Is It Really Possible to Break Someone’s Neck Using Only our Bare Hands, or is This a Hollywood Fantasy?

I am an actor, so I am very interested in knowing all kinds of details about my profession. One of the things that bother me most when watching action movies is the ease with which some characters “break the neck” of their enemies with a simple hands movement. That is not realistic, since if our necks were so fragile, most likely our species would not have reached these days... But I had access to a surgeon's testimony specialized in columns that, incidentally, is also a martial…