Historically Inaccurate Movies
Historically Inaccurate Movies is currently under construction, but you can see a sample of some of the films that will be included here. Pages for Marie Antoinette, 300, Shakespeare in Love, Master & Commander and Braveheart are already up. If you'd like to comment on any of the films listed below, please contact the editor. If I’ve missed anything that you think should be here, please let me know, especially if Ron Howard, Mel Gibson, or Oliver Stone were involved in the production in any capacity, or if any of the people involved in the film ever met, were friends with, worked with, slept with, or spent any amount of time in the same room with Ron Howard, Mel Gibson, or Oliver Stone.
Ancient History
- One Million Years BC
- 10,000 B.C.
- The Mummy: I'm not really sure which era to list this one under.
- The Ten Commandments
- Troy
- 300
- Alexander
- Spartacus: in the words of Ralphie Ciafaretto, “They didn't have flattops in Ancient Rome!”
- The Passion of the Christ
- Caligula
- Gladiator
The Middle Ages
- King Arthur
- Kingdom of Heaven
- A Knight’s Tale
- Braveheart
1400-1600
- Apocalypto
- The Other Boleyn Girl
- The Agony and the Ecstasy: Charleton Heston as Michaelangelo.
- Lady Jane
- Elizabeth
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- Shakespeare in Love
17th Century
- Pocahontas
- The New World
- Artemisia
- Cromwell
- Restoration
- The Man in the Iron Mask
18th Century
- Pirates of the Caribbean, parts I, II, and III
- The Patriot
- Revolution
- Captain Blood
- Marie Antoinette
- The Affair of the Necklace
- 1776: sadly, it is unlikely that the American Founding Fathers ever took the time to dance a kick line on the stairs while Roger Sherman trilled, “I can't tell a participle from a predicate ⁄ I am just a simple cobbler from Connecticut!”
- Jefferson in Paris
- Amadeus
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935): the Clark Gable/Charles Laughton Version
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1962): the Marlon Brando/Trevor Howard version
- The Madness of King George
19th Century
- Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
- Quills
- Goya’s Ghosts
- Immortal Beloved
- Glory
- Birth of a Nation: when are they going to make Bris of a Nation?
- Gettysburg
- Gone With The Wind
- Cold Mountain
- Anna and the King
- Tombstone
- The Last Samauri
- Far and Away
- Dances With Wolves
- They Died with Their Boots On
- Heaven’s Gate
- 3:10 to Yuma (1957 version)
- 3:10 to Yuma (2007 version)
- The Four Feathers: Wes Bentley’s career never recovered from this movie. Heath Ledger's did... sort of.
- Wild Wild West
20th Century
- Young Einstein
- Anastasia
- Mobsters
- Chinatown
- Pearl Harbor
- The English Patient
- Kundun: like Seven Years in Tibet, Kundun was released in late 1997, the only time that major historical epics about the Dalai Lama have competed for your box office dollars.
- Seven Years in Tibet: featuring Brad Pitt's attempt at a German accent: “I vant nussink to do vith your zilly var!”
- Saving Private Ryan
- The Last Emperor: how was that cricket still alive?
- Bugsy
- The Aviator
- De-lovely
- Evita
- M*A*S*H
- A Beautiful Mind
- JFK
- Forrest Gump
- The Great Debaters
- Walking Tall
- The Doors
- Platoon
- Apocalypse Now
- Apollo 13
- Nixon
- The Last King of Scotland
All Over The Place (Damn those meddling time travelers!)
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
- Kate and Leopold
- Time Bandits
- Black Knight starring Martin Lawrence
- Back to the Future, Parts I, II, and III
I would really love to put Rambo II on here, but it only portrayed an inaccurate version of what was then the present. Rambo II is one of the reasons why I set up Inaccurate Entertainment. If you have any question or comments, or want to contribute to the site or request a historically inaccurate film that you'd like to see us here, please write to the editor at editor@historicallyinaccuratetv.com.
