[PJ-Comix]

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

[oprahstheantichrist]

Pocahontas.

[shove_it]

Animal House

We achieved a far lower level of debauchery than portrayed in this movie. Trust me, my nickname is Otter.

[cartoonistx]

My father, who fought in the Bulge as a first division army ranger, was so insulted by the Fonda movie that he walked out of the theater and demanded that the management refund everyone’s money! The scene he made was more epic than the film! If you knew him you would know how deep his disgust must have been! He never complained about anything!

[M1911A1]

My father, a WWII Ardennes infantry vet and POW, hated Batlle of the Bulge with a passion. Between that cheesy movie and Traitor Jane, Henry Fonda was never forgiven by my old man.

He also despised Hogan’s Heroes, but he thought the set was perfect.

[Allegra]

“Pearl Harbor” just sucked all around.

Awful movie.

[cuban leaf]

Star Wars.

I was there. It didn’t happen that way.

[dfwgator]

Yep, “Battle of the Bulge” should be at the top of the list.

[ThomasThomas]

The Bridge on the River Kwai

[6323cd]

The only Gary Cooper movie I detest. Utter rubbish.

[mtg]

"Inheret The Wind"

More inaccuracies in that movie than a person can count.

[Bobalu]

Exodus.

The passengers of the Exodus eventually made aliyah but the true facts were nothing at all like the film.

It was not Britain’s finest hour.

[robowombat]

Santa Fe Trail, history on LSD with George Custer confronting John Brown in Kansas several years before Custer graduated from the USMA
They Died With Their Boots On, more hallucinogenic Custerology climaxing with the 7th Cavalry executing a saber charge into the massed forces of the Indians
The Charge of the Light Brigade in which history has a time warp and the Sepoy Mutiny and the Crimean War are reversed in historical order among other things.
All three of these films star Errol Flynn.

[lurk]

Inherit the Wind, about the Scopes trial.

Revisionist history.

[driftless2]

If you're going for historical accuracy concerning westerns, you might as well rip the whole lie about quickdraw gunfights, the staple of a great many tv and movie westerns. There never were any quickdraw killers ala Broderick Crawford in "The Fastest Gun Alive." The whole quickdraw thing was made up by western fabulists and the entertainment industry. There were certainly plenty of killers and other people handy with a six-gun. But if they wanted to kill someone, they didn't challenge them to a fast-draw contest. They usually had their guns out and pointing at the person they were trying to shoot.

Ditto for shooting from the hip. Experts say you couldn't hit anything with the revolvers of that era unless you aimed it. And no one shot the revolver out the hands of the bad guy ala The Lone Ranger and countless other good guys.

[ThomasThomas]

Dances with Wolves

[Wiser now]

My Naval aviator husband laughed his way through Top Gun.

[InvisibleChurch]

Apollo18 was pretty spot on.

[Lockbar]

“Little Big Man” Wild: Bill was shot and killed a few weeks after the Custer mess, not before. The rest of the movie was a farce, too. But entertaining.

[warsaw44]

Posted by worst historical films but here is a question:

Why on earth hasn't anyone made a film about the Battle of Bunker Hill. Its got everything going for it in a film, even a muti-cultural aspect ( free blacks ) for the liberal Hollywood producer, an epic story - sure hope it gets made some day.

The ending would have to be true to the story in order for it to be any damned good.

[MadJack]

Very Accurate - Decision Before Dawn. Great flick about use of turncoat German POWs for intelligence operations in latter days of the war. Filmed on location in Germany after the war.
Wildly Inaccurate - Battle of the Bulge looks like the hands down favorite, but how about Saving Private Ryan? I don’t think George Marshall ordered any Ranger op to exfil the last Ryan out of Normandy.