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Through the simple approach of ignoring most of the facts, Chisum achieves a happy ending to the story of Billy the Kid, while transforming cattle baron John Chisum from timid observer to hero of the Lincoln County War. Read More…
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British, American and Polish paratroopers take part in a complex and risky operation to seize a series of bridges in Holland in September 1944 to enable British tanks to push through German lines and bring an early end to WWII. Read More…
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Billy the Kid (1941) is a romanticized version of the vicious Lincoln County War, but the movie accurately shows the consequences of waiting too long to leave the outlaw life. Read More…
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Although set during the Mexican Revolution, Bandido (1956) has almost zero historical context but is an entertaining story about rival American arms dealers. Read More…
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Al Capone (1959) was praised at the time of its release for its accuracy, and Rod Steiger comes closest at capturing the real Al Capone, but the film is limited by the need to show that crime does not pay. Read More…
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An American pilot (Tyrone Power) joins the RAF during the early stages of WWII to impress an ex-girlfriend (Betty Grable) but only starts to take the war seriously while covering the evacuation at Dunkirk. Read More…
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Astonishingly accurate, The Dam Busters (1955) presents the British struggle to invent bombs that bounced on water in order to destroy key German dams during WWII. Read More…
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Dunkirk (1958), which tells the story of the evacuation of the British army from France during WWII, is extremely faithful to the historical record. Read More…
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Battle of Britain (1969) is a grimly realistic and astonishingly accurate presentation of the outnumbered RAF’s desperate struggle to protect Britain against the powerful Luftwaffe during WWII. Read More…
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Capone (1975) has surprisingly good sets for a Roger Corman production and is quite historically accurate until it invents a new explanation for the fall of Chicago ganglord Al Capone. Read More…
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More film noir than biographical drama, Dillinger (1945) tells the story of the notorious bank robber but ignores the FBI. Read More…
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While Dark Command is entertaining and surprisingly dark for 1940, it completely airbrushes the savagery that made the fighting in the Missouri-Kansas region a particularly brutal part of the Civil War. Along with Santa Fe Trail, which was made the same year and also deals with Bleeding Kansas, the film attempts to paper over the deep divisions that had caused the Civil War in an effort to unite northerners and southerners as the United States seemed increasingly likely to enter WWII. Read More…
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The great cast of character actors and exciting shootouts make up for the jumbled history and glorification of the FBI in Dillinger (1973). Read More…
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The battle of the River Plate (1956) is a very good portrayal of the British hunt for a German pocket battleship that raided Allied shipping during the early months of WWII. Read More…
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Although American Outlaws (2001) plays fast and loose with history, whitewashing the James-Younger Gang, it is a lot of fun to watch. Read More…
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Although Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) is not one of John Ford’s best movies, it is worth watching since there are only a handful of movies on the American Revolution. Read More…
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Although Bonnie and Clyde (1967) marks the beginning of New Hollywood, it is a repulsive glorification of trigger-happy outlaws. Read More…