Top 10 Historically Accurate Movies
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Where's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
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+Jacob Olson I was going to ask the same thing lol
Even more accurate than Lincoln. They didn't even mention vampires!
IKR THAT MOVIE IS BAEE I WATCHED IT 4 TIMES
+Jacob Olson Do you seriously think that movie is Historically Accurate?
The full list:
10. Come and see (1985)
9. Flags of our fathers (2006)
8. Lincoln (2012)
7. Das Boot (1981)
6. Tora! Tora! Tora (1970)
5. 12 Years a slave (2013)
4. The Pianist (2002)
3. Schindler's List (1993)
2. Downfall / Der Untergang (2004)
1. Apollo 13 (1995)
How is hotel Rwanda not on the list
Why?
Thanks man!
Thanks for saving me 14mins
Thanks idk why they dont put the list in the description
You guys forgot Hotel Rwanda. That movie was so accurate they had first hand accounts and Paul himself as source material for the events portrayed in the movie. They literally only made up one scene, and it was a small scene.
Hotel Rwanda left out the fact that the protagonist is part Tutsi and made no distinction between the Hutu and Tutsi (maybe to prove a point?).
Sarena Coulon what scene
How accurate the movie is, is somewhat controversial.
Not so accurate. He was shown as the hero but in actual he was not so good.
Saw that movie in highschool.
What made Schindler's List even more heartbreaking and powerful was the amazing score by John Williams.
Suggestions for sequels: Schindler's Pissed, Schindler's Fist, Schindler's Missed...
Yes! If you change all the John Williams soundtrack for Robbie Williams songs, the movie will be ruined!
For a stunningly beautiful forgotten piece by John Williams, pull up the almost 10 minute version of the Overture from the movie "The Cowboys" done by The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. You will listen to it over and over again.
I'm glad you said that! Music is so often overlooked. John Williams is surely the finest cinematic composer that has ever lived. I also adore Hans Zimmers scores.
My favorite WW2 movie is the one where Hitler complains about losing is Xbox Live subscription in front of his men.
That was very accurate, Hitler thought Rommel was responsible for it which is why Rommel had to commit suicide.
I remember seeing that. That's the reason I looked for Der Untergang.
You mean "Downfall"
@@talimbeingaverythriftyghor5967 see untergang means downfall in german.
Then you're a moron!
So Downfall is the movie they use in the Hitler Reacts videos...
yes
***** What? I've never watched it before, & I've always forgotten to look up what movie they use...
I just figured haha
NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Lil Mo It's Nein... Not Nine
No mention of that "Hotel Rwanda" movie, which might be the ONLY one made about that subject. People always seem to feel so "aware" of history when they watch movies about Nazis, but something like Rwanda doesn't seem to matter.
+Oppeldeldoc1 - Thank you!
We watched that movie in class after a lesson on Rwandan genocide. I'm really disappointed that it's not included.
+Oppeldeldoc1 THIS, and the fact that Apollo 13 is on the number one spot - not to disagree with the merits of the movie per se, but this list seems just a bit too America centric over all.
Topsy, you've completely missed the point. Way to misinterpret two whole sentences.
+Lahbreca to be fair.. Apollo 13 is honestly THAT historically accurate.
Lincoln is honestly one of my favorite movies of all time. Daniel Day Lewis is the best. He’s the best cause he doesn’t do a movie every year, he picks and chooses roles that he knows fit him best and when he gets those roles he becomes the character. A absolute great.
Daniel Day Lewis can act for sure but best look alike goes to Abraham Lincoln the vampire hunters Benjamin Walker for almost looking like his clone
At the Daniel Day Lewis School of Acting they teach you how to read the script before you take the role.
As a non American, I watched the movie and was shocked that he was republican. How far have they strayed from the sensible and progressive, to now being so conservative that they are backwards, so right wing that they are... well... there isn't much more right they can get.
@@TheJAMF The republican and democratic parties flipped ideologically about the 1920-1930's and by 1960's they were opposite from the 1860's. Basically, the democrats of the 1800's and early 1900's were regressive pro elite plutocratic oligarchs, while the republicans still pro plutocratic industrialist had a progressive streak that was for ending slavery and developing rail and road and ports and utilities (water, gas, and later to be electricity).
Both parties until 1950-60's though were full of bigots. And until 1930, both parties were pro robber baron for the most part, with what is to many irony of Republican Teddy Roosevelt's trust busting and square deal... he later ran again as a third party called the Bull Moose Party. He as president from 1901 to 1909.
FDR in 1930's pushed the democrats to be pro union (was actually illegal for most workers to strike or form unions until the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA") of 1935... often prior unionization was seen as a type of rebellion in some states and counties by their local robber baron who then had their own hired armies war with the unions (term redneck) came about from union workers, particularly the coal union workers as they would protest and strike wearing a red bandana. Called the coal wars, but many collective bargaining wars broke out throughout the country.
1935 made collective bargaining legal and required procedure if a workplace votes to become unionized.
And of course social security comes from FDR's administration along with FDIC (bank deposit insurance that will make good on your money if a bank fails), Glass-Steagal Act that separated investment banking from deposit banking (which unfortunately has since been repealed in 2000 hence the crash and now zombie economy of the US since 2008), and many other progressive economic policies started under FDR.
Civil rights under JFK and LBJ and medicare started under LBJ, a medical plan for elderly, US Still doesn't have a universal healthcare system.
Anyway, that's the short of it as I could make it.
In a nut shell, US politics since the nations inception has been essentially two or three robber baron or plutocratic oligarchical parties going at each other with their own agenda, but business always came first... gotta keep those dynasties funded into the centuries. Occasionally, they get a loose cannon candidate or the use a candidate that feigns what the people need and want to get votes.
Kind of like still today.
