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Hollywood has a long history of getting it wrong on history. It usually sacrifices truth to entertainment and box-office appeal. This is not the case with Attenborough’s A Bridge Too Far. It is very accurate and gives a good account of Operation Market Garden, its battles and most of the reasons as to why it failed. The movie’s portrayal of the battles is particularly accurate and shows the intensity of the fighting. Although there are some minor inaccuracies about units and armaments. The motion picture does show all the leading players in Market Garden and the only real omission was Montgomery who was the architect of Operation Market Garden. Indeed, this is perhaps the main failing of the movie. It The movie also noticeably fails to show who was ultimately responsible for the failure of Market Garden. Browning rejection of the intelligence offered by the Dutch Resistance and his own intelligence service was critical. However, Montgomery must take a the major share of the blame for the disaster and this is not shown in the motion picture. The movie is historically accurate however, it is argued by many critics that this made the film less dramatic, entertaining, repetitive and overlong.