The Least Accurate Movies Based On True Events

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  • Theses movies based on true stories missed the mark.
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    Movies can be a great way to provide a dramatic retelling of real events and bring these amazing historical stories back to life. But sometimes they can play somewhat fast and loose with the details, brushing aside actual historical fact for more entertaining creative flair. This means that they can really blur the line with what is true and what is not, giving us false information and making us believe something that is in actuality completely inaccurate.
    In this video we will take a look at some of the biggest and best movies based on true events that are shockingly inaccurate. This will include movies leaving big pieces of information out, making up romances that never actually happened and just completely making up new characters. These are some of the most popular movies that you may not have known were feeding you false information. So prepare to get out your history books and look back through some of the best true non-true movies around!
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  • @gemima6015
    @gemima6015 3 роки тому +110

    Why is Bohemian Rhapsody not in the list?!!!!!

    • @davids9520
      @davids9520 3 роки тому +10

      To save it for part 2?

    • @alejandrocrayola9456
      @alejandrocrayola9456 3 роки тому +3

      David S 😂

    • @The_Dudester
      @The_Dudester 3 роки тому +10

      There is so much to the Queen story that one would need a series of movies to tell the story of the legendary band. One HUGE error is that the band was actually touring when Live Aid happened. Back in those days it was common that a rock band would spend a month or two in the studio, tour for a year, then take 6 months to a year off before going back to the studio again to repeat the process.

  • @jwallE93
    @jwallE93 3 роки тому +149

    Where’s Lincoln? They never mentioned his Vampire hunting.

    • @purdyprincess
      @purdyprincess 3 роки тому +4

      cos maybe thats completely fiction with a touch of reality(Abe lincoln)

    • @niccolai_o3680
      @niccolai_o3680 3 роки тому +1

      The Vampire Hunter thing was written in Lincoln' diary

    • @Brandon-hk2ny
      @Brandon-hk2ny 3 роки тому +5

      Because this is a list of least accurate. That movie was spot on

    • @priscilaassis5704
      @priscilaassis5704 3 роки тому +4

      Maybe it’s not in this list because it’s exactly what happened

  • @AdvancedLiving
    @AdvancedLiving 3 роки тому +54

    The events of Alien Versus Predator are completely different from what happened in real life…

    • @navelaviator18
      @navelaviator18 3 роки тому +5

      This is 100% true! In real life, the squabble between the two aliens was because of one eating the other's lunch! ...When it was clearly marked!

    • @dlb4299
      @dlb4299 3 роки тому +2

      And he keeps showing pictures of The Lion King but he did not put it on the list. Why?

    • @navelaviator18
      @navelaviator18 3 роки тому +2

      @@dlb4299 ummm, seriously?

    • @punkwrestle
      @punkwrestle 3 роки тому

      NavelAviator Hey if you leave it in the fridge for over a week it goes into the community pot!

  • @Jester123ish
    @Jester123ish 3 роки тому +27

    Oh you didn’t go anywhere near hard enough on The Imitation game. They made a huge establishment of 10,000 people, look like the work of a backyard guy in shed.

  • @lordvenjix3757
    @lordvenjix3757 3 роки тому +39

    It’s rare for any movie to actually tell a true story, as opposed to stories swirling about in a screenwriter’s head. Chances are a true story movie only tells part of the real story, and could be as minuscule as somebody with this name existed.

  • @leandroabreu5501
    @leandroabreu5501 3 роки тому +36

    Bohemian Rhapsody is completely bull**** too. Almost nothing happened the way the movie shows

    • @MrKingvenom77
      @MrKingvenom77 3 роки тому +12

      Ikr. Probably the most accurate thing about the movie is there is band called Queen

    • @rotz394
      @rotz394 3 роки тому +5

      @@MrKingvenom77 After the fact that the characters existed, they lived in a specific time period, and did music.

    • @Altmetalpunk
      @Altmetalpunk 3 роки тому +2

      Yeah, but I wouldn't be surprised if Brian May thinks that's all how it went down

    • @4879daniel
      @4879daniel 3 роки тому +1

      They basically manufactured all the conflict in the film.