@@TheJAMF Aye jam , you've nailed it, we're right. Thank God.
The film Glory was an incredibly accurate film. Historians viewing the movie found only two mistake in it. In the scene where the guns are being issued to the men, they were calling out the serial numbers on their weapons. Those particular guns had no serial numbers. The flags used in the film were printed like most flags are today. Back then, all flags were sewn together, stripe by stripe and star by star. If these two tiny details are the only faults they could find, Glory should have been an honorable mention at the very least.
I loved the Glory, but there were other problems. For example, he four African-American soldiers and the 54th's second-in-command were fictitious. They also said Fort Wagner was "never" taken, yet it was captured later in the war. And don't forget the slave boy with the digital wrist watch! Great movie, though.
Although Fort Wagner was not taken by the Union forces, it was abandoned by the garrison when the fort,s water supply became contaminated by the bodies of the dead who'd been buried in a mass grave near the water supply
+Joe Ratcliffe Confederate science.
One more Glory goof, they assault Wagner in the wrong direction:
www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2009/07/make-glory-hollywood-moved-atlantic-ocean
Mark Mason, Glory had more mistakes. They were attacking from the opposite direction that the 54th MA actually attacked. Finally, they were not really the first African-American regiment. There were Black regiments fighting in Port Hudson, Louisiana a month before they fought at James Island. There was also a glitch (perhaps in editing) where they fired their weapons on James Island with bayonets still at their sides and suddenly Shaw is yelling “Charge” and they have their bayonets fixed. Those are minor things and it’s still the second best Civil War movie out there (I like Gettysburg better).
I always loved "Conspiracy", a movie about the meeting in Wannesee, Germany, where the 12 most important planners of the Holocaust laid out their plans, and discussed, in cold blooded details, how it would be carried out. It starred Sir Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, and Colin Firth
Okay, i've read lots of books on the Wannsee Conference but i somehow missed that there was a movie about it?! (i lived abroad for a while with limited internet...) Thank you for posting this comment--i've been looking for a film like this to watch... i know what i'm doing tonight! You rock! :)
It would’ve been nice and more accurate to have some german actors in there too. It’s the same with Valkyrie: all Brits and Yanks.
The version starring Kenneth Branagh is better than the 1980's version maybe because of his acting. But its a scary movie. Did you ever hear of an "Alternate Future" book based on the Wannesee meeting. it's FATHERLAND by Robert Harris and made into a movie with Rutger Hauer. Its a murder mystery. The idea is that Germany / Hitler survived WW 2. Britain and the USA had to agree to a truce because right after the USA dropped the A-Bomb and ended the war with Japan, the Germans announced they also had an A-Bomb. That forced a stalemate because although the USA was out of reach for German's airforce, Engand was not. The book takes up in 1964 when the US President is John Kennedy's father Joseph Kennedy. The truce is still in effect and Hitler is now 75 years old. But big problem. In the USA, more and more accounts and evidence of the Nazi Holocaust is rising in the press and public outrage. Hitler cannot afford for the USA to restart the war (he is still fighting the Soviets west of the Ural mountains). But what to do about those who took part in the Wannesee Meeting--many are still alive. An underground group in Germany has the details of the Wannesee's Final Solution to killing all Jews. The underground will give the details to Joe Kennedy. I will suggest get hold of a copy in paperback. Great book, great ending, but the movie is kinda good.
What made that movie so scary was the matter of fact way they discussed the mass murder.
There is a German made movie called Die Wanzee Konferance. My spelling is likely wrong but it's on youtube. Subtitled but excellent. Germans speaking German make it realistic.
Schindler's List and the Pianist are two of my favorite movies of all time. Such amazing films.
Love Schindler’s List.
I like schindlers list too
Pianist was iight... I think it's because I watched it after Schindler's List... my expectations were probably too high.
VicaMOOR I watched it after Schindler’s list as well. I love it just as much only bc I love films based on true events. Especially in history
I love geopolitical/ military history, especially love ww2 period piece films. I couldn't agree with you more, Shindler and Pianist are incredible films
Apollo 13 is legitimately one of my absolute favourite movies of all, I’ve seen more than a dozen times but it never fails to make my feel anxious for what’s going to happen, no matter how many times I watch it it always leaves me in awe.
I'm surprised Gandhi wasn't even mentioned. Director Sir Richard Attenborough made sure it was dead-on-balls accurate.
John Saunders WatchMojo is Canadian but ok
@John Saunders wow seriously John? Even if WatchMojo was American you'd form that entire accusation based off of one youtube channel. Grow up man. There were a few movies on that list that didn't involve Americans at all. Besides their lists are always just up to 10 which means some things have to be left out.
John Saunders John Saunders like we don’t have that problem as well. These just about every American film or series has British actors. These days I cannot watch a single American film or tv show without hearing a goddamn British accent. Like in order for American films to sell I. The UK we always have to have British stars in them. I’ve grown really tired of your Brits and your shitty attitudes. You think because you ruled the world once then everyone should be like England and do everything British people and if we don’t then everyone else is falling behind. That’s really pathetic and arrogant. I’ve been all around the world and enjoyed almost every place I went to so don’t tell me about getting out more. You modern Brits are so judgmental of everyone who isn’t like you. Besides why do you care if a British film doesn’t sell well here in the US. If you enjoy it for yourself then let it be. Don’t worry what anyone else thinks. Also most American historical films always have a British star like Lincoln for example and 3:10 to Yuma.
@John Saunders I understand your point although I've seen both versions of Shameless and both were fantastic. The Office on the other hand was nothing without Gervais
@@DJShire_ATL no offence buddy, but name 1 actor who could've done it as well as Day Lewis.( I'm Irish btw)
Lincoln was a vampire hunter.
