The Most Historically Accurate Hollywood Films

Gangs of New York

Martin Scorsese painted a beautiful portrait of what gang life in 1863 New York City would have looked like. Though the specifics of this film aren't 100% true, the general plot of the film does follow a real gang who lived in the Big Apple in the 1800s. Some of the characters are based on real people, or several real people combined.

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The More You Know

  • Cleopatra was fluent in 9 languages. They were Ancient Greek, Ancient Iranian, Ancient Parthian, Syriac, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Arabic and Troglodyte.
  • Each frame of the CGI scenes in James Cameron’s, Avatar (1/24 of a second) took an average of 47 hours to render.
  • In 1982, Spileberg’s kids classic stayed in the US top ten for ten months.
  • The Hulk made his debut in 1962.
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