Is The Movie “Braveheart” Historically Accurate?
I put a link under source to a great site explaining the truth about William Wallace. Myself I know its mostly fiction…. but I dont know the details but I did do some looking up for you and heres what I found: Historian Elizabeth Ewan describes Braveheart as a film which “almost totally sacrifices historical accuracy for epic adventure”.[1] As well, historian Sharon Kressa notes that the film contains numerous historical errors, beginning with the wearing of belted plaid by Wallace and his men. She points out that in the period in question, no Scots “wore kilts of any kind,” and when they finally did begin wearing their belts outside their plaids, it was not “in the rather bizarre style depicted in the film”.[2] She compares the inaccuracy to that of a film about “Colonial America showing the colonial men wearing late 20th century blue jeans, but instead of having the men’s blue jeans use a zipper in the front, putting the zipper prominently on the left hip.”[3] One of the most notab
