Mind-Blowing Films That Are Based on Real People

Midnight Express

Midnight Express documents the true story of Billy Hayes, who was an American college student who got caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and was thrown into Turkish prison in the 1960s. Played by Brad Davis, Billy Hayes tries to escape time and time again but is beaten viciously until his spirit is broken. 

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The More You Know

  • In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
  • For every human on Earth, there are 1.6 million ants.
  • The United States defense budget of $698 billion is more than the next seventeen nations combined.
  • A species of squid has been observed to leap from the ocean by using pressurized water jets to achieve flight, going as far as 98 feet!
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