    • @acriticwithoutacause8983
      @acriticwithoutacause8983 3 роки тому +1

      @@Altmetalpunk Brian May said more than anyone to not to confuse the movie with real life. He corrected many details & showed his support for the movie as well.

  • @jimmyjamzzz3046
    @jimmyjamzzz3046 3 роки тому +17

    Blood Sport!!! Dudes whole life was a lie then they made a movie "based on a true story" about the guys fake stories of his "real" life...

  • @loudpunkrockrbl8853
    @loudpunkrockrbl8853 3 роки тому +30

    Pearl Harbor needs to be on this list!

  • @travelsizedlions
    @travelsizedlions 3 роки тому +13

    Can we also mention that the machine Alan Turing helped to create was actually named "Victory" and not after his childhood friend/crush? And that the British actually built 100's of copies of that machine and still didn't crack the German's codes with 100% reliability like they seem to show in the movie?

  • @ETCH_YT
    @ETCH_YT 3 роки тому +24

    Don't get me wrong I love this movie but i'm surprised bohemian Rhapsody isn't on here. Most of that movies isn't real.

  • @TRAILERBOLTS
    @TRAILERBOLTS 3 роки тому +95

    Fun Fact: There are more planes in the ocean then boats in the sky.

    • @TRAILERBOLTS
      @TRAILERBOLTS 3 роки тому

      @@UnbracedChimp27 what happened

    • @fortunatefantasy
      @fortunatefantasy 3 роки тому

      @@TRAILERBOLTS It is a true statement; all aspects considered

    • @RoverIAC
      @RoverIAC 3 роки тому +1

      you can't prove that.

    • @TRAILERBOLTS
      @TRAILERBOLTS 3 роки тому +2

      @@RoverIAC yes I can

    • @Smokin_Snowman
      @Smokin_Snowman 3 роки тому +1

      This comment section made my day much better. Thanks for that.

  • @DJGamingSmash
    @DJGamingSmash 3 роки тому +12

    Never knew The Revenant was based on a true story, even if only partly.

  • @christopheprovost3669
    @christopheprovost3669 3 роки тому +39

    "based on a true story" *proceeds to create a whole new story from scratch*

  • @MovieTrialers
    @MovieTrialers 3 роки тому +16

    The imitation game also does dozens of incredible (and respected) women who tirelessly worked at Bletchley park a disservice by omitting them to include a cringe-worthy ‘fight the patriarchy’ subplot. There’s a sad irony in there.

  • @adamwebb8114
    @adamwebb8114 3 роки тому +10

    This is an oddly strange and small list, as far as inaccurate movies about true events goes- it's pretty much a majority of them that aren't completely right. Could easily have a series just on this subject alone lol

  • @RoverIAC
    @RoverIAC 3 роки тому +18

    based on a "true" story. Yes it was based on a story. That is true.

  • @njay4399
    @njay4399 3 роки тому +11

    Haven't watched it yet but I better see Pochahtas on this list
    Edit: I have been satisfied

  • @michaeldebellis4202
    @michaeldebellis4202 3 роки тому +12

    I'm a big fan of Alan Turing and in spite of its many flaws I love the Imitation Game. But the portrayal really does inaccurately portray Turing as the arrogant brilliant jerk. He was certainly brilliant, one of the most brilliant minds in history, but he was painfully shy and what people sometimes took as rudeness was just his almost autistic lack of comprehending basic social customs. If you are a fellow nerd I highly recommend the book that the movie was based on: Alan Turing: The Enigma. The author is a mathematician and he does an excellent job of explaining the importance of Turing's early mathematical work (before WWII) which had huge significance for mathematics, philosophy, cognitive science, and as the theory that established the foundation for programmable digital computers.

    • @essaboselin5252
      @essaboselin5252 2 роки тому

      Turing was an undeniable genius, but he was a bit odd. He didn't want people to use his tea mug, so he locked it up - not in his desk, like a normal person, but with a heavy chain and padlock.

