The Finest Hours & Our 5 Best Rescue Films Based on True Stories
Over the years, there have been countless films about great rescues or rescue attempts. From the highly-acclaimed The Ten Commandments in 1956 (which portrayed Moses’ rescue of the Egyptian people from slavery) through the 1977 classic sci-fi film Star Wars (which featured Luke Skywalker fighting to rescue Princess Leia from the grip of Darth Vader) to the 2015 drama The Martian (which chronicled the attempts to rescue an astronaut on Mars),
The Real Effects Used to Simulate the Raging Sea in The Finest Hours
The Finest Hours tells the incredible true story of a daring rescue mission conducted by a handful of men from the Chatham, Massachusetts, Coast Guard when a huge storm struck New England on February 8, 1952. The storm ripped two 500-foot oil tankers in half, leaving their crews stranded at sea. Despite hurricane-force winds and 60-foot waves Bernie Webber (played by Chris Pine) successfully skippers a 36-foot wooden lifeboat, with a destroyed compass,
