Questions about the precise conformity of events or characters portrayed in films or TV shows to historical figures and actual events.
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Is The Warriors an accurate depiction of gang relations in 1970s New York City?
From the numerous gangs with their specific outfits and mannerisms, to the way they interacted and the meetings were arranged, was The Warriors an accurate depiction of 1970s gang relations in New ...
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Were African people common in Rome during gladiator fights?
In the Spartacus series there are some African actors playing gladiators, especially Peter Mensah as Oenomaus (Batiatus' doctore). He has done a great job but my question is, were African people that ...
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How realistic is the Black Adder Series? [closed]
I know that the Black Adder series is a sitcom and also a lot of things shown in it must be false and never happened in the real world. For example as evident by the answers given in Who is this man ...
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Have they really escaped from Alcatraz?
In Escape from Alcatraz, nobody had ever escaped from Alcatraz prison, and Frank with two friends tried to escape. However, at the end of the film, we never know if they survived or if they drowned in ...
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Is it historically true that Ip Man beat a Japanese General in a martial-art match?
In the film Ip Man(2008), Ip Man fights Japanese Army general Miura in a martial arts match and beats him.
Is that incident historically true?
If not, what was the real incident?
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Were children subjected to shock therapy in the 1960s, as implied in Moonrise Kingdom?
In "Moonrise Kingdom" a social-services agent implies that an orphan with behavior problems could be subjected to shock therapy (aka electro-convulsive therapy or ECT).
Were children really subjected ...
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Where do the historical accuracies end and fiction begin in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter?
There are innumerable fictions in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (based on Seth Graeme Smith's 2010 novel). From the existence of vampires, to the mass collection of silver to combat the ...
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How historically accurate is the TV series Spartacus?
I've recently started watching the Spartacus (just finished Blood and Sand and Gods of the Arena, currently watching Vengeance) and the events described seemed rather exaggerated.
While it doesn't ...
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Is the sword fighting in Game of Thrones historically accurate?
I recently watched Game of Thrones. The show is set in a pseudo medieval world.
I'm wondering whether the swordfights and the swords are authentic repsentations?
Here're two (link, link) videos ...
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Any basis for indiscriminate shelling of Five Points in Gangs of New York?
The New York Draft riots of 1863 close The Gangs of New York both in terms of time and content. The most extraordinary element of this sequence is the (apparently) indiscriminate shelling of the Five ...
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Are the events in Black Gold based on fact?
The history of which country is depicted in the movie Black Gold? Is it Qatar?
It seems to be, considering the movie is made by France | Italy | Qatar | Tunisia :D And Qatar Being the richest country ...
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District 9 - References to Apartheid
How far can the character Wikus be related to that of Biko, and his role to abolish apartheid?
I've recently realized the similar phonetics of the name, so it rang a bell and the question immediately ...
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300: What was the significance of the necklace?
At the end of the movie, when Leonidas knows he is going to die, he tells Dilios to go back and tell everybody what happened. He also takes some sort of braid or string out of the back of his hair ...
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In 10000 BC, is the Persian-like civilization connected to any real history?
I have watched 10,000BC and have understood the story. But I am curious as to whether the Persian-like Pyramid-building civilization has any link to a real civilization that have existed during those ...