  • @Atriviality
    @Atriviality 3 роки тому +12

    Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based on true events. The movie is true to the extent that a woman was once murdered in Texas by a crazy man. No chainsaws or massacres were involved.

    • @davidwiley4953
      @davidwiley4953 3 роки тому

      That was "inspired" by true events not "based" on true events.

    • @Atriviality
      @Atriviality 3 роки тому +1

      @@davidwiley4953 The ORIGINAL film was marketed as being based on true events to attract a wider audience and to act as a subtle commentary on the era's political climate; although the character of Leatherface and minor story details were inspired by the crimes of murderer Ed Gein, its plot is largely fictional.

  • @lordvenjix3757
    @lordvenjix3757 3 роки тому +3

    Awesome video 👌

  • @mica8634
    @mica8634 3 роки тому +5

    I'm surprised Bohemian Rhapsody wasn't on this list, cuz damn that timeline was inaccurate

  • @alankohn6709
    @alankohn6709 3 роки тому +4

    I like to call this type of Hysterically accurate

  • @michaelbiscay9836
    @michaelbiscay9836 3 роки тому +5

    Does Fargo count? It's based on true events that never happened.

    • @dawordalchemist
      @dawordalchemist 3 роки тому

      Really? Knowing that messes with the movies to an extent, some movies like Fargo or chainsaw massacre or Blair witch are awesome to me for the element of truth factor...such a shame

  • @lykander9906
    @lykander9906 3 роки тому +2

    I like to imagine that The Greatest Showman is the story of P.T. Barnum, as he might have told it himself.

  • @loganpaxton56
    @loganpaxton56 3 роки тому +14

    When you’re so early there’s no fake mr beasts

  • @jrios29
    @jrios29 3 роки тому +3

    Bro, never, and I mean NEVER EVER disrespect the epic racoon known as Meeko!

  • @DimitarGospodinov
    @DimitarGospodinov 3 роки тому +6

    No "Bohemian rhapsody"?

  • @hendrikschurade2149
    @hendrikschurade2149 3 роки тому +3

    Ironically, the Enigma code was cracked by a minor thing. At the beginning and at the end of the messages the special greeting form would always be used (you know, the one with the 2 H)

    • @essaboselin5252
      @essaboselin5252 2 роки тому +1

      That, and all naval messages followed a set pattern of listing the time, date, latitude, longitude and weather conditions.

  • @davidwiley4953
    @davidwiley4953 3 роки тому +11

    I'm okay with some changes being made for a film as long as characterization of real people is accurate, the main events are accurate and credit/blame is given accurately. That's why the extra action in Argo is okay but ignoring the Canadian contribution is not.

    • @Mooseman327
      @Mooseman327 3 роки тому

      Argo is pretty much a fiction from start to finish. It's a fake CIA promo film and anyone involved in it should be deeply ashamed of themselves. Many people, to this day, believe this crap was true.

  • @Tokinjester
    @Tokinjester 3 роки тому +4

    3:41 the greatest showman. Never even heard of the movie, but as soon as you mentioned the word _diversify_ ...I kinda guessed it was all fake

    • @angryb0325
      @angryb0325 3 роки тому

      James O'Neill I saw the movie on Disney +

    • @GoldieDoggy
      @GoldieDoggy 3 роки тому

      I honestly love the movie, and I get that it isn’t as correct, but they literally show PT Barnum as being manipulative in various ways??

  • @APeskyDunce
    @APeskyDunce 3 роки тому +5

    It’s unfortunate when the movie is bad, too. Then, accuracy was sacrificed for quality of story that was failed to achieve

  • @thelachster
    @thelachster 3 роки тому

    I watched Cool Runnings probably about 20 times in my school years. Considering that I had no idea it was even based on a true story at all until now, I'm pretty impressed.

  • @NewsboyHoey
    @NewsboyHoey 3 роки тому +3

    Last time I was this early, I lost an eye.

  • @jacksfather
    @jacksfather 3 роки тому +1

    I notice that Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is not on the list. Confirming that he was, in fact, a vampire hunter.

