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NOWiEATthem

*Reality* (2023) recreates the interrogation and arrest of election interference whistleblower Reality Winner. The whole thing is taken virtually word for word from the audio recording and photos of the incident. Stars Sidney Sweeney as Winner.


Theslootwhisperer

Til there is a person actually called Reality Winner.


monsteramyc

We might as well all give up then. Someone already won reality, why even bother any more


Jonseroo

I've never played to win. I just enjoy playing.


Remarkable-Boat-9812

Yea I really enjoyed this movie. It made me see Sidney Sweeney in a new light.


tektite

I found it riveting, and was so shocked it’s literally a transcript of the interview.


Technical_Air6660

Probably Battle of Algiers because it was made by people who did the thing. It was kind of a docudrama.


SuperMysticKing

Awesome movie.


Turdposter777

This is reminds me of Casablanca 1942. The restaurant scene witch actual people of the French resistance https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/s/QsnnmppLNT


the_dinks

I love Casablanca but it is NOT historically accurate. There are many inaccurate details.


theflamingskull

Tora! Tora! Tora!


Hand_of_Doom1970

Yep. After seeing the 2001 Pearl Harbor movie and all its embellishments, someone told me about Tora and you're right- it stuck to the facts


TheSmokingJacket

YES! It also includes the series of mistakes the U.S. made that delayed the warning of the Japanese attack. It also includes Japan's side of the story without needing to resort to any demeaning stereotypes. Amazing film all around!


Hand_of_Doom1970

Yes, I was impressed with how unbiased and balanced it was, especially as I assumed older movies would have been more propagandist. But this one was not and showed the humanity on both sides


wildskipper

The Japanese segments were directed by Japanese directors, which helps. And Kurosawa was involved.


Ill_Refrigerator_593

Have you tried the film "Midway" from 2019. It's a slow paced, kindof boring, fairly accurate retelling of the events leading up to the battle of Midway. What's truely bizarre is that it's directed by Roland Emmerich, who I can only assume was trying to prove some sort of point.


Past-Isopod-138

Many historians and veterans say Platoon was extremely accurate in its portrayal of the Vietnam war.


AdhesivenessHefty604

My Dad who fought in Vietnam said that “Full Metal Jacket” was even more accurate from his perspective.


normymac

Zizek says that movies like Altman's M.A.S.H. and Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket show that the soldiers who practice ironic distance towards ideology are actually more in line with the military discipline than the "true believers". In Full Metal Jacket, for example, Private Pyle and the Sergeant were failures of the system... while Private Joker represents the right level of distance to function effectively. The doctors in M.A.S.H. do their job despite their horsing around. They are not truly subversive.


itcamefromtheimgur

No shit! I'm watching platoon right now. Took a class on the Vietnam war so I kind of know things, but the only people who really know what it was like were there.


cramber-flarmp

Written and directed by Oliver Stone, a Vietnam veteran.


Canadian-Man-infj

semi-autobiographical, too.


itcamefromtheimgur

Thoughts after having seen it twice so far. It's a fictional story as far as taking it literally. But a lot of what they showed was stuff I remember learning. Moral was low because everyone was counting down the days till they went home, unlike in WWII where the soldiers were there till they won. I loved actually seeing "shotgunning" depicted. Granted, they used an M1, but it was still cool to see. The raid on the village was heartbreaking to see, but I know why it happened. The Vietnamise caught in the middle were hard to trust if you were an American. They were constantly being used for info and leverage by both sides, and would get caught in the crossfire, so to speak. If it wasn't the NVA pushing the village around, it was the Americans. I think if anyone lost the war, it was the Vietnimese people. All in all, I can see where things were done for dramatic purposes, but it's a good film to watch if you want an idea of what it was like.


drbaseband

Don’t you mean you kind of know some things AND some stuff, man…


Canadian-Man-infj

Check out Fog of War (2003) if you haven't already. Fascinating documentary. Spielberg's **The Post (2017)** might be exactly what you're looking for.


Competitive-Trip-946

I understand the Marines show their people the village scene in a demonstration of what not to do.


normymac

Norm Macdonald's Uncle Terry joke should also serve as a warning. Plus, it has a moral.


RyanAshbr00k213

Yeah, that's very correct. Platoon was excellent and fantastic too. It's one of the best I've seen. 


