Despite historical inaccuracies, movies like Gladiator & Napoleon provide epic, enthralling depictions of historical settings. Ridley Scott's film, Napoleon, chronicles the rise of the French ...

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There are two obvious reasons why history films can’t achieve perfect realism. First, there are simply limits to what is ...

Biopics, a.k.a. historical movies documenting the life of a real person—can struggle under the weight of expectations and volume, since they might be covering years or decades of events that ...

Given how foundational these tales have been to Western civilization, it makes sense that the movie industry would want to tap into the audience’s awareness of them. Time and again — notably ...

The historical inaccuracies in Mary Queen of Scots dominated the headlines after its premiere, but it’s far from the first film to have been 'creative' with history. Here are some of the ...