  • @yrusweaty5549
    @yrusweaty5549 3 роки тому +10

    me: 13 comments can i see?
    youtube: no

  • @TheInkyBoo
    @TheInkyBoo 3 роки тому +1

    This was actually an ok Screen Rant video!

  • @emorywarren8311
    @emorywarren8311 3 роки тому +2

    This is the reason I haven't watched Captain Phillips to this day.

  • @Robi2009
    @Robi2009 3 роки тому

    2:30 - leaving like just for that mention, thank you

  • @sylvaindurand1817
    @sylvaindurand1817 3 роки тому +1

    Almost every movies that starts with ''based on real events'' should be on the list.

  • @OZYM1
    @OZYM1 3 роки тому +1

    Hi. Two you missed (at the top of my head) are Gladiator and The Untouchables. Two great movies full of inaccuracies.

  • @wanderer7956
    @wanderer7956 3 роки тому +1

    Yeah, people need to realize the phrases "based on (or inspired by) a true story" is the film's way of saying they are using real names, places, or events from history with proper citation, but under no obligation to be accurate. That's what documentaries are for!

  • @krisreed5536
    @krisreed5536 3 роки тому +1

    Anybody else getting two unskippable ads every 2 min? What the hell?

  • @lusi_kitten-4204
    @lusi_kitten-4204 3 роки тому

    As someone who has been to Bletchley park twice Alan Turing did break the enigma code with a lot of help the team who broke the code was very large but there was no communication between the different huts
    I went to Bletchley on a school trip so i actually got to use the enigma machine

  • @ShiroKatagari
    @ShiroKatagari 3 роки тому

    Came here looking for Braveheart, U-451 and The Patriot.
    Left feeling 33% happy....

  • @WhyfallinLUVwhenUcanfallasleep
    @WhyfallinLUVwhenUcanfallasleep 3 роки тому +3

    Who had no idea that the greatest showman was inspired by a real story?

    • @davids9520
      @davids9520 3 роки тому +3

      Another sucker born every minute?

    • @Cypresssina
      @Cypresssina 3 роки тому

      Really? I'm sorry.

  • @BoomerElite4u
    @BoomerElite4u 3 роки тому +1

    Enemy At The Gates deserves an honorable mention, and it's a shame too, because the true history of the events that took place was much more interesting.

  • @IanBerg
    @IanBerg 3 роки тому

    Outlaw King", the Netflix movie about Robert The Bruce is more historically accurate and just as gripping as "Braveheart". Its main miss is that Edward II wasn't actually at the climactic final battle of "Outlaw King".

  • @alexifelton1070
    @alexifelton1070 3 роки тому +5

    For a musical based on real events Hamilton has a surprising lack of slaves

  • @ogray83
    @ogray83 3 роки тому +2

    I wish you had reduced the number of films here and gone more in depth on some of them. Pocohantas and 300 are obviously not historically accurate; the creators of 300 made it wisely known that they were making a comic-book movie, not a history film. Braveheart has been critiqued so many times that it's accuracy is largely known to be a joke. See the History Buffs take on Braveheart for a true look into how bad it really is. It would've been nice to hear more about Captain Phillips and The Imitation Game, and maybe do Lincoln also since they over-glorified him in that movie (even though Daniel Day Lewis was phenomenal as always).

  • @BreandanOCiarrai
    @BreandanOCiarrai 3 роки тому

    Braveheart- the Battle of Sterling Bridge... without the bridge. o.O

  • @vginsprdsobepr9698
    @vginsprdsobepr9698 3 роки тому

    Make a Screen Rant of the original Wonder Woman movie (1974) with Cathy Lee Crosby.

  • @sandeesandwich2180
    @sandeesandwich2180 3 роки тому +1

    Glad Argo was on this list.