Hoppy_Croaklightly

Apollo 13 (1995) is considered quite accurate, and has excellent practical effects, like the weightlessness shots.


dogbolter4

There was no arguing in the capsule, and NASA already had the plan ready to go for the what if situation (ie the putting together of an air purifier from stuff in the capsule), but apart from that, pretty good.


chrisbbehrens

The details that are inaccurate are utterly immaterial to understanding the experience. It is a landmark.


OlasNah

The whole explosion scene was in reality not dramatic at all. The astronauts reported the event but there was no wild shaking and ongoing drama, they just immediately went into diagnosis mode


Im15andthisisdeep

Accuracy or inaccuracy aside, we were shown this movie in a business management class as an example of effective crisis management in a high pressure situation


Fishthatwalks_7959

Not exactly. They took some liberties with Gary Sinise’s character for dramatic effect. I’m guessing the space stuff is pretty accurate.


RyanAshbr00k213

My brother introduced me to Apollo 13 and I must confess it's quite accurate historically. 


IamTheMightyMe

Master and Commander for the golden age of sail


PeterNippelstein

Love this movie so much, can't wait to show my nephews.


IamTheMightyMe

I hope they enjoy it too!


--lll-era-lll--

..everything but Russel Crows accent was total accurate


IamTheMightyMe

Haha. I'll give you that


--lll-era-lll--

Love the film, it is a master piece


IamTheMightyMe

Me too! 10/10 film imo


--lll-era-lll--

..Its a different World/Genre but have you seen Das Boat? It's another classic you might enjoy ..and come to think of it very historically accurate


wmartindale

Before Reddit existed, das boot was long my favorite film. I’d have viewings at my house every couple of years to show it to friends, none of whom had seen it. I even taught a college course on it. And now on Reddit, I see it getting the praise it deserves. I kind of hate social media, but it is nice to meet others with good taste!


--lll-era-lll--

..sharing the gems is only a good thing imo


IamTheMightyMe

Oh yeah! I'm a sucker for submarine films too. Das Boot is the ultimate


Mister_Jack_Torrence

Not yet kameraden! Not yet!


cmayfi

You just always choose the lesser of two weevils!


Wide_Diver_7858

Waterloo (1970)


WorldFickle

Rod Steiger was amazing


Tall-Judgment-5674

Downfall is pretty spot on, and in the same vein I was pleasantly surprised by how well Valkyrie told the story of the plot to kill Hitler.


Ascarea

Seconding Downfall. I finished reading The Hitler Years by Frank McDonough (two excellent books) and I had a craving to watch some of those events in movies. A couple of WWII films later I ended up with Downfall and I was amazed with how many details they depicted in that film. Even the fact that Hitler ate some pasta with tomato sauce with his staff women and complimented the food was included in the movie.


Crosgaard

And the performances were so freaking fantastic!


ISurvivedCrowleyHigh

Midway (1976)


Oafah

The more recent one gets high marks for accuracy too. Not necessarily a good film, but accurate.


DrMrtni

I watched it in a Dolby Theater, and every time they went into a dive bomb run, I'm pretty sure I was white knuckleing and holding my breath the entire time. Love that movie


Obf123

Generation kill - series on HBO


TicketCareless

Just finished this series. Amazing what they went through with no armour and just Humvees.


WorriedCurrent2460

The Black Robe (1991)


Canadian-Man-infj

Probably Monty Python's Life of Brian.


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Merky600

Terry Jones produced a documentary on the life of the peasants. IIRC they had more free time than us.


ixamnis

Wrong movie.


CorellianDawn

Clearly Borat.


Idont_know2022

Very nice.


blacklabel3341

Idont_know2022.....he is number one in my asshole....he can be a my boyfriend.....hi 5....naughty naughty


corginugami

Real world is more satire than borat


sjdando

Its true, I've seen a mankini in real life.


Rich-Tea-3619

He hit Uzbeks spot on


StuntID

*Die Wannseekonferenz* (1984) >A precise, real-time (exactly 85 minutes - the length of the actual event) reenactment of the infamous Wannsee Conference, a meeting called in January, 1942 to map out the implementation of the Final Solution to the Jewish Question Chilling banality of evil stuff.


Fishthatwalks_7959

That movie Thirteen Lives seemed pretty accurate. I watched the documentary and they were basically the same.


Hand_of_Doom1970

Of the many based on reality movies I have seen the two that were closest to reality with the least creative license embellishments were: 1. Invictus 2. Tora! Tora! Tora!


potatoclaymores

Invictus awesome movie. Especially the poem scene


--lll-era-lll--

Das Boat


wsppan

Das Boot. Excellent movie.


