10 Historical MOVIE MISTAKES You Totally Missed

by Panzer
Epic10 List Here are 10 historical movie mistakes
#10 American Sniper Though popular, much controversy surrounded
the film, “American Sniper.”
In the movie, Chris Kyle, played by Bradley Copper, was shown questioning whether or not
to shoot a child, who’s own mother had handed him a grenade.
But according to Kyle’s book, there was no such child, but a lone woman holding a
small hand grenade. #9 Elizabeth: The Golden Age
In the movie “Elizabeth: The Golden Age,” the queen is shown on the battlefield in Tilbury,
wearing shiny armour, and inspiring her troops with a gusto speech.
Though her speech on the battlefield is moving and inspiring, historians argue whether or
not Queen Elizabeth in fact did give a speech motivating her troops, but more, if she was
even on the battlefield.
#8 U-571 This film though entertaining, in fact was
declared a major insult to the British.
Unlike the movie portrayal, at the time of the capture of the German Enigma machine,
the Americans weren’t yet involved in the war.
#7 Shakespeare In Love Though entertaining and full of subtle jokes,
“Shakespeare In Love,” was based on little accuracy.
Though many believe there had been a woman, known only to scholars as the “Dark Woman,”
who inspired many of his Sonnets, it is highly unlikely that any such romance had existed
in the writing of Romeo and Juliet, due to no known aspiring actress, such as depicted
in the film.
#6 Pocahontas Though an actual person, the animated story,
“Pocahontas,” depicted by Disney, a young woman’s love affair with the English Captain
John Smith.
Pocahontas, a Powhatan Native American woman, born around 1595, would have only been roughly
12 years old by the time her portrayed love interest, John Smith, arrived in Virginia
in 1607.
#5 The Imitation Game Alan Turing, played by Benedict Cumberbatch
in the film, “The Imitation Game,” was not actually a loner who alone built “the
bombe,” as the movie portrayed, but rather a popular fellow in Bletchley Park who only
made improvements to a machine that had been created years earlier.
#4 Braveheart Everyone remembers the brave Scottish peasant,
rallying up his fellow villagers, ready to fight for their freedom, dressed in their
kilts and blue face paint.
Or so the movie says.
In fact, kilts were not actually developed for another three centuries.
And the blue paint?
Woad (a flower grown for its dye), was actually 1,000 years out of date for that time.