10 Movies About Real Wars (That Were Terribly Inaccurate)
These movies weren't what you were taught in school.
Buena Vista Pictures"War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin'!" sang Edwin Starr. He was probably quite right - death, destruction and the looting and pillaging of other people's land, property and resources, few would argue that war is good for humanity. With that said, war does make for some very good films - it's a genre which is as old as cinema itself and is showing no sign of disappearing any time soon. Some movies strive to show war in all its horror; others prefer to entertain, or function as propaganda, tricking the audience into thinking that a cause is just. And often the filmmakers bend the truth to make their movie more appealing - it might be something innocuous like utilizing an inappropriate piece of kit which wasn't actually used at the time, or something more notable such as changing the outcome of a battle or attributing a breakthrough to the wrong side. Here are ten movies about real wars which played loose with the facts and offered up a distorted version of events which are terribly inaccurate.