Sometimes the real history is so absurd that they have to tone down a bit. In Hacksaw Ridge, after being hurt, Doss is carried off battle, in real life, he helped to rescue others soldiers for 3 hours before being rescue, even with shards on his legs.
I think this ended up being the case for To Hell and Back, starring Audie Murphy as himself, as well (though there were also more prohibitions on what you close back in the 1950s, too)
That is my favorite example. I also enjoyed the least poorly known fun fact--that _Death of Stalin_ had to show only a fraction of Zhukov's medals, already extremely numerous in the film, to avoid looking overly comical and distracting. Hardly a good example of a historically accurate movie but one everyone has a lot of fun with anyway.
The Death of Stalin is another movie that's pretty accurate to the history it depicts. The "worst" it tends to do is it shortens the longer spans of time between events for a better flow of events. Most of the comedy comes from the absurdity of the fact that the way people are depicted in the movie was how they were in real life. The way people had to live just to not end up on Stalin's hit-list is absurd to the point of comedy.
I think the time dilation (for lack of a better word) is just a function of the medium (and it would be the case for TV, too). The latter part of your comment captures what the director said quite well: "I'm not saying it's a documentary. It is a fiction, but it's a fiction inspired by the truth of what it must have felt like at the time. My aim is for the audience to feel the sort of low-level anxiety that people must have [experienced] when they just went about their daily lives at the time." When it comes to history movies, I think conveying the feeling of the time is as important, if not more important, than the full measure of the event. The event, by itself, is just that - a thing. But I think it's the experiences of the people involved that we cling to, and that are most interesting. I was listening to Dan Carlin's Wrath of the Khan's podcast recently, and Paul MM Cooper's Fall of Civilizations podcast about the rise and fall of the Mongolian Empire, and it's the impact that the Mongol's had on the various civilizations that I find the most impactful (the conquest themselves are awe inspiring at a gloss, terrifying when considered in totality).
@@Syntopikon I unfortunately have to inform you that Dan Carlin's history podcasts are notorious for favoring an intriguing narrative over sticking to historical facts. Historians have near universally panned it. Carlin is not a historian, ignores the scientific consensus and gets dozens of smaller and larger facts wrong with each episode. It's absolutely painful to listen to if you know anything about the topics he talks about.
Pretty sure the real life Beria would've preferred the quick 'trial' and execution he got in the movie over the full dose of his own medicine he got in reality.
I saw Das Boot a couple months ago and one thing about it was that despite being 3 and half hours long, for me, it felt like half the time. Every scene was gripping and I was so invested in their lives and wondered if they could manage to survive their journey in the boat. I think this should remind filmmakers that you can tell a great story without having to greatly dramatize the story. I never could expected to be this engaged with 100+ on a claustrophobic boat, but I was because the story it told was enough to interest me and make me just as anxious as the crew was during certain moments in the film.
This is an interesting point, and one I re-recognized this past Saturday, when I saw Seven Samurai in theaters. It's a 3.5 hour long movie, but it passes by fast. It's so well paced, and you're so invested in the story, it feels like no time has passed at all. Same with LOTR for me.
The original long version is the best. Had to look for it on the internet as a DVD. It does not seem long at all and really fills in the gaps cut out for the theatrical version.
@@wolf310ii You are aware that this was also based on a true event? I forgot the number of the U-boat, but it was bombed and went to the bottom of the sea at that point, to about the depth as depicted in the movie. This event led to removing the removal of the maximum diving depths of 80 meters for the VII series and was basically replaced by an "as you see fit".
I think that's also important. Period accuracy matters, and I think it's also something that shines through adaptations of period novels, like Barry Lyndon (or Pride and Prejudice, etc.)
I love "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and I'm glad to see it getting attention. And I'd never heard of "Fires on the Plain"; thank you so much for helping this film find a wider audience.
Great movie, unlike the Michael Bay 2001 atrocity. Can’t fault the film-makers for not having authentic WWII Japanese carriers; these were on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean by the end of the war. Of the six carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, four were sunk at the Battle of Midway, the Shokaku sunk at the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the Zuikaku at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Yup. They tried to get as close as they could, which is admirable in its own right. I'm sure if they had the budget or technology, they would've inched even closer, but they'd hit the point of diminishing returns soon enough.
One glaring inaccuracy in Tora! Tora! Tora! is when a group of Japanese planes begin their descent towards Wheeler Field. As they fly through Kolekole Pass, they zoom past a huge white cross. The problem is that the cross was erected decades later to honor those who died in the attack.
That was also the case for the Museum of American History. These are the difficulties that I, personally, find it difficult to criticize, especially for a movie like Tora! Tora! Tora!, if only because if they had access to the necessary compute power, they probably would've gotten rid of it. But when the lay of the land itself conspires against you...
@@Syntopikon I wasn't trying to criticize Tora! Tora! Tora! I thought it was great, especially since I lived in Hawaii (Schofield Barracks) at the time they were filming. My junior high school, Wheeler AFBJHS, had an actual P-40 Warhawk at the entrance to the campus and the producers for TTT borrowed it to use as an "extra" in the attack sequences.
Of course - and I didn't take it as criticism. Apologies, as I wasn't as clear as I should've been. I was more expounding on how I view what I perceive to be important and how I figure they would've approached the situation if the technology was advance enough. That's a pretty cool story! It must've been an interesting experience growing up there, at that time.
I have always liked this movie, in spite of the historical quibbles. The scenes in D.C. where everyone is trying to figure out what's going on really make the movie. Way, way better than that chick movie called "Pearl Harbor"
When it comes to moments like this, the decisions and politicking end up being the most important and interesting aspects (for me). It's also why I quite enjoy Lincoln. It's mostly a talking movie, very little action.
Waterloo (1970) is widely considered to be VERY accurate to the Hundred Days and it's final battle scene involved thousands of Red Army soldiers acting as extras.
@@ryann6067 Ignore that guy. He's a Wehraboo; Someone so obsessed with the Wehrmacht that he himself has become an Izan and full of pro-Izan conspiracies and brainrot. The "[Leader] didn't die in the Bunker" is one such conspiracy that they're obsessed with.
Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World is actually pretty damn close to the source material. The missunderstanding comes from thinking that the Film is based sole off of the Novel Master And Commander, the first book in the Aubrey/Maturin novels... The film was infact based off of the First novel AND the 10th, more so the 10th than the 1st. The 10th novel being called The Far Side Of The World.
I understand why they used the title, but of course Jack Aubrey was not Master and Commander but full Post Captain by the time of Far Side of the World.
