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@@WatchMojo The 1958 "A Night to Renember" is a much more fairhful historical depiction of the sinking of the RMS Titanic than Cameron's movie. It follows Walter Lord's historical narrative faithfully. The inaccuracies in Cameron's movie, such as the actions involving First Officer William Nurdoch, are tantamount to slander and his surving relatives should have continued, IMHO, with legal action. As to "Saving Private Ryan", Spielberg should have read the Army historical monograph "Omaha Beach", published immediately after the war.. (Yes, Army historians were there.) There were no medics with typewriters. The Ranger Company at Dog Green were in two LCAs (graphically portrayed). One of the two had a 7.5cm AT round go through the ramp. The other was hosed by machine gun fire....could go on. What the movie didn't show was Brig Gen Cota of the 29th ID organizing the breakthrough ("Rangers lead the Way" comes from him on the beach) and the role of the Navy destroyers coming in. The battle at the end was entirely ficticious. No W-SS anywhere near...it was 91st Luftlande Div in that sector who had no armor. Made for a nice story but streches historical credibility. Another vote FOR historical accuracy should go to the joint RTE-BBC venture "The Treaty" starring Brendan Gleeson as Michael Collins. As if Mick came up out of the grave at Glasnevin...match the portrayal with Pathe' newsreel footage and narratives.
Fun fact about Downfall: Bruno Ganz (the actor who played Hitler) He thought he didnt do a good job as Hitler plus he felt a lil bit ashamed for playin as him, but got a lot of good feed back instead, like once he was out in the city by himself and a guy recognized him, praising Bruno for his acting, he even comfort Bruno that he isnt a bad person or anything for playing as Hitler, not just that, the same guy even said that its a crime he never got an Oscar for his acting, in the end Bruno was relieved by all the feedback he got, etc.
@denizplays1307 yeah it's sad he didn't get one. It's even sadder that Oscars tend to focus on certain movies which narrows their window. It's sad because a lot of non Oscar winners should've won. I'm just glad like the Last King of Scotland and the King's Speech both got Oscar wins.
Ron Howard was so devoted to historical accuracy on Apollo 13 that he filmed many scenes aboard NASA's weightlessness trainer ... which is how the cast and crew found out the hard way why the astronauts call that plane the Vomit Comet. 😊
Even though the movie show the really Nitty Gritty nasty way that beachhead was veterans who served during that time frame will say it was way worse than that
There are a lot of inaccuracies in the scene, like the beach being too short, wrong billboxes on the beach, 2nd rangers going for dog green sector anf not point du hoc, only MG42 on the beach and no crossfire defense etc etc. Only the brutality of the landing itself is probably the most accurate part.
Having seen the works of Clint Eastwood, Saving Private Ryan was not even CLOSE! Sure SPR was great but what Clint Eastwood did for "Letters from Iwo Jima" was way better as it was eerily accurate to what the survivors had mentioned from their landings as also surviving PoWs that had served with Kuribayashi since day one of his assignment on the island. Kuribayashi being in the US and made friends with US officers, how Kuribayashi laid out the intricate defensive nests across the beachhead of the invasion, how he forced the Japanese to not commit harakiri itself to waste manpower but failed, how he stopped reckless banzai charges, how the Japanese didn't fire upon the landing crafts even before they landed like in D-Day but instead waited for the Marines to step foot on the actual soil with no way to run then let their guns rip. Eerily accurate.
@@joelm5509 There were 2nd Rangers at Dog Green, just not in the first wave. The first wave was A Co., 116th Infantry (the Bedford Boys). The 2nd Rangers ended up just to their right at Charlie sector.
Tora, Tora, Tora is one of those movies that has grown with luster with the ages. It was considered rather middling when it came out, but it has won a lot of admiration since then. Well deserved.
Saw it in theater when I was in grade school. I was with my classmates, as part of a birthday celebration for one of them. We wore jackets and ties. I still love that movie.
My father in law was in the movie as several in his navy squadron were asked to fly the Zero’s. He is the first Japanese flyer off of the carrier and I enjoy watching that part the most when the family has this movie on. 😊
My mother died when I was very young, and Mr. Roger was the only thing I could think of they kept me it was the one thing I knew that wouldn’t change and I will never forget that
Honorable mention (also a Tom Hanks movie): In "Captain Phillips" the scene in which a military doctor checks the rescued captain is as real as it gets, as the doctor was no actress but a real military doctor following the standard medical checkup procedure.
@@apollo21lmp is right... that was a corpsman. For some annoying reason, US Navy and USMC enlisted like to refer to their medics/corpsmen as "doc"... something one of my old childhood friends found out the hard way I do not play along with. When on leave he actually dared to suggest I call him "doc", but that would clearly be Stolen Valor, since he didn't have a bachelor's let alone a doctorate, and I reminded him all of our other high school friends who were in college would feel the same way, especially those actually in premed programs. The cognitive dissonance was infinite, as he just couldn't get that he had not earned the nickname of doc, and we would never ever call him that, since he WAS NOT one. Sadly this whole issue can and does cause confusion when corpsmen are involved... they all seem to collectively miss the point they are stealing somebody else's title/honor.
@@chouseification Sailors, Marines and Soldiers often call their Corpsmen/Medics in their unit "Doc" as a form of camaraderie and trust. they are not "stealing valor" or trying to impersonate an officer. it's merely a term of familiarity.
@@apollo21lmp worse... they are trying to impersonate a Doctor!!! Even worse than trying to impersonate an officer. This is the whole reason I called that out - as squids and gyrenes use the word in a way the rest of the world refuses to, which can cause confusion to those unaware of this contextual usage.
He's covered. This video is the evidence of it. This video is basically a "root for Hanks" video, disguised as a random list video. The Control System does that when they want to steer public opinion in favor of one of their pawns. Hanks may have made some bargain with the Control System to burn anything they might have on him, in exchange for him being a pawn in one or more of their schemes. Society is being puppeteered by "special interests". Always has been.
Is a huge US History buff lived in US entire life. P Diddy FBI raid and he moves to Greece immediately. Oh just wait for the FBI to finish. Tom is permanently done.
A bridge too far is full of historical scenes, but German armored assault in Arnhem on bridge end held by British paratroopers is my fave. Light armored column gets decimated by Piat antitank weapons and machine gun fire.
I went in to Seeing Saving Private Ryan fine, right after the scene I got sick, a massive migraine that never let up. I never had such a visceral reaction to a movie.
