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The Deadly Tower (1975) – action drama thriller television film based on the true story of Charles Joseph Whitman, an engineering student and former Marine who murdered his own wife and mother and then killed 14 more people and wounded 31 others in a shooting rampage at the University of Texas at Austin on the afternoon of August 1, 1966 [205]
Julius Caesar (1950) – historical drama film about Julius Caesar, based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare [12] Madeleine (1950) – British crime drama film based on a true story of Madeleine Smith, a young Glasgow woman from a wealthy family who was tried in 1857 for the murder of her lover, Emile L'Angelier [13]
This is an index of articles that features lists of films based on real-life events. As new entries are produced, they should be included to ensure the list remains current and complete.
Based on William Goldman's 1974 novel of the same name, Marathon Man follows a grad student and runner who gets entangled in a plot by a Nazi war criminal to steal his dead brother's valuable gems ...
More of the successful films were those based in the harsh truths of war, rather than the excesses of the 1960s. Films like the Francis Ford Coppola-scripted Patton, starring George C. Scott as the World War II general, and Robert Altman's MASH, about a Korean War field hospital, were major box-office draws in 1970.
Based on Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel, Jack Nicholson’s character dreams about escaping north to Canada, a feeling many Boomers could relate to at the end of the Vietnam War.
The People Next Door: AVCO Embassy Pictures: David Greene (director); JP Miller (screenplay); Eli Wallach, Julie Harris, Hal Holbrook, Deborah Winters, Stephen McHattie, Cloris Leachman, Don Scardino, Rue McClanahan, Nehemiah Persoff, Mike Kellin: S E P T E M B E R: 1 Deep End (United Kingdom) / (West Germany) Paramount Pictures
Action thriller [50] Slaughter's Big Rip-Off: Gordon Douglas: Jim Brown, Ed McMahon: United States: Action thriller [51] The Spook Who Sat By the Door: Ivan Dixon: Lawrence Cook: United States [52] The Stone Killer: Michael Winner: Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, David Sheiner, Norman Fell, Ralph Waite, Paul Koslo, Stuart Margolin, Jack Colvin ...