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Best Historical Movies and Television Shows
====Historical Movies and Television Series==== ...unes, Amazon Prime, etc.) but some of these options make it harder to give movies and televisions series as a gift. iTunes and Amazon Prime still allow you t

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How accurate is the movie The Favourite
...ke of Marlborough was played by Mark Gatis. This article will evaluate the historical accuracy of the acclaimed 2018 movie. ====Historical Context====

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Privateering during the War of 1812: Interview with Faye M. Kert
...spread over half a dozen national and state archives collections, numerous historical societies and state and university libraries. It has been a multi-year Eas You don’t need to watch many pirate movies before you realize why privateering needed a strong legal framework. The f

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How Historically Accurate is season 1 of The Last Kingdom
...f Uhtred, who is a fictional character based on an amalgamation of several historical characters, during the Dane invasions of England during the 9th century. ...s later in the season to both form and defeat a shield wall. In this case, historical accuracy was sacrificed to create a more compelling story.<ref>For more on

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How accurate is Stanley Kubrick's 'Spartacus'
...9cb390aa067d35dd6ded3d1908b Spartacus] (1960) is one of the best-known movies in cinema history. It caused a sensation on its release and was one of the ...great movie and still a favorite but how accurate was it? Spartacus was a historical figure who led a slave revolt in the first century BC. This is known as the

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How historically accurate is the movie 'A Bridge Too Far'
.... "Joseph E. Levine and A Bridge Too Far: A Producer's Labour of Love." Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television. 31 (2011), pp 211–214</ref> A All the characters in the film are based on historical figures. Sean Connery played his fellow Scot, Major General Urquhart. Gene

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How historically accurate is the movie 'The Battle of the Bulge'
...scenes may be reasonably accurate not much else of the movie can be called historical. One of the main problems with the movie was that it was filmed in Spain. T ...aign and the key characters involved in it. Most Hollywood movies based on historical subjects are inaccurate but the Battle of the Bulge is particularly inaccur

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How historically accurate is the movie Lincoln (2012)
...eenplay was written by Tony Kushner, and it was based on the award-winning historical work 'A Team of Rivals.' ...played by Sally Fields, is shown by Spielberg as being present during the historical debate. This was not the case as it would have been considered 'unladylike

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Is the movie Dunkirk historically accurate
==== Historical Characters==== ...lan more flexibility in the portrayal of these characters. The confines of historical accuracy don't bound him.

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What was the impact of Ivan the Terrible on Russia
...d movies. However, the legend that is Ivan the Terrible often obscured the historical leader, who was one of the most important figures in Russia's history.

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How Did the Athenians Win the Battle of Marathon
...hon. The battle has provided fodder for numerous books, documentaries, and movies, which often portray the event as an important battle in the existential st ...Hemerodromoi: Pheidippides’ Run from Athens to Sparta in 490 BC from Historical and Physiological Perspectives.” Hermes. 137 (2009) p. 161</ref>

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Best Historical Movies and Television Shows
====Historical Movies and Television Series==== ...unes, Amazon Prime, etc.) but some of these options make it harder to give movies and televisions series as a gift. iTunes and Amazon Prime still allow you t

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Top Ten War Books that were turned into Movies
...no particular order that have inspired some of the most popular historical movies of all time. ...Longest Day’ was released in 1962 and it is one of the most popular war-movies of all time.

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Who was Theseus the great Athenian king and hero
Like many myths, the stories of Theseus may reflect some historical reality. Athens is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the w ...stories, such as the slaying of monsters and bandits, may reflect how the historical monarch brought order and the rule of law to the land of Attica.<ref> Osbor

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Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight - Book Review
...he suburban decentralized nature of Southern California, when portrayed in movies, television, and via Disneyland reinforced such conceptions of post-war Ame ...have pointed out, the Mexicanization of Los Angeles serves as a return to historical tradition not a break from it. While Deverall and Avila's works remain conf

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Did the Biblical Exodus Actually Happen
...p culture, being the inspiration for numerous books, television shows, and movies, namely the 1956 hit, The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston ...h and Twentieth dynasties over a more than 200 year period. Of course, the movies portray the Exodus as taking place during the rule of Egypt’s most famous

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How accurate is the movie The Aviator
...Scorsese and scripted by serial academy award nominee John Logan. It is a historical epic that focused on a key period in the life of Howard Hughes one of the m ====Howard Hughes and the Movies====

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How Historically Accurate is the movie Gangs of New York
...ie is not based on a true story. The Gangs of New York, like many Scorsese movies, is an examination of organized crime in New York City. In essence, the mov ...al of Scorsese’s oeuvre. Many commentators likened it to modern gangster movies. The motion picture focuses on the recurring fights and battles between the

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Top Ten Books from the Oxford Battle Series
...or radical Sunni fundamentalists. France's book places the battle into its historical context. ...e 1960s-70s. Beckett explores the myths that have arisen not only from the movies but how the interpretations of these battles have changed.