Its also a missunderstanding thinking the movie was based on the 1st and 10th book. From the 10th book its mainly only the titel and the order to chase an enemy frigatte to protect the british whalers in the pacific. In the book there isnt even a sea battle, but a land battle between the stranded crew of the enemy ship, that sunk during a storm, and Aubreys crew, while the HMS Surprise was chasing a ship "off screen". It wasnt close to the source material, they picked events from serval books of the series and mixed them together
another historically accurate film that doesn't get much talk these days is Hamburger Hill. Like Fires on the Plain, it does not try to glorify war in any way but shows it as it is and the difficulty of living in a war zone. It was and still is overshadowed by Full Metal Jacket but I think Hamburger Hill is a superior war film in every way to FMJ.
back in the 90's I found an audio file of the actual transmission from Apollo 13 - imagine my shock when I heard him say " Houston, we've HAD a problem ". I realized that what might be the most famous quote in history is actually a misquote.
Personal favourite of mine will always be the 1969 movie Battle of Britain, just for its ability to fit so many real planes into one shot and produce some of the best aerial combat sequences in film history. Some of the characters in the film are heavily fictionalised while others are real, but they all represent different perspectives of the battle, from veterans of the Battle of France to the WAAF servicewomen to Polish pilots
A Bridge Too Far is my personal favorite. Other than tanks being “modern” ones because there arent really any running tigers then or now, its very good. I especially like the jump scene, we will never see another like it again.
It's a great movie - the last of the pre-CGI films of epic proportions which could never be made today due to production cost. It does, however, contain some significant historical inaccuracies - the portrayal of German Field Marshall Model as an incompetent egoist who dismisses the captured Allied plans as fake for example. In fact Model was an extremely competent and capable general, and in the actual battle he recognized the plans as authentic and used them to ambush Allied airdrops and plan counterattacks.
My main gripe is that they tried to disguise the leopards as panthers, but it was such a half-assed job they might as well have just done what Patton and other films of the time did and not tried to disguise the tanks at all.
Das Boot brings up a point. Depth charges. In any WWII submarine movie, you can count 30-50 depth charges going off in the immediate vicinity of the sub. Way too many, way too near. Early on, destroyers carried as few as a couple dozen, while later in the war, they might carry several dozen. These would have to last through their entire mission or war patrol, so an attack on a sub would be only a few DCs, with extended prosecution dropping a few dozen only if you had multiple destroyers involved. And if they were all going off that close, the sub would be headed to the basement after the first 3 or 4. Most DCs were lucky to be dropped within a couple hundred yards of the sub and might be off by a mile.
All very true. In the Fall 1941 period of U-96's seventh war patrol (covered by the book and film) the three escorts that U-96 encountered were all British (although two of them were converted ex-USCG cutters they had been refitted with British ASW gear). The standard Commonwealth depth charge patterns that these ships could utilise were (1) a five-charge pattern, normally set to explode at a single pre-set depth from fixed options (e.g., 100 ft), consisting of three charges dropped from the stern racks about 120 ft apart, plus one charge fired about 120 ft to each side, forming a diamond-shaped pattern,; and (2) a ten-charge pattern that was essentially a "double-five" pattern pre-set to explode at two depths from fixed options (e.g., five standard charges at 100 ft and five "heavy" charges at 235 ft), an arrangement made possible by the faster sinking rate (17 ft/sec vice 10 ft/sec) of the "heavy" charge - which was simply a standard charge with a 150-lb weight added to one end, not a larger charge. It is pretty obvious that even if the pattern was extraordinarily well-placed (at the correct depth, in exactly right position), at most a 220-ft Type VII submarine like U-96 could only ever be (relatively) close to two charges in any pattern. Of course, the idea behind the depth charge pattern was to create a set of pressure waves to damage the submarine, since actually placing a charge close enough to crack the pressure hull (perhaps 20 ft) was a matter of pure luck and highly improbable. The visuals in "Das Boot", as I recollect, suggest multiple depth charge explosions extremely close to the boat. That part was certainly not historically accurate!
The men's hairstyles in "Apollo 13" are an abomination though. It's a movie that gets so much right, but every time we look at the three lead actors, it's immediately apparent that we're watching a movie made in the 1990s.
I think that's one of the things to consider - is it more important to capture history as it is, or history as it might've felt? I think different movies serve different purposes, but there are strong cases to be made for both.
I saw Alexander in the theater and was disappointed by it. I then reappraised it a few years ago. My feeling is that it's not a great movie but it's also not the utter disaster that it was made out to be by the critics at its release. It's a movie that I think a lot of people hoped would be great, and it instead ended up being merely pretty good, and because it fell so short of expectations it was criticized a little too sharply. I like the film overall but I also think that we're still waiting for the definitive Alexander film.
@@sorenpxI don't think another movie about Alexander should be made again. Nor should it happen with the biographies of any other important historical figures. You simply don't have enough time to show all the events in a movie's runtime. Napoleon is a great example of such a thing happening. Napoleon was a prominent figure from Toulon (1794) to Waterloo (1815). You can't go over 30 years of history in a single movie. This is why I believe that a TV show would be better for these stories to be told. Because if you make a movie, you'd have to do what Waterloo did and only show a small part of the history.
I think Tora! Tora! Tora! did a great job capturing the internal politics and complacency on both sides. It accurate shows Yamamoto's comment about dictating a peace treaty with US would only happen if Japan conquered the US. Something he knew couldn't happen. Many Americans at that time didn't know he was actually criticizing Tojo by pointing out the US was not a pushover but would fit hard.
That's one of the more interesting parts about it, I think. One common criticism was that it covered the boring part of politics, but I find that in history, the talks leading up to decisions are as interesting as the decisions, and their consequences.
@@Syntopikon Oddly, I think the fact it covered the politics is of the movie's greatest strengths. It gave a very subtle tension and drama to the movie that many missed.
@@washingtonradio I agree. You could feel the tension rising as the film progressed, almost as in a suspense novel, which to me made the known outcome that much more understandable and authentic.
The 1970 film Waterloo. The dubbing is a bit dodgy and some of the acting is over the top. But I'm pretty sure that it is very much what the battle looked like. At least in terms of numbers involved. Enjoyed your video 👍🏼
Great video, and I enjoyed your selection of as-historically-accurate-as-possible films. "Fires on the Plain" sounds grim AF. Not that it's important, but for future reference 'Boot' in German is pronounced pretty similarly to 'boat' in English but stretched out to two syllables, kinda like "bow-it" :)
Good to know! I imagine it won't be the last I talk about it lol Yeah, Fires on the Plain is pretty depressing. It's one of those movies I don't really see that come up in war film rankings, likely because it's old, in black-and-white, and in Japanese, which is partly why I wanted to highlight it here.