So many heartbreaking “Easter eggs” in Titanic that come from real testimony. One that always hurts my heart is Thomas Anderson adjusting the clock and sitting in the lounge. It was literally the last time he was seen as his body was never recovered
Loved this video. The D-Day landing scene from Saving Private Ryan was perfection and it was so accurate that so many veterans left the theatre due to PTSD. And Downfall is my favourite foreign language movie of ALL TIME. Bruno Ganz played Hitler to perfection. Every scene in that film is historically accurate.
Not every scene is accurate in Downfall. Some people are amalgamations of real people, created for storytelling purpose. One example is Peter, the Hitleryouth boy. He didnt exist. However, all of his storyelemtents are real, reported all over Berlin, in the final days. So they created him, to show that side too. Another one would be the SS Doctor, who blew up his family, while Dinner. Thats was just an example of "how derailed" some na*is had been. That beeing said, 95% accurate, great Sets, love to detail and Bruno Ganz was amazing. When this movie was anounced, Creator Oliver Hirschbiegl got ALOT of backslash. People and especally media in germany were not happy about "Showing a monster as human" Hirschbiegl was asked about that headline and his responds was (meaning) "If the leaders of the 3rd Reich had been Deamons with horns and claws, this would be easy, but they were not. They were humans and THATS what makes it so horrible."
A teacher would hold special movie days in class and show several of these films in grade school. She got us very interested in topic like the cvil war, the space program, and World War II by carefully selecting films she thought were as historically accurate as possible.
The 1989 film Glory also had many historical accuracies like the experience of Black soldiers and the Battle of Fort Wagner. While the film did take liberties as well it also involved many accuracies.
@@zanethind3533 Unfortunately, they reversed the position of Battery Wagner on James Island...backwards. Also, it would have been better to use reality. The actual Regimental Sergeant Major was the son of Frederick Douglass, Lewis, who was badly wounded in the assault. And the soldier who did carry the regimental national colors forward was not a private with an attitude but Sergeant William H. Carney whose action was the first chronologically by an African-American soldier to be recognized with the award of the Medal of Honor. Also the movie failed to acknowledge that the Brigade Commander, Brig Gen George Strong (who Shaw volunteers to on the beach) was also killed in the assault.
I would say Waterloo. The 1970 film of the battle. 15,000 extras were trained in things like how to march, operate their weapons and act like the soldiers of the time. No CGI of course. Hills were bulldozed away, trees planted, roads made and historic buildings recreated. It’s not 100% the Ball held at the start actually took place in a barn. The song “Boney was a warrior” was about the whole of Napoleon’s life. Obviously we weren’t there yet. General Pierre Cambronne is seen saying merde before he died in the film but he actually survived the battle. For a recreation of an epic battle a lot of it is there.
@@pranjali420 Perhaps the most accurate part of the film was the recreation of French uniforms. And the Prussian effect was so sadly minimized, totally neglecting the absolutely critical, and brutal, fighting at Plancenoit on thr French right and its deceive effect. And, the climatic Guard assault was not made by the Old Guard but by the newly raised 3rd and 4th Guard Grenadiers and Chasseurs who were not completedly equipped but wore a mix of Guard and Line uniforms. Oh and Wellington's Chief of Staff, William Howe de Lancey, wasn't English.. he was American born in New York into a prominiant Loyalist family and named for the British Army commander in the American colonies fighting against Washington.
God's and General has a scene where Stonewall Jackson weeps publicly at hearing the death of a little girl, Janie, that he developed a friendship while he and his staff stayed at their home during the war. Powerful scene.
The great escape movie was great but the whole characters were way too old…the men who did the digging etc were basically boys in their low 20 ies. Not middle age men. And it was Canadians and British. The US airmen were in a different barracks. Also Hitler wanted to kill all the recaptured, a German general talk it down to 50 and he chose those who were unmarried Canadian and Australian. Not British. And the stupid motorcycle ride was just a cinematic piece put in for McQueen.
There are several moments in Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Rigde in which the protagonist, Desmond Doss, who received a medal without using a weapon in WWII, says and does what happened in real life!!
@@amsutherAudie Murphy reportedly asked the studio to cut some things out of To Hell and Back that actually happened because he was worried that movie goers would find them unbelievable. His PTSD was repeatedly triggered while filming even with what was left in.
Having witnessed the era.....I think Rush with Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl was a very accurate representation of the James Hunt-Niki Lauda respectful rivalry of mid 70s Formula 1.... An excellent look alike casting as well.....
When Darth Vader used his light saber to chop off Luke Skywalker's left hand, in reality; it was actually his right hand. History always seems to get that wrong?!
@ did you not see that his workers laughed when he did it? He ended up “researching” and found he was doing it backward - and subsequently corrected it.
The selection scene from Schildler's List is scarily and hauntingly accurate, down to the taking of the kids and the playing of music over the loudspeakers.
You would be amazed and horrified at a depiction of the selection scenes up to the gassings and burials in the TV miniseries "War & Remembrance." THAT is a scene that I, if I were a teacher, would use to educate others about the Holocaust. Additionally, the camp liberation episode from "Band Of Brothers" is another that I would use.
*Titanic* was LOADED with many clips/reenactments of historical accuracy. So much so, that in many ways it can almost be regarded as a documentary disguised as a love story.
Little-known fact: Neil DeGrasse Tyson actually wrote James Cameron to tell him that the stars were wrong during the sinking scenes... and Cameron replaced the star matte with Tyson's suggestion for subsequent prints and DVD releases!!
"Nowadays"? The producers of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" screened the film for George M. Cohan in the months before its release. His response? "Nice movie, who's it about?"
Surprised 13 hours didn't make list. Had one of the actual soldiers who was part of the whole incident on movie set helping to keep as accurate as possible
The thing about Normandy that really gets me is the fact that the Germans weren't expecting the landing to take place there but they still made it that horrible. If the allies had actually landed at Calais, as the Germans thought they would, how bad would that have been?
Parts of Band of Brothers series. The assault on Bastogne for example did have a general respond to the German panzer division with the phrase, "NUTS," when said German soldiers asked for the 101st's unconditional surrender.🤣🤣🤣
But for that little extra touch, the film should have included the Germans receiving the reply. Why? Because the confused reply was "Nuße? Was meint Nuße?" (Nuts? What do you mean nuts? ")
The execution scene of the Lincoln Conspirators from "The Conspirator" is a faithful restaging of the scenes shown in the Alexander Gardner photographs, including the man with the whire coat on the scaffold and the umbrella over Mary Suratt to keep the sun off her. This definitely should have been added.
