Most popular yet awful history movies

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Originally Posted by phobicsquirrel

Might as well put all films up since they Hollywood things. No film is not going to be 100% accurate, you want that go to a war zone. I can't believe Braveheart SPR, and gladiator was mentioned.... Wow. While they are Hollywood films they have some authenticity to them.

True, but there should be a threshold of accuracy, no? Clearly a historical film that is 80% accurate is far different than one that is 10% accurate. I don't know what that threshold is. To me, if the critical facts (e.g. protagonist name, protagonist mission, etc) of the film are false, that's the key. I dont care if a film takes liberty with some of the side plot, etc, since I get that writers need to sometimes spice history up, but the critical facts should be at least defensible vs. historical record.