The Most Historically Accurate Hollywood Films

The Pianist

Based on the autobiography of the same name, The Pianist was written by a Polish-Jewish concert pianist during the time of WWII. Władysław Szpilman survived the horrors of the Holocaust, and actor Adrien Brody managed to portray this deeply emotional character in a way that won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Directed by the controversial Roman Polanski, he was deeply passionate about the film due to his own escape from the Krakow Ghetto.

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Viggo Mortensen had no intention of working on The Lord of the Rings until his son begged him to do it.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who played the character of ‘Fogell/McLovin’ in the coming-of-age indie flick ‘Superbad,’ was only 17 when filming took place. Being a minor at the time, his mother was required to be on the set during the filming of his sex scene.
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Fantasia (1940) was originally a short called The Sorcerers Apprentice, but Walt Disney overspent on the score and decided to make it feature length film rather than waste money.

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