Web Resource: “10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies”
Posted on March 22nd, 2008 by Peter Gutiérrez
Suggested Levels: 9-16
Subject Areas: World History, American History, Ancient History
Overview: With brief capsule texts “Yahoo! Movies” runs down anachronisms and other inaccuracies in Hollywood period films, focusing primarily on blockbusters of the past decade.
Key quote: “Films that make your high school history teacher cry.”
Content Inventory: 10,000 B.C. (2008); 300 (2007); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); Apocalypto (2006); Braveheart (1995); Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007); Gladiator (2000); The Last Samurai (2003); Memoirs of a Geisha (2005); The Patriot (2000)
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