Top 10 Movies Based On Scientists

Many films that we watch are based on real life stories. The biographies and biopic films are based on the lives of people who altered the world by using genuine historical figures, their experiences, and notable accomplishments. Today we will be talking about a few films based on scientists. 

1. Hidden Figures

It is a 2016 film directed and written by Theodore Melfi and Allison Schroeder. It is based on the book with the same name about three female African-American mathematicians Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) who worked at NASA during the Space Race. 

2. A Beautiful Mind 

It is a 2001 American drama. The screenplay was written by Akiva Goldsman and was inspired by Sylvia Nasar’s 1998 biography of mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics.

3. Creation 

It is a 2009 biographical drama which shows the relationship of Charles Darwin with his wife Emma and his memories of their eldest daughter Annie. The stroy revolves around Charles and Emma's marriages who are poles apart. According to Charles, nature created itself over million of years whereas Emma believes in God. 

4. The Imitation Game 

The Imitation Game is a 2014 American historical drama film written and directed by Morten Tyldum, based on Andrew Hodges’ 1983 biography Alan Turing: The Enigma.

5. The Man Who Knew Infinity 

It is a 2015 film based on Robert Kanigel’s 1991 book of the same name on the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Jeremy Irons gave one of his best performances in this film as a professor and mentor. 

6. The Theory of Everything 

It is set at the University of Cambridge and tells the story of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. Anthony McCarten adapted it from Jane Hawking’s 2007 memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, which talks about her relationship with her ex-husband Stephen Hawking.

7. Gorillas in the Mist 

The film is based on Dian Fossey’s work and an article by Harold T. P. Hayes. Naturalist Dian Fossey is played by Sigourney Weaver, and photographer Bob Campbell is played by Bryan Brown. 

8. Awakenings 

It portrays the narrative of Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams), a neurologist modeled after Sacks, who discovers the beneficial effects of the medication L-DOPA in 1969. 

9. Never Cry Wolf 

The film is based on Farley Mowat’s 1963 autobiography of the same name and stars Charles Martin Smith as a government biologist dispatched into the wilderness to research the caribou population, which is thought to be declining due to wolves, despite the fact that no one has ever witnessed a wolf kill a caribou. 

10. The Story of Louis Pasteur 

It stars Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise, Donald Woods, and Paul Muni as the renowned scientist who developed major advances in microbiology, which revolutionized agriculture and medicine. Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney, and Edward Chodorov wrote the screenplay for the film, which portrays a highly fictionalized account of Pasteur’s life.