Hollywood loves to romanticize true stories, but sometimes the real endings are far more horrifying than what makes it to the big screen. Join us as we uncover the shocking details that movies conveniently left out, revealing the dark truths behind your favorite films.
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00:00:00No matter what happens, I'll always be with you.
00:00:04Forever.
00:00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at movie adaptations
00:00:09that conveniently leave out the story's most appalling details.
00:00:13Do what I ain't got the strength to do myself.
00:00:23Why do you want to know my name?
00:00:24Because I want to know who I'm looking at.
00:00:26In 1996, Scream slashed its way into theaters, revitalizing the horror genre.
00:00:32But did you know this cult classic was inspired by a real-life nightmare?
00:00:36In 1994, Kevin Williamson was a struggling writer and actor.
00:00:41One day while watching TV, he was fascinated by a program
00:00:44detailing the case of a serial killer dubbed the Gainesville Ripper.
00:00:48Danny Rowling was a drifter who wandered into the town of Gainesville, Florida.
00:00:52There, he terrorized the city with the brutal murder of five college students.
00:00:57Like the killers in Scream, Rowling was filled with a twisted desire for notoriety.
00:01:02Danny is wearing a mask, and he's got a large military knife.
00:01:08So he's a very terrifying character.
00:01:11Williamson converted a true story of fear, terror, and sorrow
00:01:14into a script that brought a humorous twist to the slasher genre.
00:01:22If you think this war isn't changing you, you're wrong.
00:01:25Chris Kyle wasn't just a SEAL sniper, he was the SEAL sniper.
00:01:29The U.S. Navy credits Kyle with a staggering 160 confirmed kills in Iraq.
00:01:34In 2014, his story was adapted into the film American Sniper, starring Bradley Cooper.
00:01:39Cooper's performance was masterful, portraying a reluctant killer
00:01:42determined to protect his family, his brothers, and his country.
00:01:45He is a trained killer for whom killing is a job, not a calling.
00:01:49The real Chris Kyle was a little different.
00:01:51He enjoyed his reputation as a seasoned killer,
00:01:54even taking credit for stateside murders that never happened.
00:01:57He said that the government sent him to New Orleans during Katrina,
00:02:01where he murdered 30 alleged looters.
00:02:03He also claimed to have murdered carjackers in Texas.
00:02:07What's happening?
00:02:11I'm ready to come home, baby.
00:02:13Number 48. The Toohey Family wasn't so kind.
00:02:16The Blind Side
00:02:18Michael, honey, I need for you to just listen to me, alright?
00:02:21Don't you dare lie to me.
00:02:26I'm not stupid.
00:02:28Hollywood tends to whitewash true stories to create consumable, enjoyable stories.
00:02:33There are few examples more egregious than the Oscar-winning film The Blind Side.
00:02:37The movie is a beautiful story about a troubled young black man named Michael Orr.
00:02:41Thanks to the guidance of a benevolent white family, the Toohey's,
00:02:45Orr rises out of poverty to become a star lineman in the NFL.
00:02:49The truth isn't so cut and dry.
00:02:51Orr was a determined man with a natural talent who deserved more credit for his own success.
00:02:56No white savior was necessary.
00:02:58Worse, according to Orr, the Toohey's exploited his success.
00:03:02They put him in a lucrative conservatorship,
00:03:04one that took him two decades to eliminate in court.
00:03:07Last February, he says he learned they were conservatorship papers,
00:03:11granting Leigh-Anne Toohey and Sean Toohey guardianship,
00:03:15which means, quote, ultimate control of all his contracts,
00:03:19while providing him no familial relationship with the Toohey's.
00:03:23Number 47. Desmond Doss' long-term trauma.
00:03:27Hacksaw Ridge.
00:03:29One more. I only get one more.
00:03:38One more.
00:03:44One more.
00:03:45Hacksaw Ridge is a World War II epic inspired by the incredible true story of Desmond Doss.
00:03:51Doss was a conscientious objector and combat medic who saved 75 men at Okinawa without firing a single shot.
00:03:59While the film captures his bravery, it leaves out the years of suffering he endured after the war.
00:04:04Doss was severely wounded by a grenade, losing partial function in his arm.
00:04:08A year after the war, he contracted tuberculosis and went through more than five years of treatment.
00:04:13By 1951, he lost five ribs and a lung to surgery.
00:04:18He would spend the rest of his life battling pain and illness.
00:04:21What you did on that ridge is nothing short of a miracle.
00:04:24And they want a piece of it.
00:04:29And they're not going to go up there without you.
00:04:32Number 46. The Nazi-sympathizing almost-king.
00:04:36The King's Speech.
00:04:38Hollywood cannot resist an uplifting story.
00:04:41The King's Speech was no exception.
00:04:43The movie tells the story of how King George VI overcame his stutter to rally Britain during World War II.
00:04:49It fails to mention that his older brother, Edward VIII, the guy he replaced, was cozying up to the Nazis.
00:04:56Edward had abdicated the throne to marry an American socialite.
00:05:00He was also a well-known Nazi sympathizer.
00:05:02Edward even met with Hitler in 1937.
00:05:05There is even evidence to suggest that he encouraged the Nazis to bomb Britain.
00:05:09This is not about abdicating the throne.
00:05:12This is a man who will stop at nothing to usurp the throne.
00:05:16Edward wanted to come back as a Nazi-installed leader.
00:05:19The British government had to send him off to govern the Bahamas just to keep him from causing trouble.
00:05:24Had Edward VIII remained king, World War II might have looked very different.
00:05:30All that work down the drain.
00:05:35My own brother, I couldn't say a single word to him in reply.
00:05:43On March 10th, my nine-year-old son, Walter Collins, disappeared.
00:05:48A five-month investigation led to a boy being brought to Los Angeles from DeKalb, Illinois.
00:05:55They told me and all of you that this boy was my son.
00:05:58He was not my son. The LAPD made a mistake.
00:06:01Clint Eastwood's Changeling tells the heartbreaking true story of Christine Collins, whose son Walter vanished in 1928.
00:06:09The film portrays the LAPD as both corrupt and inept, trying to pass off a random boy as her son.
00:06:15On that score, it was depressingly accurate.
00:06:18Changeling unfortunately leaves out one of the most gut-wrenching details.
00:06:23Christine Collins died without any closure.
00:06:26While the film suggests that Walter was likely a victim of the Wineville Chicken Coop murders, his fate was never confirmed.
00:06:33Christine spent the rest of her life searching, hoping against hope that Walter was still alive.
00:06:38She died in 1964, never knowing the truth.
00:06:42Hollywood loves a dramatic ending, but real life doesn't always tie things up so neatly.
00:06:53Do you think you know why you're sad?
00:06:57Well, I guess it's because I used to be a brother, and now I'm not a brother anymore.
00:07:11The story of the Von Erich wrestling dynasty is one of abject sorrow.
00:07:16The Iron Claw does a great job of capturing the emotional truth of the family's tragic tale.
00:07:21It does, however, remove an entire brother, Chris Von Erich.
