BOOKS: The Top Historically Misleading Films (2 volumes)

[Frank W. Baker]

There are two books in this series:
Volume 1: The Patriot, The Far Horizons and Robin Hood
Volume 2:  Braveheart and Pearl Harbor

[Kimberly Hawks]

Thanks for the link Frank, however, I wanted to say that though they might be very informative, and I agree that those movies are not at all historically accurate--I would take these books with a grain of salt.  The summaries on Amazon make me think that they are all written with Wikipedia as their main source. I was looking at possibly buying them...now I don't know.  Has anybody read them and think they are worth buying?

[Frank W. Baker]

I am not sure they are the BEST sources for helping students critically view films based on history. I discovered these while doing a search.

If you are interested in more scholarly work on this topic, I would, however, strongly recommend:

History by Hollywood- The Use and Abuse of the American Past; and
Reel History: In Defense of Hollywood (both by Robert Toplin)
Lights, Camera, History: Portraying the Past in Film
Hollywood As Historian: American Film In A Cultural Context
History in the Media: Film and Television