I'd have to say The Return of Martin Guerre which was made in collaboration with Natalie Zemon Davis, one of the great historians of the late 20th century. In fact, the film predated her monograph of the same name. What's interesting about the film is not so much the accuracy of the sets and costumes, but that it delves into issues of identity and individuality just at the cusp of the modern. It's a mystery of sorts. I would actually use the film to start off my early modern course as a way of introducing themes that would come up over the next 300 hundred years.
My father who was a Major in Vietnam said that the Apocalypse Now scene where the helicopters are flying over the beach while guys are surfing, was exactly what fighting the war was like. Don't know about historical accuracy, but definitely emotional accuracy.
Mojo get your facts right. In one video it's mentioned that the Western Roman Empire fell in 1071 to the Norman's 😂😂 it was 476 to the goths under Odacer
I love the Saving Private Ryan beach scene for its intense portrayal of an insane time, but there are too many inaccuracies to have it on this list. Beach obstacles incorrectly placed, concrete bunkers that never existed, American landing craft operators who were actually British, bullets killing men under the water, a high cliff near the water, etc. Still love the scene!
2:50 The bridge scene also used the actual bridge in Berlin. Chancellor Angela Merkel at that time visited the bridge set as it is near the Parliament and Chancellors office.
The movie roots has a TON of historically accurate scenes. From the boat ride..to chopping off the foot of kunta to selling off kizzy. This should have been on the list
This is wrong. "While most of the movie was not shot at the national park, the production team found other nearby locations, such as the Yingling Farm and Cashtown Inn, to ensure authenticity and capture the essence of the historic battle." Yes, some scenes were shot in the park: "Little Round Top and Devil's Den were two important locations within the park where pivotal scenes were filmed, accurately recreating significant events from the battle." I can not print the source. Google will be upset and delete my comment. But look it up. Reported in numerous references.
I love how Gettysburg national park keeps the place the same. I visited Vicksburg. Back in the day of the battle , no trees. They let a whole forrest grow so you never really get a sense of the battlefield as it was.
Astronaut Dave Scott, a consultant for "Apollo 13" said that the set for Huston's Mission Control Center was so accurate that he would turn the wrong way when trying to get to the bathroom when leaving the set. He kept automatically heading towards where the men's room would have been in Houston, not where it actually was at the studio in California.
I know it was a box office bomb and not a lot of people saw it, but the 2004 Alamo movie is the most historically accurate movie I’ve ever seen. It’s absolutely a perfect telling of that battle.
@@williamkarbala5718 Well there was no TV back then, so no TV reporters to catch the actual action. Also the filmed material had to be physically transported back home, no satellites or even internet to transfer it within hours or even minutes. And also no mobile phones and social media in those days.
@@speedbird9313 Might be, Hitler's reaction to Steiner not attacking as ordered, is pretty well documented, and different sources give similar descriptions.
Some criticize Downfall for "humanizing Hitler" instead of just being a monster. But there in lies the historical danger. He was human, doing monstrous things. Brilliant acting and film making. On par with Saving Private Ryan in every way.
I'm surprised nothing from Tombstone made the list since it is considered one of the most historically accurate films made. The shootout at the OK Corral could've easily landed on here.
The 1992 movie "Dien Bien Phu" by Pierre Schoendoerffer in its entirety needs to be listed. As an historical theatrical movie it is very unique as it was written and directed by Schoendoeffer was actually at the seige as a French Army photographer, wounded evacuated, then jumped back in with the 5 BPVN. Filmed on location and with cooperation of both the Vietnamese and French military. My favorite part is the faithful recreaction of the night assault and stand by the artillery lieutenant who defied orders with his gunners.(The officer was later mortally wounded, after receiving an unheard of "on the spot" Legion d'Honeur...still considered a legend in the French Artillery.)
My uncle was a Navy veteran of D-Day, being on the crew of an LST. When he saw Saving Private Ryan, he had to leave the theater because it was so realistic.
You'll have to find a special category for "Die Wannseekonferenz" (1984), a TV movie about the 1942 meeting in Germany about "The Final Solution". The entire movie is 85 minutes long, the length of the actual meeting, and dialog is often used directly from transcriptions taken by secretaries at the meeting. This is probably the most historically accurate film ever made, not just a single scene.
Possibly more accessible there was an English language version called "Conspiracy" made in 2001 starring Kenneth Branagh & Stanley Tucci as Heydrich & Eichmann that is very good.
I would possibly have added Churchill's Outer Council Meeting from "The Darkest Hour", LTCOL John Frost's defense of the Arnhem Bridge in "A Bridge Too Far", the basic gumshoe reporting scenes recorded in "Spotlight". But other than that, no disagreements with your picks! 💗
I'm sorry, but when a certain dictator rants about Texas A & M, it's hard for me to take the source material seriously, especially, the fart of doom version.
Garry Adelman is one of best experts of the American Civil War. If the film gets his approval, you’re doing a good job. Love the American Battlefield Trust! Someone did a Downfall of Snowpacalypse in Atlanta😂
McAuliffe was famous for his swearing. When Eisenhower heard the report of “Nuts” he supposedly burst out laughing and said someone really cleaned that up.
The opposite is true: his personal aide has stated that McAuliffe never swore--which made him unique among his peers--and that "Nuts!" was as strong as he ever got.
Midway, 2018: Bruno Gaido did indeed leap into his tail gun position on the deck of the enterprise, and the 2 ranks on the spot from Halsey also happened.
“Shattered Glass” the conference call between THE NEW REPUBLIC and FORBES was taken from recordings. Very few liberties were taken from the actual story.
Tora Tora Tora has one MAJOR inaccuracy that keeps getting quoted... the Yamamoto "quote" at the end about sleeping giants. What he really said was (roughly translated from Japanese, natch) that it does not do to kill a man in his sleep - something considered _dishonourable_ among Japanese (who are _all about_ honour).
Son of Saul is painfully accurate from the numbers of the prisoners (shifted with one number from actually numbers), the colour of the walls in the "wainting rooms" of the gas chambers to the number plate of a truck in the concentration camp, recreating actual photos and more...
I could not recommend "Downfall" more strongly, it is a gut-wrenching portrayal of Hitler's last days alive based on the story of someone who was there to see it all!
