10 More Insanely Accurate War Movie Details

Keeping with weapons used during World War I for this next entry, Sam Mendes' outstanding British epic known as 1917 contained some of the most jaw-dropping sequences ever to show up in a war movie.

But perhaps just as impressive as the visual of George MacKay's Lance Corporal Will Schofield sprinting across the battlefield or a flare-lit town is one quite a cool detail when it comes to the rifle he's seen using throughout the picture.

Said weapon, a Lee-Enfield rifle, was a ten-round gun, one that could be reloaded one bullet at a time or with a five-round charger. Will is actually found reloading the weapon using that latter method at one point before going on to fire out a grand total of nine shots over the course of the movie.

But how could one fire off a further four bullets if only five had been loaded? Well, that's simple. It's because these weapons were typically always half-loaded (with one clip of five) to save the mag spring, with the troops then only opting to chuck in another clip when they were preparing to head into battle - an accurate detail pointed out by another eagle-eyed person on r/MovieDetails.