Post by alfromni on Sept 28, 2022 6:25:18 GMT
13 Movies which blatantly changed historical facts to fit the plot, the ideology, or the stars.
01. The Great Escape - No Americans were involved in the actual escape at which time they had already been moved to their own compound in Stalag Luft III. Sorry... no daring motorcycle jumps over barbed wire fences.
02. My Darling Clementine -- Doc Holliday WASN'T killed at the OK Corral.
03. Titanic (1943) - Nazi propaganda film
04. Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) - The two most powerful men in 1588 England are nowhere to be seen, since the 1998 movie has Cate Blanchett unhistorically getting rid of them. Instead, Clive Owen as Walter Raleigh does lots of things that Raleigh didn't do.
05. The Heroes of Telemark (1965) - In the real raid there was no gunfire before during or immediately after the raid, not even one shot fired. The saboteurs just walked in, placed the explosives and walked out again. The invented Kirk Douglas role just wasn't needed. The actual saboteurs all said of the movie, "Most of it just didn't happen that way".
06. La révolution française (1989) - 18th-century French history is thoroughly simplified to make Danton and Desmoulins clear-cut good guys and Robespierre a clear-cut bad guy.
07. RUDY (1993) -- Rather than his portrayal as the semi-villain of the piece, Notre Dame football coach Dan Devine was actually a supporter of the young player ... and decided to enter him into the game at the end of the contest instead of being coerced by the demanding stadium fans chanting "RU-DY, RU-DY, RU-DY!!!"
08. U-571 - The movie is historical nonsense and an offence to real heroes. The U.S. Navy did seize U-505 in June 1944, but naval Enigma traffic was already being routinely decoded. The actual U-571, captained by Oberleutnant zur See Gustav Lüssow, was never captured, She was lost with all hands, on 28 January 1944, west of Ireland.
09. OBJECTIVE, BURMA! -- the raid by heroic American soldiers and led by brave Errol Flynn was in reality an all British and Australian operation ... as a result the picture wasn't released into UK theatres until 1953, and not seen on British television sets until the mid-1980s.
10. ZULU - The 24th Regiment of Foot was not a Welsh regiment but the 2nd Warwickshire Regiment of Foot. It did not become the South Wales Borderers until 1881. The song "Men of Harlech" did not become the regimental song until later. At the time of the battle, the regimental song was "The Warwickshire Lad", but there was no "battlefield singing contest" between the British and the Zulus. Of the soldiers present, 49 were English, 32 Welsh, 16 Irish and 22 others of indeterminate ethnicity. Otto Witt the parson, and Henry Hook VC were disgracefully misrepresented.
11. HEAVEN'S GATE - crucially, during the Johnson County War the US government sent armed men in to help the immigrant homesteaders defend themselves against professional killers, not backing the other side as the film claims
12. HOUR OF THE GUN (1967) - The producers of "Hour of the Gun" proudly portray after the credits that "THIS PICTURE IS BASED ON FACTS. THIS IS THE WAY IT HAPPENED." But it's very far from being how things happened.
13. SINK THE BISMARCK! - Among many errors...
German Admiral Günther Lütjens, was portrayed as a stereotypical Nazi, committed to Nazism and crazed in his undaunted belief that Bismarck is unsinkable. In reality, Lütjens did not agree with Nazi policies.
The film shows Lütjens ordering Captain Ernst Lindemann to open fire on HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales. In reality, Lütjens ordered Lindemann to avoid engaging HMS Hood; Lindemann refused and ordered the ship's guns to open fire.
Sink the Bismarck! was made before 1975, when the British code-breaking at Bletchley Park was declassified, so it did not reveal that Admiralty "hunches" about the movements of the Bismarck were supported by intelligence.
UFG/
01. The Great Escape - No Americans were involved in the actual escape at which time they had already been moved to their own compound in Stalag Luft III. Sorry... no daring motorcycle jumps over barbed wire fences.
02. My Darling Clementine -- Doc Holliday WASN'T killed at the OK Corral.
03. Titanic (1943) - Nazi propaganda film
04. Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) - The two most powerful men in 1588 England are nowhere to be seen, since the 1998 movie has Cate Blanchett unhistorically getting rid of them. Instead, Clive Owen as Walter Raleigh does lots of things that Raleigh didn't do.
05. The Heroes of Telemark (1965) - In the real raid there was no gunfire before during or immediately after the raid, not even one shot fired. The saboteurs just walked in, placed the explosives and walked out again. The invented Kirk Douglas role just wasn't needed. The actual saboteurs all said of the movie, "Most of it just didn't happen that way".
06. La révolution française (1989) - 18th-century French history is thoroughly simplified to make Danton and Desmoulins clear-cut good guys and Robespierre a clear-cut bad guy.
07. RUDY (1993) -- Rather than his portrayal as the semi-villain of the piece, Notre Dame football coach Dan Devine was actually a supporter of the young player ... and decided to enter him into the game at the end of the contest instead of being coerced by the demanding stadium fans chanting "RU-DY, RU-DY, RU-DY!!!"
08. U-571 - The movie is historical nonsense and an offence to real heroes. The U.S. Navy did seize U-505 in June 1944, but naval Enigma traffic was already being routinely decoded. The actual U-571, captained by Oberleutnant zur See Gustav Lüssow, was never captured, She was lost with all hands, on 28 January 1944, west of Ireland.
09. OBJECTIVE, BURMA! -- the raid by heroic American soldiers and led by brave Errol Flynn was in reality an all British and Australian operation ... as a result the picture wasn't released into UK theatres until 1953, and not seen on British television sets until the mid-1980s.
10. ZULU - The 24th Regiment of Foot was not a Welsh regiment but the 2nd Warwickshire Regiment of Foot. It did not become the South Wales Borderers until 1881. The song "Men of Harlech" did not become the regimental song until later. At the time of the battle, the regimental song was "The Warwickshire Lad", but there was no "battlefield singing contest" between the British and the Zulus. Of the soldiers present, 49 were English, 32 Welsh, 16 Irish and 22 others of indeterminate ethnicity. Otto Witt the parson, and Henry Hook VC were disgracefully misrepresented.
11. HEAVEN'S GATE - crucially, during the Johnson County War the US government sent armed men in to help the immigrant homesteaders defend themselves against professional killers, not backing the other side as the film claims
12. HOUR OF THE GUN (1967) - The producers of "Hour of the Gun" proudly portray after the credits that "THIS PICTURE IS BASED ON FACTS. THIS IS THE WAY IT HAPPENED." But it's very far from being how things happened.
13. SINK THE BISMARCK! - Among many errors...
German Admiral Günther Lütjens, was portrayed as a stereotypical Nazi, committed to Nazism and crazed in his undaunted belief that Bismarck is unsinkable. In reality, Lütjens did not agree with Nazi policies.
The film shows Lütjens ordering Captain Ernst Lindemann to open fire on HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales. In reality, Lütjens ordered Lindemann to avoid engaging HMS Hood; Lindemann refused and ordered the ship's guns to open fire.
Sink the Bismarck! was made before 1975, when the British code-breaking at Bletchley Park was declassified, so it did not reveal that Admiralty "hunches" about the movements of the Bismarck were supported by intelligence.
UFG/