Battle of the Bulge was truly painful, although I thought Robert Shaw vass an awesome Nazi. I have a certain affection for
Black Shield of Falworth since in it a very young (An)Tony Curtis blurts in a Bronx accent, "Yonduh lies da kingdom of my faddah."
Enemy At The Gate, alas, one heck of a gripping movie, portrayed a duel that didn't happen. We'll have to forgive certain spectacle movies for historical flaws:
Cleopatra,
Ben Hur,
The Ten Commandments, etc, etc, because they weren't actually supposed to be perfect and the middle one was fiction anyway.
Gladiator was more Hollywood Rome than ancient Rome but it was still a great flick.
But The Conqueror was historically immaculate. Genghis Khan was too from Texas.
Windtalkers: Each Navajo Codetalker in WWII Pacific theater was assigned a white marine who would act as their personal buddy as well as assassin the moment it looked like the Navajo might be captured by the Japanese. I saw the History Channel doing a “Hollywood or History” segment on this with several of the Navajo Codetalkers (they never used the term “Windtalkers”) and it was clear they found the idea of having assassins assigned to watch over them ridiculous.