Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
Believe me, for many of my students, movies are the only place they get the majority of their historical knowledge. Again, it's a big mess that those of us in the classroom who take our history seriously have to clean up frequently.

But, to be fair, I use a number of films in class that are quite good from the historical perspective.

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Hollywood movies are the Cliff Notes of them dusty old history books.