Even if you apply the most rigid standards, however, Selma still tops the list at 81.4 percent true.
In the end, it doesn’t seem to take much in order to earn the true story label.
These are, after all, still just movies, and the limits of the form means that license sometimes needs to be taken in order to hammer certain themes home.
Of course, depending on how pedantic you want to be, that can be a lot or a little.