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Best Non-Fiction/True Story Movies of all Time. by labrat70 • Created 7 years ago • Modified 7 years ago. All are a MUST for your "Bucket List"! In no particular order: This is not a list to include "inspired by" movies, but factual true stories. The list is also MY opinion. If I left a "true story" movie off the list it was intentional.
Aug 26, 2014 · I cleared away the underwhelming underbrush to find (in alphabetical order) a semi-idiosyncratic selection of the 20 best non-fiction films available for current streaming on Instant.
- All the President's Men (1976) Film. Drama. Wait, you’re telling us Watergate is an actual thing that happened, and in 1974 two reporters really did take down a sitting US president?
- In Cold Blood (1967) Film. Before true crime podcasts and Dateline NBC marathons, there was Truman Capote, whose account of the 1959 massacre of a family in rural Kansas shocked a nation not yet desensitised to random acts of unspeakable violence.
- Hustlers (2019) Film. Drama. A rare depiction of a r ecession that’s neither a teary drama about farmers losing their homes nor a political screed against greedy one-percenters, Hustlers is instead a hyperkinetic story of economic survival, set in a world hit particularly hard by the 2008 financial crisis: New York strip clubs.
- Argo (2012) Film. Drama. It’s one of those stories too far-fetched for even the most inventive screenwriter to make up. At the onset of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, a movie-loving CIA agent hatched a plot to smuggle six diplomats out of the country by pretending to be a Canadian film crew shooting a fake Star Wars-alike sci-fi flick there.
Best Non-fiction Movies. Movies based on true stories, only accurate and intelligent movies are on this list, non-accurate or extraordinarily boring movies left off.
- Schindler's List. 326 votes. Schindler's List, a poignant war drama directed by Steven Spielberg, unfolds through the life of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), an unlikely hero during the Holocaust.
- Goodfellas. 487 votes. Based on Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi. Goodfellas, an iconic mobster film directed by Martin Scorsese, is a gritty exploration of life within the Mafia.
- Apollo 13. 424 votes. Based on Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. Apollo 13, a gripping space docudrama, chronicles the real-life, perilous lunar mission of 1970.
- Catch Me If You Can. 204 votes. In the thrilling film Catch Me If You Can, we follow the intriguing escapades of Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio), a master of deception and a skilled forger.
Gangsters, fighters, athletes, serial killers, celebrities and so much more–these films are the best of the based-on-a-true-story stories.
2001 1h 36m R. 7.6 (26K) Rate. TV Movie. At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
