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Movies Based on a True Story #3

Can you identify these films based on actual events?
"Based" on a true story doesn't mean the movie was non-fictional
Quiz by kalbahamut
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Last updated: October 13, 2018
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First submittedFebruary 27, 2018
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1963
Allied soldiers escape from a German POW camp
The Great Escape
1970
Napoleon battles the Duke of Wellington
Waterloo
1970
Yamamoto fears he has awakened a sleeping giant; filling it with a terrible resolve
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1975
Man-eating shark terrorizes swimmers in seaside town
Jaws
1984
Composer in Vienna meets younger more talented composer;
is consumed with jealousy
Amadeus
1988
Youthful outlaws including Billy "the Kid" seek revenge against their mentor's killers
Young Guns
1988
Japanese Unit 731 vivisects prisoners alive among other horrifying things
Men Behind the Sun
1990
Young man in New York always wanted to be a gangster
Goodfellas
1993
Robert E. Lee invades Pennsylvania, leading to a decisive 3-day battle
Gettysburg
1993
Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday battle the Cowboy gang in the eponymous town
Tombstone
1993
Alfred Packer is accused of eating his travel companions
Cannibal! the Musical
2001
Air attack on Hawaii interrupts quarreling friends in a love triangle
Pearl Harbor
2002
Two military helicopters are shot down in Mogadishu
Black Hawk Down
2002
Frank Abagnale evades capture by the FBI before working for them
Catch Me If You Can
2004
American hired to modernize Japanese military befriends rebellious warlord
The Last Samurai
2005
French blacksmith in Jerusalem is inexplicably a siege warfare expert
Kingdom of Heaven
2009
Loyal dog patiently waits for his master's train to arrive for over a decade
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
2009
Hypatia of Alexandria is murdered by 4th Century Christians
Agora
2015
American lawyer negotiates prisoner exchange in East Germany
Bridge of Spies
2017
Phineas T Barnum invents show business
The Greatest Showman
Maladroit
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Level 51
Feb 27, 2018
Pearl Harbour? Not the film's name, but it might trip someone up. Should have known Hachi. Tora! Tora! Tora!'s clue might also have been a bit more specific.
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Feb 27, 2018
It's a very famous line from the end of the film (for Tora Tora Tora), and also includes the name of one of the main characters
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Feb 28, 2018
Agora was a really interesting albeit under-marketed film. The other two nobody has guessed are fairly obscure. One a Matt Stone and Trey Parker film made over Spring break while they were at the University of Colorado, Boulder (hilarious if amateurish), the other a disturbing and horrifying Chinese film that might have kicked off the whole torture porn genre- though not as disturbing as the true events the film was based on. If you didn't guess these movies you ought to check out all three.
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Feb 28, 2018
Fun fact (spoiler alert): in the film version Agora, Hypatia is suffocated by her companion to avoid the fate of being stoned to death by the ignorant fanatical mob of early Christians; in real life she was flayed alive by that mob. But contemporary Christians complained that this movie made them look bad when the true story is actually much worse.
camus
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Level 78
Mar 1, 2018
Good quiz, and I'm going to check out the more obscure movies. Black Hawk Down was released in 2001 and Catch Me If You Can in 2002.
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Mar 1, 2018
When I google movies here it gives me their release date in the Philippines by default. Thanks.
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