Top 20 Historically Accurate Movies 

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Heres some accurate movies that were overlooked. 30 SECONDS OVER TOKYO. 300. 2000 MULES. A MAN OF ALL SEASONS. A WOMAN NAMED GOLDA. AMADEUS. AMERICAN GANGSTER. AMERICAN SNIPER. THE BABE. BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ. BIRTH OF A NATION. BLOODSPORT. BLOW. BONNIE AND CLYDE. BRAVEHEART. CASINO. CAST A GIANT SHADOW. CHAPLIN. CLEOPATRA. DANGEROUS MINDS. DB COOPER. DIANA. DIARY OF ANNE FRANK. DONNIE BRASCO. EIGHT MEN OUT. EL CID. ENOLA GAY. ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ. EXECTIVE ACTION. EXODUS. FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY. GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI. GOODFELLAS. GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD. HEROES OF TELEMARK. HIDDEN FIGURES. HOFFA. IKE. JFK. KHARTOUM. LEAN ON ME. LONE SURVIVOR. LUST FOR LIFE. MACARTHUR. MALCOLM X. MASADA. THE MCCONNELL STORY. MEN OF HONOR. MEMPHIS BELLE. MIDWAY. MISSISSIPPI BURNING. MUNICH. MURDER IN THE FIRST. NOAH. OPERATION DUMBO DROP. OPERATION THUNDERBOLT. PASSION OF THE CHRIST. PATTON. PEARL HARBOR. PUBLIC ENEMIES. RADIO. REDTAILS. REMEMBER THE TITANS. SERGEANT YORK. SERPICO. STAND AND DELIVER. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. THIRTEEN DAYS. TO HELL AND BACK. TROY. THE UNTOUCHABLES. WE ARE MARSHALL. ZULU.

Glory SHOULDA been UP HERE

Forgot All of the President's Men.

That is true

As a Brazilian man, I find it so funny when I see people saying that City of God or Elite Squad are too violent and not realistic. The example you mentioned is only a detail of a very real movie. I wish Brazilian people would appreciate our movies like apparently other people do :/

@Higor Silva Both Movies are my favorite, honestly I love Brazilian cinema

@@MFSCOOB427 we do have some pretty amazing movies. What other Brazilian films do you like?

Most latin Americans never have hot baths, it's too freaking warm in most of those countries.

I was always curious how the modern Germans felt about WWII. I feel like it could help Americans with their guilt towards slavery.

@@snakebobbins8198 About 20 years ago I travelled to Normandy to pay my respects to a family member who was killed during the liberation of St-Lô. When I signed the remembrance book in the Cathedral, I saw that people from dozens of nationalities had all left messages of condolence and sadness ... ... except for visitors from Germany. Most had simply written their names and addresses. All I can assume is that it paralleled what Padisher experienced at the end of _Der Untergang._ Even sixty years after the war, what could anyone say?

@@Poisson4147 I find that interesting, but would you explain the correlation between our comments?

@@snakebobbins8198 At least to me, the connection is that in both cases people from Germany were so moved / overwhelmed / ashamed / not sure by their country's history that they couldn't say anything. I'm not German myself and freely admit my interpretation may mistaken. At the same time I do have German relatives and have heard many stories. It's definitely a VERY complicated situation, even 80-some years later.

@@Poisson4147 that was the general idea I got from your original comment. I understand the saying sorry part isn't enough or doesn't feel right. I too am unfamiliar with the customs of every European country, but words of support seem better than nothing or an unwarranted apology.

I also met a 103 yr old WW 2 Veteran in the waiting room going to my eye appointment from my cornea transplant surgeries due to injuries in Iraq in 2003 He told me You too? lol I was nervious but after he said that we both laughed and I felt better Thank you to my fellow Veterans on this Veterans day.

The Greatest Generation

I'm saying this because it's a shame, not because I'm bragging, I've literally put 12 different ppl onto that movie who never even heard of it. I feel like it's weird for a foreign film to have a cult following in America that isn't a horror movie but fuck it's so underrated.

