Dan Snow Rates the Best Historical Films of All Time

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  @HistoryHit · 3 years ago · pinned

  Hey guys, hope you enjoyed the video! 😀 Do you agree with the Top 5 films? You can see the full Top 50 from the public poll here 👉 <a href="https://www.historyhit.com/culture/top-historical-films/">https://www.historyhit.com/culture/top-historical-films/</a>

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  @Canuckbeaverton · 3 years ago

  I love how Dan can recognize great filmmaking and balance historical accuracy. A simple example with Gladiator&apos;s thumbs up/down was intentionally catered to our modern understanding. Is it wrongly used? Yes. Is it worth confusing a massive audience? No.

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  @gezzarandom · 3 years ago

  Ralph Fiennes said that Goeth was a psychopath first, nazi second. He was relieved of his duties for excessive cruelty in a concentration camp, which shows how sick and sadistic he was.

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  @Tylwaa · 2 years ago

  I had EIGHT uncles in WWII, four from my Dad&apos;s side, four from my Mom&apos;s, all East Texas farmers. Uncles Kenneth, Joe, Sammy, Bobby, L.C., William, Elmer and Herman the youngest. My Dad Kores, me (female) Vietnam, the only female in our Training Squadron in Avionics. <br>They all came home, not unscathed, especially Uncle William he was covered in scars, maybe a grenade, we weren&apos;t allowed to ask. Uncle Elmer was a gunner in the USN in the South Pacific and he&apos;d lost his hearing. Uncle Jose was an alcoholic, was in the China-Burma-India campaign, he was the only survivor of his company, having gotten into a fight the night before that last flight, really hard for him, but his wife helped him and I know it was hard. I can&apos;t imagine the fear my Grandparents on either side suffered, wondering if their boys were okay and coming home. &nbsp;Grandma had a red silk pillow with gold embroidery with the letters C.B.I. from Uncle Joe, he wanted her to feel silk and it always intrigued me as of course it was a strange thing in a farmhouse. <br>Lot of military history in my family, I got the first college degree in my family after Vietnam, what did I pick? Military History! &nbsp;One of my Professors in college was a Holocaust<br>survivor, Hungarian Jew. She was my favorite, her intense struggle to tell us how necessary it is to PAY ATTENTION to what your government is doing, READ everything, make sure you understand, because Hitler did exactly what he said he would do. Many didn&apos;t listen or want to, millions died. I read EVERYTHING from the White House and the Executive Orders from every administration. <br>In all my years and all I&apos;ve read, this is the scariest time. People need to read what&apos;s coming. &nbsp;What&apos;s already been signed by the administration. It&apos;s there, written in orders and policies. read them, this is for your family and future, and &nbsp;as my Professor would say PAY ATTENTION!

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  @ltkreg · 3 years ago

  He&apos;s right about Oscar Schindler. In reality he was a lot worse than depicted in the movie. Which is why it&apos;s even more amazing that he did a complete 180 and did the good things that he did.

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  @samuelloification2749 · 3 years ago

  I like Dan&apos;s way of doing this as he isn&apos;t being dismissive of things that are in accurate. He&apos;s saying the truth but also giving his opinion of whether the scene is good. Much better than the normal &apos;it&apos;s not accurate so is rubbish&apos; when it is a work of fiction

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  @alexlewis8468 · 2 years ago

  To me, having Hanks&apos; character in SPR as a middle aged teacher was genius. &nbsp;It was the father figure that all the young men/boys needed and given all he had gone through and survived, made the ending where he dies as more heartbreaking. &nbsp;Spielberg really is one of the greatest story tellers of our time.

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  @tessat338 · 3 years ago

  The Mission Control Center in Apollo 13 was so accurate that astronaut Dave Scott, who acted as a technical consultant on the film, would turn in the wrong direction to find the men&apos;s room, because it was in a different place at the film studio. &nbsp;He kept subconsciously thinking that he was in Houston.

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  @JW_Steed · 3 years ago

  My favourite genre of youtube video is experts complaining about film inaccuracies. Please bring Dan back for more.

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  @marklee1960 · 1 year ago

  I had the privilege of teaching a grandson of two people who were saved by Schindler. One of the greatest honors of my career as an educator. The student was bright, interested, and a gentleman, even as a teenager.

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  @bryanmachin3738 · 3 years ago (edited)

  The thing I&apos;ll always remember about Saving Private Ryan is the older Ryan breaking down at the end, asking his wife &quot;have I lived a good life&quot;? Even though he&apos;s only a film character, the scene makes me want to cry, for all the young men who had to come back from that war and go on with life wondering why they got to survive, but their buddy didn&apos;t.

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  @MatSpeedle · 3 years ago

  I remember watching Saving Private Ryan with my Grandfather many years ago. A veteran of the African and Italian campaigns. When I asked him was it really that bad? He just responded &quot;much worse&quot; never cried so much before or since thinking of my hero having to go through that hell. Since that day I&apos;ve never forgotten what that generation did for the freedom of Europe and indeed the world. The real super heroes of the world.

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