The Top 20 Best True Story Films of All Time 20 – 15

 20. My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown — Daniel Day Lewis at his best in a heart touching drama you will never forget.

19. Le Scaphandre et le papillon : True story based on Jean Dominique Bauby, editor of Elle who suffered a stroke and has to survive with a near completely paralyzed body.

18 . A Beautiful Mind: 2001 biography of John Nash, the Nobel Larueate in economics.  Russell Crowe’s best work.

17. Jaws: It’s loosely based on a short story . .. okay, very loosely, but it was still marketed as being a true story, more specifically, it’s based on the 1916 shark attacks. True story day.

16. Rocky: Another movie that is very very loosely based on the truth, Rocky is about Chuck Wepner “Bayonne Bleeder,”   a blue collar worker who has a shot at the championship.

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15. The King’s Speech: 2010 British flick starring Colin Firth as King George VI. A historical drama that gets most of the facts right.

14. Catch Me If You Can : True story of Frank Abagnale, who conned millions of dollars as Pan Am pilot, legal prosecutor and

13: 2008 historical drama based on Peter Morgan’s 2006 play. Tells the story of the Frost / Nixon interviews of ’77.

12:  Dog Gay Afternon: Sidney Lumet’s 1975 crime dram written by Frank Pierson, tells the story of a guy who robs a bank to pay for an operation his lover needs.

11: Donnie Brasco: An undercover FBI agent infiltrates the bomb only to find he’s got more in common with the mob than with his colleagues.  

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10. October Sky: The story of Homer Hickman, a colam miner’s son. Hickman took up rocketry against his father’s wishes after watching the first Sputnik.  

 9: Into The Wild: Athlete Christopher McCandless decides to abandon everything his has and go and live in the wilderness after graduation from Emory university.  

8: The Sea Inside: Real life story of Ramon Sampedro, the Spaniard who for 30 years fought a campaign in favour of euthanasia.

 7: The Motorcycle Diaries : Film telling the true story of Che Guevera’s motorcycle trip that led him to find his calling in life.   

6: The Insider: Research chemist comes under attack both personally and professionally when he decides to appear in an expose on Big Tobacco on “60 Minutes.”

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5:  Goodfellas: Martin Scorsese’s legendary crime flick in which Henry Hill works his way to the top of the mob.

4: Raging Bull: A boxer on a path of self destruction tears his way to the top of the boxing world but destroys his life at the same time.

3: Titanic: Perhaps the highlight of both Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet’s careers and one of the highest grossing box office movies of all times.

2: The Pianist: Adrian Brody’s finest work, telling the story of a Polish Jewish musician who fights for survivial in World War II.

1. 1.       Schindler’s List : One of the most important movies of all time, telling the true life story of Oskar Schindler, who became concerned for his Jewish workers after witnessing Nazi prosecution.  

Let’s face it, we all love movies based on true stories. Sure, the word “based” and “true” are more often than not used with a lot of artistic licence. While some movies stick absolutely to the true story, some “base” them so loosely on the truth that the only thing they get right about William Wallace is the fact that he was Scottish.

Speaking of far-stretched true story films, here’s a look at three of the most ridiculous “true story” films of all time. OR you can check out the list of the best true story films right here.

Three of the most ridiculous “True Story” films ever

3. Gladiator: All right, fine, so Gladiator’s an awesome film and gets away with most stuff. It’s still failed history though. To start off with, the movie turns Commodus’ 13 year reign into 2 years, then there’s the fact that Commodus was younger than depicted (and a lot fitter), and the idea of him wanting to commit patricide is absurd and has no historical basis whatsoever.

2. Braveheart: Pretty much reinvents history. For starters, King Edward didn’t institute the primae noctis (which supposedly allows British officer to deflower new brides first). Secondly, Scottish rebels wouldn’t have worn kilts. Then there’s the fact that Edward would have been 13 at the time when the film’s set. . . oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. . .

1. 1.       Jaws: All right fine, so it’s kinda based on the shark attacks of 1916 and yeah, sharks can bite stuff. . . but really, you’d have to be insane to think that Jaws comes close to resembling a real life shark.

See, some true story  films aren’t very true at all. Thankfully, a lot of them are still brilliant. So, let’s take a look at the top 20 best true story films of all time. Hit NEXT.

I thought I was a fan of Disney and Toy Story, but I’ve been put to shame by two high school students from Arizona who have reproduced the first Toy Story movie in its entirety in their own bedrooms.

It took the two teenagers years of hard work to produce this 120 minute long live-action version of Disney-Pixar’s Toy Story. To do it, they had to transform their own bedrooms into replicas of the scenes from Toy Story

Pixar have yet to comment on the film, but it’s already got more than 1.5 MILLION Youtube views and 1,000 Facebook likes.

Pauley, one of the film’s producers, stated, “After seeing ‘Toy Story,’ I started playing with my toys differently,” he said. “I really made them alive.”

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