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

Pearl Harbour -where to begin?
U571 - No Americans were involved in the real event, something the families or the veterans protested on its launch.
Braveheart - You can’t have a love affair with someone who is actually only 9yo and living in another country, paint your face with a flag that doesn’t exist yet or where kilts that nobody wore for another 300 years.
The Patriot - insert Nazi war crimes that never happened because otherwise the audience didn’t think the redcoats were bad. (Church full of people burned)
Captain Philips - wasn’t the brave hero but actually messed up and put the lives of his crew in danger.
Titanic - Crewman shooting disorderly passengers didn’t happen. The studio apologies to the family of the man portrayed but didn’t change it.
10000BC. - Wholly mammoths in a desert, building pyramids that wouldn’t exist for another 8,000 years.
Apocalypto - A film about Mayans apparently acting like Aztecs meetings Spaniards they wouldn’t come in to contact with for centuries.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

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.