RESULTS! The Blu-ray.com Community's Top 25 Historically Based Films

[Darth Marcus]

First off, thank you to everyone who participated. This list was so much fun to put together and I'm so excited to share the results with the community. Here are the members who participated:

MassiveMovieBuff
imsounoriginal
Hoke Moseley
Hucksta G
jabbercash
Gerby
esteban²
Rich65
Jasonic
HockeySlasher
The Great Owl
Talleyrand
jhan8185
ajburke
CZAR
fgomike
Trollhunter
Mrdamron
Col.Klink
Al the Strange
Zoop
Jacob Anderson
AKORIS
october27

Films were ranked according to this point system:

1. 25 Points
2. 19 Points
3. 18 Points
4. 17 Points
5. 16 Points
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16. 5 Points
17. 4 Points
18. 3 Points
19. 2 Points
20. 1 Point
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21. 1 Point
22. 1 Point
23. 1 Point
24. 1 Point
25. 1 Point

The total amount of votes/highest ranking was used as a tiebreaker, with total amount of votes taking precedence of the two if need be.

The original thread can be found here: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...5#post13384335

[Darth Marcus]

Here are a few little tidbits regarding the upcoming Top 25 results:

• The Top 25 contain films spanning from 1962 - 2013.
• The Top 25 contain eight films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and another nine films that were nominated for Best Picture.
• The fewest amount of votes any film in the Top 25 received is 4, and the two films that did are sequels. The highest amount of votes any film received is 16, and this film did not claim the top spot.
• Out of the Top 5, three films received three #1 votes each, and all five films received at least one #1 vote.
• Thirteen films in the Top 25 received at least one #1 vote .
• The events in which the films in the Top 25 are based on happen in time periods ranging from AD 180 - 1993.
• The Top 3 films have at least 50 or more points than any other film in the Top 25.

[imsounoriginal]

No films from the BC era? #notmylist

[Darth Marcus]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

No films from the BC era? #notmylist

Disregard my last post (which I had to delete). Totally had a brainfart.

The closest thing to being BC that almost cracked the Top 10 Honorable Mentions was The Passion of the Christ and was only two points away from doing so.

In other words:

[Show spoiler]And apparently so do I as it didn't even make my personal list.

[Darth Marcus]

The TOP 10 HONORABLE MENTIONS

HM 10. Munich (2005)



Total Votes: 5 | Highest Rank: #2 (x1) | Total Points: 45

HM 9. Kingdom of Heaven (2005)



Total Votes: 4 | Highest Rank: #6 (x2) | Total Points: 47

HM 8. Platoon (1986)



Total Votes: 5 | Highest Rank: #5 (x1) | Total Points: 47

HM 7. Ben-Hur (1959)



Total Votes: 4 | Highest Rank: #4 (x1) | Lowest Rank: 13 (x1) | Total Points: 48

HM 6. Full Metal Jacket (1987)



Total Votes: 4 | Highest Rank: #4 (x1) | Lowest Rank: 12 (x1) | Total Points: 48

HM 5. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)



Total Votes: 3 | Highest Rank: #2 (x1) | Total Points: 51

HM4. L.A. Confidential (1997)



Total Votes: 4 | Highest Rank: #5 (x1) | Total Points: 51

HM 3. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)



Total Votes: 7 | Highest Rank: #6 (x2) | Total Points: 51

HM 2. City of God (2002)



Total Votes: 4 | Highest Rank: #2 (x2) | Total Points: 53

HM 1. Downfall (2004)



Total Votes: 6 | Highest Rank: #5 (x2) | Total Points: 53

[imsounoriginal]

So far so good.

[Ray Jackson]

If Boogie Nights doesn't make the list I'm gonna lose my S H Eye Tee.

[Darth Marcus]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

If Boogie Nights doesn't make the list I'm gonna lose my S H Eye Tee.

You're gonna have to wait before you see, just like in Boogie Nights.

[Jacob Anderson]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

If Boogie Nights doesn't make the list I'm gonna lose my S H Eye Tee.

I originally had it on my list but took it off since i didn't think it seems like it has much historical relevance.

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by Jacob Anderson

I originally had it on my list but took it off since i didn't think it seems like it has much historical relevance.

Oh it has plenty of historical relevance bro.

...about nine inches of it.

[Darth Marcus]

TOP 25: #25-#21

#25. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)



Total votes: 7 | Highest ranking: #7 (x1) | Total points: 53

Historical Significance:
A dramatization of the true life relationship between Jesse James and Robert Ford and the events that lead up to the titular event.

