The Most Historically Accurate Hollywood Films

Apollo 13

Director Ron Howard pulled out all the stops to retell the Apollo 13 mission and the death-defying journey the astronauts took. Though the story has been remade into film several times, this version of the events tends to be the one critic's hail as the most successful.

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