+Brah Sumatra I did not expect that movie to be as good as it was XD
Whofan06 It was good, the trailer really sold it.
Brah Sumatra Gotta love it when stupid concepts are given excellent writing, directing, etc. Take Zombieland for example, i mean the goal of the entire movie is to find a fucking Twinkie. XD
Whofan06 Baahaa that should have been the main reason behind the Walking Dead. Lincoln Vampire Hunter was good because the vampire hunting was mixed with actual events in Lincoln's life. The real reason behind the civil war etc..
Brah Sumatra Yeah that probably was the best part "The south not only wanted to keep slavery but they were vampires too" XD
Deez nuts are historically accurate.
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+Sup Dood what nutz
*these nuts are historically accurate on your chin
As a German, I am a bit overwhelmed to see two entirely German productions in this list. Both are great movies. Das Boot is widely considered as one of the best German movies of all time. The model of the U-Boot can be visited in the "Bavaria Fimstadt", the museum of at the Munich studio that (co-)produced the film, btw. (there are other interesting things, like the original Fuchur from The NEverending Story, for example).
And Der Untergang was an astounding movie to watch. It fits perfectly in the German culture of remembering those darkest times of our history: This time, the crimes committed and the dangers of fashism are kept well remembered. The movie came out when I was 16 yo, and we all went to the cinema to watch it, organised by our school for purposes of history classes. The same happend one year later, with the movie "Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage", showing the student resistance group "Weiße Rose", their famous distribution of flyers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and the resulting arrest, trial, and execution of the siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl (hence "The last days" in the title). Also a very intense movie, yould recommend that, too, if you are interested in accurate portraials of that period and its madness (with the positive side effect, that this movie centers around some of the bravest people of their time. There were not only Nazis in Germany, and we still remember our heroes like Sophie Scholl!). A little remark: the square in front of the main building of the LMU is called "Geschwister Scholl Platz" ("Scholl siblings square") today, and all around the place, there are bronze plates in the ground, exact replicas of the flyers the White Rose distributed there. If you ever visit Munich, this might not be the most impressive sight, but it is a remarkable one (plus not far from the Residence and the Feldherrenhalle and only maybe a 10 minutes walk from the Marienplatz [the city hall] and the Frauenkirche [Cathedral Church of Our Lady], so worth a detour).
I am 6th generation US citizen but I agree. I hate war movies. All that buddy buddy and rah rah for our side. But I was deeply affected by Das Boot. I couldn't believe that at one point I was rooting about the other side. That is the sign of a great movie when you are so lost in the film you forget the true outcome.
@@judyrobertson9479 well, I don‘t hate war movies. Good war movies, however, don‘t glorify war, or the soldiers. They show war as the gruesome thing it is. Movies like Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket or The Thin Red Line do exactly that.
Das Boot does a similar thing. The military vessel ist just, well, the vessel for the story. Which side they are on doesn‘t matter, the presentation of humans in a realistic peril makes the characters relatable. You could tell a similar story in space, the setting altered to science fiction, and it would work. But not as directly, because the fear of drowning, of sinking to the deep dark grounds of the sea is relatable, suffocating in space not so much.
What makes the few really good German movies extraordinary, especially the ones based on history (like Das Boot, Der Untergang, Sophie Scholl or Das Leben der Anderen), is the honest depiction of history. A huge (some think, a too big) part of history class in German schools is about the 1st half of the 20th Century. We learn about the crimes committed by Germans, we learn how this could happen, and that it my never happen again.
Btw, This approach to history (even unpleasant history) here goes as far as to limit the freedom of speech by law in certain ways: Symbols like the Swastika are banned (there are exceptions for art and education, with strange effects: the use of swastikas was allowed in the movie „Inglorious Basterds“, but not on movie posters), and it is a crime punishable by up to 5 years in prison to deny, approve of, or extenuate the crimes of the Nazis (most notably, the holocaust). In general, incitement is a crime here, but there are several codes specifically pointing out the Nazi regime.
I'll just make a brief comment to second your noting the story of Sophie Scholl, an unfortunately ignored great film about a heroic story.
Thank you for sharing.
But now I felt in love with one new German ww2 show, Generation War or AKA the German version of Band of Brothers. But I still agree with Das Boot and Downfall
Downfall (german: Der Untergang) has to be one of the best movies i've seen so far, Downfall definitely gets a massive recommendation from me.
Never believe everything you see in the internet.
- Abraham Lincoln
The Imitation Game *WAS NOT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE*
+Caleb N YES OMG I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THAT, THE MOVIE WAS GOOD BUT IT WAS BASHED BECAUSE IT WASNT ACCURATE
+Caleb N Why?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game#Accuracy
You know what they say about Wikipedia
+Alexandrea: That it's been reliable for close to a decade, now?
The Pianist, Shindlers list, and The Imitation Game are such beautifully crafted movies definitely must watch if you haven’t
Funny, these all happen to be WW2 period pieces, which I happen to love almost any movie centered around the great wars. But yeah I totally agree with you, those movies are indeed amazing must sees
Snodrod I hadn’t noticed the 3 movies i mentioned were World War II related, i love ww2 movies haha
The imitation game is amazing definitely recommended
What about Waterloo (1970)?
seriously, what the AF... THE most painstakingly historically accurate movie.... aw well though
Make your own list instead of finding fault with someone else's.
vee kay it’s a great and accurate movie and didn’t the mojo lady say we could suggest our ideas? You should watch waterloo 1970 though.
Shame though, it took 15000 soldiers and a brigade of cavalrymen to make and it wasn’t mentioned at all
Philip Larkin you’re right
I don't think I've ever heard Daniel Day Lewis' real voice. I don't even want to look it up because I'm afraid it'll ruin the illusion. He's such a good actor.