British POWs were universally indignant that it failed to depict the brutality of the Japanese soldiers. Allied prisoners of war suffered mortality rates of 30% or higher under the Japanese; roughly 5% of Western POWs captured by the Nazis died in captivity. The Nazis, on the other hand, routinely murdered Soviet POWs; more than 50 % of them died at the hands of the Germans. The Japanese were just as brutal toward Chinese prisoners; they released only 56 Chinese POWs at the end of the war. But comparisons of this sort are beside the point: it is enough that conditions in Japanese prison camps were incomparably worse than portrayed in an engaging work of fiction.
11:00 "This one can't be beat." WRONG!! The Longest Day beats SPR like an unruly child. At least in The Longest Day, the film crews had era appropriate ships and planes, not to mention that D-Day was an international effort, not just an American effort. Also, The Longest Day showed the five beaches, the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc, and the glider/paratrooper drops. 13:25 Although I LOVE Tora Tora Tora, the one thing they got wrong was the female aviator. In the movie, the aviator was fifty years old, if a day, in reality (as seen in the picture) the aviator was only 20 years old.
The Longest Day was about ALL our allies who helped to defeat Germany. THAT WAS NOT THE POINT OF Saving Private Ryan. DID YOU SEE SPR???? The movie was about one (former English teacher's [Tom Hanks] soldier's orders to save another solider whose THREE BROTHERS HAD BEEN KILLED IN WWII already (true story.) IT WAS {is} 100% accurate. IT WAS NOT MADE TO HIGHLIGHT D-DAY but S. Spielberg knew how important it was to show the terror of that landing on the beaches of Normandy. Most directors would have opened (began) the movie later, say walking through France. GET IT YET ???? Just Spielberg's care and dedication to honor those who died on the beach on the 50th anniversary.
@esciteach. You perfectly mentioned exactly my point, which is that Americans often don't know history. It was the 5 Sullivan brothers, all together on a destroyer that sank, not four brothers in infantry. Also, prior to SPR there was a saying that the two things that should never be seen is, first, sausage being made and second, a battle being fought. Yes, there were countless war movies before SPR, but none of them were graphic.....until SPR. After SPR, the genie was out of the bottle and a whole slieu of movies had graphic violence. And you wonder why the US is have trouble recruiting people for the military? It's because every average Joe thinks he's going to go through a SPR type experience. Finally, SPR gives the impression that the Normandy landings were entirely an American operation and that is a HUGE lie.
@@The_Dudester I may have forgot the brothers names and number and few facts, but the post never stated this nor that the movie was about saving the remaining brother, not D Day. Steven read THAT script and then realized movie would open near 50th ann. of D Day. Orig post was criticizing the D Day part.
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@@WatchMojo The 1958 "A Night to Renember" is a much more fairhful historical depiction of the sinking of the RMS Titanic than Cameron's movie. It follows Walter Lord's historical narrative faithfully. The inaccuracies in Cameron's movie, such as the actions involving First Officer William Nurdoch, are tantamount to slander and his surving relatives should have continued, IMHO, with legal action. As to "Saving Private Ryan", Spielberg should have read the Army historical monograph "Omaha Beach", published immediately after the war.. (Yes, Army historians were there.) There were no medics with typewriters. The Ranger Company at Dog Green were in two LCAs (graphically portrayed). One of the two had a 7.5cm AT round go through the ramp. The other was hosed by machine gun fire....could go on. What the movie didn't show was Brig Gen Cota of the 29th ID organizing the breakthrough ("Rangers lead the Way" comes from him on the beach) and the role of the Navy destroyers coming in. The battle at the end was entirely ficticious. No W-SS anywhere near...it was 91st Luftlande Div in that sector who had no armor. Made for a nice story but streches historical credibility. Another vote FOR historical accuracy should go to the joint RTE-BBC venture "The Treaty" starring Brendan Gleeson as Michael Collins. As if Mick came up out of the grave at Glasnevin...match the portrayal with Pathe' newsreel footage and narratives.
Bridge of spies Tom Hanks is my favorite
I would say you should add The Imitation Game
Fun fact about Downfall: Bruno Ganz (the actor who played Hitler)
He thought he didnt do a good job as Hitler plus he felt a lil bit ashamed for playin as him, but got a lot of good feed back instead, like once he was out in the city by himself and a guy recognized him, praising Bruno for his acting, he even comfort Bruno that he isnt a bad person or anything for playing as Hitler, not just that, the same guy even said that its a crime he never got an Oscar for his acting, in the end Bruno was relieved by all the feedback he got, etc.
@denizplays1307 yeah it's sad he didn't get one. It's even sadder that Oscars tend to focus on certain movies which narrows their window. It's sad because a lot of non Oscar winners should've won. I'm just glad like the Last King of Scotland and the King's Speech both got Oscar wins.
Ever heard of a full stop?
He should’ve won that Oscar R.I.P.
@dejabu24 rip
WatchMojo left out The Pencil of Doom. Sacrilege.
Ron Howard was so devoted to historical accuracy on Apollo 13 that he filmed many scenes aboard NASA's weightlessness trainer ... which is how the cast and crew found out the hard way why the astronauts call that plane the Vomit Comet. 😊
The D-Day landing from _Saving Private Ryan_ is one of the best combat depictions in cinema due to the accuracies it maintained.
A fair amount of credit can go to the Irish Army which provided a large number of active duty and reserve personnel as extras.
Even though the movie show the really Nitty Gritty nasty way that beachhead was veterans who served during that time frame will say it was way worse than that
There are a lot of inaccuracies in the scene, like the beach being too short, wrong billboxes on the beach, 2nd rangers going for dog green sector anf not point du hoc, only MG42 on the beach and no crossfire defense etc etc. Only the brutality of the landing itself is probably the most accurate part.
Having seen the works of Clint Eastwood, Saving Private Ryan was not even CLOSE!
Sure SPR was great but what Clint Eastwood did for "Letters from Iwo Jima" was way better as it was eerily accurate to what the survivors had mentioned from their landings as also surviving PoWs that had served with Kuribayashi since day one of his assignment on the island.
Kuribayashi being in the US and made friends with US officers, how Kuribayashi laid out the intricate defensive nests across the beachhead of the invasion, how he forced the Japanese to not commit harakiri itself to waste manpower but failed, how he stopped reckless banzai charges, how the Japanese didn't fire upon the landing crafts even before they landed like in D-Day but instead waited for the Marines to step foot on the actual soil with no way to run then let their guns rip.
Eerily accurate.
@@joelm5509 There were 2nd Rangers at Dog Green, just not in the first wave. The first wave was A Co., 116th Infantry (the Bedford Boys). The 2nd Rangers ended up just to their right at Charlie sector.