A masterpiece I would put in this category would be the 1959 film 'The Cruel Sea' that depicts the crew of a convoy escort ship in both the Battle of The Atlantic and the Arctic Convoys. Jack Hawkins is sublime in the role of the captain that is forced to make a brutal decision that tears him apart. Rare role for Donald Sinden and supporting cast of Denholm Elliot, Virginia Mckenna and an early role for Stanley Baker all on top form make this an absolute must see
I saw "Lincoln" not long after it was released; it was totally engrossing, and as far as I could tell, very accurate. As a Vermonter, I have a fondness for Thaddeus Stevens, a Vermont native, (who might very well have said, as did Stephen A. Douglas, another native Vermonter, "Vermont is a fine state to be from, provided you leave it early and never return.").
Fires on the Plain was one of the first major films I saw that brings the true bleak horrors of war degradation to the screen. Historically speaking it being set in the chaotic end of the Pacific War in the Philippines adds to it's dark material given just how brutal the campaign was. Ironically the main character survives in the novel and is remembering the events in postwar Tokyo.
a little surprised that " Come and see " is not on this list considering the huge contribution to the film of eye-witness accounts by those who actually lived through the German occupation of Belarus.
I spoke about Come and See in the context of Fires on the Plain, but it certainly could've had its own section. But both are so bleak, I thought that one, in full, was enough. I would like to do a video on censored & banned movies, and I think I'll probably include it there.
One more recommendation here: go and watch Ridley Scott's "The Duellists". Often overlooked, but a brilliant timepiece, masterfully executed on a minimal budget and with a perfect cast.
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Also a forgotten movie that is very accurate is the British War movie from 1946 " Theirs is the Glory" A movie about the Battle of Arnhem in 1944. Filmed and acted on the Real orignal battlefield of Arnhem and acted by the real 1st British Airborne division that fought there in Sept 1944
This would give me an excuse to read a bunch more + rewatch/reread LOTR, so I'ma add it to the list for sometime next year. Gonna take some time for sure.
Apollo 13 is one of my favorite movies of all time. Ever since I saw it in the theater, I've loved it. It's such a good story, well-told. In my opinion, it's easily Ron Howard's best film. My feelings on All the President's Men are pretty much the opposite. I had always heard about what a great film it is and then I watched it and was let down. It was slow, dull, sometimes hard to follow, and altogether I was just left with the impression that the movie is overrated. It took me two viewings to decide how I felt about Lincoln but, having seen the film twice, I think that is might be Spielberg's last great film. If it's not Lincoln then it's Munich, but it might be Lincoln. At the very least, Lincoln is several steps ahead of anything else Spielberg has done in the last 19 years.
Happy to find another Apollo 13 fan. Whenever I can't think of something to watch, it's my go to. You know how it ends, but the drama has never lessened for me. Interestingly, I feel the opposite about All the President's Men. I went in with high expectations because I had heard all the adulation, and I found that it lived up to it. But I also really enjoy movies with a lot of dialogue and thinking (really enjoyed Locke, too). I'm hoping Spielberg has something special. He has an "event" film at Universal, which sort of suggests that he might have something epic.
Two pointers on pronunciation. Boatswain is spoken as bos'un, rhyming with frozen. In German boot sounds very much closer to boat. This is a good selection of historically accurate films. More of course could be included. 😉 Esoecially if the criteria range farther than principally fidelity to events and personalities, to include a more general adherence to environmental detail and milieu in an otherwise totally fictional setting. Cheers! Glenn
For Das Boot the pronunciation of Boot is like the English word Boat (NOT pronounced like the foot ware "boot") but using a shorter and less emphasized "oh" sound than English "boat pronunciation", and Das with an "ah" sound so it would be said like Dahhs Bohht. I also disagree about Das Boot being a Hollywood action flick, it humanized the enemy and has a clear message of the incredible waste of war both its cost in material and cost in human loves.
Another very accurate movie is "The Onion Field, " which used the actual police reports and court documents for details, as well as the author of the book. I'm not sure how many creative liberties the movie "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" took, but that might also be one to add to this list.
Was not aware of The Onion Field - will add to my list of must watches. I enjoy neo-noir, so I think I'll probably like it. "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter", insofar as I've gleaned from the numerous history books I've read, is quite true to life. In fact, the only reason it didn't make it here was I was afraid people would castigate me for not doing the true story, which could take hours, if not days to recount, justice.
@Syntopikon One could spend an entire week just talking about Abraham Lincoln's long history of training in martial arts, sword fighting, and parkour. Totally understandable.
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In Apollo 13, the joke that Lovell makes about Guenther Wendt (I wonder wer Guenther went) in german accent was not his, it was Wally Schirra in Apollo 7. Yet it was too good of a joke to let it out of the movie though.
ZULU! An accurate portrayal of a terrifying battle between 125 British defending Rorkes Drift outpost against 4000 Zulu warriors. 11 Victoria crosses were awarded for this battle.
I love all those movies! 💖 all historical movies should be accurate. Falsificstion of history should be banned, or at least there should be disclaimers if something "took creative liberties" ( "cleopatra was black")
We Were Soldiers, like every Mel Gibson "historical" movie, is laughably inaccurate in many ways. Even having Col Moore himself as an advisor for the film didn't help.
@@mikearmstrong8483 Gibson was not able to mess this up as the director was obsessed with making the film as accurate as possible. I cannot speak to the battle scenes though they ring true to what I know and have seen of how the Eras weapons and soldiers were trained and those that I know who were there in Nam at the time say it was accurate. The domestic scenes of the Wife and training prior to the unit deploying was very real down to the fact they used Ft Benning for those scenes. Bottom line it was as accurate as th3e director could possibly make it. The reason I can say that the domestic scenes were accurate is I was on Ft Benning at the time, and they rang true to how people there lived at the time.
@GhostRider-sc9vu First: We lost the battle. Withdrawing to the LZ, the battalion was ambushed and suffered much heavier casualties than shown in the film. We bugged out and left the VC in control of the area. Second: There was never any bayonet charge. Third: The idea of a helicopter hovering just above the ground in the middle of an enemy camp while pivoting to fire is laughably ludicrous, as any helo pilot will tell you. Fourth: Broken Arrow does NOT and never has meant a unit being overrun needs all available air support. It is meant to report a class of nuclear weapon accident. There is a very specific reporting procedure to a very specific level of command, and one does not declare Broken Arrow by just yelling the words into a radio. That myth started long after the battle, printed in a book written by the son of Col Moore's FAC liason. It has been repeated so often that some douche put it in Wikipedia, which doesn't fact check entries. I was trained on Broken Arrow reporting and there is a completely different term for a unit being overrun. And it still requires a specific reporting procedure, not just yelling the words.
