The Most Historically Accurate Hollywood Films

Gangs of New York

Martin Scorsese painted a beautiful portrait of what gang life in 1863 New York City would have looked like. Though the specifics of this film aren't 100% true, the general plot of the film does follow a real gang who lived in the Big Apple in the 1800s. Some of the characters are based on real people, or several real people combined.

The More You Know

In the movie 'The Hangover', no effects or prosthetics were created for Stu's missing tooth. Actor Ed Helms never had an adult incisor grow, and his fake incisor was taken out for the parts of filming where Stu's tooth is missing.
Steven Spielberg pops up for a cameo in Vanilla Sky wearing a Pre-Crime baseball cap.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won all 11 Academy Awards it was nominated for.
Roman fathers could sell their kids into slavery – but only three times.

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