9:10 Bruno Ganz was absolutely perfectly cast for that role. A legend!
He should have gotten an Oscar.
Every time (Gettysburg) I hear Jeff Daniels yells “Bayonets” I get goosebumps…..
Now I need to watch it for like the millionth time.. I to get goosebumps when he yells it..
@@alexius23 There were too many ACW reenactors involved to let Ron Maxwell drift too far from historical accuracy.
I’ve never heard anything but praise for Tora! Tora! Tora!
It way better than the michael bay love story!
Tora, Tora, Tora is one of those movies that has grown with luster with the ages. It was considered rather middling when it came out, but it has won a lot of admiration since then. Well deserved.
Saw it in theater when I was in grade school. I was with my classmates, as part of a birthday celebration for one of them. We wore jackets and ties. I still love that movie.
My father in law was in the movie as several in his navy squadron were asked to fly the Zero’s. He is the first Japanese flyer off of the carrier and I enjoy watching that part the most when the family has this movie on. 😊
@@erichiebert2083 cool!
"but we WOULD like a brandy" Sir, you just shamed the shit out of some fellow rich men, you can have THE WHOLE BOTTLE.
My mother died when I was very young, and Mr. Roger was the only thing I could think of they kept me it was the one thing I knew that wouldn’t change and I will never forget that
Honorable mention (also a Tom Hanks movie): In "Captain Phillips" the scene in which a military doctor checks the rescued captain is as real as it gets, as the doctor was no actress but a real military doctor following the standard medical checkup procedure.
she wasn't a doctor, but a US Navy Hospital Corpsman, (IRL too). an enlisted sailor. doctors are officers.
@@apollo21lmp is right... that was a corpsman. For some annoying reason, US Navy and USMC enlisted like to refer to their medics/corpsmen as "doc"... something one of my old childhood friends found out the hard way I do not play along with.
When on leave he actually dared to suggest I call him "doc", but that would clearly be Stolen Valor, since he didn't have a bachelor's let alone a doctorate, and I reminded him all of our other high school friends who were in college would feel the same way, especially those actually in premed programs.
The cognitive dissonance was infinite, as he just couldn't get that he had not earned the nickname of doc, and we would never ever call him that, since he WAS NOT one.
Sadly this whole issue can and does cause confusion when corpsmen are involved... they all seem to collectively miss the point they are stealing somebody else's title/honor.
@@chouseification Sailors, Marines and Soldiers often call their Corpsmen/Medics in their unit "Doc" as a form of camaraderie and trust. they are not "stealing valor" or trying to impersonate an officer. it's merely a term of familiarity.
@@apollo21lmp worse... they are trying to impersonate a Doctor!!! Even worse than trying to impersonate an officer.
This is the whole reason I called that out - as squids and gyrenes use the word in a way the rest of the world refuses to, which can cause confusion to those unaware of this contextual usage.
The Gettysburg set didn't resemble the actual battlefield..it WAS the actual battlefield as it was filmed on site.
Not every scene was filmed on site as there are buildings and memorial statues in some key spots.
Tom Hanks, please don't get caught in controversy. All my favorite movies feature you, Sir.
I think you might be disappointed.
He's covered. This video is the evidence of it. This video is basically a "root for Hanks" video, disguised as a random list video. The Control System does that when they want to steer public opinion in favor of one of their pawns. Hanks may have made some bargain with the Control System to burn anything they might have on him, in exchange for him being a pawn in one or more of their schemes. Society is being puppeteered by "special interests". Always has been.
@@MrCrazychristian86that was my exact thought. There may not be a visual fire, but I feel like some people have mentioned smoke.
@@MrCrazychristian86 How come?
Is a huge US History buff lived in US entire life. P Diddy FBI raid and he moves to Greece immediately. Oh just wait for the FBI to finish. Tom is permanently done.
A bridge too far is full of historical scenes, but German armored assault in Arnhem on bridge end held by British paratroopers is my fave. Light armored column gets decimated by Piat antitank weapons and machine gun fire.
I went in to Seeing Saving Private Ryan fine, right after the scene I got sick, a massive migraine that never let up. I never had such a visceral reaction to a movie.
So many heartbreaking “Easter eggs” in Titanic that come from real testimony. One that always hurts my heart is Thomas Anderson adjusting the clock and sitting in the lounge. It was literally the last time he was seen as his body was never recovered
And the band playing Nearer My God to Thee
@@richardhoehn9922 That scene always gets me, both in Titanic and A Night To Remember.
Thomas Andrews
@@richardhoehn9922 still makes me cry.
Loved this video. The D-Day landing scene from Saving Private Ryan was perfection and it was so accurate that so many veterans left the theatre due to PTSD.
And Downfall is my favourite foreign language movie of ALL TIME. Bruno Ganz played Hitler to perfection. Every scene in that film is historically accurate.
Not every scene is accurate in Downfall. Some people are amalgamations of real people, created for storytelling purpose. One example is Peter, the Hitleryouth boy. He didnt exist. However, all of his storyelemtents are real, reported all over Berlin, in the final days. So they created him, to show that side too. Another one would be the SS Doctor, who blew up his family, while Dinner. Thats was just an example of "how derailed" some na*is had been. That beeing said, 95% accurate, great Sets, love to detail and Bruno Ganz was amazing. When this movie was anounced, Creator Oliver Hirschbiegl got ALOT of backslash. People and especally media in germany were not happy about "Showing a monster as human"
Hirschbiegl was asked about that headline and his responds was (meaning) "If the leaders of the 3rd Reich had been Deamons with horns and claws, this would be easy, but they were not. They were humans and THATS what makes it so horrible."
A teacher would hold special movie days in class and show several of these films in grade school. She got us very interested in topic like the cvil war, the space program, and World War II by carefully selecting films she thought were as historically accurate as possible.
I had a history teacher in high school who i had study hall with first period everyday and she would play historical accurate movies
The 1989 film Glory also had many historical accuracies like the experience of Black soldiers and the Battle of Fort Wagner. While the film did take liberties as well it also involved many accuracies.
@@zanethind3533 Unfortunately, they reversed the position of Battery Wagner on James Island...backwards. Also, it would have been better to use reality. The actual Regimental Sergeant Major was the son of Frederick Douglass, Lewis, who was badly wounded in the assault. And the soldier who did carry the regimental national colors forward was not a private with an attitude but Sergeant William H. Carney whose action was the first chronologically by an African-American soldier to be recognized with the award of the Medal of Honor. Also the movie failed to acknowledge that the Brigade Commander, Brig Gen George Strong (who Shaw volunteers to on the beach) was also killed in the assault.
