LIst of movies based on actual / true events
Number of Movies
Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan
Hacksaw Ridge
Braveheart
Catch Me If You Can
Zero Days
Captain Phillips
Sully
100 Meters
JFK
Titanic
Bridge of Spies
Concussion
McFarland, USA
The Pianist
A Beautiful Mind
The Imitation Game
In the Name of the Father
12 Years a Slave
The Pursuit of Happyness
Dallas Buyers Club
Hotel Rwanda
Rush
Apollo 13
Citizenfour
Enemy at the Gates
The Theory of Everything
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Spotlight
Race
The Sea Inside
300
The Terminal
Argo
Eddie The Eagle
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Snowden
Free State of Jones
Deepwater Horizon
Escape from Alcatraz
The Revenant
War Dogs
The Finest Hours
Born to Be Blue
The Big Short
Woman in Gold
Selma
Smoke & Mirrors
Unbroken
Trumbo
Munich
Everest
The Danish Girl
Agora
Suffragette
Love & Mercy
Black Mass
Pawn Sacrifice
Kill the Messenger
Steve Jobs
The Perfect Storm
True Story
Guernica
The Intouchables
Miracles from Heaven
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
The King's Speech
The Wolf of Wall Street
Straight Outta Compton
Cinderella Man
The Impossible
The Last Man On The Moon
Erin Brockovich
Zodiac
Meru
American Sniper
Team Spirit
People Like Us
The Vow
Woodlawn
The 33
The Walk
Lincoln
Joy
United 93
Finding Altamira
The Admiral
In the Heart of the Sea?
Legend
Danny Collins
The Stanford Prison Experiment
The Monuments Men
The Captive
Experimenter
Florence Foster Jenkins
Heaven is for Real
Into the Wild
A Street Cat Named Bob
Greater
I'm Not Ashamed
The Blind Side
Fargo
Black Hawk Down
Pelé: Birth of a Legend
The Wave
American Gangster
Pride
An Honest Liar
La Naissance d'une nation
A United Kingdom
Secretariat
The Conjuring
Anthropoid
The Founder
Gandhi
The Social Network
The Infiltrator
Spare Parts
All the Way
127 Hours
Colonia
The Conjuring 2
Changeling
Camino
Chasing Mavericks
Hacker
Zero Dark Thirty
Precious
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
The Way Back
I Killed My BFF
The Iceman
The Assault
Masterminds
Million Dollar Arm
Act of Valor
Imperium
Aftermath
Big Eyes
Hitchcock
Won't Back Down
Jackie
The Most Hated Woman in America
Child 44
Christine
The Lady in the Van
Marvellous
Timbuktu
Foxcatcher
Compliance
The Possession
When the Lights Went Out
Blue-Eyed Butcher
Annabelle
Rosewater
Bad Country
50 to 1
The Face of an Angel
Noble
Denial
Genius
The Chosen
Elvis & Nixon
The Wizard of Lies
Lion
Land Of Mine
The Promise
Detroit
The Case for Christ
Paz
The Big Sick
Darkest Hour
Maudie
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
The King's Choice
King of Devil's Island
Nokas
Kings Bay
The Zookeeper's Wife
Jungle
The Man with the Iron Heart
Only The Brave
The Glass Castle
Neruda
American Made
Southside with You
Battle of the Sexes
Breathe
Wind River
Victoria & Abdul
Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
Goodbye Christopher Robin
Borg vs. McEnroe
Marshall
The Disaster Artist
All The Money In The World
12 Strong
The Greatest Showman
Leavey
Mollys Game
The Post
The 15.17 to Paris
Alexander
Backstabbing for Beginners
I, Tonya
Tag
Maze
Paterno
Spacewalk
Entebbe
Adrift
The Angel
The Catcher Was a Spy
Operation Finale
Gotti
Norway
Sand Castle
Den 12. Mann
First Man
The Mercy
Colette
The Photographer of Mauthausen
Chappaquiddick
Brexit
On Wings of Eagles
Boy Erased
Green Book
The Mule
Old Man and the Gun
Instant Family
On the Basis of Sex
American Animals
Welcome to Marwen
Stan & Ollie
LBJ
Unbroken: Path to Redemption
The Professor and the Madman
The Red Sea Diving Resort
Danger Close
The Banker
Togo
The Report
Rocketman
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition
Hotel Mumbai
While at War
Just Mercy
Skin
Dark Waters
Judy
A Hidden Life
Greyhound
Escape From Pretoria
The Outpost
Resistance
Fighting with My Family
The Farewell
Ray & Liz
Trial By Fire
Stockholm
Ammonite
Capone
Dream Horse
The Glorias
I Still Believe
The Courier
Lost Girls
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
The Man Standing Next
Mank
Respect
Sergio
The Trial of the Chicago 7
The Traitor
Clouds
Ride Like a Girl
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Hillbilly Elegy
Tesla
A Call to Spy
Radioactive
White Boy Rick
Official Secrets
The Frozen Ground
Mosul
One Night in Miami
Mary Shelley
Seberg
The Dig
Rose Island
Judas and the Black Messiah
The Mauritanian
Our Friend
Burden
The Current War
Frida
Silk Road
Oslo
Blue Miracle
Lansky
No Man of God
Penguin Bloom
Being the Ricardos
Worth
The Tender Bar
A Journal for Jordan
Munich: The Edge of War
House of Gucci
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
My Best Friend Anne Frank
King Richard
Hidden Figures
Against the Ice
The Kashmir Files
Spencer
Elvis
Oppenheimer
Napoleon
Operation Mincemeat
Fatherhood
Father Stu
Gladbeck: The Hostage Crisis
Devotion
Thirteen Lives
The Greatest Beer Run Ever
The Silent Twins
Breaking
Blonde
Medieval
The Good Nurse
Till
She Said
American Murderer
The Stranger
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Benediction
The Final Game
The Swimmers
The King of Laughter
Emancipation
The Lost King
True Spirit
I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Prison 77
Boston Strangler
Cocaine Bear
Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher
Simone: Woman of the Century
Tetris
Phenomena
Argentina, 1985
The Highwaymen
Midnight Express
Yara
The Last King of Scotland
Million Dollar Baby
Finding Neverland
Johnny
12 Mighty Orphans
Air
Joe Bell
BlackBerry
Chevalier
Ford v. Ferrari
Padre Pio
Daliland
Killers of the Flower Moon
Gran Turismo
Aftersun
Reality
Flamin' Hot
Percy
Edge of the World
All Good Things
The Great Escaper
A Million Miles Away
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
Brain on Fire
SK1
A Day and a Half
Sitting in Bars with Cake
The Burial
Pain Hustlers
La Vie en Rose
May December
Christmas as Usual
Priscilla
Maestro
The One
The Iron Claw
Dumb Money
Ferrari
Society of the Snow
Jokes & Cigarettes
Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia
The Boys in the Boat
Next Goal Wins
Society of the Snow: Who Were We on the Mountain?
Nyad
Quick
One Life
Bosco
Bob Marley: One Love
Shirley
The Beautiful Game
Ordinary Angels
Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game
Scoop
Golda
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Back to Black
Sight
Arthur the King
Cabrini
Wicked Little Letters
Unsinkable
The Long Game
Sing Sing
The Bikeriders
Firebrand
Young Woman and the Sea
The Dead Don't Hurt
Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story
Unsung Hero
Nahir
Woman Walks Ahead
Lee
The Apprentice
Miranda's Victim
The Order