9. Ned Kelly (2003)
Ned Kelly features a great performance by the late Heath Ledger and it is a fairly good film, but you cannot help but feel it is a little bit biased. It's quite common for films about a national hero or someone who has managed to stay a controversial talking point for decades to portray the subject in a certain way to please the target audience. Ned Kelly was an Australian man who was hanged in 1880 after killing three police officers. Despite committing many crimes throughout his teenage and adult years, he was very family orientated and stood by his family no matter what. The film makers obviously took perspective from this angle and tried to show Kelly's qualities as much as possible. The police officers he killed were portrayed as corrupt and as having some sort of personal vendetta against the Kelly family - in real life one Sergeant Whelan really did have a hatred for Kelly after he managed to be found not guilty of assault charges. In the film, Kelly kills these police officers in self-defence which may or may not have happened in real life. In reality, days before Kelly was hanged, the police were handed a petition asking for his life to be spared which was signed by 30,000 members of the public so there is no doubt he was a popular guy. However, he did kill three police officers and sadly killed two other men and an 11-year-old boy in 1880. He perhaps was a good man to some but if you knew nothing of Ned Kelly before watching this film then you would believe he was a national hero who was effectively murdered by the police for no reason when in fact, he murdered six people.