Taylor Dinkins it won’t ruin anything lol he’s a sweetheart
Check out his last movie Phantom Thread. He used his real voice in that role.
Just because it's your favourite movie, and just because you don't bother to flip through a history book, does not automatically place it into the Top 10. Stop whining.
L Y Lam Amen.
L Y Lam
Thank you
“Lincoln” is a great movie. Gonna have to go watch it again.
The back and forth with Sally fields is completely amazing.
You used the english dubbed version for Come and See? Shame.
How is that over stylist movie "realistic" anyway?
Karl Karlos They explained it in this video.
It isn't...the film was pure hatelust fantacy....the reality was far worse...cold and clinical.
I was coming to look for comments on how bad the dubbing is. The mouth of the lady with mud on her face didn't match up to the lines.
It's unfortunately difficult to get the original with subtitles for many people
Gotta love how 70% of these are WWII films and the other 30% is American history. It's almost like Hollywood are unable to make anything else.....
Fury
+marvelfannumber1 They are the propaganda arm of the government, gotta have someone painting america as the hero through history.
+marvelfannumber1 I was actually surprised at the percentage of non-Hollywood films. But yeah, WWII...
+Marco Klaue Yeah, its really a surprise that some directors/studios make movies depicting real events that involved the deaths of millions in an accurate and respectful way...
+marvelfannumber1 Almost like Hollywood is in America.
Abraham Lincoln the vampire hunter is the most historically accurate movie out there.
damn you beat me too it by a month
+thomas toye i saw your post 6 hours ago and found it so funny i travelled back in time and posted it a month earlier thus changing the fabric of time.
i was about to say that ...darn
Definitely more subversive than Spielberg's infantile fairytales.
Oh, let me guess. Lincoln was a tyrant and the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery. Some bullshit like that? The infantile fantasies belong to the revisionists, not Spielberg.
No Letters From Iwo Jima, better film than Flags of our Fathers, No Waterloo or The Killing Fields
I'd lift up your voice. Those were Great films and truly captured war and battle history. I guess this was more "historical films" but they did do some lists on war movies moreover. If these aren't included, keep pushing.
Letter from iwo jima is fiction, even the main protagonist is fiction. But it portrait the best strategy of Japanese defending iwo jima. And I love that movie
Star Wars is the most accurate historical movie of all time
lol
Historical movie? I thought it was a documentary.
It's transmitted straight to earth.
AHAHAHAHAHA That profile picture
*sarcasm* Totally
The subtitle in Downfall is all wrong, I've watched it on youtube for years lol.
Valkyrie (2008) really should have been on this list. Yes, it's another WW2 film, and the accents were a bit of a sticking point for some people. But in terms of relating the events as they happened, it was one of the most historically accurate films I've ever seen.
+Rob Pegler I thought the accents in Valkrie drew undue criticism. With exception of portraying a German who is supposed to be speaking English as part of the plot, the assumption that German accents should be heard when the drama is portrayed in English is no less ridiculous than expecting actors playing Romans to speak with fake Italian accents.
What about "The Killing Fields"? If I remember correctly, that was from the two men who survived it.
It portrayed the real horrors of Socialism so in WOKE era this reality must be suppressed.
@@doraran5158 It showed the horrors of American foreign policy heedlessly throwing its weight around and the victims of that arrogance and ignorance.
@@doraran5158 It's not socialism. Nothing to do. It was the crazy Khmer Rouge. You might have said Communism. Socialism is not Communism. You must be a far righter. How about Fascism?
Downfall is on Netflix, outstanding movie. I'd like to throw in a few of my "historically accurate" (IMO) favorite movies: The Longest Day (1962), Rush (2013), A Night to Remember (1958), it's on RUclips, The Founder (2016), on Netflix, The King's Speech (2010), Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Patton (1970), The Last Emperor (1987), The Great Escape (1963), A Man for All Seasons (1966), Becket (1964).
A Night to Remember was really accurate, amazing since it was from the late 50s.
Becket is a good movie but the portrayal of Henry II as an Englishman is hardly accurate, there's no evidence that he spoke English at all much less spoke with an English accent. The Madness of King George is more historically accurate.
If you think The great Escape was accurate, you haven't read the history, beefed up roles for Americans that never existed.
What about zulu
Papillion from 1973. True story
Tora! Tora! Tora! Is a very under-rated film. We had so many warnings about Pearl Harbor it's not even funny.
That film still stands up today, I'm 17 and was moved by the magnitude of the film and how well it showed both points of view
+GokuFievel32
Agree. I never try to miss a chance to see it. It is one of those films that seems to get better with age. By not using "Big Stars" of that time only made the film seem more authentic.
Yup yup yup
Our subs and carriers weren't in port that day and only the Arizona was a total loss, so the attack itself wasn't all that devastating.
Wasn't that devastating??? WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT!!! 60% of the American Pacific Fleet was destroyed that day! 2,403 American lives were lost! What saved America's bacon was voiced clearly by the Japanese Admiral who commanded the attack: "All I fear we have accomplished is that we have awakened a sleeping giant." This man was educated in the US, and he knew our industrial might would soon overcome the devastating blow against Pearl Harbor. Breath, dude, get a grip. Read some history. Japan had the upper hand in the Pacific until the Battle of Midway. It was our capitalist free society and our industrial capacity which re-built our Navy in very short order. Try telling any living survivors of that attack (what few are left) or any of their immediate survivors that Pearl wasn't "all that devastating." Your comment is so rich in male bovine defecation I'll try to preserve some of it as fertilizer for my garden next spring. I was amused and befuddled when I began this reply, and now I find you genuinely pissed me off.
Where is Batman vs Superman?
Lol
Superman flew around the world to erase that movie from the list.
+delon a They made a seperate Top Ten list for historically accurate Comic Book movies.
