These true stories are so bizarre they're almost unbelievable. Thankfully, these movies are here to tell the tale.

A man balances on a wire stretched between the Twin Towers. A pilot safely lands an airliner on a river with 155 people still on board. A CIA team escapes Tehran by pretending to shoot a sci-fi film.

War movies have always tapped into our morbid curiosity, perhaps largely because war, to most of the Westernized world, has become somewhat of an alien concept. There is a detachment, a disconnect, ...