Top 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies


	Top 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies
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3-31-2008 10:50 AM
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So much for cinema as an educational medium....
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border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html">Emperor Commodus was not the sniveling sister-obsessed creep portrayed in the movie.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html">300</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/movies.yahoo.com/img/8E48FEEB-D238-4B3F-8731-D5EA6679A699" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html">warriors of Sparta went into battle wearing bronze armor, not just leather Speedos</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html">The Last Samurai</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/movies.yahoo.com/img/B504DA28-C27A-488D-BE1D-2A21E501A400" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html">Saigo Takamori who committed ritual suicide, or "seppuku," in defeat rather than in a volley of Gatling gun fire</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html">Apocalypto</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/movies.yahoo.com/img/1D2D7CCF-CE55-422E-9C58-EC637D816244" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html">his one movie has given entire Anthropology departments migraines.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html">Memoirs of a Geisha</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/movies.yahoo.com/img/C4779D7B-0414-45CD-BA94-E8000CCE54EA" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html">kilts weren't worn in Scotland until about 300 years after William Wallace's day </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html">Elizabeth: The Golden Age</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/movies.yahoo.com/img/B5801C37-7273-4019-931A-C0BB18FB8BB5" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html">She was more of a regal majorette than Joan of Arc</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html">The Patriot</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/movies.yahoo.com/img/5C119E9B-8D54-4DE2-A55E-5C611B0F4C07" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html">He was a slave owner who didn't get married (to his cousin) until after the war was over.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html">2001: A Space Odyssey</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/movies.yahoo.com/img/C79A81C9-7B93-4E35-B646-7BCBB52CC152" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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