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Movies Based on a True Story #2

Can you identify these films which were based on actual events?
This quiz does NOT imply that the events of the movie actually happened like they did in the movie
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Year
Description
Movie
2007
Small number of oily Spartans battle a much larger force of Persians
300
2007
Dreamer goes into the Alaskan wilderness alone, finds a school bus,
and then dies of hunger
Into the Wild
2004
Hotel manager protects Tutsis from genocide
Hotel Rwanda
2003
Undersized race horse inspires a nation during the Great Depression
Seabiscuit
2002
White rapper from Detroit wins a rap battle
8 Mile
2001
Game theorist becomes unhinged and looks for
hidden messages in newspapers
A Beautiful Mind
1998
Medical student uses humor to help patients
Patch Adams
1995
NASA flight controllers improvise a solution to an equipment problem
aboard a spacecraft
Apollo 13
1995
Scottish patriot William Wallace fights for freedom
Braveheart
1993
Jamaicans compete in the Winter Olympics
Cool Runnings
1993
Undersized Notre Dame football walk-on gets a brief chance to play
Rudy
1993
German industrialist hires Jews to protect them from the Nazi regime
Schindler's List
1992
When the boys go off to war, the girls get a chance to play
professional baseball
A League of
Their Own
1984
Mozart is the victim of a jealous court composer named Salieri
Amadeus
1980
Poor girl from Butcher Hollow, Kentucky marries at age 13 but still becomes
a famous country singer
Coal Miner's Daughter
1967
Man and woman are lovers and also notorious 1930s bank robbers
Bonnie and Clyde
1965
In the hills of Austria, seven musical children get a new governess
The Sound of Music
1962
British officer participates in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire
Lawrence of Arabia
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16 Comments
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Level 71
Nov 17, 2014
Every time I hear "based on a true story," I think of the animated film Balto.
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Level 40
Apr 25, 2016
braveheart is incredibly inaccurate

for instance, the battle which he won in the film and gets knighted for..... Wallace had already been executed by the time the battle even took place..... and he sure as hell never slept with the princess let alone got her pregnant

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Level 40
Apr 25, 2016
and longshanks also died long before Wallace was executed
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Level 80
Feb 27, 2018
The History Buffs channel on YouTube pointed out that the princess at the time was in France and only about 8 years old at the time so Wallace would have had to have been a teleporting pedophile.
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Level 70
Apr 28, 2018
And also Mel Gibson isn't William Wallace. He's actually Mel Gibson in real life.
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Level 86
Aug 24, 2025
Spoiler alert!
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Level 86
Aug 24, 2025
It's not just events but everything else that's made up. Some quotes from Wiki:

- In that period no Scots wore belted plaids (let alone kilts of any kind). When Highlanders finally did begin wearing the belted plaid, it was not in the rather bizarre style depicted in the film. She compares the inaccuracy to a film about Colonial America showing the colonial men wearing 20th-century business suits, but with the jackets worn back-to-front instead of the right way around.

- The events aren't accurate, the dates aren't accurate, the characters aren't accurate, the names aren't accurate, the clothes aren't accurate—in short, just about nothing is accurate.

- farcical representation as a wild and hairy highlander painted with woad (1,000 years too late) running amok in a tartan kilt (500 years too early).

- the battle of Stirling Bridge could have done with a bridge."

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Level 86
Oct 23, 2025
The princess in reality was only 12 or 13 and was not even involved with Wallace.
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Level 63
Sep 8, 2016
THANK YOU for the additional info! I hate when people cry about how this or that is totally unreal and the movie doesn't deserve to be titled as "based on a true story". Even if there's just an event that actually happened but all the people are fictional you can use that phrase.
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Level 74
Oct 25, 2016
How can that be the qualifier for allowing a film / book / etc claim to be based on a true story?

It's like saying Rise of the Planet of the Apes is based on a true story because drugs have indeed been tested on chimps before.

Adding the backdrop of some factual event to a fictional tale does not in any way make the tale 'based on a true story'

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Level 58
Apr 14, 2020
What about the true story of that guy who fought an alien in the South American jungle?
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Level 59
Aug 31, 2023
I got every single one of them right. I'm kind of a nerd.
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Level 23
Aug 24, 2025
What about the film based on a true story about a cow who went to africa and ate all the grass in the north and central africa to the point it turned the sahara desert
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Level 76
Aug 25, 2025
seven years in Tibet could be in the list
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Level 94
Aug 27, 2025
I feel like Amadeus shouldn't really be here? Sure the two main characters really existed but the entire plot of the movie, aka Salieri plotting to murder Mozart, never happened, and was an idea invented by Alexander Pushkin
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Level 55
Nov 14, 2025
I did not know that!