You're a real dumb*** aren't ya
Yeah, well at least I ain't no moose slime terrorist!
We Were Soldiers is a pretty darn good and accurate film. Plus, it redeems Mel Gibson a little who had 3 movies mentioned on the inaccurate movie list.
Why not Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter?
true
R u serious -_-
good question
funny but we all knew he was secretly a Werewolf!!
my fanily actually likes Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter lol
Abraham Lincoln the vampire slayer lol
It happened
You missed a really underrated historical movie- Michael Collins, a movie that stars Liam Neeson as Irish revolutionary Michael Collins. All the characters were perfectly cast, and in addition to giving great performances, the actors look just like their characters. It's not a super well-known movie, but if you're looking for a history movie with action & drama, I highly recommend it. Bonus: it has Liam Neeson and Alan Rickman (RIP) in it.
It was full of wild inaccuracies, including a technically impossible at the time vehicle bomb that never happened, a misrepresentation of the massacre at Croke Park, falsified locations, a version of Kitty Kiernan, played by a dreadful Julia Roberts that was ludicrous, a misrepresentation of de Valera (a great performance by Rickman but based on dubious claims and sometimes lies), a falsified account of the Treaty negotiations that suggested Collins was head of the republican delegation (he wasn't. Arthur Griffith was) and the completely untrue account of the death of Harry Boland. Students studying history have to be told to entirely ignore the film and not watch it or else they will get their facts all wrong and mix up truth and fiction in exams. In NO sense is it a historically accurate film. It was a pity the makers took such wild liberties with the facts.
My sister always goes on about that movie. I will have to watch it one day.
It’s an incredibly inaccurate film, Michael Collins and DeValera are portrayed as best friends when simply they were just acquaintances fighting for the same cause. Also the ending when it suggest DeValera ordered the assassination of Collins is completely untrue
Make your own list instead of finding fault with someone else's.
"All the characters were perfectly cast." Even Julia Roberts?
Just an absolute insult that Waterloo isn't included anywhere
I just wondered that. It's literally the most accurate historical film ever, guess because America wasn't involved in anyway. Same with Zulu AND even Zulu Dawn.
WHERE IS GROUCHY?!?
And Gettysburg.
Where is THE GRINCH
look at that! they didn't even include Waterloo, but made a place for a fake history movie, such as 'the imitation game'. Ridiculous! Who prepared this top 10?!
Letters From Iwo Jima should make that list.
Make your own list instead of finding fault with someone else's.
It's FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS from the Japanese side!
Make a comment once instead of using Ctrl + V.
@@TheVeek192 Gee, you're stupid.
I can see that, but it’s not as accurate as Flags of our Fathers. The ending mainly gives way to it since the general of the Japanese forces no one know what happened to him. The main Japanese character was more or less supposed to portray the average Japanese soldier, where as Flags used the names of real people.
Tora, Tora, Tora is a fantastic movie. Way superior to that Michael Bay piece of shit. Downfall has been ruined for me by all the meme but also excellent and should be number one I feel.
It's stuff like Downfall that always makes me think about how the people that create any sort of art have no idea how it could be perceived in the future. Including how something like that scene from Downfall being comedic fodder for people's reactions to stupid nonsense.
***** everything up to and including the total lack of factual stuff. If you want to watch a Pearl Harbour film watch Tora, Tora, Tora.
***** Also partly cause they turned the movie into a love story-ish thing and and really glossed over all the people that died and was sorta seen as disrespectful to those people.
Ben Affleck
If you read into the factual errors of Pearl Harbor, the list goes on and on. Michael Bay ruined it. I watch parts of it and I cringe. The acting is that bad. The facts are there, they just chose to ignore them all.
Ganz should have won the Oscar. He was freakin' mesmerizing. But given who he played, Hollywood would never give it to him.
Amistad is noticeably missing. Incredibly accurate and a very important part of history.
that’s just the thing. Amistad was too real..Whites don’t like facin the truth of how brutally evil slavery was. That’s why they gave us that softer touch of slavery movie with roots.
"Take a letter To his Honour the United States Secretary of State John Forsyth, My dear Mr. Forsyth it is my great pleasure to inform you that you are in fact correct, the slave fortress in Sierra Leone does not exist" - Captain Fitzgerald.
After his squadron's marines free the slaves held there and he destroys it with gunfire, the RN actually did destroy Lomboko in 1849. Captain Fitzgerald was in command of the squadron of several ships which destroyed it.
I have a couple problems with the scene. 1. The ship in the film appears to be a brig, typically an RN brig of the period would have 10 × 18-pounder carronades + 2 × 18 or 32-pounder carronades as bow chasers. Carronades would be a poor choice for shore bombardment being very short range. A far more likely scenario is barrels of gunpowder being brought ashore and the whole place being blown up. The Historica web site does say Captain Fitzgerald had the fort bombarded to ruins, but I question that. The flag on Fitzgerald's ship is the modern RN ensign (post 1864) which would be correct only if Rear Admiral Sir Edward Durnford King, Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station in 1840 was of the 'White' Squadron. The uniform Fitzgerald is wearing is that of a Commander (three rings not four) although entitled to the courtesy title of Captain as he is in command of a the ship. Commander would be appropriate for an 'unrated ship' which did not have a commanding officer with the rank of Captain as a sixth rate or higher would. Fitzgerald could have been a full Captain if he was in charge of a squadron of small ships, sort of like a 'Commodore-Second Class'
Nice to see Gettysburg on the honorable mentions list, very underrated in my opinion. Would also suggest Waterloo, Zulu, Master and Commander, and Hacksaw Ridge (which was released after this list)
Parts of Gettysburg were actually filmed on site, the rest in nearby fields.
