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Movies Based on a True Story #4

Can you identify these films based on actual events?
"Based" on a true story doesn't mean the movie was non-fictional
Uses the paradigm established in previous front-page quizzes that if something in the film happened, that makes it based on a true story
Quiz by kalbahamut
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Last updated: October 23, 2018
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Answer
1930
Group of German schoolboys learn the hard truth about war
All Quiet on the Western Front
1960
Escaped gladiator leads slave uprising against the Roman republic
Spartacus
1960
Troubled man has complex relationship with deceased mother
Psycho
1979
Jewish messiah? learns to look on the bright side of life
Life of Brian
1998
Soldiers search for the last survivor of four brothers following D-Day
Saving Private Ryan
2001
Russian and German sharpshooters duel at the Battle of Stalingrad
Enemy at the Gates
2003
Irish immigrant holds a grudge against Bob the Butcher and his nativists
Gangs of New York
2004
1970s newsmen resist sexual integration
Anchorman
2005
No-nonsense coach returns to his Richmond, CA high school
to whip the basketball team into shape
Coach Carter
2007
FBI agents investigate a terrorist attack on a compound in Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom
2007
Girl comes of age during the Iranian revolution then moves to France
Persepolis
2007
Man returns to Taleban-controlled Afghanistan to find his friend's son
The Kite Runner
2011
Enhanced super soldier fights the Red Skull in Nazi Germany
Captain America
2013
Visionary hippy might be a genius or he might just be an asshole
Jobs
2014
Brilliant physicist with motor neuron disease searches for grand unifying theory
The Theory of Everything
2014
Wrestler accepts eccentric millionaire's invitation to train at his estate,
leading to tragedy
Foxcatcher
2014
Iranian journalist is interrogated and tortured for 118 days
Rosewater
2015
Investigative journalists expose Catholic sex abuse scandal
Spotlight
2016
Religious private wins Congressional Medal of Honor without firing a shot
Hacksaw Ridge
2016
Pilot makes an emergency landing on the Hudson River
Sully
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Mar 1, 2018
Before anyone complains... I included some of these as a bit of a joke.

On previous front-page versions of this quiz there were films such as 8 Mile and Titanic, which I don't think count as "based on a true story."

It's my opinion that "based on a true story" means that the story of the film, i.e. the main characters in it and the things that they do, are at least supposed to be real. This is the "story." The protagonists and their struggle.

8 Mile is "inspired by a true story." It takes some things that happened to Eminem and incorporates them into a story about a fictional character "Rabbit" who grew up in the same area. Psycho and Jaws are films inspired by true stories. The story and characters are fictional though inspired by real events. Surprisingly to some, Life of Brian is another film that could be said to be "inspired by a true story" as there were a lot of Jewish messiahs running around and being executed in 1st century Palestine.

kalbahamut
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Level 82
Mar 1, 2018
Titanic is "historical fiction." The main characters Jack and Rose are totally made up, as is their story, but that story takes place in front of the backdrop of a real historical event (the maiden voyage of the Titanic). The sinking boat is not the story. Jack and Rose are the story. The sinking boat is just the setting.

Similarly, the male-dominated newsrooms of 1970s San Diego did exist, and this is the setting of the film Anchorman, but every character in that film is fictional.

World War 2 happened. The Americans did fight the Nazis. But there were no super soldiers named Steve Rogers with vibranium shields on the American side, and no crimson skull-headed villains on the Nazi side, but the backdrop of the story is real enough. Captain America is the same as Titanic. Historical fiction. Or maybe, since it doesn't even attempt to be realistic, historical fantasy would be more accurate. This is different from a film "based on a true story."

kalbahamut
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Level 82
Mar 1, 2018
"based on a true story" ≠ "inspired by a true story" ≠ "historical fiction"

But on this quiz they are treated as the same to be consistent with previous installments.

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