The 17 Greatest Movie Scenes Deleted from History

Our passion for only the screen-friendly bits of the past means we often wind up with a much more boring and less accurate mental image of historic events.
The 17 Greatest Movie Scenes Deleted from History

'Historical fiction' is almost always more of the latter than the former: so much history just doesn't look very interesting onscreen. But our passion for only the screen-friendly bits of the past means we often wind up with a much more boring and less accurate mental image of historic events.

Any WWII film set in Germany paints all the people as part of a hive mind set on world domination. But what if we told you the National Socialist Party never won a single election with more than 42% of the vote? The real Nazi party was much smaller than we tend to remember -- but it was also way crazier. From Hitler's nerdy obsession with fantasy books to Himmler's attempts to resurrect the dead, the Third Reich was much LARP-ier than you've been lead to expect.

This week, Jack O'Brien, Soren Bowie, Michael Swaim, Robert Evans and JF Sargent talk about the flip sides to well-known historic moments that Hollywood left out.

We'll also talk about 'Little House on the Prairie', the TV show and set of children books about a little family that could out on the American frontier. The one thing Laura Ingalls Wilder left out is that her next door neighbors at the time were a family of crazed cannibal serial killers.

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