Boat is actually originating from Scandinavian languages where we say "Båt" because we where experts of boat-building during the Viking-times. The word actually even was borrowed by the French people even if they spell and pronounce it a bit differently.
I'm surprised to see "Das Boot" on this list, as it basically compresses the likely events of a U-boat's entire frontline service into a single patrol. It's very similar to the movie "Memphis Belle" in that regard. Sure, everything portrayed happened to one U-boat or another during the war, but virtually none of it would have happened to a single U-boat on a single patrol. Also, I wish people would stop pronouncing "Boot" as if it's one of these:🥾. It should be pronounced almost exactly the same as the English word "Boat".
My daughter's favorite movie line ever. If the chutes dont open whats the point? She as seen Apollo 13 at least 20 times as its he mothers favorite movie.
It's an excellent line, as is the one that comes right after - "Ken, you're telling me what you need. I'm telling you what we have to work with at this point. I'm not making this stuff up." I use that one quite a bit.
I saw this back 1981. It was pretty accurate albeit the obligatory anti-NS propaganda wasn't. The German Navy back then wasn't exactly anti-government, in fact of all the branches of the German Armed Forces (die Wehrmacht) it was the most patriotic. Like I said though the movie was a very accurate depiction of what it was like in U-Boat service at that point in war (early 1943) from the German perspective.
@@RasEli03 The movie is the most accurate war movie to date(maby along with Tora Tora) xd you should check out Armchair Historian review if you are looking for confirmation, it is for sure more accurate than most movies on this list, a Bridge too far has it all, real life dialogs, real costumes and vehicles, and scenario that maches history in tiny detail
Master and Commander blew all claims to historical reality in that farcical scene where they took the rear wheels off the guns in order to fire them further.That was a complete nonsense. If a ship needed to fire farther the gunners timed their shots so that they fired on the uproll.
Even though I am Jewish, when I saw "Das Boot" in 1982, I still cheered for the captain and crew of the World War 2 German U-boat and I still got very upset when only one of the crew members survived the air raid at the end of this fantastic movie!
@johnortiz1964 Pretty much any Mel Gibson "historical" movie. Looking at Braveheart, The Patriot, and We Were Soldiers, I think the original Star Wars trilogy was probably more historically accurate.
I tried watching this but had to turn it off. The narrators voice and speech rhythm is unbearable. Morse code is more pleasant to listen to than this guys quick stoccato talking.
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Sometimes the real history is so absurd that they have to tone down a bit. In Hacksaw Ridge, after being hurt, Doss is carried off battle, in real life, he helped to rescue others soldiers for 3 hours before being rescue, even with shards on his legs.
I think this ended up being the case for To Hell and Back, starring Audie Murphy as himself, as well (though there were also more prohibitions on what you close back in the 1950s, too)
Just because it happened does not make it believable.
@@JiveDadson Interestingly, one complaint some people had about Apollo 13 was that it was too Hollywood - they couldn't believe it happened.
That is my favorite example. I also enjoyed the least poorly known fun fact--that _Death of Stalin_ had to show only a fraction of Zhukov's medals, already extremely numerous in the film, to avoid looking overly comical and distracting. Hardly a good example of a historically accurate movie but one everyone has a lot of fun with anyway.
It's wild how real life can seem like fiction sometimes lol
The Death of Stalin is another movie that's pretty accurate to the history it depicts. The "worst" it tends to do is it shortens the longer spans of time between events for a better flow of events. Most of the comedy comes from the absurdity of the fact that the way people are depicted in the movie was how they were in real life. The way people had to live just to not end up on Stalin's hit-list is absurd to the point of comedy.
I think the time dilation (for lack of a better word) is just a function of the medium (and it would be the case for TV, too). The latter part of your comment captures what the director said quite well: "I'm not saying it's a documentary. It is a fiction, but it's a fiction inspired by the truth of what it must have felt like at the time. My aim is for the audience to feel the sort of low-level anxiety that people must have [experienced] when they just went about their daily lives at the time."
When it comes to history movies, I think conveying the feeling of the time is as important, if not more important, than the full measure of the event. The event, by itself, is just that - a thing. But I think it's the experiences of the people involved that we cling to, and that are most interesting. I was listening to Dan Carlin's Wrath of the Khan's podcast recently, and Paul MM Cooper's Fall of Civilizations podcast about the rise and fall of the Mongolian Empire, and it's the impact that the Mongol's had on the various civilizations that I find the most impactful (the conquest themselves are awe inspiring at a gloss, terrifying when considered in totality).
@@Syntopikon I unfortunately have to inform you that Dan Carlin's history podcasts are notorious for favoring an intriguing narrative over sticking to historical facts. Historians have near universally panned it. Carlin is not a historian, ignores the scientific consensus and gets dozens of smaller and larger facts wrong with each episode. It's absolutely painful to listen to if you know anything about the topics he talks about.
Pretty sure the real life Beria would've preferred the quick 'trial' and execution he got in the movie over the full dose of his own medicine he got in reality.
I saw Das Boot a couple months ago and one thing about it was that despite being 3 and half hours long, for me, it felt like half the time. Every scene was gripping and I was so invested in their lives and wondered if they could manage to survive their journey in the boat.
I think this should remind filmmakers that you can tell a great story without having to greatly dramatize the story. I never could expected to be this engaged with 100+ on a claustrophobic boat, but I was because the story it told was enough to interest me and make me just as anxious as the crew was during certain moments in the film.
This is an interesting point, and one I re-recognized this past Saturday, when I saw Seven Samurai in theaters. It's a 3.5 hour long movie, but it passes by fast. It's so well paced, and you're so invested in the story, it feels like no time has passed at all. Same with LOTR for me.
@@theloz3r One day you should try the long version, it's 4 and a half hours long and totally worth it!
The original long version is the best. Had to look for it on the internet as a DVD. It does not seem long at all and really fills in the gaps cut out for the theatrical version.
The "sinking" at Gibraltar was greatly dramatized and would it have happend like in the movie, the real U96 would still be at the bottom of the ocean
@@wolf310ii You are aware that this was also based on a true event? I forgot the number of the U-boat, but it was bombed and went to the bottom of the sea at that point, to about the depth as depicted in the movie. This event led to removing the removal of the maximum diving depths of 80 meters for the VII series and was basically replaced by an "as you see fit".
