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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List by Ryan
Showdown No. 26: Based on a True Story
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A documentary is a cheat, I know.
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"Portions of the film and play were based on the assassination of radio host Alan Berg in 1984 and the book Talked to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg by Stephen Singular."
Incidentally, the best movie ever made about the Internet.
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Based on Boal's reporting as an embed with a EOD team. He was even sued by a soldier from his Playboy article that said he was the Renner character
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Mark Boal's first entry into film
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Last saw this in high school Anatomy & Physiology class and afterwards the teacher went through an extensive Power Point presentation showing how many liberties this film took (like, the conflict with the school once it becomes desegregated was actually not existent apparently and the captain was in a life-changing car accident but after the game).
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