"historical films trouble and disturb (most) professional historians... films are inaccurate. They Distort The Past. They fictionalize, trivialize, and romanticize important people, events and movements. They falsify history."
the film Inglorious Basterds reflects this quote as it disorts the past. the film is about Jewish-American soldiers who agree to go on a dangerous mission hunting Nazis behind enemy lines theses soldiers collect the scalps of their victims and not surprisingly for a Tarantino film, it's trivialises and is over the top and not at all historically accurate. in the scene where they burn the cinema and when all the top official nazi's (including Hitler) are trying to escape, Jewish-Americans start shooting at them and kill Hitler in the process. This shows how 'they falsify history' because in reality Hitler committed suicide.
However it could be argued that Inglorious Basterds isn't a historical film in the first place and Tarantino just uses the setting to create an entertaining film therefore he didn't intend to 'distort the past'. however some audience members who do not know much about history may be swayed into believing that this is what happened. This is the case with many historically inaccurate films.
"http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/14418.aspx"
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