what is the movie saving private ryan based on?
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Saving Private Ryan is only partly based on a true story. The movie is actually based on the Niland brothers, four siblings who all served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
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Set against the background of the Iranian revolution, it tells a story based on the rescue of Paul Chiapparone and Bill Gaylord from prison in Tehran by a team of Electronic Data Systems executives led by retired Col. Arthur D. ... The story, according to Follett, is not fictionalized or a 'non-fiction novel'.
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The biggest difference between the book and the movie is the book is told from the horse's point of view. This makes the novel unique and noteworthy. Understandably, the movie does not take this perspective. It is more cookie-cutting by Spielberg.
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It's a piece based on the remarkable true story of what happened when hundreds of planes were diverted from their US destinations to towns in Canada immediately after the 9/11 attacks. The piece is set in Gander, one of the towns which took 38 planes, and the stories in it are all based on real events.
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The story is, of course, fiction based on a novel by Michael Blake. Fortunately, Michael Blake also wrote the screenplay for the movie insuring fidelity with his vision. To the credit of Kevin Costner, who was one of the producers and the director, he allowed the story to be what Michael Blake had originally created.
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Season 2 of “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan” will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, Nov. 1. John Krasinski stars as CIA agent Jack Ryan, who, in the second season, ventures into a Venezuelan jungle to investigate an illegal arms deal.
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The novel was based on Hemingway's own experiences serving in the Italian campaigns during the First World War. The inspiration for Catherine Barkley was Agnes von Kurowsky, a nurse who cared for Hemingway in a hospital in Milan after he had been wounded.
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The film is claimed to be loosely based on the true story of Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who in 1998 went out with a scuba diving group, Outer Edge Dive Company, on the Great Barrier Reef, and were accidentally left behind because the dive-boat crew failed to take an accurate headcount.
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Director Roland Emmerich's new movie Midway, out Friday, is based on the true story of the battle of Midway Island. Fought June 4 through 7, 1942, the U.S. victory at Midway is considered by many the moment when the U.S. regained its military dignity six months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
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Jack Ryan season 2 was set to premiere on November 1, 2019 on Amazon Prime.
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It's based upon the book 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers, by author Doug Stanton, but the majority of the movie's characters are technically fictional, though inspired by actual people.
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I teach fifth grade, and we had finished reading "Number the Stars" which is about the Danish resistance during WWII. I wanted to be able to show the class a movie version, however, there is no movie of the novel. The storyline of "Miracle at Midnight" was very similar to the novel, and served as a nice tie in.
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Plot. Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Force B-25 bombardier, is stationed on the Mediterranean base on Pianosa during World War II. Along with his squadron members, Yossarian is committed to flying dangerous missions, but after watching friends die, he seeks a means of escape.
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MPAA explanation: intense prolonged realistically graphic sequences of war violence, and for language.
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True story : It means the movie is just what really happened in real..all the scenes , plot, dialogues etc... Based on true story : It means the movie is based on actual events that happened. but its a movie so its going to be little exaggerated but most of the part is true.
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Catch-22 is a satirical novel by American author Joseph Heller. ... It mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th Squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea, west of Italy.
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The book is a coming-of-age novel, but the movie focuses on the characters' loss of innocence. The movie follows the story line very closely. ... Ponyboy is telling us the story, the same as in the book, but the 91-minute film only glosses over many character relationships.