Forget fake news. Worry about fake history Oscars
Two movies about Britain in 1940 - Dunkirk and the Darkest Hour - have collected plenty of Oscar nominations. Yet, both movies are shot through with historical howlers.
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The Oscars are handed out each year in early March. Ahead of this year's festivities, two movies about Britain in 1940 - Dunkirk and the Darkest Hour - have collected plenty of nominations. They notably include Gary Oldman's imitation of Winston Churchill and the remarkable cinematography of Dunkirk.
Yet, both movies are full of historical nonsense. For that reason, they should be catalogued with the World War II propaganda movies. I am thinking of Objective Burma (in which Errol Flynn single-handedly defeats the Japanese army).
A British sample is In Which We Serve, made in 1942, where Noel Coward plays the royal family's naval hero Lord Mountbatten, showing British grit at its best.
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