[digger48]

I guess I used a bad example. “sigh”

At least you didn’t call me a Roots hater.

[Kirkwood]

I’m sure there are horribly inaccurate nonfiction movies about slavery, but I can’t think of one at the moment.

[Kirkwood]

Spielberg’s Amistad is supposed to be based on a true story of a slave ship, but I never saw the movie, so I’m not sure what inaccuracies it has.

[MasterGunner01]

If you really want a big budget costume drama, aren't a stickler for historic accuracy, then check out Universal’s “The Black Shield of Falworth” (1954) with Tony Curtis (as a squire, then a knight) and Janet Leigh (as the princess). This is a thinly disguised copy of Prince Valiant of the Middle Ages saga done in Technicolor. It is a leap of imagination to imagine Tony Curtis in Middle Ages England speaking with a Brooklyn accent, but it's cute in a perverse kind of way.

There was supposedly a line of dialog that Curtis did not say circulated at the time as a put down of him and his acting: “Yon-da lies de castle of me faddah” or similar.

In reality, Curtis uttered a similar line for real in the 1952 movie “The Son of Ali Baba” that goes: “This is the palace of my father, and yonder lies the Valley of the Sun”. Think of it as a New Yorker does the Arabian Nights.

[BerryDingle]

I guess I used a bad example. “sigh”

Not at all. Major passages of "Roots" were plagerized from "The African" written in 1967. Haley's lawsuit settled for $650,000, and he admitted it.