00:07:25Like the youngest of the Von Erich brothers, Chris idolized his family, following in their wrestling footsteps.
00:07:30Unfortunately, he lived with asthma. His treatments left him with brittle bones.
00:07:35Chris constantly suffered injuries, hampering his career.
00:07:38His exclusion from the film is glaring, especially considering that he was yet another victim of the so-called Von Erich curse.
00:07:46In 1991, Chris was devastated by his failed wrestling dreams and the loss of his brothers, taking his own life.
00:07:54I've never had a more difficult decision to make as a writer.
00:07:57I care so deeply, so it was painful.
00:08:00You have to separate and say, OK, well, this is a movie, these are characters,
00:08:04and the movie just cannot withstand another death at that point.
00:08:14I'm delighted to have you join us in this venture.
00:08:17If you're the spirit and merit of your father, you'll prove worthy of promotion and a command.
00:08:21A gentleman, a good omen.
00:08:23The Spanish conquest of Mexico has been romanticized for centuries, including by Hollywood in the film Captain from Castile.
00:08:31The truth was much uglier, savage, and more duplicitous.
00:08:35In the film, a young conquistador heroically follows Hernan Cortes, navigating a twisted web of internal Spanish politics.
00:08:43The movie climaxes with a glorious march on the city of Cholula as they make their way to Tenochtitlan.
00:08:49It doesn't go into any detail as to the events that unfolded there.
00:08:53In real life, the city was decimated.
00:08:56Cortes and his Tlaxtlan allies captured Cholula's leaders, accused them of treachery, and murdered them.
00:09:02What followed was a brutal sacking known as the Cholula Massacre.
00:09:06In under two hours, more than 6,000 civilians were killed.
00:09:11Tell the royal prince to watch closely and see which is the more powerful. His gods are my cannon.
00:09:16Ready! Fire!
00:09:26Number 42. A Scottish cannibal and his murderous clan, The Hills Have Eyes.
00:09:31Wes Craven's 1977 horror classic is an utterly insane story about a family of murderous cannibals in the Nevada desert.
00:09:39What you may not know is that Craven drew his inspiration from a real legend.
00:09:44While historians debate the truth of Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean, his story terrified Europeans for centuries.
00:09:50He started to rob and murder even more regularly, and somewhere along the line, Sawney acquired a taste for human flesh.
00:09:57The human flesh diet was one he quickly got his family to take up, too,
00:10:01setting in motion a chain of events that would make the Sawney Bean clan the most vicious family of killers in Scottish history.
00:10:08According to legend, Alexander Sawney Bean led a clan in the 15th or 16th century Scotland.
00:10:14They were a clan of brigands, preying upon unwary travellers.
00:10:18According to the legends, though, their crimes didn't end at highway robbery.
00:10:22For a quarter century, they allegedly ate over 1,000 victims before being captured and executed by King James VI.
00:10:30I'll eat the heart of your stinking memory. I'll eat the brains of your kids' kids!
00:10:38Number 41. Flaying the Enemy. Braveheart
00:10:41They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!
00:10:47Mel Gibson's Braveheart, while a hit with American audiences, was a miss with historians.
00:10:53The movie portrays William Wallace as a well-traveled and educated man.
00:10:57Most of the details of the real Wallace's early years are actually lost to history.
00:11:02The film also takes liberties with the facts surrounding Wallace's military campaign.
00:11:06In the film, Wallace achieves a brilliant tactical victory at the Battle of Stirling.
00:11:10In truth, no brilliant tactics were required.
00:11:13The English bottlenecked themselves onto a narrow bridge and were easily defeated.
00:11:18The legends around that battle include a darker detail omitted from the film.
00:11:23Multiple accounts claim that Wallace didn't just kill the English general.
00:11:28He allegedly flayed the Englishman, turning his skin into a sword belt.
00:11:36Number 40. Thousands Frozen to Death. Battle of the Bulge
00:11:45December 1944. British and American armies were on the threshold of victory.
00:11:53Stretched across half of Europe, the Allies gathered themselves for the final assault on Germany.
00:12:00Hollywood in particular has a long and sordid history of using movies to gloss over nasty, inconvenient facts of war.
00:12:08There are few examples more absurd than the movie Battle of the Bulge.
00:12:12The film gets so many details wrong, it's almost near parody.
00:12:16The film often forgets the most important detail of the Battle of the Bulge—it happened during winter.
00:12:21Despite some snowy locales, the film's sunny, lush green locations gloss over the battle's horror.
00:12:28Freezing rain and snow cut off most soldiers' visibility, leading to hundreds of cases of frostbite and trench foot.
00:12:34Tanks had to literally be chiseled out of blocks of ice. Hundreds of wounded soldiers froze to death long before any help arrived.
00:12:47Number 39. Exaggerated Nobility. Captain Phillips
00:12:58No al-Qaeda here. Just business. We want money. When we get paid, everything gonna be okay.
00:13:07When you want your film to star an older, white man of unshakable moral fiber, you cast Tom Hanks.
00:13:14That's at least what the producers of the film Captain Phillips believed.
00:13:17Tom Hanks stars as Captain Richard Phillips, the hero of the 2009 Maersk, Alabama hijacking.
00:13:24In real life, Phillips was surrounded by controversies.
00:13:27Several crew members allege that Phillips ignored maritime warnings to steer at least 600 miles off the Somali.
00:13:35Well, all ships have been warned.
00:13:37Perry is talking about a series of seven emails sent to the Maersk, Alabama by a private maritime security agency
00:13:44specifically warning of Somali pirate attacks and advising ships to steer at least 600 miles off the coast.
00:13:53It was well-known pirate territory, but Phillips chose a closer route to save time and fuel.
00:13:58This decision, they claimed, led to the hijacking.
00:14:01The crew filed lawsuits against the shipping company, asserting that Phillips' negligence endangered their lives.
00:14:07The lawsuits were reportedly settled before trial.
00:14:10You had $30,000 and a way to Somalia.
00:14:17It wasn't enough.
00:14:19Number 38.
00:14:20Civilians were slaughtered during the land invasion.
00:14:23Okinawa.
00:14:24Hollywood can't help but propagandize the nobility and righteousness of U.S. forces during World War II.
00:14:30This 1952 naval epic is a shining example.
00:14:33The movie follows the crew of a U.S. destroyer as it engages in the naval half of the Battle of Okinawa.
00:14:40It hyperfixates on the terror and moral atrocity of kamikaze pilots while failing to address the abject horror of the land invasion.
00:14:48Later dubbed the Typhoon of Steel.
00:14:51They don't care about anything.
00:14:53They want to die.
00:14:54They live to die.
00:14:55Following the war, reports detailed the atrocities committed there by both America and Japan.
00:15:01Each side approached the battle without regard for the lives of native Okinawans.
00:15:06Women were assaulted.
00:15:08Children were kidnapped and died.
00:15:10By some estimates, the battle killed half of the island's pre-war population of 300,000.
00:15:16In my book, they weren't crazy, if that's what you mean.
