Best based on real life films... like titanic, the impossible etc

[MessyMummy15]

Not sure what they are called but films that describe an actual historical event or person. Like the titanic, the impossible, flight 93, 127 hours.

Although they make me weep buckets I find them so interesting.

What are your best based-on-real-life films please??

Can You Ever Forgive Me? About a destitute writer who starts to make a lot of money selling forged literary letters. It’s hilarious and very moving and Melissa McCarthy and Richard E Grant are fab in it.

Alpha dog. Emotional rollercoaster

Quite an old film.

Alive about a South American sports team whose plane crashes in Andes mountains and their physical and mental struggles to survive and be rescued.

I think it really shows how the strong the human will to survive can be.

Ob yea Alive. and also the blind side and hotel rwanda

Milk
Spotlight
And a bit more historical, Bright Star

I agree with a PP that Tom Hanks is always watchable - he was very good in Captain Phillips. He played the captain of a ship that gets hijacked by pirates.

I recently watched First Man, about Neil Armstrong. It gave a different slant on the moon landing story.

Really want to watch Hidden Figures.

Agree with Hidden Figures.

A pp said Saving Mr Banks but I would add that as its produced by Disney, its characterisation of Walt Disney was a little...um... biased and I found it a bit hard to take.

Ditto with The Impossible which is based on a Hispanic family I think, recast them as white, they all survived while the film is full of dying asians. Difficult to watch.

The Killing Fields
The one where the man gets his arm trapped on the mountain....126 hours? Can't remember the number of hours

I rather liked Made In Dagenham. And North Country. Both gave me a bit of a kick up the pants to pay more attention to feminism.

Ooh yes 127 hours. Very good film

Temple Grandin
Erin Brockovich

71

Last king of scotland

Boy in the striped pajamas

Another vote for The Dish - beautiful, beautiful, heartwarming film!

I also love A League of Their Own (Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell - great cast!) which is about the women's baseball league that was started during WW2. It makes me laugh and cry in equal measure!

The Founder - the story of McDonalds, really interesting.

Another vote for Saving Mr Banks, Emma Thompson is wonderful!

Made in Dagenham
Hidden figures
The Butler
Pride
Philomena
The changeling

All have been mentioned already but all are excellent so giving them a bump

No ones mentioned the Enigma Code yet
Great film though sad as all these films are

Black Klansman is also comedic and thought provoking

Adrift is about a couple caught in a storm and cast adrift. Poignant and with a twist

I'd take Titanic of your list, some very unhappy family members who disagree that it's true to life.

Catch Me If You Can - not a historical event but a real story
In the Name of the Father - about the IRA/Troubles etc on the 1980s

I loved Pride and Sully

Theory of Everything

Erin Brockovich
The Pursuit it Happiness
Catch me if you can

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Just watched Everest, so I'll add that to the list too.

Sully

Cool Runnings - I love this film! About the Jamaican bobsleigh team who actually entered the Winter Olympics without even knowing what a bobsleigh was.

I’ve just watched Mum’s List which was a tearjerker.

Shine
Philomena
Senna

I quite like Hours with Paul Walker, its Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath.

Holding the man

Wild (2014)
The Blind Side (2009)
The Fighter (2010)