27 Movies And Shows That Need Help With History

Historical accuracy is for the unimaginative.
27 Movies And Shows That Need Help With History

Historical and nostalgic films have always fascinated audiences and this is unlikely to change in the future. These movies transport viewers back in time, allowing them to travel to distant eras and meet the people who have shaped history. Unfortunately, they rarely provide the audience with precise information about that past.

The notion of a movie "based on true events" mesmerizes an audience like nothing else. Genuine-life stories involving actual people, locations, and occurrences tend to give a film an added layer of charm. Some filmmakers assume that their artistic license allows them to go far beyond this. Following that, many viewers watch these movies with the false assumption that they are entirely true.

Whether on purpose or not, producers are constantly stuffing their films and tv series with historically plausible and inaccurate facts. Given the ubiquity of Google, we have to wonder how much of this is actually on purpose.

Shoutout to Tomkat53, whose tolerance for anachronisms is the only thing keeping him sane, for suggesting this contest.

In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Joneses book a flight from Berlin to Athens on a commercial zeppelin in 1938. In actuality, no ticket wou
In Game of Thrones, ballista operators shout: fire! when shooting... even when gunpowder has not been invented in that world yet...
27 Movies And Shows That Need Help With History
CRACKEDco COM PEARL HARBOR A newsreel from 1940 shows a tank battle near Cologne Cathedral that will not happen until 1945.
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According to the writers, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is set loosely between 1720 and 1750. Granny Smith apples originated
X-Men: First Class takes place during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. However, there's a bunch of Tomahawk missiles shown in the scene above. Tomaha
This heart-wrenching scene in The Green Mile wouldn't have happened if the production crew had looked up Louisiana's history. The film's set in 1935,
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In Titanic, to discourage Rose from jumping, Jack tells her a story about him and his father ice-fishing in Lake Wissota, Wisconsin. The thing is, Lak
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is set in the 1720s, so the Union Jack shouldn't have the Cross Of St. Patrick incorporated. The red diago
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There are plenty of miniskirts in X-Men: First Class, set in 1962. They were invented two years later.
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27 Movies And Shows That Need Help With History
In Django Unchained, Django's secondary weapon is a double-barreled Derringer pistol. The movie is set in 1858, 8 years before such a pistol was first
In The Theory of Everything, the term black hole' is repeatedly used - -in scenes set in 1963 -- four years too early. Led. The concept itself had a
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