00:15:18They were just kids.
00:15:20They were taught a way of death instead of a way of life.
00:15:25Take away their teachings, perhaps their teachers.
00:15:28They could be the same as any of us.
00:15:29Number 37.
00:15:31The exact opposite of the truth.
00:15:33Artemisia.
00:15:38When real-life stories are adapted to film, it's often understandable when details are changed in order to tell a good story.
00:15:45The changes made in the 1997 film Artemisia, however, are repulsive.
00:15:50Artemisia Gentileschi was one of the most renowned female painters of the Baroque era.
00:15:55The film falsely presents her relationship with Augustino Tassi as a consensual romance.
00:16:00In reality, Tassi assaulted her.
00:16:02In the film, Artemisia denies the allegations.
00:16:05In reality, she testified under oath to confirm the assault, leading to Tassi's conviction.
00:16:11His punishment was not enforced.
00:16:13By contrast, Artemisia suffered brutal slander and even torture at the trial.
00:16:18The movie also inaccurately portrays Tassi as her artistic mentor, shaping her style with his supposed expertise in landscapes and male nudes.
00:16:28However, Artemisia's work focused on powerful biblical heroines.
00:16:32Tassi had no influence over her work whatsoever.
00:16:35Number 36.
00:16:36Two families, unanswered questions.
00:16:39Open water.
00:16:40Daniel, where's the boat?
00:16:44That's a good question.
00:16:45Tom and Eileen Lonergan were an American couple who vanished during a 1998 diving expedition on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
00:16:53Their disappearance was dramatized in Open Water, a harrowing film about their final hours.
00:16:59In both life and cinema, the dive boat crew inadvertently left the couple behind.
00:17:04It took days for them to realize their mistake, and by then it was too late.
00:17:08Despite extensive search efforts, the Lonergans were never found.
00:17:12It read,
00:17:13Monday, January 26, 1998, 8 a.m.
00:17:17To anyone who can help us, we have been abandoned on Agincourt Reef by MV Outer Edge.
00:17:2325th of January, 1998, 3 p.m.
00:17:26Please help to rescue us before we die.
00:17:29Help.
00:17:30Unsettling theories emerged post-disappearance.
00:17:33Some speculated that the Lonergans had faked their own deaths.
00:17:36These claims were never substantiated and were dismissed by the coroner.
00:17:40The rumors compounded the anguish of their loved ones.
00:17:43Two families were left grappling with both their loss and the clouds of speculation surrounding their tragedy.
00:17:49I love you.
00:17:53You're gonna be fine.
00:17:55Number 35.
00:17:56Japanese reprisals for The Doolittle Raid.
00:17:59Pearl Harbor.
00:18:00Director Michael Bay's filmography is known for one thing and one thing only.
00:18:04Spectacle.
00:18:05Before The Doolittle Raid, America knew nothing but defeat.
00:18:09After it, there was hope of victory.
00:18:13While Pearl Harbor delivered on that score,
00:18:15it faced significant criticism for its historical inaccuracies and melodramatic narrative.
00:18:20Perhaps the most glaring omission from the film was the repercussions of the daring Doolittle Raid on Japan.
00:18:26Although the movie showcases the bravery of the raiders,
00:18:29it neglects the brutal consequences faced by Chinese civilians who assisted the downed American airmen.
00:18:35After the raid, most of the B-25 bombers crash-landed in Japanese-occupied China.
00:18:41In retaliation, the Japanese military launched the Zhejiang Jiangxi Campaign.
00:18:46Tens of thousands of Chinese civilians were killed.
00:18:49A campaign was thus ordered to eliminate China as a bombing staging area,
00:18:54one in which the merciless Japanese soldiers would take the opportunity to also hunt for the bomber crews
00:19:00with the vengeful purpose of punishing them and those who had aided them.
00:19:04Villages suspected of aiding the Americans were utterly destroyed
00:19:08and residents suffered horrific atrocities at the hands of the Japanese.
00:19:12Number 34. Elliot Ness' Lonely Final Years.
00:19:16The Untouchables.
00:19:17At the request of the city of Chicago, the federal government,
00:19:20specifically the Department of the Treasury, has inaugurated a special program
00:19:24to deal with the flow of illegal liquor and the violence which it creates.
00:19:28Cinephiles know that Treasury agent Elliot Ness took down notorious gangster Al Capone the Chicago way.
00:19:35His hunt for Capone was gloriously captured in the 1987 classic The Untouchables.
00:19:41Most fans, though, are unaware of the tragic circumstances of Ness' life after Prohibition.
00:19:47His reputation as the man who took down Capone earned him a job as Cleveland's safety director.
00:19:52There, he failed to apprehend the Torso Murderer, a serial killer who terrorized the city in the 1930s.
00:19:58His reputation took another hit after a drunk driving incident and subsequent cover-up.
00:20:04Ness was forced to resign.
00:20:06His next two decades were marred by failed business ventures and financial difficulties.
00:20:11He died in 1957, nearly destitute and alone, with his earlier heroics overshadowed by personal misfortune.
00:20:19He was nearly penniless at the time of his death,
00:20:22with his role in bringing down Al Capone having been largely forgotten outside of the bars he patronized.
00:20:2933. Haunted by a Horror Series
00:20:32The Amityville Horror Franchise
00:20:37When the Lutz family moved into their new Long Island home in 1975,
00:20:41they couldn't imagine the horrible future they had in store.
00:20:45While the Amityville Horror Franchise depicts the Lutz family's alleged supernatural experiences,
00:20:50their true horror would come after fleeing the house in 1976.
00:20:55George and Kathy Lutz became entangled in numerous legal battles,
00:20:58with George involved in at least 14 Amityville-related lawsuits by 2005.
00:21:03These legal disputes, along with public skepticism and media scrutiny, took a significant toll on the family.
00:21:09Critics accused them of fabricating their story for financial gain.
00:21:13Their children suffered long-lasting psychological trauma from their experiences
00:21:17both at the Ocean Avenue house and subsequent controversies.
00:21:21Give them strength of mind and body!
00:21:23Oh Lord! I beg thee!
00:21:2832. Physical and Emotional Abuse
00:21:31Yours, Mine, and Ours
00:21:33You do like children, don't you?
00:21:35Yeah. Yeah, within reason.
00:21:37In that case, the hell with it.
00:21:39Blended families can be tough to navigate.
00:21:41The two versions of the film Yours, Mine, and Ours play those difficulties up for laughs.
00:21:46Each depicts the heartwarming story of Helen North and Frank Beardsley,
00:21:50two single parents whose love blends two large families into a single massive one full of hijinks and chaos.
00:21:57However, Tom North, one of Helen's sons, reveals a starkly different reality in his memoir.
00:22:04We would do our best to facilitate a normal family environment.
00:22:09But when he came home in the evening from work,
00:22:13the children would pass the word among each other and they would say,
00:22:17He's home. Run.
00:22:19He alleges that his stepfather, Frank Beardsley, subjected the children to severe physical and emotional abuse.
