1. Schindler's List (1993) — adapted from the book Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally about Oskar Schindler and his actions to save over 1,000 Jews from the Holocaust,
2. City of God (2002) — adapted from a book by Paulo Lins, depicting the growth of organized crime in Rio de Janeiro between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1980s
3. Psycho (1960) – inspired by the crimes of the real-life serial killer Ed Gein
4. GoodFellas (1990) — based on the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, the true story of New York City mobster Henry Hill;
5. The General (1926) — silent film chronicling the 1862 theft of a railroad locomotive and its recovery by an overlooked "little guy"
6. The Pianist (2002) — based on the memoir by Władysław Szpilman, a Polish musician of Jewish origins and a childhood survivor of Nazi-occupied Poland
7. Apocalypse Now (1979) Vietnam War
8. Citizen Kane (1941) — inspired by true events in the life of publisher William Randolph Hearst
9. Full Metal Jacket (1987) — based on the book The Short-Timers, which tells of the experience of a soldier during the Vietnam War
10. Raging Bull (1980) — based on the life and career of middleweight boxing champ Jake LaMotta,
11. Casino (1995) — telling the story of the last mafia-run casino in Las Vegas, the fictional Tangiers, based on Frank Rosenthal, who ran the Stardust, Fremont, and Hacienda casinos in Las Vegas for the Chicago Outfit from the 1970s until the early 1980s
12. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) — David Lean's epic about T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt in the Ottoman Empire.
13. Braveheart (1995) — based on the story of William Wallace of Scotland, a 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish
14. Battleship Potemkin (1925) — based on a mutiny that occurred in 1905 during the Tsarist regime when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers
15. Gladiator (2000) — Rome during the reign of Commodus
16. Gone with the Wind 1939) — Georgia during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction Era.
17. Fargo (1996) — Coen brothers explained that they based their script on an actual criminal event, but wrote a fictional story around it.
18. Saving Private Ryan (1998) — the story of the Niland Brothers during World War II
19. Platoon (1986) — Vietnam War
20. Into the Wild (2007) — based on the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer about the adventures and travels of Christopher McCandless across North American and his life spent in the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s
21. Amadeus (1984) — based on the theory that composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was murdered by fellow composer Antonio Salieri
22. Hotel Rwanda (2004) — the story of the Paul Rusesabagina's experiences during the Rwandan Genocide
23. The Exorcist (1973) — based on William Peter Blatty's novel of the same name, which is based on a 1949 case of demonic possession that Blatty heard about as a student at Georgetown University
24. American Gangster (2007) — based on the true life story of Frank Lucas, a former heroin dealer, and organized crime boss in Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s
25. Road to Perdition (2002) — A film set in Illinois during the Great Depression, and featuring Prohibition Era-organized crime figures
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