@jimmogan5713 damn
I would say Waterloo. The 1970 film of the battle.
15,000 extras were trained in things like how to march, operate their weapons and act like the soldiers of the time. No CGI of course.
Hills were bulldozed away, trees planted, roads made and historic buildings recreated.
It’s not 100% the Ball held at the start actually took place in a barn. The song “Boney was a warrior” was about the whole of Napoleon’s life. Obviously we weren’t there yet. General Pierre Cambronne is seen saying merde before he died in the film but he actually survived the battle.
For a recreation of an epic battle a lot of it is there.
Battle tactics were really well portrayed, especially towards the end.
I totally forgot that! And yes, a really good historical film.
@@pranjali420 Perhaps the most accurate part of the film was the recreation of French uniforms. And the Prussian effect was so sadly minimized, totally neglecting the absolutely critical, and brutal, fighting at Plancenoit on thr French right and its deceive effect. And, the climatic Guard assault was not made by the Old Guard but by the newly raised 3rd and 4th Guard Grenadiers and Chasseurs who were not completedly equipped but wore a mix of Guard and Line uniforms. Oh and Wellington's Chief of Staff, William Howe de Lancey, wasn't English.. he was American born in New York into a prominiant Loyalist family and named for the British Army commander in the American colonies fighting against Washington.
God's and General has a scene where Stonewall Jackson weeps publicly at hearing the death of a little girl, Janie, that he developed a friendship while he and his staff stayed at their home during the war. Powerful scene.
To be fair, the same movie can't get the date of Antietam right.
@PonianRUclips definitely not a perfect movie, but there are a few great moments
Little Round Top was spot on, just really well done and damn accurate.
The Great Escape scene was very accurate in that they were thirty feet short of the woods, and did use rope as a signal.
The great escape movie was great but the whole characters were way too old…the men who did the digging etc were basically boys in their low 20 ies. Not middle age men. And it was Canadians and British. The US airmen were in a different barracks. Also Hitler wanted to kill all the recaptured, a German general talk it down to 50 and he chose those who were unmarried Canadian and Australian. Not British.
And the stupid motorcycle ride was just a cinematic piece put in for McQueen.
There are several moments in Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Rigde in which the protagonist, Desmond Doss, who received a medal without using a weapon in WWII, says and does what happened in real life!!
Some events had to be toned down a little or omitted as it due to the viewers may not have believing half of what Desmond had achieved in action.
@@amsutherAudie Murphy reportedly asked the studio to cut some things out of To Hell and Back that actually happened because he was worried that movie goers would find them unbelievable. His PTSD was repeatedly triggered while filming even with what was left in.
RIP Bruno Ganz.
Having witnessed the era.....I think Rush with Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl was a very accurate representation of the James Hunt-Niki Lauda respectful rivalry of mid 70s Formula 1....
An excellent look alike casting as well.....
When Darth Vader used his light saber to chop off Luke Skywalker's left hand, in reality; it was actually his right hand. History always seems to get that wrong?!
Lololol
I think you were watching one of those re-actors that flip the image to avoid copyright. The movie gets that part right.
Yeah, but it was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Hard to get good records.
@@BB-dr2zswhat the what ?
I think the death of Hitler in Inglorious Basterds is my favorite historically accurate scene
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Definitely a wished for ending, even now
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Ahhh that's why he couldn't make it to the Nürnberg trials😅
Still wrong
The Darkest Hour should have been included. The scene where Gary Oldman flashes the “V” sign backwards was great!
The sign wasn't backwards. It wasn't a 1960's peace sign. The way Oldman gave the victory sign was accurate.
@ did you not see that his workers laughed when he did it? He ended up “researching” and found he was doing it backward - and subsequently corrected it.
The selection scene from Schildler's List is scarily and hauntingly accurate, down to the taking of the kids and the playing of music over the loudspeakers.
You would be amazed and horrified at a depiction of the selection scenes up to the gassings and burials in the TV miniseries "War & Remembrance." THAT is a scene that I, if I were a teacher, would use to educate others about the Holocaust. Additionally, the camp liberation episode from "Band Of Brothers" is another that I would use.
I just loving watching movies based on historical accounts and true stories.
I think it would be a lot better to teach history this way. Then it feels more real to kids.
Bridge of Spies takes place over several years, but the kids never age.
In Titanic, there are the Strausses. She refused to go on the boat without him.
*Titanic* was LOADED with many clips/reenactments of historical accuracy. So much so, that in many ways it can almost be regarded as a documentary disguised as a love story.
Little-known fact: Neil DeGrasse Tyson actually wrote James Cameron to tell him that the stars were wrong during the sinking scenes... and Cameron replaced the star matte with Tyson's suggestion for subsequent prints and DVD releases!!
Nowadays producers want to "change" the accuracy, instead of trying to be as accurate and faithful
"Nowadays"? The producers of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" screened the film for George M. Cohan in the months before its release. His response? "Nice movie, who's it about?"
Herb Brooks' (Kurt Russell) locker room speech against the Soviets in Miracle.
Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman, Gne Hackman, Donald Sutherland some of my fav male actors.
Surprised 13 hours didn't make list. Had one of the actual soldiers who was part of the whole incident on movie set helping to keep as accurate as possible
Probs because a lot of what that guy said is disputed by other people who were involved in it.
Patton's opening speech by George C Scott.
The thing about Normandy that really gets me is the fact that the Germans weren't expecting the landing to take place there but they still made it that horrible. If the allies had actually landed at Calais, as the Germans thought they would, how bad would that have been?
Gallipoli 29 years later. Dieppe times ten.
@@HenryWillis-n9qGallipoli was earlier, right? WW1?
I saw the fuhrer in the thumbnail and was reminded of all of the memes about him ranting about random nonsense.
As mentioned in the video. You should watch it.
Where is "your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries" scene?
"He's not the messiah. He's just a very naughty boy!! Now go away!!"
Great video. Thanks
Parts of Band of Brothers series. The assault on Bastogne for example did have a general respond to the German panzer division with the phrase, "NUTS," when said German soldiers asked for the 101st's unconditional surrender.🤣🤣🤣
But for that little extra touch, the film should have included the Germans receiving the reply. Why? Because the confused reply was "Nuße? Was meint Nuße?" (Nuts? What do you mean nuts? ")
The success to Gettysburg should go to the extras, they were reencactors that respected and made everything they wore and did authentic.
