The Most Historically Accurate Hollywood Films

Oscar-Winning Battles

Director Stanley Kubrick managed to make this film both brutal and glamorous. The Romans revered Spartacus as an excellent general and strategist, and the epic battles shown in the film are both brutal and glamorous and won four Oscars.

The More You Know

Vikings discovered America first, long before Columbus did,
The location of Tony Stark’s mansion in Iron Man is the same cliff from Planet of the Apes where the Statue of Liberty is sticking out from the sand.
In Saving Private Ryan, all of the main cast were given basic military training except Matt Damon, in the hope that the cast would build a resentment towards him necessary for the role.
Paul Schrader wrote Taxi Driver in five days. It is rumoured he had a loaded gun by his desk for “inspiration and motivation”.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.