#24. Boogie Nights (1997)



Total votes: 4 | Highest ranking: #4 (x1) | Total points: 55

Historical Significance:
A film about The Golden Age of Porn of the 1970's and it's fall in The Age of Excess of the 1980's.

#23. Black Hawk Down (2001)



Total votes: 8 | Highest ranking: #4 (x1) | Total points: 56

Historical Significance:
A film chronicling the events of a 1993 raid in Mogadishu by the U.S. military aimed at capturing faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid and the ensuing firefight, known as the Battle of Mogadishu.

#22. The Pianist (2002)



Total votes: 6 | Highest ranking: #5 (x2) | Total points: 57

Historical Significance:
A film based on the life of Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman, centering specifically on his time spent in the Nazi occupation of Poland.

#21. Apollo 13 (1995)



Total votes: 9 | Highest ranking: #6 (x1) | Total points: 59

Historical Significance:
Based on the true life events of the titular spacecraft's ill-fated trip to the moon.

[MassiveMovieBuff]

Wow I'm shocked Black Hawk Down made the list but Platoon didn't.

[esteban²]

Already so many movies I like.

And it's about time they finally show 'Boogie Nights' again on TV. Damnit. I want to see it for so long now.

[imsounoriginal]

Jesse James made it. This list is already gold.

And thankfully we don't have to see Ray J lose his shit lol

[Darth Marcus]

TOP 25: #20-#16

#20. Tombstone (1993)



Total votes: 6 | Highest ranking: #4 (x1) | Total points: 62

Historical Significance:
The film is based on events in Tombstone, Arizona, including the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the Earp Vendetta Ride, during the 1880s.

#19. 12 Years a Slave (2013)



Total votes: 7 | Highest ranking: #4 (x1) | Total points: 62

Historical Significance:
Based on the life of Solomon Northup and his memoirs regarding his time spent in captivity as a slave in Louisiana.

#18. JFK (1991)



Total votes: 4 | Highest ranking: #1 (x1) | Total points: 65

Historical Significance:
A conspiracy-theorist film regarding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Jr. and the charges brought forth against Clay Shaw for his alleged participation in the assassination by former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

#17. Casino (1995)



Total votes: 6 | Highest ranking: #3 (x1) | Total points: 66

Historical Significance:
A dramatization loosely based on the mob's true infringements in Las Vegas during the 1970's

#16. Amadeus (1984)



Total votes: 8 | Highest ranking: #1 (x1) | Total points: 74

Historical Significance:
A period dramatization loosely based on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his relationship with Italian composer Antonio Salieri.

[imsounoriginal]

JFK-Casino-Amadeus... best three-in-a-row on the list so far.

[Darth Marcus]

TOP 25: #15-#11

#15. The Godfather: Part II (1974)



Total votes: 4 | Highest ranking: #1 (x1) | Total points: 76

Historical Significance:
The sequel to a film based on a novel of the same name whose story is a fictional retelling of the actual so-called Five-Families, the Mafia-organization in New York and the surrounding areas.

#14. Apocalypse Now (1979)



Total votes: 6 | Highest ranking: #1 (x1) | Total points: 76

Historical Significance:
Based upon Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the film changes settings from the Congos of the 1800's to the Vietnam War and revolves around a captain sent on a mission to assassinate a renegade colonel.

#13. The Untouchables (1987)



Total votes: 6 | Highest ranking: #2 (x2) | Total points: 77

Historical Significance:
Based upon the autobiographical memoirs of Eliot Ness and his team of federal agents who fight crime and corruption during the 1920's and 1930's, namely their conflict with real life gangster Al Capone.

#12. The Godfather (1972)



Total votes: 4 | Highest ranking: #1 (x1) | Total points: 80

Historical Significance:
Based on a novel of the same name whose story is a fictional retelling of the actual so-called Five-Families, the Mafia-organization in New York and the surrounding areas.

#11. Raging Bull (1980)



Total votes: 7 | Highest ranking: #5 (x2) | Total points: 81

Historical Significance:
A biographical sports drama based on the life of Jake LaMotta whose self-destructive and obsessive behavior destroys his relationships with his wife and family.

[MassiveMovieBuff]

Pretty awesome list so far!

[Darth Marcus]

Originally Posted by MassiveMovieBuff

Pretty awesome list so far!

I'm pretty happy with how it all turned out. I can't wait to reveal the Top 10.

[esteban²]

Great titles, one after the other.