8:37 The source behind the "Angry Mustache Man's Rants" parody videos.
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Wenk Fish Fegelein and Mein Failure.
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"Amateur architect roasts a failed chicken farmer"
I prefer to call him the failed artist with a funny moustache.
The execution scene of the Lincoln Conspirators from "The Conspirator" is a faithful restaging of the scenes shown in the Alexander Gardner photographs, including the man with the whire coat on the scaffold and the umbrella over Mary Suratt to keep the sun off her. This definitely should have been added.
I'd have to say The Return of Martin Guerre which was made in collaboration with Natalie Zemon Davis, one of the great historians of the late 20th century. In fact, the film predated her monograph of the same name.
What's interesting about the film is not so much the accuracy of the sets and costumes, but that it delves into issues of identity and individuality just at the cusp of the modern. It's a mystery of sorts. I would actually use the film to start off my early modern course as a way of introducing themes that would come up over the next 300 hundred years.
Great compilation, thank you.
My father who was a Major in Vietnam said that the Apocalypse Now scene where the helicopters are flying over the beach while guys are surfing, was exactly what fighting the war was like. Don't know about historical accuracy, but definitely emotional accuracy.
Milk is a very underrated film. It was very well done and acted. Thanks for the video.
I love the battle scenes from Zulu. I think they were very accurate. Shot in South Africa.
Mojo get your facts right. In one video it's mentioned that the Western Roman Empire fell in 1071 to the Norman's 😂😂 it was 476 to the goths under Odacer
I love the Saving Private Ryan beach scene for its intense portrayal of an insane time, but there are too many inaccuracies to have it on this list. Beach obstacles incorrectly placed, concrete bunkers that never existed, American landing craft operators who were actually British, bullets killing men under the water, a high cliff near the water, etc.
Still love the scene!
I'm working on a movie recap channel, learning from your channel😊
The sinpers last stand in blackhawk down should of been on here.
The depiction of the 1942 Wannsee Conference in Conspiracy (2001) would also be one on the list.
Most Americans think The Ten Commandments is historically accurate.😂
Minster Fred Rodgers (Presbyterian) was a great man.....
First time I seen the movie “Titanic” when I was 4, I only watched “Titanic” just to watch the ship sink lol
2:50 The bridge scene also used the actual bridge in Berlin. Chancellor Angela Merkel at that time visited the bridge set as it is near the Parliament and Chancellors office.
Hidden figures needs to be taught in every school and university in the country. 🎉
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@@AndyHouse-v1m You really like talking about yourself don't you? Leave people alone.
@@AndyHouse-v1m Get a life, Android. 🎉
@@AndyHouse-v1m you’re cringe asf *especially* with how you talk to yourself.
The movie roots has a TON of historically accurate scenes. From the boat ride..to chopping off the foot of kunta to selling off kizzy. This should have been on the list
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"The set resembles the battlefield"
That's cause it was lol. They shot the whole movie on location
This is wrong.
"While most of the movie was not shot at the national park, the production team found other nearby locations, such as the Yingling Farm and Cashtown Inn, to ensure authenticity and capture the essence of the historic battle."
Yes, some scenes were shot in the park:
"Little Round Top and Devil's Den were two important locations within the park where pivotal scenes were filmed, accurately recreating significant events from the battle."
I can not print the source. Google will be upset and delete my comment. But look it up. Reported in numerous references.
I love how Gettysburg national park keeps the place the same. I visited Vicksburg. Back in the day of the battle , no trees. They let a whole forrest grow so you never really get a sense of the battlefield as it was.
Astronaut Dave Scott, a consultant for "Apollo 13" said that the set for Huston's Mission Control Center was so accurate that he would turn the wrong way when trying to get to the bathroom when leaving the set. He kept automatically heading towards where the men's room would have been in Houston, not where it actually was at the studio in California.
Sgt. York probably should at least get an honorable mention.
I know it was a box office bomb and not a lot of people saw it, but the 2004 Alamo movie is the most historically accurate movie I’ve ever seen. It’s absolutely a perfect telling of that battle.
When it comes to WW2 definitely Emmerich's Midway - including the story arc with John Ford.
That is the craziest shit I ever heard. That be like if Spielberg was making a documentary about the Iraq war and ISIS began attacking the film site.
@@williamkarbala5718 Well there was no TV back then, so no TV reporters to catch the actual action. Also the filmed material had to be physically transported back home, no satellites or even internet to transfer it within hours or even minutes. And also no mobile phones and social media in those days.
Deepwater Horizon - workers have described the Explosion in the movie that caused the BP oil spill as accurate.
Also a benchmark scene for Dolby Surround home cinema installations. You feel like the oil rig is going up in flames all around you.
The D-day landing at Omaha beach in Saving Privat Ryan more accurate than Hitlers officer meeting in Downfall!?! 🙆🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
How do you compare, both are impressive?
@ Both are impressive, but both are not accurate.
@@speedbird9313 Might be, Hitler's reaction to Steiner not attacking as ordered, is pretty well documented, and different sources give similar descriptions.
@@Ah01 Yes, and for Saving Private Ryan I recommend listning to historian and author James Holland.
Some criticize Downfall for "humanizing Hitler" instead of just being a monster. But there in lies the historical danger. He was human, doing monstrous things. Brilliant acting and film making. On par with Saving Private Ryan in every way.
I'm surprised nothing from Tombstone made the list since it is considered one of the most historically accurate films made. The shootout at the OK Corral could've easily landed on here.
The 1992 movie "Dien Bien Phu" by Pierre Schoendoerffer in its entirety needs to be listed. As an historical theatrical movie it is very unique as it was written and directed by Schoendoeffer was actually at the seige as a French Army photographer, wounded evacuated, then jumped back in with the 5 BPVN. Filmed on location and with cooperation of both the Vietnamese and French military. My favorite part is the faithful recreaction of the night assault and stand by the artillery lieutenant who defied orders with his gunners.(The officer was later mortally wounded, after receiving an unheard of "on the spot" Legion d'Honeur...still considered a legend in the French Artillery.)
My uncle was a Navy veteran of D-Day, being on the crew of an LST. When he saw Saving Private Ryan, he had to leave the theater because it was so realistic.
You'll have to find a special category for "Die Wannseekonferenz" (1984), a TV movie about the 1942 meeting in Germany about "The Final Solution". The entire movie is 85 minutes long, the length of the actual meeting, and dialog is often used directly from transcriptions taken by secretaries at the meeting. This is probably the most historically accurate film ever made, not just a single scene.