00:22:25This abuse led Tom into depression and substance use as he struggled to cope with the trauma.
00:22:31Oh, that was a disaster.
00:22:34Well, at least there's no blood. Yet.
00:22:3831. Alan Turing's Tragic Fate
00:22:41The Imitation Game
00:22:43Would you like to play?
00:22:46It's a game. A test of sorts.
00:22:50For determining whether something is a machine or a human being.
00:22:55Alan Turing was an absolutely brilliant mathematician.
00:22:59In The Imitation Game, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Turing in his role as Codebreaker,
00:23:05playing a pivotal role in deciphering the Nazi Enigma Code.
00:23:09His life post-war is glossed over, for understandable reasons.
00:23:13Despite his monumental contributions, Turing faced persecution due to his sexuality.
00:23:18In 1952, he was charged with gross indecency under British law after it was revealed that he was gay.
00:23:25Rather than face imprisonment, Turing accepted hormone therapy,
00:23:30a form of chemical castration which severely impacted his health and well-being.
00:23:35After his conviction, he was barred from doing any further government work,
00:23:39and his security clearance was revoked.
00:23:41His past was subject to investigation, as the authorities were worried that his homosexuality
00:23:46could have been used as blackmail by the Soviet Union, no evidence of which has ever been found.
00:23:51Two years later, in 1954, Turing died from cyanide poisoning,
00:23:56with many believing that his death was intentional.
00:23:59During his lifetime, achievements were thus largely overshadowed by his prosecution,
00:24:04thanks to his wartime work remaining classified.
00:24:07Am I a criminal?
00:24:11I can't judge you.
00:24:17Well then,
00:24:22you're no help to me at all.
00:24:34The true story that inspired this movie is chilling,
00:24:37and its representation on the screen stops short of the full picture.
00:24:41Alive is an account of the aftermath of the Andes flight disaster involving Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.
00:24:48Crash survivors spent 72 days in the harsh Andes Mountains before they were rescued.
00:24:53This point marks the end of the 1993 dramatization.
00:24:57Hey!
00:25:04After returning home, the survivors were heavily criticized when it was revealed
00:25:08that they had resorted to eating their dead friends for sustenance.
00:25:12We shouldn't murder innocents to live.
00:25:14What about our innocence?
00:25:16What's going to become of our innocence if we survive as cannibals?
00:25:20Even with such a great loss to bear, the father of one of the dead victims was arrested for grave robbing
00:25:25when he went up to the mountain himself to retrieve his son's remains after they were buried.
00:25:34Is there anybody here?
00:25:40Guess not!
00:25:42Into the Wild details the life of Christopher McCandless,
00:25:45who hitchhiked across North America and ended up in the Alaskan wilderness.
00:25:49McCandless camped out in an abandoned green bus where he eventually passed on,
00:25:53reportedly due to starvation.
00:25:55What do you see then?
00:26:01What I see now.
00:26:03After being documented in the biographical book of the same title,
00:26:06McCandless' story became a cultural phenomenon
00:26:09and inspired quite a lot of people to tread the same path as him.
00:26:12If you want something in life, reach out and grab it.
00:26:16In the years following the book's publication, many hikers journeyed to McCandless' abandoned bus,
00:26:22with two people losing their lives in the process and countless others needing to be rescued.
00:26:27To prevent further harm, the bus was removed from its original location.
00:26:31It currently sits in a museum at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
00:26:39Mulan is a badass in this movie, and she is just as cool in the legends that the film was based on.
00:26:45Mulan did join the army, according to Chinese legends,
00:26:48and she kicked ass throughout her military career.
00:26:53We must be swift as a coursing river.
00:26:59Disney said that she was cast aside when her identity was discovered,
00:27:03but proved herself when she saved the Emperor from the Huns.
00:27:06You have saved us all.
00:27:17This reveal plays out differently in the legends,
00:27:20but there's a version of her in the 1695 story Sui Tong Romance that sees a very sad conclusion.
00:27:27After returning from the war, she discovers her father has passed.
00:27:31Instead of being forced into service as a concubine, she ends her life at her father's grave.
00:27:36She didn't deserve that.
00:27:38The greatest gift and honor is having you for a daughter.
00:27:45I've missed you so.
00:27:47I've missed you too, Baba.
00:27:51Anastasia didn't survive. Anastasia.
00:27:54Fox's animated movie about a lost Russian princess has more of a historical basis than other entries on this list.
00:28:00In the early 1910s, Russia was ruled by the imperial Romanov family.
00:28:05Mark my words. You and your family will die within the fortnight.
00:28:12I will not rest until I see the end of the Romanov line forever!
00:28:19In the movie, former advisor and sorcerer Grigory Rasputin sparks the Russian Revolution,
00:28:25causing Anastasia to be separated from her family while being evacuated from danger.
00:28:30Take my hand! Hold on to my hand!
00:28:33Don't let go!
00:28:37Anastasia!
00:28:39Anastasia!
00:28:42But that is an alternate history retelling.
00:28:45In the real world, Rasputin was assassinated in 1916,
00:28:50before the execution of the Romanovs in 1918 by Bolshevik revolutionaries.
00:28:55This film was based on the rumors that Duchess Anastasia escaped
00:28:59due to a number of impostors who had come forward in the years since.
00:29:02Haven't you been listening? I've had enough!
00:29:06I don't care how much you have fashioned this girl to look like her,
00:29:10sound like her or act like her. In the end, it never is her.
00:29:14Her remains were eventually found, confirming her horrible fate.
00:29:23Sleeping Beauty is a Charles Perrault-inspired story
00:29:26that leaves out shocking moments from its source material.
00:29:29Before the sun sets on her 16th birthday,
00:29:33she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die!
00:29:39Perrault's story plays out similarly,
00:29:41albeit with some later troubles after the prince awakens the princess.
00:29:44But Perrault simply adapted another version of the folktale,
00:29:48published by Italian author Gian Battista Basile.
00:29:52It's Aurora! She's here!
00:29:59And Philip!
00:30:01In his version, the Sleeping Beauty, named Talia,
00:30:04is beset upon by a wandering king.
00:30:06He brings her to bed, leaves, and she gives birth to twins.
00:30:10All while asleep.
00:30:12Once the king comes back, his queen tries to remove Talia
00:30:15and the children from the equation,
00:30:17but the king instead turns on his wife so he can now commit to his new family.
00:30:21This one is both weird and disturbing.
00:30:24Now shall you deal with me, your prince,
00:30:28and all the powers of hell!
00:30:32Number 25. ALS Diagnosis, Rescue Dawn
00:30:37I'm not gonna fall off! I'm not gonna fall off!
00:30:44Dieter Dengler was a pilot for the US Navy during the Vietnam War
00:30:48who was captured and held prisoner for six months.
00:30:51Dengler managed to escape and spent the next 23 days in the jungle
00:30:55before he was found and rescued by an American pilot.
00:31:02His harrowing ordeal was first reconstructed in the documentary
00:31:06Little Dieter Needs to Fly,
00:31:08before it was dramatized in this 2006 film starring Christian Bale.
