ok they are often elaborated on but I like true films and not sci fi.
I thought legend was good and enjoyed the railway man.
any similar recommendations much appreciated.

Check out The Predator mate. Loosely based on the Roswell landings.

Just watched The Founder on Amazon Prime, about the birth of the McDonald's franchise, and enjoyed it. Sully (about the Hudson river landing) is excellent.

If you like true sport films, I'd recommend Rush (I don't like F1 but it's brilliant) and The Damned United.

Watched "the resistance banker" on Netflix last night. Good.

Saw blackkklansman at cinema. Very good.

Mate, Sully gets a bit daft at the end when they're doing the flight sim reconstruction in the courtroom. Gets a bit schmaltzy, Hanks was the hero but he ends by saying American people were the real here's as the music swells.

Seabiscuit and Secretariat, if you like horse racing.

(I would also recommend Christopher Robin, but I have suspicions that some of that is producer's licence! )

Millertime v1.7 wrote:Mate, Sully gets a bit daft at the end ...

I suspect even with a real life film, he might want to avoid being told how it ends!

The city doc is brilliant

No big spoilers there at all, in the same way as there weren't any big twists in Titanic

Keep meaning to revisit Amistad
Not seen it since it came out.

Senna
and Rush
both great

The Railway Man
Unbroken
Philomena

Millertime v1.7 wrote:No big spoilers there at all, in the same way as there weren't any big twists in Titanic

You know the ship sinks, but unless who lives and who dies is of no interest ...

Lone Survivor. US special forces surrounded by bad guys. I bet you can't guess haw many got out.

City of Gods

EDIT: And for any Yorkshiremen reading, no its not about Leeds

I like films based on real life events as well, a few off the top of my head..

13 Days - About the Cuban missile crisis (and how scarily close we came to WW3)

Walk the Line - Johnny Cash biopic

Apollo 13 - The story of the failed mission

Hidden Figures - About black women in the US space program overcoming prejudice

127 hours - One mans survival battle trapped by his arm by a huge boulder in the wildrness

The Shallows - Female surfer trapped by huge shark

Into the Wild

127 Hours

Man on Wire

13 Hours : Secret Soldiers of Benghazi - all goes wrong for a bunch of soldiers assigned to protect CIA compound.
Wolf of Wall Street - drugs, naked women and money ..
Dallas Buyers Club - HIV+ man gets the drugs he needs
Captain Phillips - ship gets hijacked.
Schindler's List - man saves Jews.
Beautiful Mind
Remember the Titans- American football and racial integration.
Moneyball - former baseball player finds way to improve team with minimal money (he's now at Charlton I hear)
The Blind Side - white family help poor black teenager
Men of Honor - black man fights to become US Navy diver
Coach Carter - basketball coach leads inner city school team to win stuff.
Glory Road - similar to Remember the Titans but about basketball

i saw Blackkklansman last night - thought it was great.
Also watched Hidden Figures on the plane last week - second time i`ve seen it...very good film.

The Big Short

Oh yes, baseball - 42. (42 was Jackie Robinson's number, and it;s the name of the film.)

Sound of Music - basically nuns and Nazis with a bit of singing.

claretnproud wrote:ok they are often elaborated on but I like true films and not sci fi.
I thought legend was good and enjoyed the railway man.
any similar recommendations much appreciated.

Plenty of film recommendations on here CnP:


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Carnage. I find it underrated. It goes in my top 20 anyway.

I listened to part of this radio drama yesterday about the Bradford fire disaster highly recommended:

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Touching The Void

"In the mid-80's two young climbers attempted to reach the summit of Siula Grande in Peru; a feat that had previously been attempted but never achieved. With an extra man looking after base camp, Simon and Joe set off to scale the mount in one long push over several days. The peak is reached within three days, however on the descent Joe falls and breaks his leg. Despite what it means, the two continue with Simon letting Joe out on a rope for 300 meters, then descending to join him and so on. However when Joe goes out over an overhang with no way of climbing back up, Simon makes the decision to cut the rope. Joe falls into a crevasse and Simon, assuming him dead, continues back down. Joe however survives the fall and was lucky to hit a ledge in the crevasse. This is the story of how he got back down."

