This is a list of feature films that are based on actual events .
1920s
- The Johnstown Flood (1926) — Stunning special effects for its time, plus Gable, Lombard and Gary Cooper, all as pre-fame, uncredited extras. Silent.
- Chicago (1927) — Phyllis Haver plays Roxie Hart in this silent film based on the 1926 play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins, inspired by the sensational stories of jazz babies on Death Row Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan.
- The General (1927) — Silent Buster Keaton masterpiece chronicling the 1862 theft of a railroad locomotive and its recovery by an overlooked "little guy."
- Napoléon (1927) — Sweeping French epic tells the tale of Bonaparte, backed by a literal cast of thousands, some in early widescreen process.
1930s
- M (1931) — Berlin criminals search for a child murderer the police can't catch; based on 1920s case of Peter Kürten. Peter Lorre's breakout role.
- Rasputin and the Empress (1932) — Passion and politics at the Czar's house. Only film with all three Barrymore siblings: John, Lionel and Ethel.
- In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) — Australian film is first talkie about the mutiny; (there was a 1916 Australian silent). Errol Flynn's film debut.
- Cleopatra (1934) — Liz T. was just two when Claudette and deMille showed the world how to speak Nile with an art deco accent.
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) — First Hollywood telling of the mutiny-at-sea tale, with Gable and Laughton; won a Best Picture statuette.
- San Francisco (1936) — Hurly-burly of the Barbary Coast is quickly quashed by the infamous 1906 temblor. Gable, Jeannette MacDonald.
- You Only Live Once (1937) — Though called Eddie & Joan, they are loosely Bonnie and Clyde, just three years after the outlaws' deaths.
- Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) — The future President (Henry Fonda) finds success as a lawyer — and finds himself a wife (Marjorie Weaver).
1940s
- Sergeant York (1941) — Alvin C. York, a pacifist from the Tennessee hills, becomes the most decorated American soldier of World War I. Gary Cooper won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Directed by Howard Hawks.
- The Pride of the Yankees (1942) — Gary Cooper plays NY Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, "the luckiest man on the face of the earth"; Gehrig teammates including Babe Ruth play themselves in the film. Herman J. Mankiewicz and Jo Swerling adapted Paul Gallico's story; Sam Wood directed.
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) — Story of George M. Cohan, the actor-singer-dancer-playwright-songwriter-producer-theatre owner-director-choreographer known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway."
- Dillinger (1945) — Early outlaw depiction, starring Lawrence Tierney; uses footage cannibalized from Lang's You Only Live Once .
- Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) — Loosely, life of songwriter Jerome Kern, played by an all-star cast: Sinatra, Garland, Horne, et. al ..
1950s
- Young Man with a Horn (1950) — Self-taught cornetist Bix Beiderbecke sets new jazz standards, but succumbs to alcoholism at 28.
- 5 Fingers (1951) — Story of Cicero, WW II-era spy in Ankara, Turkey, the highest-paid spy in history. Classic "twist" ending.
- The Desert Fox (1951) — German general Erwin Rommel evades the Allies in North Africa, but not the Gestapo back home.
- A Place in the Sun (1951) — Update of Dreiser's An American Tragedy ; Chester Gillette was executed for drowning pregnant girlfriend.
- Moulin Rouge (1952) — John Huston's colorful film about artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, played touchingly by José Ferrer.
- Titanic (1953) — Best Original Script-winning soap opera pits Stanwyck versus Webb aboard the doomed "unsinkable" ocean liner.
- The Dam Busters (1955) — Technically-challenging raids against German dams in WWII required development of "bouncing bombs."
- To Hell and Back (1955) — Audie Murphy, America's most decorated soldier, played himself at studio's urging; he wanted Tony Curtis.
- Lust for Life (1956) — Force-of-Nature painter Vincent van Gogh, played by Kirk Douglas. Anthony Quinn plays Paul Gauguin.
- The Wrong Man (1956) — Unusual cinéma vérité Hitchcock effort with Henry Fonda as a man wrongly accused of armed robbery.
- Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) — Life of silent movie actor Lon Chaney, Sr., child of deaf-mute parents, played by James Cagney.
