The original post: /r/television by /u/AporiaParadox on 2025-08-30 10:53:40+00:00.
We all know that TV shows set in the past or with scenes set in the past are rarely entirely accurate to history, creative liberties are taken to make the story more streamlined and interesting, or to just make things look cool. And sometimes the creators didn’t bother doing the research about everything so mistakes happened. But sometimes, the reason why the the movie isn’t historically accurate is because the creators are deliberately trying to tell a specific narrative of history that doesn’t correspond with the facts, it wants audiences to believe the revisionist narrative being told, basically propaganda.
Most infamous is how specific narratives about the American Old West and the American Civil War were also spread by old Westerns back when they were at their peak of popularity. They told a sanatized version of history with “noble pioneers” against “savage indians” while also spreading the “Lost Cause of the Confederacy” myth.
So what TV shows were historically inaccurate not because of story reasons or mistakes, but because the creators deliberately got history wrong for the sake of spreading a narrative?