Top 20 Most Historically Inaccurate Movie Scenes

In the movie Twister, characters Jo and Bill survive an F5 tornado by strapping themselves to deep-rooted pipes with leather belts. In reality, this is not scientifically possible and would almost certainly result in a brutal death. While the film depicted the characters safely ascending into the "eye" of the storm, several physical factors make this impossible: Extreme Wind Force: The force of an F5 tornado's winds (over 200 mph) is roughly four times greater than the terminal velocity required to lift a human. This force would likely tear a person apart or cause the belts to fail immediately. Lethal Debris: Tornadoes of this magnitude pick up everything from dirt and glass to 2x4 boards and vehicles. Even if you removed all debris, the sheer force of the wind would whip your body around the pipe violently, causing severe trauma, broken bones, or fatal asphyxiation. Even if you were anchored, you would be pelted by debris traveling at hundreds of miles per hour, which is often the primary cause of tornado fatalities. Physical Trauma: Turbulent winds would toss a body like a "ragdoll," likely causing fatal spinal cord injuries or dismemberment if one were held in place by a single strap. Lack of Air: It is nearly impossible to breathe inside a tornado due to the high concentration of lofted soil, dust, and debris.

In Titanic, Jack tells Rose that he once went ice fishing on Lake Wissota in Wisconsin. The only problem is that Lake Wissota was formed in 1917 by the creation of a hydroelectric dam on the Chippewa River. Five years after the Titanic sank.

In Jeepers Creepers 2, they make it loud and clear many times that “Every 23 days for 23 days, it gets to eat.” If it’s the Spring, why is the corn six feet tall?”

There is very little truth to the movie JFK.

Much of The Sound of Music is fictionalized, including the number of children and the performance history of the family (they had already been performing widely for years before the famous escape scene). My favorite inaccurate movie however is Santa Fe Trail - lots of fun to watch, but the list of inaccuracies is long.

Mary meeting Elizabeth also happened in the 1970s film with Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson.

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"...decimates Scottish history...?" I would say the movie annihilates Scottis history....

Very enjoyable and "mostly" accurate. Among the gaffes is that the 300 movie also showed other Greeks fighting alongside the Spartans...

"Anastasia" should be included. While no one expects a film with a talking bat to be true history, the real-life Rasputin was murdered two years before the Tsar's family and was a close friend of theirs.

I don't care what anyone says, the bathroom speech scene from Hidden Fiqures was Oscar worthy. One of the best scenes from that entire film.

Almost any historical movie Mel Gibson is involved with is inaccurate, entertaining enough but not accurate in the least 😎

I don't mind historical inaccuracies in favor of a good story, but... TELL ME you know this is a fictional account with loads of poetic license and I'm OK with that. I can learn the actual history in the library or online if my interest is piqued, but don't pretend the story is something it is not.

I know these movies have to be in English because no one would watch them otherwise... but English didn't even exist 2000 years ago, and they definitely didn't speak English in ancient Greece, Egypt or the Roman Empire! It ruins the credibility so much for me (though of course I don't speak ancient Greek, Latin or Egyptian), these movies just don't do much for me, unfortunately. I'd much rather read about these events!

Mary Queen of Scots spoke only French.

It’s neck and neck between Ridley Scott and Mel Gibson for who’s the biggest liar. I give my vote to Scott. Gibson made all that crap up just to make himself look better, while Scott actively denied historical reality. When challenged on the facts he got wrong in Napoleon his response was “how do you know? Were you there?” No, Ridley, I wasn’t there but a lot of people were, and they wrote about it.

It depends on the purpose of the movie. "The Private Life of Henry VIII," for example, absolutely butchered history, but it was great fun. But a serious biography, for example, should adhere to facts as much as possible (though they might need to bend the truth, or ignore certain factoids, to make a good story).

Not to mention 10,000 BC presents Ancient Egypt as an Atlantean colony. Also, when discussing the Battle of Stirling Bridge, why are you showing the later Battle of Falkirk?

"10,000 B.C." "Braveheart" and "300" are as acurate as Xena's stories...

I wish we would call these movies what they really are...lies against history. People watch these flicks and think they are history...

I guess all Hollywood films should be documentaries… No, a good story can be inspired by the time or place. I have enjoyed many of these films, and never once felt the need to interrupt the watching to squawk that Winston Churchill wouldn’t be listening to the king’s speech or declare that the British never burned a church full of people. Just keep watching — we’re making a point in the story. It’s not “historically accurate”, because who even gets to decide when the full and complete accuracy is finally achieved! Relax, it’s a movie!

That was the least of the inaccuracies in 'The Imitation Game'. I managed as far as the bombas spitting out a fully decoded message and had to bail in disgust. Almost nothing was procedurally accurate to the manner in which Bletchey Park operated.

There’s a big difference between a fictional story “based” on a historical event and a documentary. I think most people with half a brain cell knows the difference.

How historically accurate a movie is falls into three categories.

1 if it is based on a real historical event or person, 1000% it needs to be as accurate as possible.
2 if it is just set during a time period, get the big things as close as possible. Example, your hero needs to hear Winston Churchill give a speech, don’t give him an American accent or set during a time he was only five years old.
3 if it is something like Dr Who, where everyone knows it is fictional, have fun with it.

Yeah, the US tends to make itself the world's savior in films, when the opposite is more often true. I'm an American, and I can't stand the jingoistic, pseudo-patriotism in films like The Patriot and basically any war film made in the US about US involvement in any war. Somehow, we are always the good guys, even when we wage war on countries like Mexico for no reason at all except to take all of their land that we want instead of just paying for it.

