Reel History Quotes

“Evidently, not all audiences can tell the difference between fact and fiction. And this doesn’t necessarily make them stupid: perhaps they could have done with a better education, but unfortunately many educational systems don’t encourage people to challenge what they’re being told.”
― Alex von Tunzelmann, Reel History: The World According to the Movies

“As the historian Professor Richard Evans wrote in 2013: ‘History isn’t a myth-making discipline, it’s a myth-busting discipline, and it needs to be taught as such in our schools.’ The most essential principle of historical analysis is to question everything you are told and shown.”
― Alex von Tunzelmann, Reel History: The World According to the Movies

“One of these things doesn’t actually happen in The Man in the Iron Mask, and instead comes from the 2009 Telugu movie Magadheera; but its inclusion would not have made this film much less accurate.”
― Alex von Tunzelmann, Reel History: The World According to the Movies