Barry Lyndon is Kubrick's forgotten masterpiece. The movie, whilst not portraying many real events, is extremely authentic to its time period.
I think that's also important. Period accuracy matters, and I think it's also something that shines through adaptations of period novels, like Barry Lyndon (or Pride and Prejudice, etc.)
Agreed.
I love "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and I'm glad to see it getting attention. And I'd never heard of "Fires on the Plain"; thank you so much for helping this film find a wider audience.
Great movie, unlike the Michael Bay 2001 atrocity. Can’t fault the film-makers for not having authentic WWII Japanese carriers; these were on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean by the end of the war. Of the six carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, four were sunk at the Battle of Midway, the Shokaku sunk at the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the Zuikaku at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Yup. They tried to get as close as they could, which is admirable in its own right. I'm sure if they had the budget or technology, they would've inched even closer, but they'd hit the point of diminishing returns soon enough.
One glaring inaccuracy in Tora! Tora! Tora! is when a group of Japanese planes begin their descent towards Wheeler Field. As they fly through Kolekole Pass, they zoom past a huge white cross. The problem is that the cross was erected decades later to honor those who died in the attack.
That was also the case for the Museum of American History. These are the difficulties that I, personally, find it difficult to criticize, especially for a movie like Tora! Tora! Tora!, if only because if they had access to the necessary compute power, they probably would've gotten rid of it. But when the lay of the land itself conspires against you...
@@Syntopikon I wasn't trying to criticize Tora! Tora! Tora! I thought it was great, especially since I lived in Hawaii (Schofield Barracks) at the time they were filming. My junior high school, Wheeler AFBJHS, had an actual P-40 Warhawk at the entrance to the campus and the producers for TTT borrowed it to use as an "extra" in the attack sequences.
Of course - and I didn't take it as criticism. Apologies, as I wasn't as clear as I should've been. I was more expounding on how I view what I perceive to be important and how I figure they would've approached the situation if the technology was advance enough.
That's a pretty cool story! It must've been an interesting experience growing up there, at that time.
I have always liked this movie, in spite of the historical quibbles. The scenes in D.C. where everyone is trying to figure out what's going on really make the movie. Way, way better than that chick movie called "Pearl Harbor"
When it comes to moments like this, the decisions and politicking end up being the most important and interesting aspects (for me). It's also why I quite enjoy Lincoln. It's mostly a talking movie, very little action.
Waterloo (1970) is widely considered to be VERY accurate to the Hundred Days and it's final battle scene involved thousands of Red Army soldiers acting as extras.
Downfall is a masterpiece. It's almost a documentary because it's so accurate!
Yup - that's another good one.
Minus him ending up in Argentina…
@@fooberdooge3103lol which never happened, given he died in Berlin in April ‘45.
@@ryann6067 Ignore that guy. He's a Wehraboo; Someone so obsessed with the Wehrmacht that he himself has become an Izan and full of pro-Izan conspiracies and brainrot. The "[Leader] didn't die in the Bunker" is one such conspiracy that they're obsessed with.
@@ryann6067 The body they had in Berlin was a woman.
Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World is actually pretty damn close to the source material. The missunderstanding comes from thinking that the Film is based sole off of the Novel Master And Commander, the first book in the Aubrey/Maturin novels... The film was infact based off of the First novel AND the 10th, more so the 10th than the 1st. The 10th novel being called The Far Side Of The World.
I understand why they used the title, but of course Jack Aubrey was not Master and Commander but full Post Captain by the time of Far Side of the World.
Its also a missunderstanding thinking the movie was based on the 1st and 10th book. From the 10th book its mainly only the titel and the order to chase an enemy frigatte to protect the british whalers in the pacific. In the book there isnt even a sea battle, but a land battle between the stranded crew of the enemy ship, that sunk during a storm, and Aubreys crew, while the HMS Surprise was chasing a ship "off screen".
It wasnt close to the source material, they picked events from serval books of the series and mixed them together
another historically accurate film that doesn't get much talk these days is Hamburger Hill. Like Fires on the Plain, it does not try to glorify war in any way but shows it as it is and the difficulty of living in a war zone. It was and still is overshadowed by Full Metal Jacket but I think Hamburger Hill is a superior war film in every way to FMJ.
100% agree!
I actually know a guy who served at Hamburger Hill and he said the movie is pretty close to reality.
@@ImSomethingSpeciali know a guy who served there as well. He was highly decorated from the action there. Sadly, he recently passed away.
I've yet to watch it, but will add it to the list. Looks interesting, and seems unanimously acclaimed.
Agree, based on my convestion with Vietnam vets who saw the movie and were there IRL adn saw action. "What can they do to you? Send you to Vietnam?
I never knew that trivia about “Houston, we have a problem.” A+ job as always, my friend.
I appreciate it, man!
@ My pleasure! That Dante quote was also nicely done. lol
Glad you picked up on it lol
back in the 90's I found an audio file of the actual transmission from Apollo 13 - imagine my shock when I heard him say " Houston, we've HAD a problem ". I realized that what might be the most famous quote in history is actually a misquote.
Personal favourite of mine will always be the 1969 movie Battle of Britain, just for its ability to fit so many real planes into one shot and produce some of the best aerial combat sequences in film history. Some of the characters in the film are heavily fictionalised while others are real, but they all represent different perspectives of the battle, from veterans of the Battle of France to the WAAF servicewomen to Polish pilots
A Bridge Too Far is my personal favorite. Other than tanks being “modern” ones because there arent really any running tigers then or now, its very good. I especially like the jump scene, we will never see another like it again.
It's a great movie - the last of the pre-CGI films of epic proportions which could never be made today due to production cost. It does, however, contain some significant historical inaccuracies - the portrayal of German Field Marshall Model as an incompetent egoist who dismisses the captured Allied plans as fake for example. In fact Model was an extremely competent and capable general, and in the actual battle he recognized the plans as authentic and used them to ambush Allied airdrops and plan counterattacks.
My main gripe is that they tried to disguise the leopards as panthers, but it was such a half-assed job they might as well have just done what Patton and other films of the time did and not tried to disguise the tanks at all.
Das Boot brings up a point. Depth charges.
In any WWII submarine movie, you can count 30-50 depth charges going off in the immediate vicinity of the sub. Way too many, way too near.
Early on, destroyers carried as few as a couple dozen, while later in the war, they might carry several dozen. These would have to last through their entire mission or war patrol, so an attack on a sub would be only a few DCs, with extended prosecution dropping a few dozen only if you had multiple destroyers involved.