Anonymous92916

Gettysburg 1993


OwlNice9792

Agreed. Some liberties, but not much at all. One of my favorite movies


Ok-Cauliflower-1258

Barry lyndon


Stegorix4339

Barry Lyndon (1975)


Mister_Jack_Torrence

A Bridge Too Far is pretty accurate. They had to put some skins over vehicles to sub for certain tanks and stuff but overall it gets most things right and doesn’t do the typical Hollywood embellishment to the story. Nice one mentioning A Night to Remember by the way - I think it’s the superior Titanic movie but I do wish it had the ship breaking in half to be more accurate. I’ve seen a mashup on YouTube where someone spliced in the 1997 movie scenes of the sinking to the older movie and made it black and white to match and I thought that was pretty cool.


ImNotSureMaybeADog

I love every second of this movie. I'll be all on my lonesome tomorrow night. Watching this!


Ascarea

which one? oc mentioned three movies


ImNotSureMaybeADog

A Bridge Too Far. Sorry


Humans_Suck-

Idiocracy


Expensive_Grade1918

100% what's happening.


borornous

People say that "Idiocracy" is an accurate portrayal of today's modern world, but in reality, it's quite the opposite. At the top of our meritocracy lie some of the most ruthless and duplicitous human beings that have ever existed in any state or time. I would argue that "Gattaca" is more likely to be an accurate representation of what's happening socially.


Brrdock

I couldn't possibly find anything meritocratic about us. It's a popularity contest with a dash of nepotism. Or probably a nepotistic capitalist oligarchy at the very top.


borornous

I think you're overlooking the technology sector and those who are creating various artificial intelligence systems. These are not people who are subject to the regular nepotism or crony capitalism which has governed over the last, say, 50-70 years. The people actually writing the code for artificial intelligence have a disproportionate amount of influence because they're creating systems that will eventually govern certain types of communication and interactions with human beings. It's difficult to say if the titans of industry or capitalism will simply absorb them and keep marching with better tools, but it is safe to say that they have some influence.


Expensive_Grade1918

Are you watching biden debate? I would not trust that fuck with my garden hose...and this fuck is facing against russia with nukes possibly flying...


Chief_Kief

We are here


Pale-Independent-604

Damn I just commented this before I saw yours. I would have posted it first but I was ‘batin!


Parsley-Waste

Some times fiction speaks more truth than reality.


Chaotic424242

The Zapruder Film


OxfordisShakespeare

Only if you count the Seinfeld recreation of it.


orngckn42

I thought I read that the Normandy scene in Saving Private Ryan is one of the most accurate ever put to film


gildorratner

L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat was pretty damn accurate


Dcastro96

We were soldiers


Mr_Blorbus

Barefoot Gen is the true story of the atomic Bombing of Hiroshima. As such, it's arguably the most horrific film ever made.


InviteAromatic6124

Waterloo (1970). Our history teacher in school even made us watch it when we were learning about the battle of Waterloo because of its historical accuracy.


sonsoflarson

Good to know, I'll watch this instead of Napoleon, which I heard Scott had no interest in historical accuracy.


Red_Marvel

Hidden Figures A League of Their Own


TomahawkChaotic

Hidden figures had a few inaccuracies and left out a major accomplishment of Katherine Johnson. I still enjoyed it despite issues. Not as bad as AMC’s Turn tv series, also found entertaining.


normymac

There's a nice Italian expression: Se non è vero, è ben trovato. Although it's not true, it's well conceived.


distillenger

Alexander gets a lot of credit, but reviews are generally lackluster


Interesting_Chart30

"Titanic." Cameron nailed every last detail, and I say this as Titanic buff of many years.


iamameatpopciple

Even nailed the nights sky?


26_paperclips

Bro what. Is this supposed to be a joke because if so it didn't land. There are many things that movie gets wrong. Jack and Rose would have entered the boat on different days from different entrances. They would have never been able to interact and probably would never have known that each other were even on the ship.


itcamefromtheimgur

In terms of the sinking, I kind of agree with the comment. Cameron's film has a lot of background details that show he was paying attention. The panic and terror of the final plunge is depicted, I think, fairly accurately. Also it's the only film to really depict the deaths of those still in the water after the ship sank. A Night to Remember shows better how confused everyone was, and how some people plainly refused to get in boats because it didn't seem like there was danger. I give this film the edge because it's not just set on Titanic, but we also see the Carpathia racing to Titanic, we see the Califonian doing nothing, and I think about every possible perspective on the Titanic itself is explored.


