Should Hollywood be prevented from making stupid people even more stupid, by being prevented from making historically inaccurate films?

This is something that has always bothered me (and there are many more films that could be added to your list). The filmmakers usually try to cover their ass by saying the film is "based on true events", or something like that, but a lot of people probably still come away thinking they've been given a historically accurate account. One of the mystifying things about it is that the true version of events is often as compelling as the distorted version we're given by Hollywood, so why not give us the real story?

There are so many errors large and small in [i]Titanic[/i] that it became for a while something of game to see how many you can spot!

Of the larger mistakes and impossibilities: the lovers cavorting at the bow, an area on any ship closed to all but crew-members when their work necessitates. Or running through a boiler-room and some convenient connecting-door, into the cargo hold.

Of the small and arcane: when the Chief Engineer obeyed the engine-room telegraph signal to Stop Engines, a shot of a boiler pressure-gauge immediately dropping to 0.

Of the debated: In trying to avoid hitting the ice-berg the helmsman apparently turns the wheel the opposite way to the command; but some maritime historians have said many steam-ship helms were in fact reversed. I don't know which is correct.

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Safely on dry land, well inside the "Wild West" in fact.... The American West, but filmed in the English [North-]West!

The world's first "Western" has surfaced in a London museum, and is to be shown in an arts/history festival in the North-West English town of Bolton.

Why there? The film was actually made there, in 1899! It's about an ambush by Indians.

Bolton is one of many towns in the county of Lancashire that had strong 19C commercial links with the USA. They developed from spinning and weaving cotton grown in the Southern States; and supported the American anti-slave drive, slavery having already been abolished in Britain.

I think they’d struggle to enforce that, especially in a world when even the news is fake 😬

You're absolutely right.

When you see and hear some of the crazy stuff some Americans say because they believe it to be true.
Knowing all this is going on in the background.

It worries me sometimes that misinformation seems to not only be a business in itself, but the fact it just gets repeated.....knowing that they're mistakes/liberties/lies !

You really fear for people learning 'history' this way.

IMO, Hollywood has always been a propaganda tool for the CIA. It is used to change the hearts and minds of the American people and beyond. Thankfully the industry is in decline but other sources like Netflix, is taking their place. This will never change. Interested people can research this:)

[c=#359E00]that kind of movies selling pretty good[/c]

The Great Wall was pure invention.

That's why I don't watch movies anymore 17 years ago. I hate their movies. Pointless and pathetic just like in Hell

It could work as reverse psychology lol... They'll be more inclined to do research afterward.

Good post, thank you. You are right on correct.....really sad:)

blackdow yes agree you be factually accurate where possible

Totally agree.

To be fair, the way you described Braveheart has likely happened in the modern era with some crazy people.