With a lot of garbage out of Hollywood, especially stuff that requires significant suspension of disbelief, I like movies that are based on true stories. It doesn’t have to be a strict “docudrama”. I don’t mind them taking some creative license as long as the plot and outcome ring true. Anyone have favorite movies in this category to share?
Moneyball is a great sports movie based on a true story, American Sniper and Behind Enemy Lines are great, Hidden Figures is one of my favorites, Schindler's List was so realistic it is hard to watch at times, there are many more....
I am the same way...I try to watch stuff based on truth.....I refuse to watch anything on TV with to Guys Kissing ....Which rules out 99.9 percent of the newer stuff.......
Evnin, Rat River Trapper. Not sure of his first name Albert Johnson??? Of coarse the book had more detail than the movie. Plus, he got away in the movie but not in real life. They dug what they thought was him up a few years ago but couldn't be sure. TV show, Front Page Challenge had an RCMP on as a guest, panel couldn't guess the story. He'd been shot by Johnson in the knee from 300 yds. I believe he carried a Savage 99 in 30-30 Johnson not the RCMP. About all I remember of it. Of course as a kid I wanted a 99 in 30-30 bad. Bill out. 🐾👣🐾👣🇨🇦
Lonesome Dove is probably my all time “made for TV” series.
But it’s being based on a True Story is giving it a LOT of Credit.
Bout the only part based on a true story was Oliver Loving being hauled back from Ft Sumner, NM, after being buried there the previous year, to be reburied in Weatherford, TX. By a black trail hand that worked for he and Charles Goodnight. He did die in NM from wounds he received in an attack from Comanches. The rest is just a pretty good story, created by author Larry McMurtry. 🤠
They're all good, but within the last few years, I liked "The Long Walk". Based on the memoirs of a Polish prisoner in a Soviet Gulag who walked 4,000 miles. Short on the usual violence, sex and Hollywood trickery, some would call it boring. But I like survival stories, and I thought "The 12th Man" was very well done. Norwegian resistance WWll. But, it was very real to me, I had family in Norway who just barely missed being shot for listening to BBC with a contraband crystal radio.
Historically accurate according to records and family interviews. I was blessed and honored to have this good movie ordered and played for my class personally on the big screen at the local multiplex theater.
Historically accurate according to records and family interviews. I was blessed and honored to have this good movie ordered and played for my class personally on the big screen at the local multiplex theater.
I voted for Defiance for the Academy Awards and Writers Guild Award for "Best Screenplay From Another Medium" for the 2008 awards. Did not win ... but it should have. One helluva movie.
Historically accurate according to records and family interviews. I was blessed and honored to have this good movie ordered and played for my class personally on the big screen at the local multiplex theater.
I voted for Defiance for the Academy Awards and Writers Guild Award for "Best Screenplay From Another Medium" for the 2008 awards. Did not win ... but it should have. One helluva movie.
L.W.
That is so cool Leanwolf! I too think it was very well written and didn't get near the credit it deserved. The actors roles were excellent, but not nearly what the script contributed IMHO. That's another honor I have to hear from an actual screenplay writer . 😃👍
This will tug at anyone's heart as they see a glimpse of what socialism degrades to. They brainwashed the children and made them kill the adults by asphyxiation..... plastic bag strangulation. Hence the title.....The Killing Fields. A very ugly reality of Cambodian history....
American Sniper for me . I watched it in two different theaters on two consecutive nights and both times it had the same affect on the audience after the closing scene at the end of the movie . There was no talking or any noise at all . People just quietly got up and made their way out the exit and most were still sobbing . It was total reverence .
Historically accurate according to records and family interviews. I was blessed and honored to have this good movie ordered and played for my class personally on the big screen at the local multiplex theater.
I voted for Defiance for the Academy Awards and Writers Guild Award for "Best Screenplay From Another Medium" for the 2008 awards. Did not win ... but it should have. One helluva movie.
L.W.
That is so cool Leanwolf! I too think it was very well written and didn't get near the credit it deserved. The actors roles were excellent, but not nearly what the script contributed IMHO. That's another honor I have to hear from an actual screenplay writer . 😃👍
I'm retired now, but as stories often begin ... "Once upon a time, long ago ..."
Many historians would argue against the historical inaccuracies, but this was one of the most magnificent movies Mr. Gibson ever stared in. Americans don't learn from history, so perhaps they need a little entertainment to encourage the ideals of Freedom.
Historically accurate according to records and family interviews. I was blessed and honored to have this good movie ordered and played for my class personally on the big screen at the local multiplex theater.
I voted for Defiance for the Academy Awards and Writers Guild Award for "Best Screenplay From Another Medium" for the 2008 awards. Did not win ... but it should have. One helluva movie.
L.W.
That is so cool Leanwolf! I too think it was very well written and didn't get near the credit it deserved. The actors roles were excellent, but not nearly what the script contributed IMHO. That's another honor I have to hear from an actual screenplay writer . 😃👍
I'm retired now, but as stories often begin ... "Once upon a time, long ago ..."
L.W.
We'll that's pretty special to know that you have great taste not only in westerns, but in this genre of movie as well. The character development was beyond my ability to properly describe.
We are very gladly familiar with Gunsmoke. Have you written for any feature length movies?
