Rating of films based on real events: a list of Russian and foreign

The mere appearance in the credits of any picture of the phrase “Based on real events” plunges the viewer into a state of trembling anticipation. Needless to say, film stories taken from life, albeit largely embellished by their creators, in most cases have a greater chance of popularity compared to their fictional "brothers." Indeed, in our wonderful and diverse life, what just did not happen, and it was always human nature to learn from our own or others' mistakes, as well as from someone else's example. Therefore, there are a great many films based on historical facts or biographies of great people that allow you to plunge into the past or come into contact with the victories and defeats of famous personalities. There are hundreds, if not thousands. And our task today will be to compile lists of the best and most outstanding works with an indication of the peculiar rating of films based on real events.

The main criterion for our list will be an indicator of popularity, based on an assessment of one of the largest domestic Internet resources in the field of cinema - the KinoPoisk site. For convenience, we will indicate the rating of each of the films below in points next to its name.

Foreign films of the 60-90s

Perhaps it will be appropriate to start this short review with foreign biopic, quite popular among Western directors of all levels.

In the 60s, the best such films were:

1. Spartak (1960) - 7.87.
2. 300 Spartans (1962) - 7.68.

In the nineties, the rating of films based on real events is as follows:

1. Schindler's List (1993) - 8.82.
2. Awakening (1990) - 8.44.
3. Titanic (1997) - 8.37.
4. October Sky (1999) - 8.02.
5. "Saving Private Ryan" (1998) - 8.18.
6. Chaplin (1992) - 7.96.
7. The Diary of a Basketball Player (1995) - 7.84.
8. "Seven Years in Tibet" (1997) - 7.76.
9. “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” (1998) - 7.59.
10. Ed Wood (1994) - 7.57.

In the photo - a frame from the picture "Schindler's List".

2000-2005

At the beginning of the two thousandth films, the films based on real events included the following films:

1. The Games of the Mind (2001) - 8.55.
2. “Catch Me If You Can” (2002) - 8.51.
3. The Pianist (2002) - 8.45.
4. Terminal (2004) - 8.07.
5. Ray (2004) - 8.05.
6. The Military Diver (2000) - 8.05.
7. "Coach Carter" (2005) - 8.04.
8. “I Am Sam” (2001) - 8.00.
9. Pearl Harbor (2001) - 7.92.
10. Cross the Line (2005) - 7.74.
11. The Experiment (2000) - 7.72.
12. The Monster (2003) - 7.35.
13. "Alexander" (2004) - 7.18.
14. The Open Sea (2003) - 6.18.

In the photo - a frame from the picture "Ray".

2005-2010

The rating of films for real events of this period is as follows:

1. “Hachiko: The Most Faithful Friend” (2009) - 8.34.
2. “Pursuit of Happiness” (2006) - 8.25.
3. Knockdown (2005) - 8.20.
4. "Before the class" (2008) - 8.07.
5. "Substitution" (2008) - 7.93.
6. “In the wild” (2007) - 7.92.
7. "A spacesuit and a butterfly" (2008) - 7.70.
8. Aviator (2005) - 7.58.
9. "Julie and Julia: Cooking Recipe Happiness" (2009) - 7.56.
10. Last Sunday (2009) - 7.36.
11. The Zodiac (2007) - 7.33.
12. Miss Potter (2006) - 7.27.
13. The Soloist (2009) - 7.21.
14. "Johnny D." (2009) - 7.05.
15. Bronson (2008) - 7.02.

Below in the photo - a frame from the picture "Aviator".

2010-2015

During this period, the rating of films based on real events included the following tapes:

1. 1 + 1 (2011) - 8.81.
2. Race (2013) - 8.08.
3. "The king is talking!" (2010) - 7.98.
4. "Stephen Hawking's Universe" (2014) - 7.90.
5. The Impossible (2012) - 7.90.
6. Earthquake (2010) - 7.87.
7. "The Wolf of Wall Street" (2013) - 7.85.
8. Dallas Buyers Club (2013) - 7.82.
9. Social Network (2010) - 7.73.
10. Soul Surfer (2011) - 7.73.
11. "12 years of slavery" (2013) - 7.71.
12. "The Man Who Changed Everything" (2011) - 7.67.
13. "Save Mr. Banks" (2013) - 7.65.
14. The Verdict (2010) - 7.62.
15. The Game of Imitation (2015) - 7.60.
16. "The Spotlight" (2015) - 7.49.
17. The Spy Bridge (2015) - 7.48.
18. Philomena (2013) - 7.46.
19. Unbroken (2014) - 7.36.
20. "Walk" (2015) - 7.31.
21. Everest (2015) - 7.17.
22. Big Eyes (2014) - 7.11.
23. “Sacrificing a pawn" (2014) - 6.97.
24. "7 days and nights with Marilyn" (2011) - 6.93.
25. "J. Edgar" (2011) - 6.69.
26. Fox Hunter (2014) - 6.49.