​@@dazed1nyc and even worse with the us remakes CODA convinced that who cares about originality, copy a french movie and that's it At least nobody has the balls to imitate Amelie

@@dazed1nyc me too 😅 feel like everyone who’s a little cultured is obligated to share City of God. City of men slapped too

@Vulpes Incultuh First time I watched it I was 16 and just ate shrooms. My friend Mike was like yoo we should watch this movie. And we did lol

​@@dazed1nyc It's often considered to be among the greatest films ever made. It isn't underrated.

I'm surprised it's not on here very good

yeh, I thought it was ridiculous while watching it tbh, then I found out it was actually based on true events & was stunned!

Hotel Rwanda is a self serving...

Watched that in high school, and I remember being floored.

@@alextayoyong3712 can you explain what you mean?

Agreed. Somehow he captures that evil spirit in Hitler that no one else has been able to, yet. And he could be his doppelganger 😮

And Also Rip R Lee Ermey, He nailed as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket and also The Sarge in Toy Story 2 & Toy Story 3

I love how the film tricks you into feeling sympathy for him - for a moment you begin to have pity for the guy and his unfulfilled dreams, then the film snaps you right back to reality as he gives orders that would condemn his own people to death for no good reason! It’s truly an artistic masterpiece that’s unlike any war movie I have ever seen before!

@@wilberwhateley7569 I NEED to watch Downfall(2004)

That’s Adolf Hitler

You’re my hero

Why there's no Full Metal Jacket

@@r.octavoc.r it's fiction

​@@r.octavoc.r That's what I was going to say. Also Band of Brothers, Black Hawk down, Midway, Saving Private Ryan, 1917, A Bridge Too Far, Von Ryans' Express, The Pacific, Greyhound...

​@Kogger BoB and the pacific are tv series. Saving private ryan is fiction. Bridge too far is mentioned.

considering the crime levels of Brazil today

@@abrahamlupis9354 as a Brazilian man, I can confirm

That’s what you call timeless 💫

one of the best movies i have ever seen

I’m so thankful that Siskel & Ebert reviewed it.. it’s how I found it

What is surprising is in real life the astronauts really panicked and all of them wanted to do a 180 asap instead of go around the moon .

And Schindler's List had left out many things, like the role of Schindlers wife. So while it is a good and important movie, it does lack in accuracy.

No joke that movie crushed me and infuriated me at the same time. To see on screen the truly disgusting and horrifying sickening way slaves and African Americans in general were treated. Boils my blood, but it's Avery important film that should be shown in schools given how historically accurate it is.

I think it's the best movie I have ever seen.

Liam Neeson in the lead role? Check.

Incredible film. Never has a film touched me emotionally like that one before.

Schindlers list was boring as fuck if you go to the movie understanding that it is overly emotionally manipulative and made for the sole point of producing an Oscar.

Is it like in the movie to this day?

@@martinacoria2069 yes and no, if I'm not wrong City of God is based on events that happened in the 70s and 80s, somethings are better nowadays and some are worst, the country has developed considerably but parallel powers are still a big thing if not bigger more especifically in the favelas

For a while City of God was ranked the greatest film ever made on IMDB if i remember correctly. Human struggles and fight for compassion against all odds knows no boundaries

This movie is what we call here in North America a "cult classic" or an "underground hit". It is relatable here as well, a lot that parallels things that still go on here to this very day as well

Agree. Unbelievably hard hitting movies

It's even longer than Lawrence of Arabia

When I see the scene in which Chamberlain (Jeff Daniels), knowing his men are trapped and without bullets on Little Round Top, shouts “Bayonets!!”, the passion and desperation gives me chills and tears every time.

Gettysburg is a good film, but they got the portrayal of Buford all wrong. Sam Elliot did a great job acting, playing Sam Elliot. Buford was much closer to his officers, more soft-spoken, and not the gruff character he was portrayed to be. The movie was indeed faithful to the book The Killer Angels, but even in that book there are things that just never happened, such as Gen Isaac Trimble's conversation with Lee about the inaction of Ewell at the close of the first day. Patrick Gorman, who is a brilliant actor, was completely miscast as Gen Hood, as Hood was in his early 30's at Gettysburg, and Gorman in his mid to late 50's at the time of filming.

Yessir and it's almost a crime "ApPollO 13" got the #1 spot...

The problem with "Schindler's List" is that they're speaking English instead of German. Did Mr. Spielberg decide that his audience would never tolerate having to read subtitles?

