Action films based on actual events

The Assault

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 6.1

December 1994. On Saturday 24th, four GIA terrorists hijack an Air France A300 Airbus, bound for Paris, with 227 passengers on board, at the Algiers airport.

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Ironclad

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 6.1

In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that upheld the rights of free men. Yet within months of...

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White Mile

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1994 IMDB Rating: 5.8

An ad-agency boss (Alan Alda) leads a white-water-rafting trip into danger.

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Frank & Jesse

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1994 IMDB Rating: 5.7

At the end of the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James and other former guerillas who rode with Quantrill and Bill Anderson take the oath of allegiance to the Union. Feeling oppressed by Chicago railroad...

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Birth of the Dragon

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 5.6

Set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s Chinatown, this cross-cultural biopic chronicles Bruce Lee’s emergence as a martial-arts superstar after his legendary secret showdown with fellow martial a...

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Alexander

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 5.6

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner...

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Infidel

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 5.6

An American is kidnapped while attending a conference in Cairo and ends up in prison in Iran on spying charges. His wife goes to Iran, determined to get him out.

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Veerappan

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 5.3

The journey of the world's most notorious sandalwood and ivory smuggler, Veerappan who was finally captured on October 18, 2004.

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Operation Dumbo Drop

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1995 IMDB Rating: 5.2

Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through 200 miles of rough jungle terrain. High jinks pre...

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