Most Inaccurate Historical Movies (Name films with the most glaring lack of historical accuracy)

self | September 24, 2011 | PJ-Comix

[PJ-Comix]

These are just a few samples. Feel free to post your own examples of incredibly inaccurate historical movies.

[skeeter]

Re: #5 I cringed through the entire movie - “who taught you to fly like that?” cut to Ben Affleck, silhouetted in the sunset, scarf fluttering in the breeze.

Awful.

[abb]

Oliver Stone’s JFK

[Campion]

Battle of the Bulge was filmed in Spain, I assume b/c it was cheap. There are lots of places that look more like the Ardennes than most of Spain.

[wally_bert]

Battle Of The Bulge is just too problem ridden for me to watch.

[mnehring]

Wouldn’t it be easier and much shorter of a list to post accurate historical movies? (still can’t think of one).

[wally_bert]

How about all those modern ships at Pearl Harbor?

[Baynative]

[skeeter]

Tora Tora Tora circa 1970 was far more accurate.

[wally_bert]

I liked that movie and Midway too.

[Stepan12]

Sometime in movies you have to sacrifice strick accuracy for people to go to see it. How many people would flock to Civil War moves if they had Confederates dressed as accurately as you said instead of those snazzy grey uniforms they had?

p.s. Before you jump down my throat, I would like to commend your remarks on the Battle of the Bulge movie. It wasn't a Henry Fonda, American detective type, that predicted the Battle of the Bulge, but a female British spy having an affair with Eva Braun's brother-in-law.

The female British spy's warning about the Battle of the Bulge was ignored. Just as the pro German spy Cicero's warning about the date of D Day was ignored.

[Doctor 2Brains]

for later

[wideawake]

King Arthur starring Clive Owen takes the prize.

The writers went out of their way to get every last detail wrong and the costumes and tactics matched. Absolutely a disgrace, especially for a film that went out of it's way to claim historicity.

[PJ-Comix]

I also remembe a movie about one of the Seminole Wars where the soldiers were wearing Roughriders uniforms.

[Drew68]

Patton. Great film but full of anachronisms, mainly regarding the military equipment the filmmakers utilized. Not much to do about that though. There just wasn't a surplus of serviceable WWII-era German tanks. Today they could digitalize them. Couldn't do that back in 1970. No other choice but to paint modern tanks as WWII ones and hope most viewers wouldn't be bothered.

[skeeter]

4. Confederate uniforms. This really bugs me. Civil War movies which depict Confederates late in the war wearing immaculate uniforms. Only officers had uniforms at that stage of the war that were in decent shape. The uniforms of the average foot soldiers were either one step up from rags or were stolen Federal uniforms dyed a beechnut color. And even those latter uniforms were usually in bad shape.

my problem is with the confederates inside the uniforms - in reality these guys walked from the deep south to the battlefield. They chewed tree bark and drank creek water.

You'd hope the producers of civil war films could find extras that didn't look like they lived inside a Hometown Buffet.

[digger48]

[Huck]

Life of Brian :-P

[Tijeras_Slim]

FARBS

[TruthHound]

“I liked that movie and Midway too.”

Did you happen to see it in the theater? It was shown in SENSOROUND which would almost knock you out of your seat during dogfight scenes.