10 Based On True Story Movies That Left Out The Craziest Part

There are some movie true stories that are too unbelievable, even for Hollywood.
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[@welltechnically8524]

The opening scene in Death of Stalin where Stalin requests a recording of a live show was even crazier in real life. The movie depicts the request coming right at the end of the show, forcing everyone to stay and redo the show. They did, in fact, redo the concert, but the call only came in the middle of the night. As a result, they had to spread across Moscow, tracking down and waking up all members of the orchestra.

[@QuixoteBadger]

Another fun fact about the Salem witch trials that was left out of the movie: what happened when the church caught wind of what was happening and sent inquisitors to resolve the situation. Several people got in trouble for making false accusations, and the last few executions were carried out on the ones who incited the histeria that lead to a dozen murders. The reason why no more witches were killed at that point was that the inquisitors didn't believe in witches.

[@melissawickersham9912]

There is a problem with your scenario. The Inquisition was primarily Catholic, while Salem was primarily Puritan, a Protestant denomination.

[@QuixoteBadger]

@@melissawickersham9912 That is an exceptionally good point to be noted.

[@szymonlechdzieciol]

No that cannot be correct. Inquisition did not existed in Massachusetts, it was Catholic organisation. It was government of colony that smelled the problems and cut them down. However Inquisition was responsible for stopping witch hunts in Spain and France when they started to spread across modern Europe. Witchhunters in this regions risked being accussed of heresy

[@everbran]

Iron Claw - they edited out another Von Erich brother (Chris) who killed himself after not making it in wrestling due to repeated injury (brittle bones they said). He feel into depression and drug addiction after Mike’s death before ultimately taking his own life a few years later

[@patrickdiehl542]

Audie Murphy's film about his life cut out real life events and downplayed others because they were deemed unrealistic.

[@TonyHammitt]

The race that Hidalgo was based on ended with him winning by about half a day in reality, not as close as it was depicted at all.

[@dimitru6024]

"Braveheart" because the actual execution, I hear, was even... a lot worse than what the movie has.

[@amitch1974]

How is To Hell and Back not on here? Audie Murphy admitted parts of his autobiography had to be left out because they sounded so far-fetched.

[@ZombieQueeen]

There’s no movie older than the 90s, so keeping to modern movies it seems.

[@gregjensen5826]

The Robert Redford film Jeremiah Johnson was one of my favorite Westerns. It inspired me to read about the real man it was based on: John "Liver-Eatin'" Johnson. He not only killed the Crow warriors he blamed for his wife's death, he cannibalized them to avenge her and spread fear and terror among the tribe.

[@3ch1dna07]

Damn! Know thine enemy.

[@AtariDad]

The Greatest Showman also left out what happened to P. T. Barnum's daughters: one of them died during childhood and the other he disowned after she cheated on her husband.

[@HereForTheComments]

Guys like Du Pont get elected to Congress nowadays.

[@Robert-jc1dz]

I thought the fake Dillinger gun was made from soap and shoe polish

[@dicksonfranssen]

*Midnight Express* was much more gruesome in real life. *BAT21* has the usual inaccuracies and composite characters but the reality is the *death toll was much higher* than Hollywood was willing to show.

[@CashelOConnolly]

Also the guy DID have a relationship with a guy

[@dicksonfranssen]

​ @CashelOConnolly When we saw it in a theater that part was left in, probably cut out of any TV version. That was the movie you showed your kids if they were going to back-pack across Europe back then. Now you make them watch *Brokedown Palace* The censors went nuts with the bisexual scene in *Spartacus*

[@profoundwanderer1441]

Witch trials were absolutely insane.. like who was the genius deciding all the weird "detection methods". 😅 I actually found out just a few years ago, one of my great aunts was one of the first "witches 🙄" murdered. Source: "trust me bro, why would someone lie about that 😂".. I think her name was Alice.

[@GarrettPDGA]

It was another attempt at wiping out Pagans. Their way of life threatened a lot of religions so they were literally demonized

[@mikem10481]

Something tells me that the cancelled Howard Hughes biopic with Jim Carrey would have been something else. Better than the DiCaprio film.

