The Most Historically Accurate Hollywood Films

Painstakingly Accurate

Director Ava DuVernay and writer Paull Webb took tedious amounts of time in recreating important moments like the Bloody Sunday massacre with state troopers and peaceful protestors. Statistic tracking sites have praised Selma for how it painstakingly recreates events as they happened, and includes everybody involved. The film was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Picture category.

The More You Know

Bacon was used to make explosives during World War II.
Parts of the Great Wall of China were made with sticky rice.
Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because he had made “that disgusting movie Psycho.”
Straight Outta Compton movie was never played in Compton because the city has no movie theaters.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.