May 25 , 2023

9 Saddest Movies Based on True Stories

By True Scoop

Featuring Angelina Jolie inlead role, Changeling is the true story depicted in Clint Eastwood’s Changeling. It is increasingly upset, frantic, and eventually vindicated Christine Collins.

Schindler’s List- The movie follows Oscar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved thousands mostly Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories

Fruitvale Station- It portrays the last day in the life of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old man who was shot and killed by a police officer in Oakland early on New Year's Day in 2009.

Braveheart- It tells the story of William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England

Flags Of Our Fathers- It is about the battle for Iwo Jima, and the famous photograph of American soldiers putting up the flag that would eventually become a statue.

Letters From Iwo Jima- It is again based on the same story. However, the Japanese soldiers who dug incredible tunnel systems into the tiny island, the vast majority of whom did not survive.

Titanic- Although romance of Jack and Rose was not true, the story was real. Titanic was real and it really did hit an iceberg and it really didn’t have enough lifeboats.

United 93- It shows the events aboard United Airlines Flight one of the four hijacked flights during the September 11 attacks and the only one not to hit its intended target due to passengers and crew.

12 Years A Slave- The film forces us to confront this true story from both an intellectual and emotional point of view. It’s absolutely a difficult watch.