Cant believe you guys would forget Waterloo ( 1970 ) Not only is this movie extremely accurate, but they hired 16,000 soviet soldier, a full brigade of Soviet cavalry, and a host of engineers and labourers to prepare the battlefield to recreate the battle of Waterloo.
If anything, this movie should be Number one.
+HoboTango Exceptional movie, couldn't agree more.
Master and Commander: Far Side of the World is a very, very accurate portrayal of life at sea in the age of fighting sail.
it was an exceptional film, and deserved to have a sequel.
I'm pleasantly surprised to see Master & Commander as an accurate representation of the days of the Napoleonic Wars' at sea. Indeed a great deal of work went into the goal of accuracy. The movie's total earnings initially were very respectable but according to Peter Weir the early demonstration of public enthusiasm was not sufficient for him to consider a sequel. Quite frankly, I'd welcome a series of sequels and through his Twitter account Russell Crowe has shown his readiness to consider it. This movie was very well made, never slacking in action and interesting dialog and will remain one of my favourites along with The African Queen, The Third Man, Seven Days in May, the Hannibal Lecter series and The Godfather trilogy.
+Warren Glover 100% with you, and you have excellent taste in movies
nickle...........: Nice of you to say so, thanks. I'm less than a full bottle on the Zulu Wars in southern Africa but from what little I've discovered ZULU was probably historically accurate.
Accurate portrayal, yes (extremely so). But not historical,. since it relates events that are incontrovertibly fiction.
SO glad that Gettysburg got an honorable mention!! Amazing film!
The scene in which Lee found it necessary to take J.E.B. Stewart behind the woodshed for joyriding for headlines instead of being on the lookout for the main body of the Union force is moving and powerful.
Stewart offers Lee his sword but Lee returns it to his scabbard with the words, "You must take what I have told you and learn from it, as a man does. Now, let us speak no more of this." Moved me to tears.
I thought Waterloo would be first, it's old, but very accurate.
+Paks Garrion I thought Zulu would have made it somewhere as well. There are some minor inaccuracies, but for the important bits its true to history.
I know right.
+Paks Garrion That would mean including a conflict which the US was not involved in, that is far too absurd for WatchMojo
You expect casual voters to vote on actually good, interesting and accurate movies? Nah.
Also, no Americans involved -> no care given.
Thanks for choosing Come and See, one of the greatest films of all time BUT WHY THE ENGLISH REDUB??
Schindler's List is so historically accurate, the book won an award for best FICTION novel in 1983.
+Bob Marl Kubrick hated that movie
+leonardo h but then again, Kubrick makes weird and sometimes stupid movies
Reno van zanten But then again, he made infinitely better movies than Schindler's List
leonardo h *heart attack*
+Bob Marl She listed historians and tour guides separate. Also, what is it that you are actually saying? That Auschwitz is nothing more than a place for entertainment?
Waterloo is probably the most historically accurate war movie. Would have been nice to see it here as well. Great job on the list!
The opening scene from Saving Private Ryan deserves a mention. I also love a little known film called "The Trench" about WWI although when you watch it it feels more like a play than a movie.
+Mike Rotella There are very few WW1 movies that are actually about WW1. I remember my high school history teacher was pretty excited to find one for us to watch.
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"German U-Boat Submarine"
That statement is redundant. In German, Unterseeboot (shorted to U-Boat) translates to submarine. "German U-Boat Submarine" is just German Submarine Submarine xD
Gettysburg should have been on the main list.
+HamanKarn567 Agreed! I get chills every time I watch the scene where Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and his men are charging down Little Round Top! :)
leland frame BAYONETS!
+leland frame Or pickets Charge which was shot on the hallowed field.
Rasputin
Irony. One of the cannon crew reenactors was palce in the same spot his ancestors gun was palce in the battle. Sadly films are made this good anymore.
+HamanKarn567 The fake beards doomed it.
The Apollo 13 problems did not occur in orbit, they occurred after the TLI burn, meaning it had left orbit and was flying between the earth and the moon. The main technical advisor for Apollo 13 was David Scott, who walked on the moon as the commander of the Apollo 15 moon landing mission, and had been the pilot the Gemini 8 mission (where he flew with Neil Armstrong) and command module pilot for Apollo 9. Not long before the filming started, NASA had opened a new mission control center. So the mission control scenes were filmed in the actual mission control center used for most of the Apollo missions, including Apollo 13.
The only error in Apollo 13 was the reference to Mr. Coffee...which did not actually hit the market until 1972.
Terminator 2... though we haven't experienced it YET.
Historically accurate, not futurtorically accurate ;-)
Where is Abraham Lincoln vampire slayer
Tenth Doctor I always smile when I see these same comments
Tenth Doctor which I loved by the way.. LOL!!
Shameful omission of our greatest president and hiselfless actions to keep us all safe from the undead
Exactly what I was about to comment XD
:-)))
"Schindler's List" still hits me hard. It's a powerful film.
I watch Apollo 13 twice a year ... and I've got my Lego Saturn V standing next to me every time I do
That movie awoke and manifested my interest and love for outer space
If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend finding a copy of the mini-series "From the Earth to the Moon". Tom Hanks made a series about the entire Apollo program after Apollo 13 and each episode is amazing at telling the story from a different perspective.
Toy story?
+Andrés Vélez where
toy story?
I don't get it either.
Oh yes! Schindler's List! I don't understand why Liam Neeson doesn't have an Oscar for that role! Love it!
As brilliant as Tom Hanks was in Philadelphia, Neeson deserved it more.
His portrayal of Oskar Schindler was a seminal role in the history of moviemaking.
Agree!
I agree but it sounds weird to say you LOVE Schindler's list considering what it's about
I know, but don´t mean I love what happens on the movie, I love the movie as a piece of art.