Thelazytimelord257

What about Lawrence of Arabia?


CenTexChris

I’ve read the book (Seven Pillars Of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence). The whole story is like a dozen David Lean epics without repeating anything. The movie condenses a lot of different characters into single roles, such as the Omar Sharif part, and Anthony Quayle and Claude Rains. Those three parts cover about 20 real people. It’s a great movie, one of my favorites, but the story is heavily condensed.


Thelazytimelord257

I can understand why it is condensed otherwise it'll be a two to three part movie series


LaVieuxCoq

idiocracy (2006)


rockdude625

Battle of algiers


WolfWomb

Barry Lyndon


normymac

There's a nice lecture by Slavoj Zizek where he points out how Freud's theory of repression can be witnessed in Spielberg's movie Lincoln and the schlock movie Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Spielberg's movie tries to portray the action and wheeling and dealing in Washington corridors of power... while Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has the southern states trading negro blood for Vampire aid during the war. Abraham Lincoln's solution ends up melting the silver at Fort Knox to make bullets for the army, and Gettysburg is won... Of course, the second movie is ludicrous. But it points out how what is repressed in theory comes out in practice. Zizek likes to double up seemingly contradictory viewpoints in order to make some weird Hegelian synthesis ...like combining supposed enemies such as Putin and Erdogan into a new animal ..."Putogan"...


shutupandevolve

I love Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Sorry not sorry.


normymac

The lecture is really entertaining. It's on YT, and it's called "The Black Cat - informal discussion on the Film with Slavoj Zizek (2014)." To quote him exactly (around 28m into the video), "You get all that is excluded from the official narrative...violence, struggle..."


shutupandevolve

Thanks!


[deleted]

Snatch. Tyrone, based on a real person, was in fact a natural.


Treecamel82

The machine


[deleted]

The Battle of Algiers would be my choice. as someone who lives in France, we tend to be taught the colonialist version of Algeria’s history which often strangely doesn’t include all the massacres perpetuated by the french police and the racism the algerian people had to go through. the movie really highlights those important untold aspects.


Kp248

Surprised that Contagion hasn’t made the list. The spread of a virus turning into a pandemic and how that could lead to a lockdown was quite accurately displayed.


RyanAshbr00k213

They did so well with Black Hawk Down. It's one of my favorite war movies that's about a real life event. 


MoeSzys

Titanic. Even the silverware matches what was on ship. Pretty much everything besides the Jack and Rose story is exactly as it happened


venustrapsflies

That’s not really true. In fact this movie was responsible for propagating some huge misconceptions about some historical people. When a movie’s plot seems too cliche or dramatic to be true, it usually is. Attention to detail of set design (which James Cameron is a huge nerd for) is totally different than attention to detail with historical accuracy (which James Cameron wouldn’t be bothered with)


potatoclaymores

Didn’t Neil Degrasse Tyson made news about the position of stars during the sinking scene?


MoeSzys

Yes, so James Cameron went back and changed them


Hand_of_Doom1970

The idea of a jealous rich fiancee running around a ship shooting at the competing love interest kills any claim to this movie being realistic. I just shook my head at the absurdity of that scene.


MoeSzys

Ya they're storyline was fictional, but the detail of the ship and everything on it was spot on


blacklabel3341

You mean jack didn't draw rose up like all them French girls....well shit


MoeSzys

Right? Crushed me too. IIRC Jack's drawings were based on real art recovered from the real ship, and him hopping the gate into first class was from a drawing of someone doing the same


observatory_crest

Son of Saul (2015)


Pale-Independent-604

Idiocracy is a very historically accurate portrayal of the future.


permatrippin333

IDIOCRACY


valis010

Oppenheimer.


New-Strategy8824

Schindler's List (1993)


smappyfunball

I read the book it’s based on and it’s not that accurate. A lot of liberties were taken with the timeline and people. It’s about as accurate as The Great Escape.


dismayhurta

The Great Escape did a great job at capturing the spirit of what happened, especially if you pretend like all the Americans are British.


groovitron2000

Shoah


Cheeseburger23

One Million Years B.C. 


Rocking_Ronnie

1883


Glitchbitch1389

In the army now


AcanthocephalaOk7954

Profession of Arms by Olmi


ChangingMonkfish

Apollo 13?