00:31:12Empty what is full.
00:31:16Fill what is empty.
00:31:23Scratch where it itches.
00:31:26The movie gets its happy ending in Dengler's rescue,
00:31:29but the real-life events take a sad turn afterwards.
00:31:32While he regained his physical self,
00:31:34Dengler never fully recovered from his traumatic experience.
00:31:37The decorated pilot was diagnosed with ALS years later
00:31:41and ended up taking his own life.
00:31:43And the thing is, from that moment on,
00:31:47Little Dieter, he needed to fly.
00:31:52Number 24. Thousands of POWs and civilians died building the Burma Railway.
00:31:58The Bridge on the River Kwai.
00:32:00Many British World War II veterans took umbrage with the Oscar-winning film
00:32:04The Bridge on the River Kwai.
00:32:14It portrays a British commander, played by Alec Guinness,
00:32:17who takes pride in ordering his imprisoned men to build a bridge for the Japanese.
00:32:21In actuality, when forced to build the Burma Railway,
00:32:25British officers encouraged sabotage.
00:32:31In a BBC interview, a former prisoner said that an officer like the movie's Nicholson
00:32:36would have been killed.
00:32:38Conditions, too, were far worse than the movie depicts.
00:32:41Tens of thousands of laborers from Thailand, Burma and Malaysia
00:32:45were conscripted to aid in construction.
00:32:47The appalling conditions have made us dangerously thin.
00:32:51We have no beds, inadequate shelter, atrocious diet and no sanitation.
00:32:56By the end of the war, 13,000 POWs died from exhaustion, thirst, starvation and disease.
00:33:03Between 80,000 and 100,000 civilians also died.
00:33:07Number 23. The KKK were terrorists, not heroes.
00:33:11The Birth of a Nation.
00:33:13The Birth of a Nation was the first blockbuster ever produced.
00:33:22It was also replete with lies from beginning to end.
00:33:26Covering both the end of the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era,
00:33:29the movie doesn't just spin history, it invents it.
00:33:32The film shows black militias roaming the hillside, murdering southern families.
00:33:37The KKK, however, are just honest white folk defending their homes.
00:33:52Black politicians steal elections and corrupt the government thanks to Reconstruction.
00:33:57History reveals that the opposite was true.
00:34:00The KKK and similar groups attacked communities all over the American South,
00:34:05stamping out black voting whenever possible.
00:34:08In Opelousas, Louisiana, a sister organization to the KKK
00:34:12murdered 200 black people to stop their votes.
00:34:16Corruption and murder killed Reconstruction in its infancy.
00:34:19Ku Klux Klan was born in 1865-1866,
00:34:23and they used terrorism right away against black voters.
00:34:27Number 22. The Killings, My Friend Dahmer.
00:34:31My Friend Dahmer doesn't delve into the outright horror
00:34:34that serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer would become known for,
00:34:37but that doesn't mean it's not without its tenser moments.
00:34:39Sorry, man.
00:34:41My mom will just kill me if I don't get home for dinner on time, so...
00:34:45I just...
00:34:47Yeah, I'll see you on the flip side, Dahmer.
00:34:49Adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by John, Durf Backdurf,
00:34:53the film recounts Durf's relationship with a young Jeffrey during their high school years.
00:34:57Sorry.
00:34:59Why'd you do that?
00:35:01I just wanted to see what its insides looked like.
00:35:05Throughout the film, Durf's relationship with Jeffrey
00:35:07I just wanted to see what its insides looked like.
00:35:10Throughout the film, a series of red flags regarding Jeffrey's behavior goes largely unnoticed,
00:35:15and the film ends with him picking up a hitchhiker named Stephen Hicks,
00:35:19who was Dahmer's first victim in real life.
00:35:21My name's Jeffrey.
00:35:23Stephen Hicks. Nice to meet you.
00:35:25Obviously, the film never purported to be about the murders,
00:35:28instead opting for a fascinating look at nascent psychopathy.
00:35:32Plus, there are other biopics that do get into the nitty-gritty of it all.
00:35:36Number 21. 67 Exorcisms. The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
00:35:41Don't ask it any questions, or pay any attention to what it says.
00:35:48Bit?
00:35:49We won't be dealing with Emily tonight.
00:35:51Part demonic possession movie, part courtroom drama,
00:35:55The Exorcism of Emily Rose tells the story of a college girl who dies sometime after a failed exorcism,
00:36:00and the subsequent trial of the priest for negligent homicide.
00:36:04Though alleging to be about a real person named Emily Rose,
00:36:07the film actually took inspiration from the story of a German woman named Anneliese Michel.
00:36:12And I am Lucifer, the devil in the flesh.
00:36:17Whereas Emily has a single exorcism performed on her in the movie,
00:36:21hence the singularity in its title,
00:36:23Michel reportedly underwent a whopping 67 over the course of 10 months,
00:36:28before succumbing to malnutrition.
00:36:30Did you encourage her to eat?
00:36:32Yes, every time I saw her, but the few times she tried, it seemed like...
00:36:37it seemed like she couldn't swallow or she couldn't keep it down.
00:36:41We can understand why the movie would want to streamline things,
00:36:44but truth really is stranger than fiction.
00:36:47Is there anything else you'd like to say about Emily?
00:36:53No.
00:36:58The defense rests.
00:36:59Number 20. Career struggles. Ed Wood.
00:37:02This is the one. This is the one I'll be remembered for.
00:37:07If you know anything about the real Ed Wood,
00:37:09then you know that his whole career was filled with ups and downs.
00:37:12Mostly downs come to think of it.
00:37:14But his real life, post-Plan 9 from outer space,
00:37:17doesn't exactly match the tone of the final scene.
00:37:19Let's get going.
00:37:21Huh?
00:37:22Right now, let's go to Vegas.
00:37:23But Eddie, it's pouring and the cars have to stop.
00:37:26Boy, it's only a five-hour drive,
00:37:27and it'll probably stop by the time we get to the desert.
00:37:29Heck, it'll probably stop by the time we get around the corner.
00:37:32Let's go.
00:37:33After the premiere of the aforementioned flick,
00:37:35Ed and Kathy go off to get hitched.
00:37:37The on-screen text at the end alludes to his descent
00:37:40into alcoholism and nudie films,
00:37:42but that barely even scratches the surface.
00:37:44In addition to adult movies,
00:37:45Wood wrote upwards of 80 sex novels just to get by,
00:37:49often spending the money immediately on booze.
00:37:52Though he and Kathy stayed together until his death,
00:37:55their home life wasn't exactly swell, to say the least.
00:37:58Number 19.
00:37:59Hindered acceptance speech, A Beautiful Mind.
00:38:02Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind
00:38:04is an emotionally wrought exploration
00:38:05into a psyche that is both brilliant and damaged,
00:38:08showing the toll schizophrenia had on mathematician John Nash.
00:38:12Saw my name on the lecture slate.
00:38:15You lying son of a bitch!
