truth is more fascinating than fiction a lot of the time. What also helps our appreciation is just knowing that these stories actually happened, so we’re able to relate to the characters on a much deeper level.
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- Selma. Scene that did happen: Coretta really did meet with Malcolm X in secret. H/T to information is beautiful for the data!
- The Big Short. Scene that did happen: This conversation, and the decision to buy more swaps really happened.
- Bridge of Spies. Scene that did happen
- Rush. Scene that did happen: The scoreboard really did malfunction.
- All the President's Men (1976) Film. Drama. Wait, you’re telling us Watergate is an actual thing that happened, and in 1974 two reporters really did take down a sitting US president?
- In Cold Blood (1967) Film. Before true crime podcasts and Dateline NBC marathons, there was Truman Capote, whose account of the 1959 massacre of a family in rural Kansas shocked a nation not yet desensitised to random acts of unspeakable violence.
- Hustlers (2019) Film. Drama. A rare depiction of a r ecession that’s neither a teary drama about farmers losing their homes nor a political screed against greedy one-percenters, Hustlers is instead a hyperkinetic story of economic survival, set in a world hit particularly hard by the 2008 financial crisis: New York strip clubs.
- Argo (2012) Film. Drama. It’s one of those stories too far-fetched for even the most inventive screenwriter to make up. At the onset of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, a movie-loving CIA agent hatched a plot to smuggle six diplomats out of the country by pretending to be a Canadian film crew shooting a fake Star Wars-alike sci-fi flick there.
Feb 7, 2013 · Should movies “based on a true story” be viewed as completely accurate documents of history? One psychological point is clear: our emotional involvement with a movie depends on the degree to which we expect or “appraise” the events to be real.
Jan 12, 2015 · From the purest form of saying ‘based on a true story’, the label has gradually drifted from ‘based on’ to ‘inspired by’, or from ‘a true story’ to ‘actual events’.
Dec 11, 2019 · Since the start of the century, Clint Eastwood started helming more realistic movies that could believably be “true stories” but were actually fiction. Space Cowboys, Mystic River or Million...
Nov 19, 2020 · Films based on true stories connect us to the past in a visceral way. Here are the 10 best, chosen by TIME staff and a panel of historians.
Jun 14, 2024 · Not because it’s animated, or because of the story’s distance from reality (her actual name wasn’t even Pocahontas!), but because there are simply much better movies based on real events: just...