And if they were all going off that close, the sub would be headed to the basement after the first 3 or 4. Most DCs were lucky to be dropped within a couple hundred yards of the sub and might be off by a mile.
All very true. In the Fall 1941 period of U-96's seventh war patrol (covered by the book and film) the three escorts that U-96 encountered were all British (although two of them were converted ex-USCG cutters they had been refitted with British ASW gear). The standard Commonwealth depth charge patterns that these ships could utilise were (1) a five-charge pattern, normally set to explode at a single pre-set depth from fixed options (e.g., 100 ft), consisting of three charges dropped from the stern racks about 120 ft apart, plus one charge fired about 120 ft to each side, forming a diamond-shaped pattern,; and (2) a ten-charge pattern that was essentially a "double-five" pattern pre-set to explode at two depths from fixed options (e.g., five standard charges at 100 ft and five "heavy" charges at 235 ft), an arrangement made possible by the faster sinking rate (17 ft/sec vice 10 ft/sec) of the "heavy" charge - which was simply a standard charge with a 150-lb weight added to one end, not a larger charge. It is pretty obvious that even if the pattern was extraordinarily well-placed (at the correct depth, in exactly right position), at most a 220-ft Type VII submarine like U-96 could only ever be (relatively) close to two charges in any pattern. Of course, the idea behind the depth charge pattern was to create a set of pressure waves to damage the submarine, since actually placing a charge close enough to crack the pressure hull (perhaps 20 ft) was a matter of pure luck and highly improbable. The visuals in "Das Boot", as I recollect, suggest multiple depth charge explosions extremely close to the boat. That part was certainly not historically accurate!
Excellent! Well done.
Fantastic video! happy to see new topics.
Glad you liked it!
Excellent video! I love all of these movies and it was great to hear about all of these little details.
Glad you liked it! Yeah, some movies end up getting, for lack of a better phrase, the right thing right.
The men's hairstyles in "Apollo 13" are an abomination though. It's a movie that gets so much right, but every time we look at the three lead actors, it's immediately apparent that we're watching a movie made in the 1990s.
Apocalypto was pure fiction, but it did a good job of capturing the craziness of living in the America's at that time.
I think that's one of the things to consider - is it more important to capture history as it is, or history as it might've felt? I think different movies serve different purposes, but there are strong cases to be made for both.
@@Syntopikon I am fuly on board when the filmmaker is trying to capture the spirit of an era or person. Even if that results in liberties.
I originally read Das Boot. Afterwards, it was made into a movie of course. The movie follows the book religiously. Absolutely Great film!
Alexander 2004 from Oliver Stone is a commercial and critical flop, but it is considered highly historically accurate.
One of those movies I think I enjoyed more than most.
I saw Alexander in the theater and was disappointed by it. I then reappraised it a few years ago. My feeling is that it's not a great movie but it's also not the utter disaster that it was made out to be by the critics at its release. It's a movie that I think a lot of people hoped would be great, and it instead ended up being merely pretty good, and because it fell so short of expectations it was criticized a little too sharply. I like the film overall but I also think that we're still waiting for the definitive Alexander film.
@@sorenpx there's 4 versions of that movie. Which is the best one?
@@sorenpxI don't think another movie about Alexander should be made again. Nor should it happen with the biographies of any other important historical figures. You simply don't have enough time to show all the events in a movie's runtime.
Napoleon is a great example of such a thing happening.
Napoleon was a prominent figure from Toulon (1794) to Waterloo (1815). You can't go over 30 years of history in a single movie.
This is why I believe that a TV show would be better for these stories to be told.
Because if you make a movie, you'd have to do what Waterloo did and only show a small part of the history.
Great show. Some to add to your list thought, if you want to do another. Zulu, sink the Bismark, Gettysburg, waterloo.
Excellent list. I might have added "Zulu".
I think Tora! Tora! Tora! did a great job capturing the internal politics and complacency on both sides. It accurate shows Yamamoto's comment about dictating a peace treaty with US would only happen if Japan conquered the US. Something he knew couldn't happen. Many Americans at that time didn't know he was actually criticizing Tojo by pointing out the US was not a pushover but would fit hard.
That's one of the more interesting parts about it, I think. One common criticism was that it covered the boring part of politics, but I find that in history, the talks leading up to decisions are as interesting as the decisions, and their consequences.
@@Syntopikon Oddly, I think the fact it covered the politics is of the movie's greatest strengths. It gave a very subtle tension and drama to the movie that many missed.
@@washingtonradio I agree. You could feel the tension rising as the film progressed, almost as in a suspense novel, which to me made the known outcome that much more understandable and authentic.
I agree with you on "Fires on the Plain" which told the real life war story without pulling any punches.
Happy to hear someone else saw it. It’s one of the most powerful films ever made.
The 1970 film Waterloo. The dubbing is a bit dodgy and some of the acting is over the top. But I'm pretty sure that it is very much what the battle looked like. At least in terms of numbers involved.
Enjoyed your video 👍🏼
Glad you liked it! I've heard good things about Waterloo. It's on the list of movies to watch!
Hey Fires On The Plane I saw that as a kid you should also see The Human Condition
Also The Burmese Harp is another.
Great video, and I enjoyed your selection of as-historically-accurate-as-possible films. "Fires on the Plain" sounds grim AF. Not that it's important, but for future reference 'Boot' in German is pronounced pretty similarly to 'boat' in English but stretched out to two syllables, kinda like "bow-it" :)
Good to know! I imagine it won't be the last I talk about it lol
Yeah, Fires on the Plain is pretty depressing. It's one of those movies I don't really see that come up in war film rankings, likely because it's old, in black-and-white, and in Japanese, which is partly why I wanted to highlight it here.
@@johnnzboy The way "about" is pronounced in Minnesoota?
@@JiveDadson I'm afraid I can't say, I'm not sure how the Minnesotans pronounce 'about'...
Google Translate's pronunciation is quite good.
How about The Battle of Algiers? It sure seems realistic.
Yup, I think The Battle of Algiers would qualify.
A masterpiece I would put in this category would be the 1959 film 'The Cruel Sea' that depicts the crew of a convoy escort ship in both the Battle of The Atlantic and the Arctic Convoys. Jack Hawkins is sublime in the role of the captain that is forced to make a brutal decision that tears him apart. Rare role for Donald Sinden and supporting cast of Denholm Elliot, Virginia Mckenna and an early role for Stanley Baker all on top form make this an absolute must see
This is a movie I wasn’t even aware of. Thanks!
