3 Blatantly Inaccurate War Movies, Ranked

While there are many accurate historical films about various major wars, there are still some movies that are poorly made in terms of being honest with the viewer.

The facts are simply distorted, and the main goal of the movie is simply reduced to entertaining the audience with powerful images. Therefore, the viewer gets everything from these movies, but not the truth.

It's also interesting that many of these movies are considered classics (oh the irony). Let's take a closer look at how accurate they really are.

Braveheart

Needless to say, this movie is one of the most famous Hollywood war pictures, thanks to Mel Gibson's performance. But the inaccuracies start at the very beginning: even in the title of the movie there is a factual error.

Braveheart is not what they would actually call the movie's main character, William Wallace, but it was the nickname for the Scottish king, Robert the Bruce.

Also, one of the major military inaccuracies in the movie was its poor portrayal of the Battle of Stirling Bridge. In fact, there was no bridge in the movie at all.

The military genius of the battle lay in Wallace's decision to wait until enough British soldiers were on the bridge before attacking, and the movie completely omits this part of the battle.

In addition, Braveheart has misrepresented the clothes and weaponry of the soldiers. And even the blue face paint never existed in real history.

Pearl Harbor

This Michael Bay movie is also highly acclaimed, despite the fact that it actually has a lot of mistakes.

What we mean is, well, the movie was supposed to show the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, but so many details like the planes and technology used in the movie are totally inappropriate that it just doesn't make any sense to anyone with even a little bit of history knowledge.

Therefore, the depiction is not accurate to the period being on the screen. And don't even get us started on the movie totally sugar-coating the racism of the period and the efforts of women during the war.

But worst of all, the movie writers made the military units seem totally unprofessional, as they had shown the movie's protagonist illegally joining the Royal Air Force.

The Battle of the Bulge

This movie was supposed to reenact the infamous World War II battle on screen, but everything went so wrong that even President Eisenhower had to publicly renounce it, as the movie deviated so much from the actual event that it became mostly a fictional movie.

Although being a three hour movie, The Battle of the Bulge omitted many vital details of the month-long battle.

For example, the creators decided that it was better to shoot the movie in Spain, even though it would make a lot more sense to show the forests of France, where the actual battle took place.

In addition, the movie ignores British forces in the battle, includes historically incorrect tanks, and lacks the turning point of the battle in the form of Allied air power.

So be careful when choosing a historical film with the desire to learn. For that purpose, it's better to watch a documentary or just read a history book.