What's OngalleryIn pictures: Real to Reel - top 10 movies based on true eventsBookmarkShareWhat's OnByFraser Wilson14:31, 8 MAY 2014Updated10:34, 9 MAY 2014The Hurricane: Denzel Washington is superb as Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a hotly-tipped boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder. (Image: Getty)1 of 10Champions: John Hurt stars as jockey Bob Champion who was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1979 and who, after treatment, recovered and went on to heroically win the 1981 Grand National. (Image: Getty)2 of 10All The President's Men: Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman excel as Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the film about the 1972 Watergate scandal. (Image: Getty)3 of 10Schindler's List: The 1993 epic is based on based on the life of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives hundreds of mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. It stars Liam Neeson.4 of 10127 Hours: James Franco plays real-life canyoneer Aron Ralston, who became trapped by a boulder in an isolated canyon in Blue John Canyon, southeastern Utah, in 2003.5 of 10Black Hawk Down: A huge cast including Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor and Tom Sizemore tell the brutal tale of events as 123 elite US soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with heavily-armed Somalis6 of 10Chariots of Fire: (Image: Getty/)7 of 10Alive8 of 10Titanic (Image: Reuters)9 of 10Braveheart: Yes we know the film was based on a real life story in the 'loosest' of senses. But it still made the hairs stand on end didn't it?10 of 10