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Name your favorite films based on true stories.

green papaya

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The Killing Fields , 1984 movie [about the war in Cambodia] starring Dr. Haing S, Ngor

Bonnie and Clyde, 1967 , starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway

Bat-21 , 1988 starring Gene Hackman

ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ , 1979 starring Clint Eastwood as "Frank Morris"
 
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Edward

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That was a cracking film, Alcatraz. Especially interesting that they managed to make them engaging protagonists, without writing off that they were Very Naughty Men who had Done Bad Things. It's not hard to get your audience on side when you're talking about Allied POWs escaping the Nais, but hardened criminals.... It's still a fascinating case, not least because there's so much we don't know for sure - not even whether they made it. (Even if they probably drowned, there's always a chance...).
 

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