  • @MickeyKnox
    @MickeyKnox 3 роки тому

    So true, funny how it seems
    Always in time, but never in line for dreams
    Head over heels when toe to toe
    This is the sound of my soul
    This is the sound
    I bought a ticket to the world
    But now I've come back again
    Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
    Oh I want the truth to be said

  • @thehistoryman9332
    @thehistoryman9332 3 роки тому

    Im a history student, and Braveheart hurts me soul every time I see it

  • @Samlizdavis
    @Samlizdavis 3 роки тому

    I was very shocked about the greatest showman

  • @shrikantjoshi6124
    @shrikantjoshi6124 3 роки тому +3

    Watch bohemian rapsody pitch meeting 😂

    • @AdvancedLiving
      @AdvancedLiving 3 роки тому

      Shrikant Joshi yeah yeah yeah.

    • @thorrollosson
      @thorrollosson 3 роки тому

      Whoops! Super easy, barely an inconvenience! Historical inaccuracies are *tight*

  • @samjiman
    @samjiman 3 роки тому

    I knew Cumberbatch wasnt Alan Turing! :P

  • @alimorrison55
    @alimorrison55 3 роки тому +1

    That makes them a historical fiction.... and done

  • @charmanthaadji202
    @charmanthaadji202 3 роки тому

    "The movie Re-writed the Stars"
    OOOOOOOOH

  • @DarnHooligan
    @DarnHooligan 3 роки тому +2

    I likes movie P.T Barnum more than real life one

  • @thenorseprincedarksavior7536
    @thenorseprincedarksavior7536 3 роки тому +1

    this was fun to watch

  • @l.a.9406
    @l.a.9406 3 роки тому

    300 and Troy were made for us ladies... All you need are sandals, loin clothes and swords!! “Save a horse, ride a cowboy” 🤗

  • @austinh7539
    @austinh7539 3 роки тому

    Would a Pocahontas, John Smith relationship more similar to Logan and Laura relationship without romance been a little more closely accurate? Because that sounds like a good movie.

  • @Ghotiermann
    @Ghotiermann 3 роки тому

    I’d give a bit of leeway to Pocahontas. It was based on John Smith’s memoirs, which were grossly exaggerated.

  • @talalabalkhail
    @talalabalkhail 3 роки тому

    Hugh glass is part of the dunder family. Hes born in Scranton

  • @patate618
    @patate618 3 роки тому +1

    The amount of adds in this video is absolutely unholy

  • @TheFiReLoRd777
    @TheFiReLoRd777 3 роки тому

    Hold on why does the real guy from. The greatest showman look like Mr bean? 😂😂😂

  • @malundy
    @malundy 3 роки тому

    I live near Jamestown Virginia where the events in Pocahontas occurred and want everyone to know that we absolutely have white water rapids and diving off waterfalls is a popular passtime. /s

  • @Kaisolostudio
    @Kaisolostudio 3 роки тому +2

    I’ve never been this early 👀

  • @CurriedBat
    @CurriedBat 3 роки тому

    It's pretty funny that many comments throw the book at Bohemian Rhapsody, which was mostly exposed by ScreenRant.

  • @iasimov5960
    @iasimov5960 3 роки тому +1

    How about 1984? I was there and it wasn't that way at all.

  • @Fatpie42
    @Fatpie42 3 роки тому

    The Revenant was a biopic?

  • @HawkeyeCharmer
    @HawkeyeCharmer 3 роки тому +1

    I need a Pitch Meeting for 300

  • @ImCassy
    @ImCassy 3 роки тому +2

    Perfect Storm. (Spoilers) No one comes back alive and they lost contact with them. All they know is they got lost and never came back 🤷‍♀️

  • @gameskape2585
    @gameskape2585 3 роки тому

    What about the Anabelle universe ???

  • @Foxster_13
    @Foxster_13 3 роки тому

    I'm more surprised. I will defend 300 as that's not just based of the actual event but instead a Graphic Novel.
    I'm more surprised at Braveheart, now knowing that the Title "Braveheart" goes to Robert the Bruce instead. Still haven't seen it either, I think everyone knows he dies in the end but I've never gotten round to see it.

  • @jeffsedam9827
    @jeffsedam9827 3 роки тому

    Hollywood always adds, changes or omits the real story.