"Come And See" looks good, but for God's sake please----NO DUBBING! I can read subtitles, but I absolutely REFUSE to watch a dubbed movie where it is obvious the actor on screen is NOT saying the words I am hearing. Cartoons are a little different, but for live-action films I want to hear the actual dialogue used.
I watched it with subtitles. It's a great movie, but very saddening.
Well, then DON'T watch the dubbed ones. Sounds like there's a simple solution to your HUGE problem.
Das Boot is a fantastic film that is highly recommended.
You should watch it, uninterrupted, in a movie theatre.
i know it they would pick HOllywood movies ....what about MASTER AND COMMANDER and WATERLOO??? BEST visual and accurate movies
Master and Commander is fiction while it is accurate depiction of naval history of the time.
Waterloo should be in the list.
William Goo
Alright then, period accurate for MAC?
"is fiction while it is accurate depiction" - I would apply this to Das Boot as well though......
Thank you!!! Had to scroll way to long to see these two brilliant movies mentioned.
Master and Commander is a terrific movie, but does not portray historical events. Waterloo certainly should have at least received honorable mention.
where tf is Lincoln vs zombies?
DOWNFALL! I LOVE THAT MOVIE!
+PCMasterRace NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN
I love that movie too
WHY DID THEY HAVE TO TAKE AWAY MY XBOX! I SWORE I WASN'T EATING THEIR ICE CREAM, AND THEY STILL TOOK IT AWAY! THE ONLY PERSON WHO WOULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT IS STALIN!
*sigh
At least I still have a playstation.
Same here: 'Downfall' & 'City of God' are brilliant
This list just had too much, I can't even stand the memes! Stalin is out here winning the war, and here I am, being the Internet Memelord because of Steiner. Why me? when you can meme *FEGELEIN, FEGELIEN, FEGELEIN!!!!* | I just made meme.
Thank God “12 Years a Slave” was made. It was one of the most eye opening films ever into the true horrors of slavery.
Read Harriet Jacobson's diary. That's eye opening.
Amistad also opened your eyes about the slave trade.
that is a big "i will not see the worst slavery on the islamic slave trade of neutered blacks africans to serve under muslims as cannon foder"
What about "Willy Wonka and the Chocolte Factory"?
good list, but where's glory? this was taken directly from the diary of matthew broderick's colonel character.
Yeah, that's a really good movie
Dambusters, Battle of Britain..... yet another Anglophobic top ten list.
My great grandpa was at d day and said that saving private Ryan was the most accurate depiction of it he had seen
Your great grandpa's a chad.
Ur great grandpa was a hero
My next door neighbor was a lieutenant in a rifle squad in the final 5 months of WWII. Though he wasn't at Normandy, he also said that the opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan was the most accurate depiction of combat he'd ever seen in a movie; the only thing missing was the smell.
@@scottbrooks4255 the smell of dead people I suppose?
Lincoln is one hell of a movie, definitely a must watch
+muhammad bian but just not historically accurate. They couldn't get away of tarnishing his legend with the truth.
Gettysburg is fantastic
And very faithful to “The Killer Angels”.
It has its share of inaccuracies. Like most of these movies it depends how much you want to nitpick.
My cousin worked on that. There were speakers hidden all over for directions. Between takes if no one was paying attention he would whisper into the mic, shit like “if you build it they will come” apparently confused the hell out of the actors and extras at first.
As a c.w. reenactor I give " Gettysburg " 2 thumbs up .
One of my favorite movies!
Tora! Tora! Tora! Is one of my favorite films. My dad showed it to me when I was 12.
Agree with u, hard to find mistakes. Its one btw , told by radar operator himself, in movie he leave the post when he got message "its us plane from main land", but he stayed at station for some hours. But any way, a great movie, i have watched it more than i can account
My dad didn" t have to show it....he lived it. On board the US Pennsylvania , sitting in dry dock, he saw more than he talked about....he watched the Oklahoma turn over, the Arizona burn, and other ships destroyed. He became a rescue plane pilot, catapulted off the Wilks Barre.
@@janeiwasduncan8463 Your dad is/was an American HERO. Bless him.
The only other "mistake" was when the Japanese planes are flying over the hill, for a brief moment you can see a white cross on the hill...which was put there in memorial of the attack years after. Any other mistakes you really really have to dig for which yeah is a testament to the work that went into it.
Ha..me too! He never took me anywhere except to all the movies he wanted to see lol.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Most historically accurate movie ever!
Valkyrie is surprisingly historically accurate. And despite the fact you know what is going to happen in the end, it still keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Kipling Kat It was total pants. The supporting cast around Tom Cruise was a more convincing and they carried that film .
Hating Tom Cruise has nothing to do with the film's historical accuracy. Please keep on topic.
Kipling Kat Hating Tom cruise has nothing to do with it .His performance didn't stand up As I've stated the supporting cast carried the film.
Not the brightest bulb in the chandelier are you?
Kipling Kat just like you I'm entitled to an opinion as well.
I thought Imitation Game was great but I heard it wasn't historically accurate
Tora Tora Tora looks like an amazing film.
Dominique Hoffman although made many years ago it still stands up .Certainly a lot better than Pearl Harbour .
TTT is pretty freaking awesome
You should watch it.
I'm really glad they included "Tora, Tora, Tora." When it came out, critics panned it badly. One New York critic referred to it as "Torable, Torable, Torable." Yet, I found it amazingly objective and compelling.
@@williamsnyder5616 Pauline Kael's review in THE NEW YORKER said: "It proves that ships and planes can be pedestrian"!
Why did they mention The Imitation Game, it is a good film but I spotted lots of historical inaccuracies.
Agreed! I know a lot out Turing and there are so many inaccuracies I couldn't enjoy the movie.
where's Dr Strangelove?
Dentist.
Well now that he can walk, you can't expect him to just be around.