@@laustcawz2089 He was telling a story, which he did fantastically well. Would shooting it in German have added more than it took away? I would say emphatically, NO! It would have made it FAR less accessible to the millions of school kids who watched it as part of their History education (a criminally small part of real History still being taught) it also would have limited the actor selection which, I'm sure most would agree, was a strong point of the film.

The answer is yes

it’s based on a fiction book…

“Your whole miserable country is the size of one state! I could see my way through running that without donning my Pince-nez! Don't go toe to toe with me, you bloated drunk old man…” Theodore Roosevelt

Like Americans care about the lives of anyone who isn't one of theirs...suuuure

Along with Pocahontas, 300, Braveheart, The Patriot, Pearl Harbor, Marie Antoinette, Shakespeare in Love, Alexander, Birth of a Nation, 10 000 BC and too many others to be mentioned.

That list already includes Ghengis Kahn, Cleopatra(Elizabeth Taylor), Birth of a Nation, Pocahontas, The Patriot, The Last Samurai, every Jesus movie ever, Glory, and any historical movie that ended with a person of color being treated on par with his/her white counterpart.

Same with Cocaine Bear too

@@staC-wh6ik "300" was based on a graphic novel, not the actual historical event, "The Patriot" was also a fictional story based on several stories of that time. They did not claim to be historical docudramas.

Actually, I heard Alexander was accurately portrayed.

Yes bunch of amatures at MOJO

Journalism classes are now apparently including the film "Shattered Glass" in their curricula. I'm disappointed it's not on this list. It's well worth watching. It's also available on YT.

​@@laustcawz2089 The Hayden Christensen movie?

🤯 Rented it from Blockbuster . The management had all these movies like come and see . I wondered why it wasn't well known .

@@akfreed6949 Too much for Blockbuster.

@@missustoad1 ? Your reply doesn't make sense

There's a lot of Royal family films that would have been a good add to this list to balance it's war list

That was such a good movie!

use a tape recorder. problem solved.

AMPAS isn't known for being fair with foreign movies

@@abrahamlupis9354 at that time

Fully agree

It is but compared to how ruthless it really gets over there, this movie is tame. I've seen videos on gore sites and it's gut wrenching.

Everything but the actual hidden figures in Hidden Figures was fiction unfortunately.

@@googleuser4152 It was still historically accurate, or at least as much as many of the films on this list. Characters were amalgamations of experiences the women actually had. City of God, that made it onto this list was a complete work of fiction, so Hidden Figures was far more accurate than that, wasn't it! EVERY film on this list was about men. I'm not saying it should be 50/50, but there's no need to include 2 NASA films & leave that one out, or to include almost exclusively war movies in the list

It's criminally underrated. I'm guessing it's because it's a foreign language film but it should be up there with any other crime films in cinematic history.

@@jasonklimes2231 underrated? isn't it always mentioned in 'best of' movie lists, or at least for any non-Hollywood movies.

@@GuineaPigEveryday I've never seen it mention outside of "non-Hollywood" movies lists. It should be mentioned with the best movies period not on a separate list

I truly believe that had it been released during current times, it could have won awards for sure.

yuck! No more war films on it please! How about some balance? War is not the only historical subject worth telling stories of!

I suggest you Turma da Monica

Sadly, most of the biggest parody makers have moved on to other things, so most Downfall parodies on RU-vid are many years old.

@@wikiuser92 There's a RU-vid channel that still makes Downfall parodies: Hitler Rant Parodies.

@@ARTSONICFAN990 I know. Hence why I said "most."

@@wikiuser92 True that.

YES!!!!!! 20 Historically accurate films featuring women would be great too, but I'd be happy with just war free. I want the women's ones not for women's rights, but because I've seen quite a few that have told stories I've never known, so I find them much more interesting than the traditional war type films retelling the same story over & over Hidden Figures, Queen of the Desert, On the Basis of S... (cencored word, film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life), various real life British Queen movies, The Iron Lady, Suffragette & Judy are a few I'd put onto that list (although the Queen movies are generally the well known material told over & over). "The Impossible" is another I read in the comments that I'd add to your list

@@mehere8038 Thank you for your support and your suggestions, I’ll check out the ones from your list that I haven’t seen yet. Good riddance!