Good choice. It shows how the murder of millions of people could be treated as a matter of logistics.
Possibly more accessible there was an English language version called "Conspiracy" made in 2001 starring Kenneth Branagh & Stanley Tucci as Heydrich & Eichmann that is very good.
I would possibly have added Churchill's Outer Council Meeting from "The Darkest Hour", LTCOL John Frost's defense of the Arnhem Bridge in "A Bridge Too Far", the basic gumshoe reporting scenes recorded in "Spotlight". But other than that, no disagreements with your picks! 💗
I gotta watch Downfall still. I hear it's one of the best war movies out there. And from what I can tell it's often overlooked as well.
It's a superb film, sadly overlooked as you say
@annettereynolds7457 yeah
I'm sorry, but when a certain dictator rants about Texas A & M, it's hard for me to take the source material seriously, especially, the fart of doom version.
It's one of the GREATEST foriegn language movies of all time. I highly reccomend it.
@roxy5588 I will watch it for sure.
Garry Adelman is one of best experts of the American Civil War. If the film gets his approval, you’re doing a good job. Love the American Battlefield Trust! Someone did a Downfall of Snowpacalypse in Atlanta😂
Bas Boot depth charge sequence. Could be the best war movie ever made. The artillery barrage from Danger Close?
They didn't hear real pings. The detection sounded like gravel thrown on the sub.
Danger Close was fairly accurate..think the No.9 SQN RAAF Hueys dropping the ammo was also fairly accurate.
The battle for little round top was filmed on little round top at Gettysburg. In fact, the whole movie was filmed there.
Tom Hanks talent and abilities are amazing, he can act in any type of film.
McAuliffe was famous for his swearing. When Eisenhower heard the report of “Nuts” he supposedly burst out laughing and said someone really cleaned that up.
The opposite is true: his personal aide has stated that McAuliffe never swore--which made him unique among his peers--and that "Nuts!" was as strong as he ever got.
I'm surprised The mummy Returns didn't make it to the list.
You need a second video. You missed Tom Cruises - Valkyrie. The execution at the end of the movie.
Katherine Johnson was a fucking mathematical GENIUS!!!!!!!!
Midway, 2018: Bruno Gaido did indeed leap into his tail gun position on the deck of the enterprise, and the 2 ranks on the spot from Halsey also happened.
The Death of Stalin took a great many liberties but had some details spot on.
Goes to show that Tom Hank’s is a golden icon in the movie industry
Saw tora tora tora in theater when in grade school. Still love it.
All of the "Bastogne" episode of Band of Brothers.
“Shattered Glass” the conference call between THE NEW REPUBLIC and FORBES was taken from recordings. Very few liberties were taken from the actual story.
The Little Round Top charge is such a great scene
The Nanny loved Edward and hated Albert. She’d pinch Edward so his parents would hand him back when he was crying.
Tora Tora Tora has one MAJOR inaccuracy that keeps getting quoted... the Yamamoto "quote" at the end about sleeping giants.
What he really said was (roughly translated from Japanese, natch) that it does not do to kill a man in his sleep - something considered _dishonourable_ among Japanese (who are _all about_ honour).
Son of Saul is painfully accurate from the numbers of the prisoners (shifted with one number from actually numbers), the colour of the walls in the "wainting rooms" of the gas chambers to the number plate of a truck in the concentration camp, recreating actual photos and more...
History teaches us...& no Repeating!
I could not recommend "Downfall" more strongly, it is a gut-wrenching portrayal of Hitler's last days alive based on the story of someone who was there to see it all!
Well done Watchmojo. Utube channels are known for their inaccuracies.
The Bridge On the River Kwai?
British POWs were universally indignant that it failed to depict the brutality of the Japanese soldiers. Allied prisoners of war suffered mortality rates of 30% or higher under the Japanese; roughly 5% of Western POWs captured by the Nazis died in captivity.
The Nazis, on the other hand, routinely murdered Soviet POWs; more than 50 % of them died at the hands of the Germans. The Japanese were just as brutal toward Chinese prisoners; they released only 56 Chinese POWs at the end of the war. But comparisons of this sort are beside the point: it is enough that conditions in Japanese prison camps were incomparably worse than portrayed in an engaging work of fiction.
11:00 "This one can't be beat."
WRONG!! The Longest Day beats SPR like an unruly child. At least in The Longest Day, the film crews had era appropriate ships and planes, not to mention that D-Day was an international effort, not just an American effort. Also, The Longest Day showed the five beaches, the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc, and the glider/paratrooper drops.
13:25 Although I LOVE Tora Tora Tora, the one thing they got wrong was the female aviator. In the movie, the aviator was fifty years old, if a day, in reality (as seen in the picture) the aviator was only 20 years old.
The Longest Day was about ALL our allies who helped to defeat Germany. THAT WAS NOT THE POINT OF Saving Private Ryan. DID YOU SEE SPR???? The movie was about one (former English teacher's [Tom Hanks] soldier's orders to save another solider whose THREE BROTHERS HAD BEEN KILLED IN WWII already (true story.) IT WAS {is} 100% accurate. IT WAS NOT MADE TO HIGHLIGHT D-DAY but S. Spielberg knew how important it was to show the terror of that landing on the beaches of Normandy. Most directors would have opened (began) the movie later, say walking through France. GET IT YET ???? Just Spielberg's care and dedication to honor those who died on the beach on the 50th anniversary.
@esciteach. You perfectly mentioned exactly my point, which is that Americans often don't know history. It was the 5 Sullivan brothers, all together on a destroyer that sank, not four brothers in infantry. Also, prior to SPR there was a saying that the two things that should never be seen is, first, sausage being made and second, a battle being fought. Yes, there were countless war movies before SPR, but none of them were graphic.....until SPR. After SPR, the genie was out of the bottle and a whole slieu of movies had graphic violence. And you wonder why the US is have trouble recruiting people for the military? It's because every average Joe thinks he's going to go through a SPR type experience. Finally, SPR gives the impression that the Normandy landings were entirely an American operation and that is a HUGE lie.
@@The_Dudester I may have forgot the brothers names and number and few facts, but the post never stated this nor that the movie was about saving the remaining brother, not D Day. Steven read THAT script and then realized movie would open near 50th ann. of D Day. Orig post was criticizing the D Day part.
If WatchMojo ever did a list of top 10 historically INaccurate movie scenes, I wonder what would be on there