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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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Jul 262011
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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…
Jun 012011
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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…
Mar 222011
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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…
Feb 182011
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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…
Dec 092010
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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…
Jul 192010
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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…
Jul 232009
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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…
Jun 062009
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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…
Jul 142008
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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…
Oct 032006
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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…
Dec 092005
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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…
Oct 222005
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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…
Jul 192005
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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…