[@muhammadshehryar3344]

Nah idk I’m curious to see it, but the Aviator is a masterpiece and the definitive biopic along with Gandhi imo

[@owie4070]

What a sad ending for that German officer from The Pianist.

[@RoonMian]

Unfortunately the Soviets didn't care a single bit who they sent to their labour camps for war crimes, they even grabbed civilians from the street.

[@misstekhead]

That lynching scene in “12 Years A Slave” is why I haven’t been able to, nor probably ever will watch that movie again. It was so painful and horrifying. I couldn’t help but feel his pain and had to close my eyes. I can’t believe humans do things like this to one another.

[@chriskuta6178]

Gladiators were basically the WWE wrestlers of their day. They rarely fought to the death because they were pretty damn pricey to train and were very much celebrities.

[@adsysoncoulter4387]

I swear whatculture already did this exact list like a year ago

[@furiousshrimp6593]

Well they upload like 200 videos a day😂

[@zacharchbold5276]

I always found it bizarre that they just got some guy on stilts as the "Irish Giant" in The Greatest Showman, when there are plenty of people over 7ft that would have loved the part. The stilts look ridiculous in every shot.

[@rickfalcon5572]

All The Money In The World left out some sad facts from what happened to J. Paul Getty lll. After his kidnapping, he did get married, had a kid who grow up to actor Balthazar Getty. Despite this, J. Paul resorted to a lethal combination of drugs and alcohol to help him cope from his ordeal. Around 1981, he almost died from an overdose; but wasn’t the same since. After surviving the O.D., Paul was deaf, dumb, blind, even confined to a wheelchair. Eventually, he died in 2011.

[@jonvia]

Titanic: In real life, Jack found some room on that floating door

[@xcoder1122]

According to Mythbusters, that would not have worked; the door would have sunk because it could not support the weight of two people. That's why he's not on the door in the movie. He tries to get on it because there is room, but then the door almost throws them both into the water, so he decides to stay in the water instead. However, if Jack had taken the vests of some of the dead people in the water around him and stuffed them under the door, then the door would have been able to keep both of them afloat. That was the end result of the Mythbusters episode: Technically, both could have survived if they had been smart.

[@flickeringgreenflame8493]

And Jack ***was** pretty clever in the movie.... :)

[@jgray2718]

Don't forget about _To Hell and Back,_ the story of Audie Murphy in WWII. They had to tone down how insanely heroic he was because the movie studio thought it wouldn't be believable. As far as I know, Murphy is still the most decorated American soldier of all time, having won every American medal for valor _(including the Medal of Honor, of course),_ many multiple times, plus 3 purple hearts and a bunch of French and British medals, too. All this after he was initially _turned away_ from military service because he was too small. If you've never done so, you should read about him holding off 6 tanks and 250 German troops _literally by himself_ in the Colmar Gap. I'm not sure how famous it is any more, but it might be the single greatest one-man-army battle in history.

[@iangolding9812]

Was Audie not also one of the leading cases that developed the knowledge we now have of PTSD or am I getting confused with another soldier? I have a vague memory of him locking himself in a hotel room for a week to cold turkey from the 'Shell Shock' drugs he was on.

[@ZombieQueeen]

There’s nothing in here older then the 90s, relax 😂

[@mare8992]

Jules: What happened to your "one per list?"

[@PrinceIsot]

Gladiators at some point also had referees that would stop the fight before they got too injured.... insane to think about

[@christophergarza9118]

Happy to see “Space Jam” is not on this list as everything depicted in that film was 100% accurate unlike “The Last Dance” on Netflix who ignored history entirely by not mentioning Michael Jordan’s time with the Toon Suad in their feud with The Monsters during his brief retirement from the NBA. Shameful.

[@solomonrivers5639]

Quality comment. Needs to be pinned @WhatCulture

[@christophergarza9118]

@@solomonrivers5639 I was worried no one would notice. Thank you sincerely, for enjoying.

