| Year | Description | Movie | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Small number of oily Spartans battle a much larger force of Persians | 300 | 84%
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| 1967 | Man and woman are lovers and also notorious 1930s bank robbers | Bonnie and Clyde | 76%
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| 2002 | White rapper from Detroit wins a rap battle | 8 Mile | 75%
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| 1965 | In the hills of Austria, seven musical children get a new governess | The Sound of Music | 75%
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| 1993 | German industrialist hires Jews to protect them from the Nazi regime | Schindler's List | 74%
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| 1995 | Scottish patriot William Wallace fights for freedom | Braveheart | 73%
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| 1995 | NASA flight controllers improvise a solution to an equipment problem aboard a spacecraft | Apollo 13 | 64%
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| 1993 | Jamaicans compete in the Winter Olympics | Cool Runnings | 62%
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| 2004 | Hotel manager protects Tutsis from genocide | Hotel Rwanda | 60%
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| 1984 | Mozart is the victim of a jealous court composer named Salieri | Amadeus | 59%
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| 1962 | British officer participates in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire | Lawrence of Arabia | 57%
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| 1992 | When the boys go off to war, the girls get a chance to play professional baseball | A League of Their Own | 42%
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| 2007 | Dreamer goes into the Alaskan wilderness alone, finds a school bus, and then dies of hunger | Into the Wild | 42%
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| 2003 | Undersized race horse inspires a nation during the Great Depression | Seabiscuit | 38%
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| 1998 | Medical student uses humor to help patients | Patch Adams | 37%
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| 2001 | Game theorist becomes unhinged and looks for hidden messages in newspapers | A Beautiful Mind | 33%
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| 1993 | Undersized Notre Dame football walk-on gets a brief chance to play | Rudy | 33%
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| 1980 | Poor girl from Butcher Hollow, Kentucky marries at age 13 but still becomes a famous country singer | Coal Miner's Daughter | 22%
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