00:38:17Who are you talking to?
00:38:18Tell me who you see.
00:38:20Though the depiction of the disease
00:38:21wasn't entirely accurate to Nash's experiences,
00:38:24they work in a narrative sense.
00:38:25After a heavy two-plus hours of runtime,
00:38:28Nash accepts the Nobel Prize
00:38:30and dedicates it to his wife Alicia in a speech.
00:38:33It is only in the mysterious equations of love
00:38:37that any logical reasons can be found.
00:38:43I'm only here tonight because of you.
00:38:45As cathartic as this moment is,
00:38:47Nash's disease prevented him
00:38:48from making any such speech in real life.
00:38:51Though the movie came out 14 years prior,
00:38:53it should be at least mentioned
00:38:55that Nash's story would end in tragedy,
00:38:57as he and Alicia were killed in a car accident in 2015.
00:39:01Number 18.
00:39:02Failed Businesses, Schindler's List.
00:39:05As if Schindler's List wasn't horrific enough.
00:39:07And no, what we're about to describe is nothing
00:39:09compared to the actual horrors of WWII,
00:39:12but it is interesting nonetheless.
00:39:14I could have got more.
00:39:16I don't know.
00:39:17If I just...
00:39:20I could have got more.
00:39:21America, there are 1,100 people who are alive
00:39:24because of you.
00:39:25Look at them.
00:39:26After the war,
00:39:27Oskar Schindler found himself financially reeling,
00:39:30proving no good deed goes unpunished.
00:39:32He moved to Argentina and raised chickens for a while,
00:39:35but this venture eventually went belly up
00:39:37and he returned to Germany.
00:39:39That's to be expected.
00:39:40Startup problems.
00:39:41This isn't pots and pans.
00:39:42This is a precise business.
00:39:43His subsequent business ventures
00:39:45were even less successful,
00:39:46forcing him to declare bankruptcy in 1963.
00:39:49The on-screen text acknowledges this,
00:39:51but not long after,
00:39:52Schindler suffered a heart attack
00:39:54and from then on was sustained on donations
00:39:56from the families that he helped save.
00:39:58Though there's some heartwarming humanity there,
00:40:01it's still saddening to hear
00:40:02that he didn't prosper as much as he deserved.
00:40:05Number 17.
00:40:06Divorce and Allegations of Mistreatment,
00:40:08The Theory of Everything.
00:40:10If someone is prepared to offer it...
00:40:20I won't object.
00:40:22The Theory of Everything definitely depicts
00:40:24the fraught ending to Stephen Hawking's marriage
00:40:26to Jane Wilde.
00:40:27But while the punctuating on-screen text is right
00:40:30in that they eventually stayed friends,
00:40:32it leaves out a good portion
00:40:33during which they decidedly were not.
00:40:35I did my best.
00:40:37During their marriage,
00:40:38Hawking became close to one of his nurses,
00:40:40Elaine Mason.
00:40:41Hawking actually left Wilde for Mason in 1995,
00:40:44but his second marriage may not have been so peachy either.
00:40:47In the early 2000s,
00:40:48police started an investigation on concerns
00:40:50that Hawking was being physically abused.
00:40:53But it was quickly closed
00:40:54when Hawking refused to make a statement.
00:40:56Hawking and Mason divorced in 2006
00:40:58before his passing in 2018.
00:41:00Number 16.
00:41:01No Revenge, The Revenant.
00:41:04It's a little weird to call an ending horrific
00:41:06because it didn't actually have a violent confrontation,
00:41:09but such is the nature of The Revenant.
00:41:11In the movie, frontiersman Hugh Glass
00:41:13goes through hell after his son is murdered
00:41:15and he's left for dead.
00:41:17Ultimately tracking down,
00:41:18then getting revenge on the man responsible.
00:41:33In reality, Glass got no such revenge.
00:41:36Of the two men who left him for dead,
00:41:38Glass tracked down a man named Bridges,
00:41:40but ultimately spared him
00:41:41on account of his youth and inexperience.
00:41:44The other, the John Fitzgerald depicted in the film,
00:41:46was virtually untouchable having enlisted in the army,
00:41:49Glass telling him that he would kill him
00:41:51should he ever leave.
00:41:53The intent was there,
00:41:54but it's definitely less climactic.
00:42:08If you need evidence that real life
00:42:09is far from a fairy tale,
00:42:11look no further than The Davies Boys,
00:42:13the inspiration for Peter Pan and the Lost Boys.
00:42:16Finding Neverland ends sadly enough,
00:42:18with Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie
00:42:20adopting The Davies Boys
00:42:22after the tragic death of their mother Sylvia.
00:42:36The final scene has a sadly uplifting undertone,
00:42:39but tragedy would follow the family in real life.
00:42:42Eldest son George was killed in a World War I battle in 1915,
00:42:46and in 1921, second youngest Michael drowned alongside a friend,
00:42:51with some questioning if it was wholly accidental.
00:42:54Mere months after Jack succumbs to lung disease in 1959,
00:42:58Peter himself took his own life,
00:43:00having struggled greatly for being the namesake of Peter Pan.
00:43:05I would be extremely honored
00:43:06if you would allow me the use of your name
00:43:08for one of the characters.
00:43:12I don't know what to say.
00:43:14Say yes.
00:43:20Everyone loves an uplifting story about humanity
00:43:23banding together to save animals in need,
00:43:25so it's not surprising that Big Miracle
00:43:27ends with the trapped grey whales
00:43:29escaping their icy prison to freedom.
00:43:31You know what?
00:43:33I'm gonna miss them.
00:43:34Though Operation Breakthrough,
00:43:36the real life rescue mission on which the film is based,
00:43:38ended in a similar manner,
00:43:40there wasn't nearly as much optimism to be had.
00:43:43Just stop fighting.
00:43:45That baby is gone.
00:43:48You can't change that.
00:43:50Though the baby whale did indeed die
00:43:52while the parents were freed from the section of ice
00:43:54that they were trapped in,
00:43:56their physical state after such an ordeal
00:43:58meant little hope that they'd survive much farther
00:44:01past the very similar terrain.
00:44:03No evidence was ever found either way,
00:44:05but many experts believe that the whales
00:44:07didn't get nearly as big of a miracle.
00:44:11Unhappy marriage?
00:44:12My Left Foot.
00:44:13Christie Brown was a man who endured
00:44:15many hardships in his life.
00:44:17While the biopic My Left Foot doesn't shy away from that fact,
00:44:20it did leave out a dark chapter of his story,
00:44:23his relationship with his wife, Mary Carr.
00:44:25Hello, my name is Mary.
00:44:27I'll be with you till you go on this evening.
00:44:29The film depicts Christie meeting Carr at a charity event,
00:44:32and the film ends with them celebrating
00:44:34with a bottle of champagne.
00:44:36What do we drink to?
00:44:40Let's drink to Dublin.
00:44:42To Dublin?
00:44:46Because Christie Brown was born there.
00:44:50Unfortunately, their happily ever after
00:44:52may not have been so happy after all.