@@Syntopikon You are welcome, I am sure you will enjoy it
Well done list. Cheers
The Conspirator, 2010 is closely accurate too. It is the trial of Mary Surratt, regarding President Abraham Lincoln's assassination trial .
Haven’t seen that one. Sounds interesting, and not a perspective I was aware of.
You missed "The Fighting Lady" shot aboard USS Yorktown and released in 1944.
I saw "Lincoln" not long after it was released; it was totally engrossing, and as far as I could tell, very accurate. As a Vermonter, I have a fondness for Thaddeus Stevens, a Vermont native, (who might very well have said, as did Stephen A. Douglas, another native Vermonter, "Vermont is a fine state to be from, provided you leave it early and never return.").
Lol that's a good fun quote.
@@Syntopikon It is indeed! Needless to say, Douglas did NOT carry Vermont in the 1860 election!
@@Syntopikon Well, to anyone living OUTSIDE Vermont! 😂
Fires on the Plain was one of the first major films I saw that brings the true bleak horrors of war degradation to the screen. Historically speaking it being set in the chaotic end of the Pacific War in the Philippines adds to it's dark material given just how brutal the campaign was. Ironically the main character survives in the novel and is remembering the events in postwar Tokyo.
a little surprised that " Come and see " is not on this list considering the huge contribution to the film of eye-witness accounts by those who actually lived through the German occupation of Belarus.
I spoke about Come and See in the context of Fires on the Plain, but it certainly could've had its own section. But both are so bleak, I thought that one, in full, was enough. I would like to do a video on censored & banned movies, and I think I'll probably include it there.
@@Syntopikon fair enough👍
The problem with"Hamburger Hill" was that it came out after"Platoon" and before"Full Metal Jacket".😮😅😊😢
The most underrated Vietnam War Movie is 1991's"Flight Of The Intruder"
It’s pronounced BOAT, my dude. Das BOAT!!!!
The German word for boat happens to be “Boot”. It is Das Boot.
@ yeah, BUT PRONOUNCED LIKE BOAT!!!!! That’s why I wrote it was PRONOUNCED BOAT!!! See my point???!!!
Yes. Das Boot is pronounced Das 'Boat'. The o vowel is shortened a bit but it's more or less the same.
@ precisely!!!
One more recommendation here: go and watch Ridley Scott's "The Duellists". Often overlooked, but a brilliant timepiece, masterfully executed on a minimal budget and with a perfect cast.
Also a forgotten movie that is very accurate is the British War movie from 1946 " Theirs is the Glory" A movie about the Battle of Arnhem in 1944. Filmed and acted on the Real orignal battlefield of Arnhem and acted by the real 1st British Airborne division that fought there in Sept 1944
Have not seen that one, either. I've got roughly half a dozen new movies to watch now. Looking forward to it!
daniel day lewis commands the screen in almost every movie.
Yup. One of the, if not the, finest actors of our time.
Now you could do a list of the more acurate adaptations based from novels
This would give me an excuse to read a bunch more + rewatch/reread LOTR, so I'ma add it to the list for sometime next year. Gonna take some time for sure.
Das Bo-oht not Das “boot”
Better to pronounce it like the English boat, that’s much closer.
Das Boot and M&C are my 2 favourite movies! There might be a pattern 😅
A pattern of excellent taste 🤘
Apollo 13 is one of my favorite movies of all time. Ever since I saw it in the theater, I've loved it. It's such a good story, well-told. In my opinion, it's easily Ron Howard's best film.
My feelings on All the President's Men are pretty much the opposite. I had always heard about what a great film it is and then I watched it and was let down. It was slow, dull, sometimes hard to follow, and altogether I was just left with the impression that the movie is overrated.
It took me two viewings to decide how I felt about Lincoln but, having seen the film twice, I think that is might be Spielberg's last great film. If it's not Lincoln then it's Munich, but it might be Lincoln. At the very least, Lincoln is several steps ahead of anything else Spielberg has done in the last 19 years.
Happy to find another Apollo 13 fan. Whenever I can't think of something to watch, it's my go to. You know how it ends, but the drama has never lessened for me.
Interestingly, I feel the opposite about All the President's Men. I went in with high expectations because I had heard all the adulation, and I found that it lived up to it. But I also really enjoy movies with a lot of dialogue and thinking (really enjoyed Locke, too).
I'm hoping Spielberg has something special. He has an "event" film at Universal, which sort of suggests that he might have something epic.
I would have liked to have seen "Last of the Mohicans" or "Downfall" on this list.
Life on those ships got interesting when the fresh food ran out.
Two pointers on pronunciation.
Boatswain is spoken as bos'un, rhyming with frozen.
In German boot sounds very much closer to boat.
This is a good selection of historically accurate films. More of course could be included. 😉 Esoecially if the criteria range farther than principally fidelity to events and personalities, to include a more general adherence to environmental detail and milieu in an otherwise totally fictional setting.
Cheers!
Glenn
One film often overlooked film in this category is 1984’s The Killing Fields.
Fires on the Plain is now on my must-not-watch list.
For Das Boot the pronunciation of Boot is like the English word Boat (NOT pronounced like the foot ware "boot") but using a shorter and less emphasized "oh" sound than English "boat pronunciation", and Das with an "ah" sound so it would be said like Dahhs Bohht. I also disagree about Das Boot being a Hollywood action flick, it humanized the enemy and has a clear message of the incredible waste of war both its cost in material and cost in human loves.
Another very accurate movie is "The Onion Field, " which used the actual police reports and court documents for details, as well as the author of the book.
I'm not sure how many creative liberties the movie "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" took, but that might also be one to add to this list.
Was not aware of The Onion Field - will add to my list of must watches. I enjoy neo-noir, so I think I'll probably like it.
"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter", insofar as I've gleaned from the numerous history books I've read, is quite true to life. In fact, the only reason it didn't make it here was I was afraid people would castigate me for not doing the true story, which could take hours, if not days to recount, justice.
@Syntopikon One could spend an entire week just talking about Abraham Lincoln's long history of training in martial arts, sword fighting, and parkour.
Totally understandable.
In Apollo 13, the joke that Lovell makes about Guenther Wendt (I wonder wer Guenther went) in german accent was not his, it was Wally Schirra in Apollo 7. Yet it was too good of a joke to let it out of the movie though.
3:09 in the what of it?
The thick of it 😭
You should make a similar video but about movies that predicted the future like Contagion for example.
Contagion wasn't even slightly close to anything that actually happened
ZULU! An accurate portrayal of a terrifying battle between 125 British defending Rorkes Drift outpost against 4000 Zulu warriors. 11 Victoria crosses were awarded for this battle.