Below in the photo - a shot from the movie "1 + 1".

Last years

The rating of paintings of this orientation in recent years has taken the following form:

1. Green Book (2018) - 8.34.
2. Survivor (2016) - 7.81.
3. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) - 7.80.
4. Leo (2016) - 7.64 points.
5. The Big Game (2017) - 7.54.
6. Eddie Eagle (2016) - 7.53.
7. Moth (2017) - 7.42.
8. Miracle on the Hudson (2016) - 7.39.
9. "Tonya against all" (2017) - 7.31.
10. The Colony of Dignidad (2015) - 7.29.
11. Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017) - 7.22.
12. "The Catcher in the Rye" (2017) - 7.05.
13. The Jungle (2017) - 6.75.
14. Joy (2016) - 6.67.
15. "You drive!" (2018) - 6.60.

In the photo - a shot from the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody".

Domestic films

The list of the best Russian films based on real events is no less impressive. The time range of such paintings, compiled in chronological order, covers a whole century. So, here they are - milestones of difficult events in the history of our country and its extraordinary heroes.

For the period 1920-1940:

1. "Alexander Nevsky" (1938) - 8.02.
2. "The battleship" Potemkin "" (1925) - 7.95.
3. Chapaev (1934) - 7.84.
4. Suvorov (1940) - 7.70.

Below in the photo you can see a frame from the picture "Alexander Nevsky".

Rating of films of 1940-1980:

1. "Andrei Rublev" (1966) - 8.17.
2. "Dersu Uzala" (1975) - 8.03.
3. "The Tale of a Real Man" (1948) - 7.92.

In 1980-2000:

1. "Mikhailo Lomonosov" (1984) - 8.22.
2. Agony (1981) - 7.44.

In the period 2000-2010:

1. Admiral (2008) - 7.02.
2. "Wolves" (2009) - 6.93.
3. 9th Company (2005) - 6.69.

For 2010-2015, the rating of paintings based on real events is as follows:

1. "Legend No. 17" (2012) - 7.98.
2. Once Upon a Time in Rostov (2012) - 7.66.
3. Poddubny (2014) - 7.22.
4. "Gagarin. First in space" (2013) - 6.99.
5. "Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive" (2011) - 6.97.
6. "PiraMMMida" (2011) - 6.83.
7. The Match (2012) - 6.22.

In the photo below - a shot from the movie "Match".

In the last few years, the number of Russian films based on real events has noticeably increased. The rating of such paintings is as follows:

1. Upward Movement (2017) - 7.64.
2. "28 Panfilovites" (2016) - 7.54.
3. "Time of the First" (2017) - 7.50.
4. Salyut-7 (2017) - 7.42.
5. Earthquake (2016) - 6.79.
6. Unforgiven (2018) - 6.68.
7. Icebreaker (2016) - 6.49.
8. "Temporary difficulties" (2017) - 6.33.
9. The Legend of Kolovrat (2017) - 6.30.
10. Tobol (2018) - 5.94.
11. Matilda (2017) - 5.69.

The last film of our interest was the action movie "Balkan Frontier", which was released on the screens of the country recently, and a little later we will return to it.

Also, the article would be incomplete without a brief overview of specific examples based on real events of foreign and Russian paintings, which will be discussed later in this article.

"Legend number 17"

One of the best domestic masterpieces of recent years, the 2013 film "Legend No. 17", is an absolutely amazingly told life story of Valery Kharlamov, a true legend of Soviet and world hockey of the 70s.

The lead actor Danila Kozlovsky and the creators of the picture brilliantly managed to convey not only the character of this great hockey player, but also the patriotic spirit of the team, representing the honor of the entire Soviet Union. This tape was shot so that the viewer thinks that he is not in the auditorium or in front of the TV screen, but directly among the players playing between the USSR national team and Canadian NHL professionals of this, without exaggeration, ice battle.

The picture is charged with patriotism, making you proud of your homeland and the glorious athlete heroes who fought for it. Such a film as “Legend No. 17” is simply necessary for modern Russian society, which is beginning to forget about morality and high ideals.

The rating of the picture according to the popularity of the Internet resource "KinoPoisk" is 7.98.

"Once Upon a Time in Rostov"

The main roles in the twenty-four-episode television film Once Upon a Time in Rostov, which was released in 2012, were played by actors Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Sergey Zhigunov, and Alena Babenko.