00:44:54When Christie Brown died at the age of 49,
00:44:57a post-mortem analysis showed bruising on his body.
00:45:00Many suspected that the bruises were from neglect
00:45:03or from someone physically harming him.
00:45:05A biography was also eventually published
00:45:07that depicted Carr as being unfaithful.
00:45:10You seem good looking.
00:45:12Who?
00:45:13Your appointment.
00:45:17That is always nice.
00:45:21It doesn't matter to me.
00:45:23You can meet whoever you like.
00:45:29Unbroken tells the riveting true story of Louis Zamperini,
00:45:33an American soldier who survived a bomber crash
00:45:35over the Pacific and endured a series of POW camps
00:45:38before the end of World War II.
00:45:50Sadly, as is the case with many veterans,
00:45:52Zamperini was plagued with post-traumatic stress disorder
00:45:55in the years following his return home.
00:45:57He had nightmares of confronting his captors
00:45:59that were so intense that he once attacked his wife at night
00:46:03before regaining his senses.
00:46:11When Zamperini turned to alcohol as a way to sleep better,
00:46:14he only further damaged his psyche.
00:46:16Thankfully, Zamperini found closure with his ordeal
00:46:19and did improve.
00:46:20This was further covered in a faith-based sequel,
00:46:23Unbroken Path to Redemption.
00:46:25Number 11.
00:46:26Nazi Headquarters.
00:46:27The Sound of Music.
00:46:37When you're singing along to the happy Sound of Music track,
00:46:40you're probably not thinking about Nazis living in the hills.
00:46:43But that's the sad reality.
00:46:55Sometime after the von Trapp family
00:46:57vacated their Salzburg home in 1938,
00:47:00the house was seized and used as a headquarters
00:47:02for Nazi operations.
00:47:04It specifically served as the summer home for Heinrich Himmler,
00:47:07who was a major architect of many war crimes.
00:47:10The von Trapp home was even visited by Adolf Hitler himself.
00:47:13Thankfully, the estate was turned back over to missionaries
00:47:16after World War II.
00:47:18We're not surprised that the von Trapps left out
00:47:20a song about the house's regrettable history.
00:47:23Goodbye.
00:47:29Goodbye.
00:47:35Goodbye.
00:47:42Number 10.
00:47:43The Dark Final Years.
00:47:45The Aviator.
00:47:46While Martin Scorsese's The Aviator
00:47:48gave us a pretty solid preview of what Howard Hughes' life
00:47:51would ultimately become, it didn't portray every detail.
00:47:54Go away.
00:47:56Just for now, but I'll see you soon.
00:47:59The movie depicted how he would sequester himself
00:48:01from the outside world for months on end.
00:48:04In real life, his isolationist tendencies only continued.
00:48:07His germophobia also prevented him from seeing his own wife
00:48:11for several years before they divorced.
00:48:13By the time that Hughes died in 1976,
00:48:15he was so unkempt that his body was almost unrecognizable.
00:48:19He is to open the bag with his right hand
00:48:22and hold the bag out to me at a 45 degree angle
00:48:25so I may reach into the bag without touching the paper.
00:48:32Although Hughes had a stature of 6 foot 4,
00:48:35he weighed a paltry 90 pounds by the end of his life.
00:48:38While we can't list all the crazy details here,
00:48:41we encourage you to look them up.
00:48:42They're as fascinating as they are disheartening.
00:48:45The way of the future.
00:48:49The way of the future.
00:48:52The way of the future.
00:48:58It's you, isn't it?
00:49:00Sir, I have to ask you to leave.
00:49:02You are so talented and blessed.
00:49:07Extraordinary.
00:49:08Most audiences knew that The Greatest Showman
00:49:10wasn't entirely factually accurate,
00:49:12especially since P.T. Barnum had a notorious history.
00:49:15But it turns out, the movie was omitting more
00:49:17than just the uglier parts of his story.
00:49:19Letty Lutz, the bearded lady, was based on Annie Jones.
00:49:23She was surrendered to his custody
00:49:25when she was just an infant.
00:49:27Not one to despair,
00:49:28Jones was an advocate for the rights of so-called freaks
00:49:31and even broke away from Barnum to promote her cause.
00:49:34But her dire financial straits
00:49:36forced her to return to work with him.
00:49:38I'm not scared to be seen
00:49:41I make no apologies
00:49:43This is me
00:49:46Jones would succumb to tuberculosis
00:49:48at just 37 years of age.
00:49:50It's definitely not the big happy family ending
00:49:53the movie implied.
00:49:54Maybe you are a fraud.
00:49:56Maybe it was just about making a buck.
00:50:01But you gave us a real family.
00:50:03Number eight.
00:50:04A firing.
00:50:05Remember the Titans.
00:50:07Remember the Titans is an inspiring true tale
00:50:10of uniting in the face of cultural and racial divides.
00:50:13But not every person involved was infallible.
00:50:16Eight years after leading T.C. Williams'
00:50:18first racially integrated football team
00:50:20to a state championship,
00:50:22coach Herman Boone was fired.
00:50:24We will be perfect
00:50:27in every aspect of the game.
00:50:29You drop a pass, you run a mile.
00:50:31You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile.
00:50:33You fumble the football,
00:50:35and I will break my foot off in your John Brown Hind parts.
00:50:39The main reason he lost his position
00:50:41was because he was accused of harming his own players.
00:50:44This is no democracy.
00:50:46It is a dictatorship.
00:50:48I am the law.
00:50:50Although the firing was something of a shock
00:50:52to the city of Alexandria,
00:50:54three assistant coaches had threatened to walk
00:50:56if Boone was not relieved of his duties.
00:50:58Ironically, a movie called Remember the Titans
00:51:01forgot to talk about the unceremonious end
00:51:03to coach Boone's career.
00:51:05He did a good job up here.
00:51:07We're in a tough camp from what I can see.
00:51:10Well, I'm very happy to have the approval of a five-year-old.
00:51:13Number seven.
00:51:15Billing the family of a musician who lost his life.
00:51:18Titanic.
00:51:19What's the use?
00:51:21Nobody's listening to us anyway.
00:51:23Well, they don't listen to us at dinner either.
00:51:25Come on, let's play. Keep us warm.
00:51:28Orpheus.
00:51:32We know this epic disaster drama
00:51:34couldn't cover every single tragic story involved,
00:51:37even at over three hours.
00:51:39But this one is particularly interesting.
00:51:41After the RMS Titanic sank,
00:51:43over 1,500 people lost their lives.
00:51:46One of the bodies recovered was Jock Hume,
00:51:49a violinist who valiantly played amongst his compatriots
00:51:52as the ship sank.
00:51:54But his brave final actions were dishonored.
00:51:56Right. That's it, then.
00:51:59Goodbye. Good luck.
00:52:01Bye, Boris.
00:52:04The company that employed Hume
00:52:06had the audacity to bill his father
00:52:08for the damage done to the uniform Hume was renting.
00:52:11And how did it get damaged?