One Life staring Anthony Hopkins. 😀
What about"Tombstone","Wyatt Earp" or"Dances With Wolves"??😮😅😊😢
Lore of Movies That Are Historically Accurate momentum 100
I love all those movies! 💖 all historical movies should be accurate. Falsificstion of history should be banned, or at least there should be disclaimers if something "took creative liberties" ( "cleopatra was black")
Old cinema was better.
I use to say that one shouldn't have to be ignorant in order to enjoy a movie.
What about "We Were Soldiers" (2002), "Casualties of War" (1989) and "Stalingrad" (1993)? Aren't these considered accurate war films?
We Were Soldiers, like every Mel Gibson "historical" movie, is laughably inaccurate in many ways. Even having Col Moore himself as an advisor for the film didn't help.
@@mikearmstrong8483 Gibson was not able to mess this up as the director was obsessed with making the film as accurate as possible. I cannot speak to the battle scenes though they ring true to what I know and have seen of how the Eras weapons and soldiers were trained and those that I know who were there in Nam at the time say it was accurate. The domestic scenes of the Wife and training prior to the unit deploying was very real down to the fact they used Ft Benning for those scenes. Bottom line it was as accurate as th3e director could possibly make it.
The reason I can say that the domestic scenes were accurate is I was on Ft Benning at the time, and they rang true to how people there lived at the time.
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The domestic scenes were very accurate.
The battle scenes were horseshit for at least 4 reasons right off the bat.
@@mikearmstrong8483 The reasons?
@GhostRider-sc9vu
First: We lost the battle. Withdrawing to the LZ, the battalion was ambushed and suffered much heavier casualties than shown in the film. We bugged out and left the VC in control of the area.
Second: There was never any bayonet charge.
Third: The idea of a helicopter hovering just above the ground in the middle of an enemy camp while pivoting to fire is laughably ludicrous, as any helo pilot will tell you.
Fourth: Broken Arrow does NOT and never has meant a unit being overrun needs all available air support. It is meant to report a class of nuclear weapon accident. There is a very specific reporting procedure to a very specific level of command, and one does not declare Broken Arrow by just yelling the words into a radio. That myth started long after the battle, printed in a book written by the son of Col Moore's FAC liason. It has been repeated so often that some douche put it in Wikipedia, which doesn't fact check entries. I was trained on Broken Arrow reporting and there is a completely different term for a unit being overrun. And it still requires a specific reporting procedure, not just yelling the words.
We are not "Soldiers" on Submarines. Soldiers are in the Army. We, being in the Navy, are Sailors.
Fair enough. It’s something I’ll remember to get right in future videos.
Thank you!
But, but, what about *Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter?* 😁
1:1 accuracy. It's all real.
Das Boat! The German word Boot is pronounced Boat. That is the origin of the English word, but the English slightly changed the spelling.
Boot is boot not a bout.
Boat is actually originating from Scandinavian languages where we say "Båt" because we where experts of boat-building during the Viking-times. The word actually even was borrowed by the French people even if they spell and pronounce it a bit differently.
movie that respect history are far and too few
I'm surprised to see "Das Boot" on this list, as it basically compresses the likely events of a U-boat's entire frontline service into a single patrol. It's very similar to the movie "Memphis Belle" in that regard. Sure, everything portrayed happened to one U-boat or another during the war, but virtually none of it would have happened to a single U-boat on a single patrol. Also, I wish people would stop pronouncing "Boot" as if it's one of these:🥾. It should be pronounced almost exactly the same as the English word "Boat".
Sad that due to the decline of public education, fictional movies are all that people know of history
My daughter's favorite movie line ever. If the chutes dont open whats the point? She as seen Apollo 13 at least 20 times as its he mothers favorite movie.
It's an excellent line, as is the one that comes right after - "Ken, you're telling me what you need. I'm telling you what we have to work with at this point. I'm not making this stuff up." I use that one quite a bit.
I saw this back 1981. It was pretty accurate albeit the obligatory anti-NS propaganda wasn't. The German Navy back then wasn't exactly anti-government, in fact of all the branches of the German Armed Forces (die Wehrmacht) it was the most patriotic. Like I said though the movie was a very accurate depiction of what it was like in U-Boat service at that point in war (early 1943) from the German perspective.
Das Boot is pronounced Boat. You should do your research.
You forgot a Bridge to far
It's not extremely accurate, it is very authentic and gets some things right tho!
@@RasEli03 The movie is the most accurate war movie to date(maby along with Tora Tora) xd you should check out Armchair Historian review if you are looking for confirmation, it is for sure more accurate than most movies on this list, a Bridge too far has it all, real life dialogs, real costumes and vehicles, and scenario that maches history in tiny detail
If you want some historically correct nightmare feul.
Watch men behind the sun
Just looked it up. Looks pretty gruesome. Adding it to the list.
Have you considered Animated movies that are historically accurate?
For this video, I did not, though I'm certain they do exist.
Thank God you moved on from Box office bombs!!
It took all that I had 😭 I find them so interesting lol. But I think it'll be fairly different (entertainment, still) topics going forward lol
Master and Commander blew all claims to historical reality in that farcical scene where they took the rear wheels off the guns in order to fire them further.That was a complete nonsense. If a ship needed to fire farther the gunners timed their shots so that they fired on the uproll.
Even though I am Jewish, when I saw "Das Boot" in 1982, I still cheered for the captain and crew of the World War 2 German U-boat and I still got very upset when only one of the crew members survived the air raid at the end of this fantastic movie!
Will a movie ever be made about Israel's 1967's attack on the USS Liberty? Yeah, I thought not.
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ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN is historically inaccurate. No one takes it seriously anymore.
DAS BOOT is pronounced 'das boht', not 'das boot'.
Why do you say that?
Please get&use a better microphone! :_[ hYlkeW
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Now do the LEAST accurate films ever!
Although I love James Horner's score from Braveheart....It has to be one of the most historically inaccurate movie ever made!!
But no less fun for it! Historical accuracy is an interesting one for me. It's one of those aspects that has its place, but I'm not a stickler for.
@johnortiz1964
Pretty much any Mel Gibson "historical" movie. Looking at Braveheart, The Patriot, and We Were Soldiers, I think the original Star Wars trilogy was probably more historically accurate.
I tried watching this but had to turn it off. The narrators voice and speech rhythm is unbearable. Morse code is more pleasant to listen to than this guys quick stoccato talking.
I don't like it, but I get it 🥲
You forgot a Bridge to far
Too far