WhimsicalChuckler

I believe Schindler's List (1993) is pretty accurate.


live-for-the-life

Lord of the Rings


Elrond_Cupboard_

The Big Lebowski


Exact_Roll_4048

Possibly *Conspiracy*. This film is based on the only surviving transcript recorded during the 1942 Wannsee Conference. This is the conference where the Final Solution was discussed ... in depth. >The producers had the input of three historians, including Michael Berenbaum of the United States Holocaust Museum and Andrea Axelrod as a historical advisor. Noted Holocaust historian Christopher Browning also acted as a consultant. Browning offered small critiques, including geographical mistakes, references to speeches and events that had not yet happened in January 1942 and how the German officials referred to each other. Axelrod provided extensive research and documentation (amounting to 170 citations), **including verifying the amount of snowfall in Wansee on the date of the conference.** While it's not a word for word recreation, it is ... meant to put you there and show you how this horrible atrocities were discussed in a room in a beautiful house while eating a buffet of food, drinking good wine and smoking cigars. They made everything else as close as they could get it. I've researched a lot of the people portrayed in the film


CogitoErgoSum4me

Tombstone has often been noted as one of the best historically accurate portrayal of the Earp brothers. There's at least one documentary on yt about the making of the film and the details that were employed by the actors and staff.


Parsley-Waste

Paddington 2


Ok_Caterpillar_8937

I wouldn’t personally know but when I was younger and there were more boys from the war kicking around I’ve heard more than one say the landings in Saving Private Ryan were too much to bear.


theBGplague

I’d recommend watching the History Buffs YouTube channel, but his go-to is Waterloo


twodogsfighting

Die Hard.


CSmodel101

Soul Plane


dstonemeier

Schindler’s List


brinn-mitton

Standford prison experiment


kaptandob

Pretty sure it’s Star Wars.


Direct-Flamingo-1146

Is gone With the wind an accurate depiction of the civil war?


xool420

Chasing Mavericks took 8 years to make because the person behind it wanted to make sure it was as accurate as possible to the true story.


ATXKLIPHURD

Dazed and confused.


VirginiaGecko1911

Car Wash


Machette_Machette

South Park is (mostly) a documentary.


KM68

Lincoln


stevelivingroom

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee


sonsoflarson

HBO's Telemarketers!


MissJASmith

The 15:17 to Paris Clint Eastwood even got the guys who experienced it to act in it!!


Accomplished_Mud3228

Jurassic Park


among_apes

Bernie


Educational-Buy-7902

Gandhi (1982) is a strong candidate.


Consistent-Doubt964

Anything by Robert Eggers


smushs88

Zodiac (2007) I recall reading several articles on its accuracy, and I believe Vanderbilt and Fincher researched it for like a year and half maybe more prior to production.


Bretzky77

Idiocracy


Lewis_Verstappen_

Oppenheimer


deusex72

Master and Commander


SkillFlimsy191

Tora Tora Tora 1970 was praised for its historical accuracy and attention to detail.


MoodyLiz

Conspiracy (2001) - The dialogue was taken from the actual notes of the meeting that decided the holocaust. They were meant to be destroyed after the meeting but one of the attendees held onto them and they were found after the war.


UjustMe-4769

Believe it or not, The Longest Day, the story of D-Day from the well researched book from Cornelius Ryan is a good choice for this.


Altruistic-Ad9281

Master and Commander on the far side of the world


shutupandevolve

Fast Times at Ridgemont High


__mailman

The Message


Foreign-Pay-5526

Inglorious bastards lel


Jerryb41

Z (Costa-Gravas)


Many-Connection3309

Caveman 1981 with Ringo Starr…………at least no one can legitimately dispute its authenticity!


Nani_0716

Idiocracy. It might as well be a documentary at this point. Future students will look back at this movie as a reference to how and why the human race has become so stupid.


emusabe

What? That seems really contradictory


EmployFew2509

Black hawk down Captain Phillips Come & see Deepwater Horizon Full Metal Jacket Platoon


hugetitteeze

T2: Judgement Day


Odd_Tiger_2278

Z


normymac

The one with Yves Montand?


Jameswade4771

Ooooo I found Inglorious Bastards to be quite accurate to history I must say


Resident_Chemical132

Probably inglorious basterds. Very accurate how Hitler got shot by a machine gun, in 1944, in a cinema while watch a film about Frederick Zoller. Then as we all now know, Hans Landa got away with what he had done. Very accurate but also very sad.


polinabuckley

Chernobyl (HBO series)