Mel seems to have a habit of making war movies that completely misportray actual events
https://www.quora.com/What-war-movies-completely-misportrayed-actual-events
Braveheart……. utterly ignores historyshare
The Statue of William Wallace and Mel Gibson's representation of him (before the woad goes on!)
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-cfc6dd027ef58445ad91d795dc2cb572
His “affair” with Isabella - at the time of Wallaces execution, she was 9 years old, living in France and not yet married into the English Royal family
The capture of York - just never happened
The Battle of Stirling - misses two huge and important facts, its often called the “Battle of Stirling Bridge” because it was fought to control a vital water crossing in front of Stirling Castle - neither appear in the file
The Patriot
New York Post Film Critic Jonathan Foreman wrote
“The most disturbing thing about The Patriot is not just that German director Roland Emmerich (director of Independence Day) and his screenwriter Robert Rodat (who was criticized for excluding the roles played by British and other Allied troops in the Normandy landings from his script for Saving Private Ryan) depicted British troops as committing savage atrocities, but that those atrocities bear such a close resemblance to war crimes carried out by German troops—particularly the SS in World War II. It's hard not to wonder if the filmmakers have some kind of subconscious agenda... They have made a film that will have the effect of inoculating audiences against the unique historical horror of Oradour—and implicitly rehabilitating the Nazis while making the British seem as evil as history's worst monsters... So it's no wonder that the British press sees this film as a kind of blood libel against the British people.”
Gallipoli
The films climax the Attack at the Nek is apparently ordered by an officer with a British Accent and no British Troops are depicted in the attack, in real life the planning and orders were drawn up by the commander of the Australian Light Horse Brigade, an Australian named Brigadier General Fredric Hughes, in the real attack at the Nek the British Royal Welsh also suffered very heavy casualties - in more general terms in the whole campaign 8700 Australians died, 9700 French died and 34,000 British watching the flim you would not realise that the Austalians were a small component of the whole campaign.