I’ve had this list of based on real life people since I started my blog in January 2017. I’m not going to put any descriptions: just movie name, the major person/people involved, and the year it came out. This time it’s the bare bones. Here they are in no particular order.
Movie Name | Name of Person/People | Year |
Patton | George Patton | 1970 |
Lean on Me | Joe Clark | 1989 |
Everest | Rob Hall and Scott Fischer | 2015 |
Into the Wild | Chris McCandless | 2007 |
Donnie Brasco | Joe Pistone | 1997 |
The Fighter | Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund | 2010 |
Amadeus | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 1984 |
The Social Network | Mark Zuckerberg | 2010 |
Milk | Harvey Milk | 2008 |
Blow | George Jung | 2001 |
Heaven & Earth | Le Ly Hayslip | 1993 |
Black Mass | James Connolly and James Bulger | 2015 |
Cinderella Man | Jim Braddock | 2005 |
Kinsey | Alfred Kinsey | 2004 |
The Believer | Daniel Burros | 2001 |
Serpico | Frank Serpico | 1973 |
All the President’s Men | Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein | 1976 |
The Wolf of Wall Street | Jordan Belfort | 2013 |
All Good Things | Robert Durst | 2010 |
Alive | Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa | 1993 |
Goodfellas | Henry Hill | 1990 |
Silkwood | Karen Silkwood | 1983 |
Temple Grandin | Temple Grandin | 2010 |
The Last Emperor | Pu Yi | 1981 |
Snowden | Edward Snowden | 2016 |
Spotlight | Marty Baron and John Geoghan | 2015 |
The Founder | Ray Kroc/Mac and Dick McDonald | 2016 |
Foxcatcher | John du Pont/Dave and Mark Schultz | 2014 |
Philomena | Philomena Lee and Martin Sixsmith | 2013 |
Dallas Buyers Club | Ron Woodroff | 2013 |
Fruitvale Station | Oscar Grant III | 2013 |
The Stanford Prison Experiment | Philip Zimbardo | 2015 |
Woman in Gold | Maria Altmann | 2015 |
Raging Bull | Jake LaMotta | 1980 |
Mask | Rocky Dennis | 1985 |
Sid and Nancy | Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen | 1986 |
The Doors | Jim Morrison | 1991 |
Selena | Selena Quintanilla-Perez | 1997 |
The Imitation Game | Alan Turing | 2014 |
Boys Don’t Cry | Brandon Teena | 1999 |
Veronica Guerin | Veronica Guerin | 2003 |
Men of Honor | Carl Brashear | 2000 |
Frida | Frida Kahlo | 2002 |
De-lovely | Cole Porter | 2004 |
Capote | Truman Capote | 2005 |
Domino | Domino Harvey | 2005 |
Ray | Ray Charles | 2004 |
Marie Antoinette | Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI | 2006 |
The Killing Fields | De Pran and Sydney Schanberg | 1984 |
World Trade Center | John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno | 2006 |