[@Ribbet_brown]

The revenant doesn’t scratch the surface of Hugh Glass’s life

[@chriscoombes6751]

Hacksaw Ridge - in real life Medic Desmond Doss had already been awarded medals twice for outstanding bravery in battles prior to the one depicted, I couldn't say if the wounds were the same - but real life Doss gave his stretcher up to another soldier & 75 was I believe an agreed upon 'guestimate' of how many people Doss had saved - although many believe the true figure was way higher - Although it was a fantastic film, & it paid homage to a truly brave man - other inaccuracies aside, the true scope of that bravery was watered down somewhat for Hollywood

[@HorusHawks]

I hear Jules, I click “Like”

[@aisforapple2494]

In 'Public Enemies', another glaring discrepancy is that the Crown Point, Indiana Jail looks like a combination of a medieval castle and Alcatraz, when in reality, it's a two-story Victorian home.

[@screenwriterjohn]

Another theory is Dillinger used a real gun to escape. Also why he got so many hostages. Hoover also punished Purvis for being such a good agent.

[@ericthompson3982]

Ed Wood: Best worst film director ever, thank you.

[@leehervey]

Good to see Jules representing that's my one per list

[@seantlewis376]

Dillinger's whittled gun escape was satirized by Woody Allen in "Take the Money and Run" in 1969. Except that he whittles the gun out of soap, and when he reaches outside, it is raining, and his "gun" foams up in his hand, and he is nabbed. Funny stuff, whether you know the Dillinger escape plot or not. Captain Hosenfeld's character should be a story all on its own. It would be a kind of mini-epic. That is gobsmacking! He saved at least 60 people by harboring them, and giving them food. When he was a soldier.

[@MegaBizzy1]

Omg. I spent my entire life thinking that the soap bit happened to Dillinger. I must have seen "take the money and run," when I was a kid.

[@TheButlerNZ]

Liked the movie "The Fastest Indian" ? Read the book "One Good Run: The Legend of Burt Munro"... The movie is only a tiny part of an epic story... He built a real plane as a kid only to destroy it at his dads instruction. He had kids... He had his teeth knocked out in one of the beach races but wouldn't leave until they were all recovered... Later the rider that hit him found an imprint of Burt's head on the sump of his bike.

[@jkb2016]

Also: Audie Murphy

[@jamescrowley2733]

Ed Woods didn't become a drunk because he failed in the movies. He failed in the movies because he was a drunk. LPT: quit booze as cheat code in life, be amazed as you outperform your peers and lose crazy amounts of weight as side benefit. Warning: your coworkers will suddenly seem incredibly shallow and stupid

[@duncancurtis5108]

Hosenfeld is mentioned as a Catholic anti Nazi officer in The German War. They were blamed for being involved in the July Plot.

[@MartinBeerbom]

-40 degrees Celsius = -40 degrees Fahrenheit....

[@jonathanhughes792]

1st comment 😅

[@dontaekelsey6963]

2nd comment 😅

[@EverettBurger]

8:30: -40C = -40F

[@jaredjadlowski2433]

So what would have happened to her if she didn’t grow facial hair? Was it common practice for people to sell infants to the circus in hopes they’ll become a freak?

[@patrickdare5356]

It is a genetic/inherited condition and they probably knew the likelihood of her developing it.

[@Lizzie-ve7kt]

Gladiators weren’t sellouts and they weren’t exactly willing participants either since most were slaves.

[@comebackguy8892]

Elvis 2022

[@Skeez4853]

It’s What from JulezCulture

[@ChrisPage68]

Barnum never fought for the rights of those he exploited.

[@MATTHEW12944]

I didn't think that Maximus real at all.

[@alienmoosestudios]

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[@redfive5856]

Kinda disappointed Jules just says, "Nome". I'd have given a lot to hear a Brit try to pronounce, "Iditarod". Kudos to the production staff for editing that word out.

[@jstone247]

What I don't get about the bearded ladies, is why didn't they just shave the off.?

[@jamespope7669]

American Gangster. Frank Lucas was nothing like portrayed on screen.

[@Devil-Made]

3:17 How is Annie’s life “Crazier than Barnum’s?” You didn’t give any information to back up this claim. Barnum’s life was Cuh-Razie! I find it hard to believe anyone on earth has a life story to match his (in contemporary history). This was just a pathetic attempt to shoehorn Annie into this list and knock Barnum down a peg. Arguments against rotten historical figures don’t work if you can’t provide an argument in the first place. It actually does way more harm than good.