- The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) — Charles Lindbergh's first solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927, with James Stewart as "Lucky Lindy."
- I Want to Live! (1958) — Touching tearjerker as Best Actress Susan Hayward awaits the gas chamber on California's Death Row.
- A Night to Remember (1958) — Documentary-style telling of the Titanic's demise, from the still-definitive 1955 book by Walter Lord.
1960s
- Sink the Bismarck! (1960) — Behemoth German battleship flees British armada before being bombarded and sent to the bottom in May 1941.
- Spartacus (1960) — Stanley Kubrick's epic treatment of Roman slave revolt known as the Third Servile War in 73 B.C. See the 1991 restoration.
- El Cid (1961) — They had to pry his sword from his cold, dead hand, but he did drive out the Moors, circa 1090. Chuck Heston topped the cast.
- Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) — Burt Lancaster portrays convicted murderer Robert Stroud, who was not as cuddly as his cinematic counterpart.
- The Counterfeit Traitor (1962) — William Holden as WWII spy Eric Erickson whose life view is broadened by the woman he loved (Lilli Palmer).
- The Longest Day (1962) — Forty-two, count 'em, international stars play generals, colonels, even privates, during the WWII D-Day Invasion.
- The Miracle Worker (1962) — Blind and deaf humanitarian Helen Keller and her teacher, the titular Annie Sullivan; reprised by Broadway cast.
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) — Christian and Bligh butt intellects if not heads in this lavish second Hollywood telling of the famous mutiny tale.
- Cleopatra (1963) — Turgid, ponderous remake proved that even English accents, Mr. Mankiewicz and Ms. Taylor couldn't put togas in the seats.
- The Great Escape (1963) — Allied prisoners attempt a mass, 175-man breakout of Stalag Luft III; Steve McQueen does all his own bike-riding.
- PT 109 (1963) — President Kennedy's exploits and heroism as captain of the ill-fated patrol boat, cut in half by Japanese destroyer in WWII.
- Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) — Rome's second flop in as many years proved even English accents and Ms. Loren couldn't put togas in the seats.
- Harlow (1965) — Duelling biopics of Blonde Bombshell: one high-budget, one low, one color, one B&W, one Carroll Baker, one Carol Lynley, both flops.
- The Battle of Algiers (1966) — So thorough is its vérité style, many mistake it for a documentary; screened in 2004 in The Pentagon for its insights.
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) — Highly romanticized story of doomed outlaw couple Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker proved nonconformity doesn't pay.
- In Cold Blood (1967) — The Clutter family murder in 1959 Kansas, taken from Truman Capote's book of the same name. Four Oscar nominations.
- The Boston Strangler (1968) — Tony Curtis is Albert DeSalvo, convicted and imprisoned for the murders of thirteen women from 1962 through 1964.
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) — Seriocomic account of outlaw pair who did indeed flee the closing Old West for greener pastures of Bolivia.
1970s
- Patton (1970) — Story of U.S. General George S. Patton; won Best Picture and Best Actor for George C. Scott.
- Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) — Sprawling Japanese and American production of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
- Brian's Song (1971) — Story about Brian Piccolo who played for the Chicago Bears starring James Caan and Billy Dee Williams.
- Lady Sings the Blues (1972) — Diana Ross is Billie Holiday, backed up by Richard Pryor and Billy Dee Williams.
- Badlands (1973) — Fictionalized account of 1957 Nebraska murder spree by Charles Starkweather and his 15-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate.
- Dillinger (1973) — Story of the 1930s gangster starring Warren Oates.
- Serpico (1973) — Story of New York City policeman Frank Serpico starring Al Pacino. Directed by Sidney Lumet.
- Lenny (1974) — Bob Fosse and Dustin Hoffman send a gritty, elegant, black-and-white love letter to Lenny Bruce.
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975) — Events surrounding a 1972 Brooklyn bank robbery. John Wojtowicz, played by Al Pacino, said the movie was "only 30% true."
- The Hindenburg (1975) — German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg exploded on landing in 1937. Film's sabotage theme was superseded by new 1990s evidence.
- All the President's Men (1976) — Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal leading to President Nixon's resignation.
- Bound For Glory (1976) — Warts-and-all biopic about
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