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highest grossing true-story movies

how many of the 15 highest-grossing movies based on (allegedly) true stories can you identify?
this list is adjusted for inflation!
includes movies that were indirectly based on true stories, for example movies based on books based on true stories
not counting movies that are entirely fictional but set in real-life scenarios, e.g. Titanic
source: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross_adjusted/?adjust_gross_to=2022
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year
starring
gross
film
1965
Julie Andrews
$1.33 billion
The Sound of Music
2023
Cillian Murphy
$975 million
Oppenheimer
2018
Rami Malek
$910 million
Bohemian Rhapsody
1973
Robert Redford
$835 million
The Sting
1969
Paul Newman
$661 million
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
1963
Elizabeth Taylor
$629 million
Cleopatra
1962
Peter O'Toole
$519 million
Lawrence of Arabia
1941
Gary Cooper
$450 million
Sergeant York
1998
Tom Hanks
$429 million
Saving Private Ryan
2014
Bradley Cooper
$403 million
American Sniper
1968
Barbra Streisand
$375 million
Funny Girl
1995
Kevin Bacon
$373 million
Apollo 13
1970
George C. Scott
$373 million
Patton
1986
Willem Dafoe
$332 million
Platoon
1979
Margot Kidder
$322 million
The Amityville Horror
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2 Comments
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Level 50
Jan 6, 2026
Titanic?
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Level 58
Jan 15, 2026
I didn't include that one because, while the disaster itself clearly happened, the story of the characters themselves isn't based on anything from reality