Favourite True Story Film?

mudslide73

24 Hour Party People. There are some liberties but Coogan's portrayal of (An)T(h)ony (H) Wilson is an affectionate one. The 30 grand meeting table scene is worth the price of admission on it's own.

Fretwired

The Dam Busters .. The RAF got four Lancaster bombers out of mothballs, Barns Wallis was an adviser. A big liberty was taken with Gibson seeing lights at the theatre and realising that two beams of light could be used to ensure the planes were at the right height for the attack run. Coastal Command had been using this technique for years to drop mines.

Good film though.

munckee

A beautiful mind springs to mind!

PC_Dave

Rocco Invades Poland (NSFW)

Fretwired

Waterloo is another good film .. cost a fortune to make. To save money the battle scenes were filmed in Russia. The government supplied 17,000 soldiers and a full brigade of cavalry ad built numerous buildings. Some amazing battle scenes in the pre-CGI days. The full version of the film that was shown in Russia is nearly 4 hours long.

This cavalry attack must have taken some planning ....

JAYJO

 No Direction Home  Martin Scorsese
  10 Rillington place    Richard fleisher (Ludovic Kennedy) the one with Richard Attenborough.
  

vasselmeyer

United 93

Rocker

The Great Escape.

JezWynd

BigMonka said:

EricTheWeary said:

Catch me if you can. One of my favourite films. I've watched several talks on YouTube by Frank Abagnale Jr ( the man on whom the film is based) and he's very interesting. 

I couldn't agree more about Catch Me If You Can. It's a great film, a brilliant story, and then to top it off it's also based on a true story!

Great movie. Love the visual story telling shot of all the model airplanes in the bath tub.

spaceman_inorbit

Roysterdoyster said:

spaceman_inorbit said:

Fargo

I was going to suggest the same, with the following condition. Despite it saying “based on a true story” at the start,it’s not actually. Although that certainly adds to the “oh my god” factor when watching. The Coen brothers just stuck that in for effect, and when someone said “you can’t do that” they said “yes you can, it’s the movies” 

I know its work of fiction with a small seed of fact at its centre, but hey, since when has the truth been allowed to get in the way of a good movie! 

The problem with most true stories in film are they are someone's version of the truth, be that the director or the screenwriter, and may only give a passing nod to the actual story. But I guess liberties have to be taken somewhere to condense a story down to 2 hours and keep it interesting all the way through! 

Going back to the OP and Hacksaw Ridge, after reading about Desmond Doss,  his achievements sound just as impressive as those portrayed in the film. 

RandallFlagg

'Man On Wire'

Brazen daring, spectacular and terrifying...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_Wire

RandallFlagg

'Oiled Up Anal Anger 2'

I bet you can't guess what it's about?

Funkfingers

Withnail And I

Panama_Jack666

Sharknado

BigBearKris

JFK - although that's debatable. 

Hell or Highwater.

Zero Dark Thirty - especially the final bit of live events during the siege of Osama's hidden complex.

ICBM

BigBearKris said:

JFK - although that's debatable.

I liked the way JFK disproves its own theory by showing the Zapruder film near the end. I'd never seen it at that resolution before but when you see it in slow motion on the big screen it's blindingly obvious that the bullet came from above and behind.

But that may be a subject for another thread .

BigBearKris

ICBM said:

BigBearKris said:

JFK - although that's debatable.

I liked the way JFK disproves its own theory by showing the Zapruder film near the end. I'd never seen it at that resolution before but when you see it in slow motion on the big screen it's blindingly obvious that the bullet came from above and behind.

But that may be a subject for another thread .

Absolutely - someone will necrobump that one sometime soon I'm sure. ;-)

Still - good film and touched on some other theories too.

ICBM

BigBearKris said:

Still - good film and touched on some other theories too.

Yes, a good film regardless of Oliver Stone's agenda - and some great performances from Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones and Kevin Costner.

+1 for Apollo 13 mentioned earlier on too. Very well-made and manages to keep the suspense up even though you know they survived.

PolarityMan

Rubber

beed84

chrishill901 said:

Man on Fire - awesome Denzel film that I didnt realise was true until the end which was a shock!

That was based on a true story?! Jesus... that film is brutal!

My favourite true story films happen to have Leonardo DiCaprio in – Catch Me if You Can, The Wolf of Wall Street (arguably the most enjoyable 3 hour film ever made – "The Cerebral Palsy Stage" scene gets me every time), and one of his earlier movies about drug addiction, The Basketball Diaries.

The Founder was good too. Having worked for McDonald's during my youth it was interesting to get an insight of how it all began, and how McDonaldization has come into existence.

I also enjoyed Warhose. Pretty moving and very well directed. But it's Spielberg, so no surprises there.