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Showdown No. 26: Based on a True Story

Crudely ranked. Including films I watched as a teenager and only including good ones.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is one of those films inspired by real story or person, but isn't an actual true story thank God.

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  • Malcolm X

    36

  • Schindler's List

    6

  • Saving Private Ryan

    28

  • Zero Dark Thirty

    19

  • Black Hawk Down

    20

  • Catch Me If You Can

    22

  • Bridge of Spies

    25

  • The Master

    27

  • 12 Years a Slave

    49

  • The Big Short

    17

  • The Hurt Locker

    23

  • Pain & Gain

    21

  • City of God

    4

  • Spotlight

    9

  • Bullhead

    16

  • Raging Bull

    29

  • Z

    2

  • Hidden Figures

    35

  • The ion of the Christ

    45

  • In the Valley of Elah

    38

  • Salvador

    11

  • The Social Network

    39

  • The Battle of Algiers

    40

  • Citizen Kane

    5

  • Man on the Moon

    34

  • The King's Speech

    50

  • The Fighter

    12

  • 300

    42

  • Adaptation.

    7

  • Casualties of War

    43

  • The Imitation Game

    44

  •  the Titans

    46

  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

    47

  • United 93

    1

  • Lenny

    10

  • Talk Radio

    13

  • Margin Call

    26

  • Bloody Sunday

    24

  • Bernie

    48

  • Philomena

    33

  • Born to Be Blue

    18

  • Punch-Drunk Love

    3

  • Hunger

    15

  • Persepolis

    37

  • Ivan the Terrible, Part I

    51

  • 127 Hours

    31

  • Waltz with Bashir

    8

  • The Bling Ring

    41

  • Paths of Glory

    14

  • Fruitvale Station

    32

  • Elephant

    30