29 Historical Nitpicks In Movies

From wrist watches to beach umbrellas, our readers compiled the most glaring historical inaccuracies Hollywood has ever produced.
29 Historical Nitpicks In Movies

By far some of the most unsung heroes of filmmaking are costume designers. Actors provide the faces, but costume designers provide the looks. Would Darth Vader be half as scary without his mask? Would Mos Eisley be half as nefarious without a literal Satan hanging around listening to jAzz music? But that's a mythological sci-fi world. We're here today to talk about historical epics. War movies, sword and sandals epics, and even slapstick comedy where a moron stumbles through 20th century American history—all of those take plenty of liberties with what historians call “primary sources.” 

For whatever reason, filmmakers love to mess with the space-time continuum in their own films. Sure, it's all in the service of artistic and poetic license, but come on! This is the internet! From wrist watches to beach umbrellas, our readers compiled the most glaring historical inaccuracies Hollywood has ever produced. Winner got 100 bucks ...

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In Battlestar Galactica, a couple different characters become haunted for no apparent reason by Bob Dylan's song All Along The Watchtower. Accordi
The Patriot begins sometime around the start of the Revolutionary War, and the movie finishes sometime around the end of the war. That means around 5-
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In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indy must rush to Berlin in order to save his father's diary from the Nazi's public book burning. The problem i
In the film Public Enemies both Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd are killed long before John Dillinger. In reality they both outlived Dilling
IN THE 2000 FILM GLADIATOR BY DIRECTOR RIDLEY SCOTT. THE PROTAGONIST. MAXIMUS DECimus MERIDIUS (PLAYED BY RUSSELL CROWE). IS DUBBED THE SPANIARD BY
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Can anybody explain why the namesake Ben-Hur wears a Star of David in Roman times while the first recorded use of that symbol dates to the Twelfth Cen
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BAGHDAD PALESUINE DAN WHEN INDY TRAVELS IN RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK BOTH JORDAN AND THAILAND CAN BE SEEN ON THE MAP As THE PLANE FLIES BY. THE FILM IS
THE PIRATES OF THE CARRIBBLAN MOVIES ARE SET DURING THE 1740s. THEY HAVE SOME DIFFICULTY WITH FRUIT. THIS IS GRANNY A SMITH APPLE GRANNY SMItH APPLES
The movie Red Dragon is set at an unspecified point prior to 1991: While going through a crime scene FBI agent Will Graham opens a drawerto reveal an
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SHEFIFF Belt loops are visible throughout Clint Eastwood's 19921Oscar winner Unforgiven. (Set in I881.) These little guys, strangely enough, came.abou
Most movies depict king Arthur and his knights wearing armor like this and living in castles like this The real king Arthur (or whatever local warlord
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