The main reason that there wasn't a lot of graphic blood & gore in "The Longest Day" was thst the censorship standards of the day were far more restrictive. The film being in b&w & featuring a lot of sweeping, bird's eye-view shots does make up for that, to an extent.

I almost got up and left during that opening. So horribly violent and terrible! And I thought the VA hospital scene in Born on the 4th of July was graphic and horrifying....a lot of people got up and left in the theater I was in during that scene. but I stayed both times.

Except for the opening scene on Omaha Beach, the rest of the movie was really not accurate. The combat scenes, sure. But how the plot went about wasn't. One was sending a small squad deep into enemy territory to find one man during the Allied advance when it would have even been more dangerous to take him back across the frontline. Two, the airborne drops were on the Utah side of the beachhead. Not Omaha. It would have been highly unlikely to send anyone from Omaha Beach to make contact with airborne forces that early in the landings.

yes, but in reality, don't you think the list was already well overloaded with male war stories? How about some variety?

that's another great film that would have been a great add to give more variety to this list, instead of it being almost all war films

Always loved that Connery, in Highlander, was a Scot playing an Egyptian by way of Spain and Japan, while the lead role was that of a Scot played by a Frenchman by way of the U.S. :)

Edinburgh accent

And South Central

What? Gmab. This list is movies that were based on real events and were historically accurate. How would Menace II Society fit? It doesn't.

Bernardo Bertolucci should get more love

Probably because the scenes of the captured former emperor in a “re-education” camp were highly fictionalized for dramatic effect.

My 7th grade history teacher played that for us. Really great movie

@@SaabTheFox what an odd teacher. We’re they gay?

@@coolbreeze3793 nah I mean from what he told us he was an army vet who was married(his wife also taught at the same school) with kids. One of his hand’s were missing all of his fingers so I believed it

@@coolbreeze3793 Why would he be odd? It’s a historical film, and a pretty good one at that. Why WOULDN’T he show the film?

@@coolbreeze3793 you REALLY don’t have to be gay to watch a movie. What state do you live in? Lol

Agreed. Letters was far more immersive.

both Flags of our fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima should be on one place considering the purpose of Clint Eastwood

Yes. But Braveheart is an amazing film too. I dont give a f**k how inaccurate it is

or Inglorious Basterds?

🤣🤣🤣

For as terrible as that sounds, I have to admit when you make the most evil people on Earth that sympathetic that’s when you know the actor is impressive, and Bruno Ganz is definitely one of them

@@andydufresnefromshawshank5866 I mean having humanity means you can empathize with a situation yet hate the one going through it. John Gotti was an awful guy but you feel bad when his boy was killed. Lex Luthor is evil but you can empathize with his feeling of weakness and helplessness.

What's incredible is that Hitler was not seen as evil in the beginning. When he first took power in Germany in the '30s, he was praised (even by FDR & Churchill). What happened was he simply didn't know when to quit. He took things way too far. As the saying goes, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."

@@NoHateLikeChristianLove I loved the way "Smallville" cast Lex's father Lionel as the truly malevolent character.

After watching the movie, I don't feel sorry for him as much as I can see his humanity more clearly. That is, even though he is the most evil man in history, he is a man...and everything that comes with being a human. The movie helps show that behind this monster the whole world sees him as, there was a certain level of complexity that came with it.

I totally agree, and the actors were amazing.

No, it’s not historically accurate.

@@Silly81 I wasn't talking about it from accuracy wise, just size and scale, but I'm curious as to what is fact and what's fiction if you won't mind helping me understand. Thx.

@@mr.twists9302 oh okay I understand what you’re talking about and I’ll agree with you on that. But as far as the details of the real life story of Malcolm, a lot was left out, some things that’s in his book is left out of the movie but the main thing was the murder of Ronald Stokes by the LAPD was the real reason Malcolm left the NOI because the leader of the NOI refused to retaliate. Also the character of Baine who didn’t exist.

lots of films about monarchs should have to break up the war theme

Lol yeah but we know that it won't be mentioned on this list though even though you are A THOUSAND PERCENT Correct

Yes, i agree - it was not accurate in any way