Favourite True Story Film?

BigBearKris

"Gorillas in the Mist" with Sigourney Weaver. 

Dominic

E.T. 

Rabs

The first one

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Shrews

Born Free - gets me every time

The Harrods lion story is also incredible and although it's only a documentary, this story needs to be made into a movie. 

Yes, in the sixties a lion really did walk on a lead through the streets of London and after being released into the wild some years later he greeted his old owners like long lost parents. Such a great story.

You'll get a lump in your throat when they meet again on 33 minutes.

Neil

Donnie Brasco

Serpico

Casino

Reach for the sky

axisus

Shrews said:

Born Free - gets me every time

The Harrods lion story is also incredible and although it's only a documentary, this story needs to be made into a movie. 

Yes, in the sixties a lion really did walk on a lead through the streets of London and after being released into the wild some years later he greeted his old owners like long lost parents. Such a great story.

You'll get a lump in your throat when they meet again on 33 minutes.

I skipped to 33 mins - wonderful scene! Got a real lump in the throat watching

fob

The Falcon and The Snowman

The story of two Americans who spied for the Russians. No white-knuckle car chases, sultry femme fatales or high idealism - just two young men motivated by greed and boredom. One of Sean Penn's early roles and Bowie wrote 'This is Not America' for the film.

west

not forgetting pat metheny who scored it ....

Guitar_Slinger

Speaking of Sean Penn - Milk, the story of politician Harvey Milk, who got beat up for being gay. In San Francisco. The films tells the rest...

Grumpyrocker

JFK is good entertainment. But it's also the ravings of a madman. 

jonnyburgo

I thought the walking dead was a documentary about Eccles.

fields5069

Pretty obvious serious answer - True Stories. They're all true, and it's also how Radiohead got their name.

BigBearKris

Shotgun Stories - love that film.

Handsome_Chris

Fretwired said:

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 ....

@Fretwired you are wrong. Waterloo is an awesome film.  I watched it on Christmas day, on my own, in a hut, in Afghanistan.

#BestChristmasEver

Fretwired

Handsome_Chris said:

Fretwired said:

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 ....

@Fretwired you are wrong. Waterloo is an awesome film.  I watched it on Christmas day, on my own, in a hut, in Afghanistan.

#BestChristmasEver

Why am I wrong? I think it's a good film - saw it at the cinema when it came out.

phil_b

Lone Survivor

great action film with a fantastic sound track from Explosions in the Sky. They also did a very good job of recreating the atmosphere of life in a military base in Afghanistan.

13 hours is also very good

Dopesick

Goodfellas by a long stretch

Philly_Q

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

strumjoughlamps

Into the Wild

Zodiac

127 Hours

Hacksaw Ridge

HAL9000

13 Days
Blackhawk Down
Kajaki
Zero Dark Thirty