[prof.h.mandingo]

You are confusing a documentary film and even then they can be inaccurate. There are varying degrees of truthfulness in these “based on” movies. In my opinion “Tora,Tora,Tora,” was quite good, for the most part. “Midway” without Chuck Heston and the stupid love story was another.

As a child what killed the “Battle of the Bulge” was the fact both sides used M-48 Patton's instead of Shermans and Tigers. Even at that young age we all knew what a Tiger looked like.
Even movies like Gladiator were quite good in the initial battle scenes. I even used the first sequence in class as an example of how the later Roman Army fought. They were the U.S. Army of their day.
It always come down to a matter of degree. When a movie tries to encourage an agenda it needs to be pointed out.

[DoodleDawg]

No, I think the author is confusing feature films with documentaries. Hidden Figures is a feature film. It's meant for entertainment. It isn't meant to be a documentary, so for someone to get upset because they take some liberties with the truth is idiotic.

[Reily]

What killed the “Battle of the Bulge” movie for me was the effort to make the battle hinge around a fuel dump - a gasoline fuel dump! German tanks used diesel! I knew that even as a kid. Also as I remember the movie it gave little mention of Bastogne.