In more than one (aborted) version of THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK, the tyrant Louis XIV is replaced by his nice twin. The Sun King was a remarkably successful tyrant (though even he wouldn't have been allowed to do some of the Ken Russell shit in THE DEVILS), and didn't even get overthrown by the multi-national power blocs with whom he fought more than one war.

considering everything that had happened in the Second World War up to December 1941 (never mind after), attacking a war fleet in an imperial possession (that one might have expected it to be able to defend) was not remotely a 'major tragedy'.
THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL - George Boleyn's incest with Anne was an accusation made without any evidence, so some fiction writers toyed with having it actually happen, but the film (not the source novel) had George's wife catch them in the act.
All in the last 40 years but doing history wrong on film goes way back before that (and indeed before film, which helped popularise further many such canards penned by Shakespeare and such) e.g. There'd been a MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS in 1971 with Vanessa Redgrave meeting Glenda Jackson.

I like KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, U-571, NAPOLEON, and THE LAST SAMURAI. I also love GLADIATOR, ARGO, and THE PATRIOT.

The entirety of the movie "Remember the Titans". The tension at T.C. Williams High School was not from a sudden Integration of white and black schools, but rather the combination of 3 high schools into one. All the schools Alexandria had been desegregated for over a decade by the time of the events of the movie, but due to neighborhood demographics the schools were migrating towards a racial imbalance. The City of Alexandria decided to adopt a K6-2-2-2 model of schooling and bussing to help combat this imbalance. Kids would attend kindergarten through 6th grade at one school, do 2 years of middle school, 2 years junior high school and 2 years senior high school. Two of the existing high schools were converted to junior high schools and T.C. Williams was made into the senior high school, with only Juniors and Seniors attending. The tension came from taking three teams that had formerly been rivals at the local and district levels and making them into a single team.

Gerry Berteir did not have his car accident until after the State Championship game. He led his team as captain to a 27-0 shutout victory, not the down to the wire, last play victory that the movie shows. The team was never considered the underdog team, and Coach Boone was never in danger of losing his job "at the first sign of trouble".

Who thinks 10,000 BC is a historical movie? It's obviously a fantasy movie.

First, for something to be historical it has to have occurred within recorded history, or it's pre-history, the earliest writing is c. 5500 years ago. The title alone means it can't be historical.

Second, nothing in the entire film could possibly be considered historical, pointing out mammoths didn't build the pyramids shows whoever wrote this script knows nothing about anything depicted in the movie. The pyramids weren't built 10,000 years BCE, the giant carnivorous birds were from the Americas and went extinct 25 kya, and sabre-toothed cats in Eurasia or Africa died out five thousand years before that. FFS Watch Mojo, read a book.

What can be said for all of these movies is, "Don't let facts interfere with a good story."

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Who knew the Scots could get so muscular from starving? Maybe I should try it?

You forgot the Apprentice 2024.

LOL apparently the makers of this video apparently think historical inacurracy in movies began in the 21st century

I find it funny that they talk about the Battle of Stirling Bridge but most of the movie footage is from Falkirk…

Will Smith’s Emancipation shows the First Native Guard’s charge successfully capturing Port Hudson when in reality they were slaughtered and left for dead by the Union Army on the field.

So Mel Gibson was a lead in three of these...well, his father was a Holocaust denier, so I suppose historical accuracy isn't in the family wheelhouse.

Just having 300 in this list makes it totally irrelevant. There’s no need to even bother mentioning it. The movie makes it very clear that the narrator Dilios is exaggerating the story to inspire the soldiers he’s talking to. It’s propaganda. A Greek telling the story would obviously portray the Persians in a very bad light. And no doubt if you told it from the Persian perspective, the Greeks would be portrayed in an equally bad light.

I knew for most

It's the problem with Hollywood, the screen writers have a white saviour complex, but also don't understand history.It's well documented that Elizabeth and Mary never met. The woolly mammoth was living during the Ice Age.

Basically any Mel Gibson movies. Here's some more Mojo is too afraid to add.

13 HOURS.
1492
ABRAHAM VAMPIRE SLAYER.
ALEXANDER.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 
ALI.
AMADEUS.
AMERICAN GANGSTER.
AMERICAN SNIPER.
AMERICAN UNDERDOG.
THE APPRENTICE.
BAT 21.
BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC.
BECKET.
BEN-HUR.
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY.
BUGSY.
CHISUM.
DEAD BANG.
THE DELIBERATE STRANGER.
EL CID.
ELIZABETH.
ENIGMA.
GODS AND GENERALS.  
THE GREAT ESCAPE.
THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD.
THE GUNFIGHT OK CORRAL.
HOW THE WEST WAS WON.
THE IMPOSSIBLE SPY.
JESUS OF NAZARETH.
JIM THORPE ALL AMERICAN.
LONE SURVIVOR.
MUNICH.
MOBSTERS.
NIXON.
NOAH.
OCTOBER SKY.
OPERATION THUNDERBOLT.
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST.
THE PIANIST.
POMPEI.
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX.
RAID ON ENTEBBE.
REAGAN.
RED BARON.
RED TAILS.
REVERSAL OF FORTUNE.
SANTA FE TRAIL
SCHINDLER'S LIST.
SERGEANT YORK.
SPARTACUS.
SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON.
TO STEAL THE SKY.
TOMBSTONE.
THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN.
THE UNTOUCHABLES.
VICTORY AT ENTEBBE.
VON RICHTOFTEN AND BROWN.
WINDTALKERS.
WOMAN NAMED GOLDA.
WYATT EARP.
YOUNG CHURCHILL.
YOUNG GUNS.

Historically accurate are not compatible with Ridley Scott nor Mel Gibson

The church scene in "The Patriot" really happened. It was done by an SS Battalion in Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944. That's how vile the insult was.