Awesome!!!

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Patch Adams (Robin Williams). Smashing film.

I Tonya about Tonya Harding is a great film

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote:13 Hours : Secret Soldiers of Benghazi - all goes wrong for a bunch of soldiers assigned to protect CIA compound.
Wolf of Wall Street - drugs, naked women and money ..
Dallas Buyers Club - HIV+ man gets the drugs he needs
Captain Phillips - ship gets hijacked.
Schindler's List - man saves Jews.
Beautiful Mind
Remember the Titans- American football and racial integration.
Moneyball - former baseball player finds way to improve team with minimal money (he's now at Charlton I hear)
The Blind Side - white family help poor black teenager
Men of Honor - black man fights to become US Navy diver
Coach Carter - basketball coach leads inner city school team to win stuff.
Glory Road - similar to Remember the Titans but about basketball

Missed out the little description for beautiful mind bud. Can you go back and edit?

" The World's fastest Indian " , the story of Burt Munro, a New Zealander with a heavily modified Indian Scout motorbike, and his journey to get to compete at " Speed week " at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in the 1960's, when he was aged well over 60 .... great film !

Senna
Damned United
Unbroken
The Pianist
Changeling
Concussion

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

The Wizard of Lies is really good, but with De Niro in it how could it not be?? It's all about the Bernie Madorf scandal. Something I previously knew very little about.

Fargo

Searching for Sugar Man - a true story about a musician that became a household name across much of South Africa.... But little was known about him in that country, so a couple of fans decided to try and track him down.
What they discovered is a compelling story.

carry on camping ! ooh ...er..........................................one pint too many

icu81b4 wrote:Searching for Sugar Man - a true story about a musician that became a household name across much of South Africa.... But little was known about him in that country, so a couple of fans decided to try and track him down.
What they discovered is a compelling story.

We saw the Sugar Man perform live in Birmingham about 6 years ago, he’s getting on now but yes a remarkable true story.

South West Claret. wrote:We saw the Sugar Man perform live in Birmingham about 6 years ago, he’s getting on now but yes a remarkable true story.

Good to know but I was trying not to spoil the film with that revelation ;-/

Midnight Express.

Two that haven't been mentioned - Munich & Argo.
Of those that have - Schindler's List & Hidden Figures.
Fargo is excellent, but not a true story...

Hamburger Hill

Zulu

It's got Welshmen singing and non PC black fellas in it.

Did they ever finish that bridge?

Gascoigne - heartbreaking at times what the British media put him through and although his antics since cant be excused you can understand how that period of his life has scarred him forever

Others not yet listed

Hotel Rwanda
Erin brockovich
Catch me if you can
12 years a slave
Machine gun preacher
Invincible - one of my faves based on Vince Papale
Coach Carter
Moneyball
American Gangster
Cinderella Man
In the name of the father
Donnie brasco

I love the pursuit of happyness. Story of Chris Gardner going from nothing to successful stock broker (played by will Smith) and the obstacles he has to overcome being a single dad and working for no pay etc. Really enjoyable.

Spotlight
Raging Bull
Goodfellas
Brassed Off
Serpico
Lincoln
Milk
Good Morning Vietnam

edlass wrote:I love the pursuit of happyness. Story of Chris Gardner going from nothing to successful stock broker (played by will Smith) and the obstacles he has to overcome being a single dad and working for no pay etc. Really enjoyable.

One of my favourite films !

Forest Gump, an inspiring biopic

So many good films based on real life mentioned here but I can't believe no-one has mentioned The Wolf of Wall Street. DiCaprio has never been better and the scene with the slow acting qualudes is comedy gold.

Good morning Vietnam has been mentioned so I won't.....oops.....I did.

I mentioned Wolf of Wall Street earlier.


Also just remembered - The Express - American highschool football star, about his time college football but who falls ill just as he makes it to the NFL...