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How historically accurate is the movie the Kingdom of Heaven
...some of the most memorable movies of recent decades such as Gladiator. The historical epic was produced in Spain and Morocco. The movie starred Orlando Bloom, Ev ...article evaluates the director’s cut of Kingdom of Heaven and its historical accuracy instead of the dramatically inferior theatrical version.

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How historically accurate is the movie Dunkirk
==Historical Accuracy== Among recent movies, Dunkirk is the most accurate historical movie. While the main characters are fictional, their actions due represent

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Was the story of the Man in the Iron Mask based on a real person
...a literary fiction but it is now accepted that the unknown prisoner was a historical figure. The name of the inmate was kept an official secret, and this has sp ...wrote about him in one of his novels, which has been adapted into several movies. This article will examine the background to the story and narrate what is

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Was Camelot based on a real place
...These tales have inspired many books, poems, plays, television series, and movies. The characters from the cycle of Arthurian stories are well-known, such as ...ble that he invented Camelot's court, and therefore it is not based on any historical location.

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Was Dracula based on a real person
...haracter is very well-known worldwide and has appeared in countless books, movies, and even video games. Dracula first appeared in an epistolary novel, writt ...er was based on a real-life historical figure. This article examines those historical figures which may have inspired the Irishman to create his immortal Count D

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Were the Knights of the Round Table real figures
...nd stories have inspired countless books, plays, tv-series, and of course, movies. ...of elite fighters who fought for early medieval warlords and possibly some historical figures whose memory survived in folklore.

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Was Merlin based on a real person
...eal-life character? This article will discuss if he was based on an actual historical figure or merely a fictional character, the product of medieval writers and The Arthurian Cycle of stories and Merlin's legend is based on more or less historical events that occurred in the wake of the collapse of Roman power in the West

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Who was Medusa the terrible Gorgon in mythology
...on</ref>. Medusa has also featured in many books, comics, video games, and movies, including The Clash of the Titans and Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The L ...ern commentators, the story of Perseus being slain by Medusa represented a historical fact. Perseus symbolizes the Greeks, and Medusa represents some non-Greek p

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Was Sherlock Holmes a real person
...is not the case. This article will examine if the character was based on a historical crime fighter or real-life detective. It investigates the character's devel For ten years, Conan-Doyle concentrated on historical fiction, which was well received. In 1901 he returned to writing stories ab

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Was Robinson Crusoe based on a real person
...set of novels. This character has inspired many other literary works, many movies and there is even an island named after the hero of the great survival stor ...figure of Robinson Crusoe is widely believed to have been based on a real historical figure. In this article, there is a discussion about the author who created

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Top Ten Books on Los Angeles History
...quiry. Historians have studied Los Angeles for over a century. In terms of historical scholarship, Los Angeles sits at an interesting spot. Its history can be ex ...er of people did try to move to Los Angeles during this period because the movies that came from Hollywood seemed to suggest that the Depression had not reac

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Was El Dorado a real place
...f some undiscovered civilization. This article will argue that there was a historical basis for the story of the fabled city of gold. __NOTOC__ ...hort, a fable or a myth. However, like many other myths, it has a basis in historical fact. The famous fable of the Lost City in the jungle was based on real-lif

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What is the history behind Frankenstein
...monster and the tale of his creation has been portrayed countless times in movies, comics, and even cartoons. The story of Victor Frankenstein and his creati ...antastical. Mary Shelly, the author of the original story, was inspired by historical personages and actual scientific experiments. While there was never a monst

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Was Zorro based on a real figure
...nd comics. Like many popular fictional heroes, Zorro was based on several historical figures. Below is a discussion of the candidates that inspired the creation ...ally successful novels of all time. Zorro has appeared in countless books, movies, and theatrical productions. <ref>Curtis, p. 19</ref> In recent years ther

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How historically accurate is the movie 'The Revenant'
...three awards, including one for Di Caprio in the best actor category. The historical accuracy of the movie was widely discussed at the time of its release. How ====Historical Context====

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How historically accurate is Martin Scorsese's movie Silence
...edged to be one of the giants of modern cinema. He is mainly known for his movies on gangsters, but he has had a life-long fascination with spiritual themes. ...ovie where the priests and local converts are brutally killed are based on historical incidents. The repression of the Japanese Christians went on for decades.

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Was the story of Jekyll and Hyde based on real-life characters
...y, is still as relevant today as over a century ago. What are the possible historical figures and literary sources that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write ...ature. Naturally, the story is only a work of fiction, but it is rooted in historical fact. Stevenson was clearly influenced by the emerging science of psychiatr

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Was Atlantis based on a real place
...nation. Indeed, many do not believe that Atlantis is a myth but was a real historical place and that its remains may still be found to this day. .... In 1882, the Minnesotan politician Ignatius L. Donnelly wrote the pseudo-historical work Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. Donnelly took Plato literally, and h

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Who was Memnon the African hero in Greek Mythology
Like many mythical heroes, the character of Memnon may have been based on a historical hero. This is a phenomenon that has occurred many times in the past and acr ...o is now best known as a character from the Marvel franchise of comics and movies.

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