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There are some cartoons that are racist but they are classics, being a mixed woman I have the right to say this, but if you are into the historical aspect of these cartoons try Merrie Melodies "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs" or "Angel Puss" you won't find them on DVD because the distributors promised not to put them in the mainstream, but you can find them on a site as YouTube.
Normally, when one critiques a historical movie, it's always fun to point out the inaccuracies that slip in, usually added by the writers to create more "dramatic" situations.
River Queen attempts to pack a complicated, sweeping, historical narrative into just under two hours.
A by-the-numbers script with irritating lapses in logic and little historical accuracy--this isn't a documentary, of course, but the filmmakers could have at least TRIED for a little authenticity--and performances that range from grade B to grade school relegate this cheap little quickie to the 4:00 a.m.
OK, it's a piece of historical film making that caused an uproar, shocked people, and was banned.
Why bother making a historical film if it fails to convey a setting?
If you want to see a well-made, inspiring historical film also about theater, go see Tim Robbins' THE CRADLE WILL ROCK.
From the title, the tag-line, the plot summary on the DVD etc..., I expected something at least slightly epic, with the historical fiction and the romance concurring to thrill you; that's what they did in Last of the Mohicans for example, and I think they did a superb job.
Nouvelle-France is a love story set in an eventful historical age.
The plot, be it as it may, has a group of troubled youths cleaning up the historical hotel that GoodKnight resides in and subsequently being offed by him.
This was a movie that could have been great if there were not so many unnecessary historical inaccuracies and if the actors had been chosen or made up to look a little more like the real persons (not very difficult).
I can't judge the historical veracity of the story but it seemed to move along with a similar "artist's model's tragic fate" plot line as GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING.
As with most historical movies nowadays, there are some inaccuracies as history is manipulated to better suit the story, which is understandable for the most part.
I was planning to watch a historical movie, but the one in the screen was a fictional one.
Like a lot of films from the early sounds days, Cimarron must be viewed more for historical interest than as compelling entertainment.
It was not very good in its acting or story plot, but can be a great movie quiz question from an historical standpoint.
On the Opening night of the San Francisco Silent Film festival I was quite excited to see films that are historical and well not common.
But this movie is about Beethoven -- a real historical person who is so widely known and so deeply embedded into our musical experiences and I expected the movie to be true to history at least in the primary elements.
I hope those that watch this movie do not see or use it as a template for the actual historical event.
Definition of documentary: A work, such as a film or television program, presenting political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration.
I did actually read Gregory's book and liked it well enough despite it's HUGE historical inaccuracies (I mean the whole fake homosexual angle with George Boleyn in particular), but this movie didn't even mention that.
Other posters have listed some of this movie's historical errors.
I usually forgive errors in historical movies because I understand that the purpose is to entertain not educate.
And shrinking a long saga down to a two hour feature requires some, let's say, historical license.
Fictitious historical epic is less a grand adventure than it is a peculiar, somewhat exhaustive throwback to the desert-sheik films of the 1940s (with a bit of "The King and I" interjected, besides).
If you find Rome an abomination, a foul mouthed screw-fest of little historical accuracy, then you might enjoy Imperium: Augustus.
Villa is not really a historical figure who I'm overly familiar with, so I won't say much about the historical details of the film.
Villa's raid into the United States was an interesting (if, in the overall scheme of things, not especially important) historical sidebar, and probably deserved better treatment than this.
The director spent a lot of time making the scenes look real right down to the historical photos and all the sounds of the old west bustle.
Too bad the Producers and Writer/Director, Michael Cimino, spent zero time on any of the historical facts of what the Johnson County war was really about.
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