Quote ="Adeybull"Putting all this in film perspective:
On the other hand, we have any number of US-made films where what the Brits & Commonwealth did is pretty well airbrushed out and it was an all-American show. That worries me a whole lot more, since when I TALK to Americans, all too often now they deride anything British and seem to lack any understanding of our role in the war. On several occasions, when I asked US guys how they know that we had little to do with D Day other than being a US staging-point or how they know it was the US who were the means of cracking the enigma code (for example), they cite what they saw in the films... That has implications for our influence (or lack of) in the current world, and is something I AM concerned about.'"
This is a point I also made in the original thread, the whole dogs name issue was an example of history being changed for entertainment.
I also mentioned about the complete missrepresentation of VC winner in "ZULU". But other posters seem happy to alter history for the sake of a good film.