Here's another underrated drama that didn't get the attention it deserved. This is the story of two best friends who competed together in long range events. They were on their way to the olympics when war broke out. They found themselves on opposite sides of the war. It's not a high adrenaline adventure, but a drama that any man would enjoy. It's not a chick flick, so some might not like it. Lol
This was one that won an award if I remember correctly. It included the FLIR footage of the gunners shooting those escaping the fire set by gas injection and incindiary grenades.
I hate what it did to the reputation of Max Baer- he was a fine man.
I might thorw out...Helter Skelter as a candidate.
It's interesting how the fight announcers have changed a lot over the years. If you listen to or watch recordings of really old fights, the announcer did blow by blow commentary and was much more animated because most people couldn't watch the fight live and didn't have TVs of course so they had to appeal to people listening on the radio.
We Were Soldiers, hands down. As a former Infantry Captain, I spent a lot of time at Fort Benning, where LTC Moore trained his unit prior to shipping out. Hal Moore believed in leading by example: He was the first one to engage the enemy and the last one to leave the battlefield. He was one BADASS
Tom Horn, need to read the book if you haven’t. Most of his Indian scout days recorded by him through letters he wrote while awaiting trial. One of the last movies Steve McQueen made before he died.
A Bridge Too Far (I'm an old paratrooper, so it hits home).
12 Strong (when the Special Forces A-Team went into Afghanistan early on).
Those are two that have been missed so far. They are both worth watching.
A Bridge Too Far was an excellent movie. Unfortunately it shows how “Monty” and the British Generals totally screwed up a military operation based upon their own hubris and narcissism. Too many allied soldiers died in that futile attempt. Another reason why Patton was not too fond of “Monty”.
A Bridge Too Far (I'm an old paratrooper, so it hits home).
12 Strong (when the Special Forces A-Team went into Afghanistan early on).
Those are two that have been missed so far. They are both worth watching.
A Bridge Too Far was an excellent movie. Unfortunately it shows how “Monty” and the British Generals totally screwed up a military operation based upon their own hubris and narcissism. Too many allied soldiers died in that futile attempt. Another reason why Patton was not too fond of “Monty”.
There are a lot of movies worth watching if they would put them on.
Masterpiece theatre did " to serve them all my days " !about a teacher in an english boys school; and "Danger UXB. I got into the one about the Norwegian princess and the nazis when I tuned in accidentally
Thanks, Det Powell, ive been trying to remember the name of this unreal cop movie for 2 days.
When i saw your post just now it popped into my head.
The Onion Field.
Unreal great movie. James Wood.
Joseph Wambaugh had a lot of good novels. He's basically the Clancy of cop stuff. The Choir Boys is a must read if you like that kind of stuff. Lots more, but you gotta know more than the average bear to appreciate some of them.
Lines and Shadows was one of my favorites,but it's a little too real for most people to accept. It's a true novel about UC work on the San Diego/ Tijuana border 50 years ago.
Thanks, Det Powell, ive been trying to remember the name of this unreal cop movie for 2 days.
When i saw your post just now it popped into my head.
The Onion Field.
Unreal great movie. James Wood.
Joseph Wambaugh had a lot of good novels. He's basically the Clancy of cop stuff. The Choir Boys is a must read if you like that kind of stuff. Lots more, but you gotta know more than the average bear to appreciate some of them.
Lines and Shadows was one of my favorites,but it's a little too real for most people to accept. It's a true novel about UC work on the San Diego/ Tijuana border 50 years ago.
Thanks, Pat.
Those people lived though schiett no one outside a world war should ever experience. I dont see how they can even relate to folks who had a normal life. They gave theirs away to make the scum pay. Unreal and unsung heros.
That's the way liberals feel about most of the movies written by and directed byJohn Milius. Evil gun owner, hunter and shooter, not a good communist, and even a Board Member with the NRA. That makes him and his movies baaaad!
Dawn Wells starred in a Western named Winter Hawk. The settlers were on a wagon train, it got stranded as I recall. There was a local tribe of wild Indians and the chief was Winter Hawk. At any rate, at the end, Dawn rode off into the sunset on the back of the war pony with Indian chief Winter Hawk! The Indian got the girl! They used to play it on tv about once every four months, haven't seen it in quite a while.
Zulu (1964) Defense of the mission station at Rorke's Drift.
Counterfeit Traitor (1962) Swedish industrialist aids Allies during World War II.
Dam Busters (1955) British attack on German dams with specially designed bombs.
Lost Battalion (2001) AEF 308 battalion surviving being surrounded during AEF Argonne Forest offensive in World War I. Also a silent movie in 1919 that included several members of the battalion.
Hour of the Gun (1967) What happened after the gunfight at the OK Corral.
Pork Chop Hill (1959) One of the last battles of the Korean "Police Action" before the armistice.
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) Superb retelling of events of 1941 through the the Japanese attack on Hawaii.
My gal and I just sat through the credits. There was just silence after the movie. I talked to a Bruderhoff about the movie weeks afterwards and the funny thing is that he told me a bunch of history about the lead character and then he said, he didn't watch the movie. Lol. He was well read. BTW, Bruderhoffs are like pennsylvania menonites, but they'll get mad at the comparison.
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