Hey everyone, Scott here. I have an announcement for a new series that is coming out on the

History Unplugged Podcast. This is a series I'm doing with a fellow history podcaster, Steve

Guera, who hosts the show Beyond the Big Screen and the history of the papacy. We've been

guests on each other's shows and you've probably heard of stuff before. Not you should

check it out, it's great. We're doing a series called Hollywood Hates History about the

most historically inaccurate movies out there. Now, just about every movie is going to be

a little bit historically inaccurate. And I get that. You have to make a movie with protagonists

that are sympathetic to modern day audiences and a lot of people in the past are just so different

from how people act today that if you're 100% historically accurate, it might not work in film.

So I don't mind with Gladiator that people speak a little bit more of a vernacular than they do

today. Or the most historically inaccurate thing you'll always see is that horses have stirrups,

which they never did in the ancient period. But I get it, you can't have a bunch of Hollywood

extras riding around without stirrups on their horses. I don't mind little things like that.

What I do mind is where movies will get things so historically wrong that people think this is

the actual truth of what happened in the past based on what they saw in a movie. They'll think,

for example, that Richard the Lionheart was the great king of England. When in fact he spoke

no English, he spoke French. He was only in England a few months during his reign,

basically bankrupted the nation so that he could find a crusade. Or you might watch a movie

like Agora, not very well known, but it's about the Alexandria and philosopher Hipatia in the

5th century. The movie makes it sound like the Romans were about to discover a heliocentric solar

system and Western civilization was on the verge of a scientific revolution. But then the library

of Alexandria was burned down and we enter the dark ages for absolutely no reason. I definitely

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