traveller:Just saw the trailer, looks like they are re-writing history. After reading Osprey's Tuskegee Airmen book, it seems that they are putting in a lot more action, and not the reality. Where are the P-39s and P-47s, and P-51Bs. Will they mention that a lot of the planes were second hand? I can only hope that the story line is strong.
That's not rewriting history. That's condensing and sensationalizing it...but the main thrust of events - African American pilots proving themselves against the institutionalized racism of the WWII-era military and succeeding spectacularly in their role as bomber escorts - will stlll be there.
Rewriting history is Gladiator. Precisely two things in that movie actually happened. Rome fought a buttload of wars on the German frontier during Marcus Aurelius' reign, and his son Commodus succeeded him as emperor. But yeah, no Maximus, no restoration of the Republic. Far more depressingly, Commodus' reign ended with his assassination in a bath and kicked off round after round of power struggles, coups and civil wars that would, with a few exceptions - the extended reigns of Septimius Severus, Diocletian and Constantine - persist until the collapse of the western empire three hundred years later.
Honestly, 300 is more historically accurate. And, in my opinion, one of the best historical movies ever made. Not because it's accurate (though it gets the big stuff right), but because it captures perfectly the image the Spartans so actively cultivated.