Real life has inspired many of the best cinematic events. With a new batch of based-on-a-true-story movies out recently—including Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Only The Brave and Professor Marston and the Wonder Women—we want to celebrate the best adaptations of real events. Whether completely faithful, artfully tweaked, or riddled with liberties-taken, what are the best based-on-a-true-story narrative features?
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