My nominations would be U-571, for inaccurately giving Americans more credit in the process of cracking the enigma than they actually deserve. The real story of our codebreaking, which you would need to break with political correctness about, was the fact that we did crack the codes in use by the Japanese in the Pacific, that is what the Americans deserve credit for. What also is true, is that Japanese-Americans were consulted and drafted into the war effort as well. America did play the dominant role in intelligence against the Japanese fleets by cracking the code, however, the political correctness, and Bill Clinton, actually argued in favor of the film, and argued that Europe protested too much, and that the film was just fiction. As for me, I plain-out won’t buy the film, because while plenty of films like John Wayne’s Sands of Iwo Jima have fictional characters, they don’t distort the big historical picture anywhere as much as U-571 did.
I forgot to include “Windtalkers.” It was about the Navajo codetalkers (they didn’t call themselves “windtalkers”) and according to this movie, each Navajo codetalker was assigned a white marine whose job was to shoot the Navajo if it looked like he was about to be captured. No basis in fact. It was strictly a Hollywood fiction to give Nicholas Cage another prominent role in which to bomb again.
You didn’t mention the even sillier political correctness in U-571, the ridiculous convolutions they went through just to get a black guy onto the sub so that the cast would be more “diverse.”
Oliver Stone’s Alexander is certainly the worst war movie ever made in my opinion.
The Navy League reviewed it when it came out and said that
although it was a good action movie they couldn't recommend
it just because of this. Very ethical on their part. And why
did they pic the same sail # as out first nuke boat, the
Nautilus?