'A Man for All Seasons' is probably the most accurate film depiction of Tudor England.
Although liberties were taken with the actual story, 'The New World' was pretty accurate with the look, depiction and costuming that it represents (colonial America during James's era). Ignoring some of the changes in the story, most inaccuracies were due to accidents (a car can be seen in the distance, for example), and the fact that they didn't remove foxtail grass from the area the film is set (which would be hard work).
'Tombstone' is a good depiction of the American West.
'Barry Lyndon' is a very accurate depiction of many countries during from the 1750 until 1789.
'Waterloo' is an accurate film based around the titular battle. Most of the errors are only noticeable to major history buffs (backpacks fastened slightly incorrectly), but generally depicts the era and battle very well.
'All Quiet on the Western Front' from the 1930s was a very, very accurate of WWI from a German viewpoint and had real footage woven into the plotline...which is hard to even notice.
'A Bridge Too Far' was a good depiction of Operation Market Garden (WWII, Nederlands), however, it featured an embarrassing and nonsensical scene in which the German generals mock the choice of Montgomery for leader, and instead suggest Patten as a better alternative. This is stupid because his successes in Africa against Germany's best general, Field Marshal Rommel, made him a formidable opponent; Patten wasn't as highly rated until his ''cult'' sprang up in the US after the war...and many of his fellow generals and historians do not consider him to be the greatest general of WWII. Also, the plan that they went with wasn't Montgomery's original plan. If they had went with the original plan, the operation would have probably been a success.
'Cross of Iron' is a good depiction of German soldiers on the Eastern Front in WWII.
'Beowulf and Grendel' is probably the most accurate ''Dark Age'' Scandinavian movies ever made... even if Iceland is far more mountainous than flat old Denmark.
'Nicholas and Alexandra' was a fairly accurate recount of the Russian Revolution from the point of view (mostly) of the Tsar and his family, though Lenin and many other revolutionary heroes feature too. It thankfully manages to show the Tsar and his family as humans, whilst also pointing out why the people hated them so much. It doesn't use their deaths as a club to beat down revolutionaries, as many films of that era would have done, but instead took a more realistic and less partisan view (their jailer is shown to be a kindly old man who has to do a job), realizing that the Tsar and his family were executed as a necessity (not originally intended) due to White Russian advances towards Yekaterinburg.
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Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.
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