00:52:13We have a feeling it had something to do with the tragic sinking of the Titanic.
00:52:16Thankfully, Hume's father chose not to pay the bill.
00:52:19Gentlemen,
00:52:21it has been a privilege playing with you tonight.
00:52:23Number six.
00:52:25Death after release.
00:52:27Conviction.
00:52:28Starring Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell,
00:52:30Conviction is a fairly under-seen legal drama
00:52:33about a woman who works to become a lawyer
00:52:35so she can personally get her incarcerated brother exonerated
00:52:38for a murder he didn't commit.
00:52:40A lot of grueling work later,
00:52:42the Conviction is indeed overturned,
00:52:4418 years later, much like in real life.
00:52:47And the film ends with Swank's Betty Ann Waters
00:52:49sharing a tender moment with Rockwell's Kenny.
00:52:52Knowing you were out here,
00:52:56work is hard for me.
00:53:01Knowing that you love me that much.
00:53:05Curiously, the ensuing on-screen text omits the fact
00:53:09that the real Kenneth Waters
00:53:11tragically died in an accidental fall
00:53:13only six months after his release.
00:53:15This information certainly would have put a damper on the story,
00:53:18though it does feel somewhat crucial to getting the whole picture.
00:53:22Number five.
00:53:23Ostracization and death.
00:53:25The accused.
00:53:26This is a really depressing list, isn't it?
00:53:29That's the best you can do, and your best sucks.
00:53:31Now, I don't know what you got for selling me out,
00:53:34but I sure as shit hope it's worth it.
00:53:36A powerful film,
00:53:38The Accused follows Jodie Foster's Sarah Tobias,
00:53:41a woman who is assaulted
00:53:43and ultimately able to have a betters convicted
00:53:45in addition to her attackers.
00:53:47We find the defendant, Matthew Haynes,
00:53:50guilty of criminal solicitation.
00:53:52While Tobias herself is fictional,
00:53:54she and the movie are based on the story of Cheryl Arujo,
00:53:58who in 1983 went through much the same experience.
00:54:01However, only four of the six charged with the crime were convicted,
00:54:05serving at most six and a half years.
00:54:07The trial itself exhibited suggestions of victim blaming,
00:54:11and Arujo was subsequently ostracized
00:54:13in the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts.
00:54:15She then moved to Miami,
00:54:17but tragically died at 25 in a car accident
00:54:20while reportedly being heavily intoxicated.
00:54:23Number four.
00:54:24What really happened to Pocahontas?
00:54:26Pocahontas.
00:54:27This animated Disney movie is notorious for its factual inaccuracies,
00:54:31especially when it comes to the ending.
00:54:33You have to go back.
00:54:35But I can't leave you.
00:54:37You never will.
00:54:39No matter what happens,
00:54:41I'll always be with you.
00:54:43Forever.
00:54:44Although the film concludes with John Smith's departure from the Americas,
00:54:48it doesn't show that the real-life Pocahontas
00:54:50was subjected to a number of atrocities.
00:54:53She was captured by the English
00:54:54and used as a pawn in negotiations with her father,
00:54:57the chief of the Powhatans, for a full year.
00:54:59In 1614, she got married to tobacco planter John Rolfe,
00:55:04but it's unknown whether Pocahontas had a choice in their union.
00:55:07But if you know any impediment
00:55:10why you should not be lawfully joined together in matrimony,
00:55:14you will confess it.
00:55:16She was subsequently taken to England
00:55:18and used primarily as a propaganda symbol.
00:55:21Unfortunately, she passed away from an unconfirmed illness
00:55:24at just 21 years of age.
00:55:27Your dear mother, Rebecca,
00:55:29fell ill in our outward passage at Gravesend.
00:55:38While the real Erin Brockovich deemed the film to be about 98% accurate,
00:55:43this fascinating people's interest story
00:55:45doesn't exactly address what happened after David slayed Goliath.
00:55:49He's going to make them pay $333 million.
00:55:58Brockovich's class action suit was indeed successful
00:56:01in that the business PG&E was mandated to compensate
00:56:04the families affected by the company's tainted water
00:56:07a whopping $333 million.
00:56:10In real life, many found that their cut was less than they expected.
00:56:14The law firm took roughly 40% of that cut, which is shown.
00:56:18But what's not shown is how unsatisfied many were
00:56:21with where the chips fell.
00:56:23Boy, do I know how you feel.
00:56:25The first time I heard that number,
00:56:27I said, you've got to be kidding me.
00:56:2940 goddamn percent?
00:56:31I'm the one that's injured,
00:56:33and this joker sits at a desk all day
00:56:35and he wants to walk away with almost half my reward?
00:56:38From there, the town of Hinkley, California,
00:56:40turned into a proverbial ghost town.
00:56:42The fears of the water's furthered contamination
00:56:45drove away many residents.
00:56:47By the way, we had that water brought in special for you folks.
00:56:50Came from a well in Hinkley.
00:57:00Uh, you are?
00:57:02I'm the devil,
00:57:04and I'm here to do the devil's business.
00:57:07Much like Inglourious Bastards,
00:57:09Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
00:57:11is pretty upfront about changing historical details,
00:57:14specifically in regards to the Sharon Tate murders.
00:57:17Most everyone knows that pregnant actor Sharon Tate
00:57:20and four others were brutally murdered
00:57:22by members of the Manson family in 1969,
00:57:25so those watching this movie were probably expecting to see it.
00:57:29However, in an awesome display of cinematic justice,
00:57:32Tarantino has the Masonites taken out themselves
00:57:35by fictional actor Rick Dalton and his stuntman Cliff Booth,
00:57:38while Tate and the others are safe and sound.
00:57:45While some of the other entries
00:57:47probably could have included their real endings,
00:57:49this is one historical retconning we can totally get behind.
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00:58:07Number one.
00:58:09Disappearance after freedom.
00:58:11Twelve years a slave.
00:58:13You're not any free.
00:58:15And I promise you, I promise you upon my liberation
00:58:18I will have satisfaction for this wrong.
00:58:20Solomon Northup was a free black man living in New York
00:58:23when he was kidnapped in 1841
00:58:25and sold into slavery in the southern United States.
00:58:28As the title suggests, he endured twelve grueling years
00:58:32before eventually regaining his freedom
00:58:34and reuniting with his family.
00:58:52Afterwards, he wrote the memoir of the same name
00:58:54and became an abolitionist.
00:58:56But four years after returning home,
00:58:58he disappeared again without a trace.
00:59:01It's possible that he was resold into slavery
00:59:03or that someone took his life.
00:59:05But his final fate is a sad mystery.
00:59:08Although the film acknowledges the uncertainty regarding his death,
00:59:11it omits just how bleak the end of his life might have been.
00:59:20There's nothing to forgive.
00:59:23Do you approach movies based on a true story
00:59:26with a healthy dose of skepticism?
00:59:28Do your favorite Disney movies gloss over some ugly details?
00:59:32Let us know your favorite cinematic lies in the comments below.
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