+Daniel Beck it wasn't really "Historically Accurate", was it?
(great movie nonetheless)
+Snoopy Doopy It was history dumbass. Other than Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter it was in fact the most accurate movie historically ever in the history of cinema, and that is a known fact
+eatmyskids all cheap sarcasm aside, Dr. Strangelove is incredibly accurate.
I remember watching SCHINDLER'S LIST when it came out. Powerful.
castletriglav You have a sick sense of humor
The Benny Hill music would be perfect for the liquidation of the ghetto(just speed up the film a bit).
@@jocktheripper2073 and castletriglav got me pissin my pants from laughing!
All I heard when Hitler speaks in Downfall was something about killing Melisandre, Stannis, Joffrey to avenge Ned Stark, Loras and Renly in the hot tub and stuff...
Oh and also something to do with FEGELEON!
*Fegelein
+MJk Slasher , a few of those scenes have been memed a hundred times. It drives the actor a little crazy, being as he really put a lot into that part, to see it being used for fun & games.
+MJk Slasher Nice Game of Thrones lol
Yes. Fegelein. Damn autocorrect.
My grandpa was a Navy World War 2 veteran when he was alive and he enjoyed the following: Band of our Brothers, anything with the navy, Grumpy Old Men, and Grumpier Old Men. He also watched cartoons with us grandkids, MTV, and the History channel. He passed away in the winter of 2005 so he’s missed a lot ❤️❤️❤️
Band of Brothers was one of the best TV series I have ever seen.
The Lord of the rings
Miguel Rivera HELL YEAH!!!
Miguel Rivera no chance. This is watchmojo, so Star Wars will be #1. And for #2 is something by John Williams.
Miguel Rivera without any doubt
Miguel The Revenant well it was written for kids during war...
Nah, the books are even more accurate to the actual events.
Daniel Day-Lewis... the best portrayal of Lincoln ever, IMHO.
His utter exhaustion is what impressed me. Probably Lincoln had some heart problem. It has been speculated that he would not have lived out his second term even if he had not been killed.
Incredible that someone can forward such a claim when he wasn't even around to have seen the original. Thank you for admitting it's just your opinion.
Daniel Day-Lewis is an acting zen master
@@JRobbySh agreed from what all historians and pictures depicted lincoln probably took the biggest toll in the white house on his own sanity and health
The film put me to asleep
RIP Bill Paxton.
You seem to have missed SHARKNADO!!
You are the voice or reason so i agree
Voice of REASON 😆
@@richspinaci8293 what😂
And Rambo First Blood 😆
Get real!!! Sharknado is a fiction!!!
Cowboys and Aliens is the most realistic movie ever
Slayer!
Sharknado
ThCrimsnFckr no I think it’s shrek
ALSO WELCOME FELLOW METAL HEAD MY FAVORITE BANDS ARE SLIPKNOT AVENGED SEVENFOLD AND WHITE CHAPEL DONT FOR GWT LAMB OF GOD🤟
Ever!
is City if God based off a true story?
Yes
+bandgeek89 Based off of life in Brazilians slums, called favelas
should we consider it historical ?
Guy Kruger Historical fiction, maybe. It stayed pretty accurate to the real-life situation on the ground.
+bob513993 yeah, but I mean - it goes back to the 1960s, that's not so much "historical" for the time the movie was made (and I don't know about today).
Alternative title- " Some of the most depressing movies of all time."
why do you think history is Disney film
And one Scary as Fuck movie
“You wanted confirmation, Captain? Take a look, there’s your confirmation!” God...this spoke to me, so many times in the corporate world I had to use this line......
"The Dictator" should have made the list.
What a great, fun fun movie - but not historically accurate.
Its a parody of Hitler, so I think it could be an accurate one
Denica Krusteva Actually not. Hassan Rouhani. Dislike for Israel, development of nuclear weapons, leans left and right. Hitler hated the left and was a fascist.
The Dishonest Abe movie is close enough
Make your own list and then wait and see who comes along to find fault with it. Gaaaaah!
This was a good video Mojo. I approve of your decisions on this list.
(Spoiler) #1 is Abraham Lincoln vampire slayer
Ha! Ha! Good one!
I'm really glad that I've seen every one of these films, and the honorable mentions.
the Pianist is a masterpiece
Imperator Glaber I agree
I never tire of that movie. Perfect on every level.
When you get over the fact a child rapist directed it yes. It is a great movie.
Not only a child molester,he drugged her into oblivion
This wasn't his only rape either,he needs to pay the piper
James & Barb Jefferson even the greatest of people fuck up their careers
Give a look at Paisà and Bicycle Thieves. These 2 films are the most realistic movies about ww2 and the effects of war (Paisà) and the effects of war after the war ended (Bycicle Thieves). Even though Paisà was filmed in 1946 and Bicycle Thieves in 1948, and even though they are both in black and white, they are extremely accurate in depicting the misery, the suffering and the poverty that war brought to civilians and to soldiers (both to axis and allied soldiers). Both films are set in Italy, and Bicycle Thieves became very famous world wide. In both films, the actors were just randomly chosen civilians, in order to portray reality as accurate as possible, and the destroyed houses in the film Paisà were real houses which were destroyed by bombs and which weren't yet rebuilt. These two films are masterpieces in my opinion.
Where is Human Centipede? Oh, that was 100% medically accurate. Never mind.
+Tomáš Zelenka Yeah
+Tomáš Zelenka - Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma???
www.imdb.com/title/tt0073650/
12 Years a Slave seriously gets me emotional. Hearing my stories from my family and matching them to these experiences...it gets hard to not be completely devastated.
Yup, my grandma was an indentured servant till the 60s in Mississippi and unfortunately her experiences were so similar to what you see in the movie
@Merica hmm
So sad. But then this is America for us