Description
Many of the most popular film classics from Hollywood are based on history or biographies. The movie studios used some of history’s most interesting people and events and made box office blockbusters from them. But how much truth is there on the silver screen?
The Birdman of Alcatraz and Sergeant York, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Bonnie & Clyde, the Battle of the Little Big Horn in They Died with Their Boots On, the world of the Mercury Astronauts in The Right Stuff, Mutiny on the Bounty, and the action-packed Top Gun are typical films in which Hollywood chose to follow its own path to truth. Film historian Mark Carlson shows you the real story behind the movie, the history on the silver screen.