vs Hollywood
Fact-checking historical movies and separating truth from fiction
Jan 29, 2026
Braveheart: What Hollywood Got Wrong About William Wallace
Mel Gibson's epic won 5 Oscars but butchered Scottish history. Here's what really happened.
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Jan 28, 2026
Gladiator: What Ridley Scott Got Wrong About Marcus Aurelius
Ridley Scott's Gladiator is an epic masterpiece -but how much of it is actually true? We separate the historical facts from Hollywood fiction in this breakdown of what the film got right and spectacularly wrong.
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