  • @RandomGuy-ej5dr
    @RandomGuy-ej5dr 3 роки тому +5

    Movie:Based on true story
    Also movie:Kosovo is independet.

    • @Mp-bu7zx
      @Mp-bu7zx 3 роки тому

      Proud albanian❤️🇦🇱

    • @RandomGuy-ej5dr
      @RandomGuy-ej5dr 3 роки тому

      @@Mp-bu7zx Ok im proud Serbian

  • @scottbarkley496
    @scottbarkley496 3 роки тому +1

    VALKYRIE = MASTERPIECE 👏

  • @fortunatefantasy
    @fortunatefantasy 3 роки тому

    This is Cooper; revisited

  • @Deep_Dish
    @Deep_Dish 3 роки тому

    Exaggerating real events are soooooo unbelievably TIGHT!

  • @amyln
    @amyln 3 роки тому

    Poor Pocahontas had it so bad; she was manipulated, kidnapped, assaulted, kidnapped again.

  • @Ireneharnack1138
    @Ireneharnack1138 3 роки тому

    Raccoons are “the work of the devil”?!? Don’t tell Rocket Raccoon! 😢

  • @amnaah653
    @amnaah653 3 роки тому

    When Pochahantas and 300 get on before Bohemian Rhapsody🤔

  • @hanumeena2450
    @hanumeena2450 3 роки тому +1

    Never been so early....

  • @Better_selection
    @Better_selection 3 роки тому +8

    Fun fact: Everyone else including me who is commenting right now hasn't watched half the video yet.

  • @Mateo_Esteban
    @Mateo_Esteban 3 роки тому +5

    300 is based off the graphic novel that’s why it’s different

    • @nathanielsmith9400
      @nathanielsmith9400 3 роки тому +2

      Yep. It makes me face palm whenever anyone brings up 300 being historically inaccurate. Frank Miller was (is?) a huge figure in comics.

  • @UrSammich
    @UrSammich 3 роки тому

    Where is James Cameron's Titanic? There are plenty of historical inaccuracies, excluding the main two figures never existing.

  • @theeverythingg2323
    @theeverythingg2323 3 роки тому +1

    Is lion king based on a true story

  • @drezzlord
    @drezzlord 3 роки тому

    There are WAY too many advertisements in the middle of these videos.

  • @czechchicklet6890
    @czechchicklet6890 3 роки тому

    Wait a minute.......where's "Fargo"?
    Wait, that will be on the most accurate film list, lol.

  • @DraconiaDrawing
    @DraconiaDrawing 3 роки тому +1

    I like the new narrator

  • @sburris65
    @sburris65 3 роки тому

    Im perfectly fine with seeing Gerry Butler in a loin cloth rather than metal.

  • @Unblasphemy
    @Unblasphemy 3 роки тому +1

    "THIS IS....."

  • @sjlittler70
    @sjlittler70 6 місяців тому

    How about U-571. The story of how Americans captured the enigma machine from a stricken German u-boat… except it was the British… and the enigma code was broken before the Americans joined the war efforts… other than that it was spot on. 😂

  • @benjigoldstein8843
    @benjigoldstein8843 3 роки тому +1

    Do a Noah schnapp video

  • @MrRocks19
    @MrRocks19 3 роки тому

    Does Hamilton count as a movie now that its on Disney+

  • @panad0r
    @panad0r 3 роки тому

    Is it just me or does he say "math genius ALEC Turing"? WTF? 2:15

  • @joshuabissey
    @joshuabissey 3 роки тому +1

    Now do Titanic

  • @carlost856
    @carlost856 3 роки тому

    300 isn't horribly bad, the parts with the war rhinos, the phantoms and the trolls happened only after Leonidas sent Dillios back to warn the other Greek city states. At the end we see that the story is told through the perspective of Dillios mobilizing an army. He has no idea what happened after he left. He's just telling a propaganda tale in the style of ancient Greek epics Leonidas becoming more like Perseus or Heracles than the man he left at Thermopilae.