This picture tells the story of the criminal activity of the well-known Rostov gang of the Tolstopyatov brothers, taking place against the backdrop of dramatic and little-known events in the history of the USSR, when on June 2, 1962, as a result of a decrease in wages with a simultaneous widespread increase in prices, a real riot of local residents blocking the railway occurred in Novocherkassk and office buildings. This protest led to a terrible tragedy - the mass shooting of a demonstration of citizens ...

It is known that the events of those days were successfully hushed up by the authorities, all witnesses gave a non-disclosure subscription and were silent for decades. Those who did not agree received long prison sentences ...

Rating series on the assessment of the popularity of the Internet resource "KinoPoisk" - 7.66.

127 hours

The film “127 Hours” of 2010 was based on the autobiographical book of Aron Ralston, who in his youth used to never tell his relatives about where he was going once again to please his favorite hobby - climbing. One fine day, this habit and evil rock led to the fact that as a result of an accident his hand was tightly clamped by a huge boulder in one of the crevices of the Blue John Canyon, and Aron himself had no choice but to spend 127 hours of fear in this place and despair, without water and food, alone and without hope of salvation.

The only consolation of the unfortunate person who reinterpreted his whole life and values ​​during these hours was a video diary in which he wrote down all changes in his condition, as well as words of love and farewell to his family and friends. It is noteworthy that the shooting of the film, the main role in which the actor James Franco played, was carried out directly at the very place where this incident occurred. Also, the creators of the picture were exactly recreated all the equipment of Aron Ralston, who was with him on the day of those terrible events.

The rating of the picture according to the popularity of the Internet resource "KinoPoisk" is 7.66.

The Balkan Frontier

The premiere of the dramatic action movie Balkan Frontier in 2019 took place less than three weeks ago. This picture, in which the main roles were played by such Russian and Serbian actors as Anton Pampushny, Gosha Kutsenko, Milos Bikovich, Milena Radulovich and even the legendary Goiko Mitich, well known to domestic audiences, is dedicated to the tragic events in Kosovo, where in 1999 the infamous conflict between Albanians and the inhabitants of Yugoslavia.

The film opens up another classified page for the activities of one of the special forces of the GRU of Russia, which in those days was tasked to take control of a strategic facility - the Slatina airport in Kosovo - and protect it from attacks by terrorist brigades before the arrival of peacekeeping forces.

According to viewers, "Balkan Frontier" is one of the most powerful patriotic Russian films of recent times ...

The rating of the picture according to the popularity of the Internet resource "KinoPoisk" is 7.35.

"The man who has known infinity"

The creation of the film “The Man Who Knew Infinity” of 2015 was preceded by memoirs of the famous British mathematician Godfrey Harold Hardy (his role went to actor Jeremy Irons), who considered it an honor to meet an Indian self-taught mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, performed by well-known viewers in the lead role in the drama "Slumdog Millionaire" by actor Dev Patel.

The picture tells the story of life and the rise to scientific fame of an amazing guy who was born and raised in poverty in distant India and who managed not only to get to Cambridge University for his dream, but also to hit the whole scientific world of his time with almost one hundred and twenty formulas previously unknown to science.

Srinivasa Indian Ramanujan, a nugget genius of the early XX century, was a true legend of mathematics. He treated numbers and formulas as if they were notes and music. And the filmmakers brilliantly managed to reflect on the screen the entire depth and brightness of the personality of this extraordinary person.

The rating of the picture according to the popularity of the Internet resource "KinoPoisk" is 7.13.

"The wife of the zoo keeper"

The theme of the horrors of World War II and the genocide of Jews has already been repeatedly used in foreign cinema in such famous films as “Schindler's List”, “Pianist”, “Son of Saul” and many others. The wonderful film “Wife of the Zoo Caretaker” of 2017 was no exception, telling about the brave feat of the spouses Jan and Antonina Zhabinsky, the caretakers of the Warsaw Zoo, which really took place during the war.

Jan and Antonina, whose images were embodied on the screen by the actors Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenberg, daily mortally risking their own lives, during the occupation of Poland, Hitler troops secretly took out from the ghetto, to shelter in their own house and then transported to a safe place more than three hundred Jews.

The film "The wife of the zoo keeper" in 2017 was based on the diaries of Antonina Zhabinskaya. For the unprecedented feat and self-sacrifice after the end of the war, the couple were awarded the Israeli title of the righteous of the peoples of the world.

The rating of the picture according to the popularity of the Internet resource "KinoPoisk" is 7.01.