Most Historically Accurate Films/Documentaries/Video

[Phalanx300]

The writer himself said that he showed 300 as an story told by an Spartan to his fellow Spartans. Explaining the monter like Persians etc. That said 300 never tried to portray things Historically anyways. DW does try that and fails. Also in the Nazi episode, they never played WW2 games or something? Sucky weapon selection... I mean the Nazi's invented worlds first assault rifle and they don't use it... They should let an Call of Duty team get over or something... >.<..

Best move for an sequal for 300 would be to turn thing around, to show the Persians as the victims and the Greeks as the monsters. Too bad thats probably not going to happen.

[Hax]

The writer himself said that he showed 300 as an story told by an Spartan to his fellow Spartans.

Yes, you can pretty much defend anything this way.

[antisocialmunky]

It doesn't change the fact that they all still were wearing speedos in the end.

It would have been pretty funny if it flashed to a realistic depiction at the end like the whole story was the product of 5000 Spartans with overactive imaginations.

[Intranetusa]

I love you, Intranet. <3

I agree, though I wouldn't call the battle of Thermopylae a strategic failure as it did give enough time to the Greeks to counter the invasion.

Well, I would still consider it a strategic failure because it ruined their war plans.
The battle only gave them 2-3 extra days - and the result was they lost half of Greece and had important cities like Athens being captured...

iirc, I read somewhere that the entire initial Greek strategy was stopping them up north near Thermopylae. After Thermopylae fell, the Greeks had to change their entire war plan. So it was good in the sense that the defeat forced them to adopt a better strategy that allowed them to win in the end.

I mean the Nazi's invented worlds first assault rifle and they don't use it... They should let an Call of Duty team get over or something... >.<..

They didn't show the VC's AK-47 either. And the ak-47 would have been better than anything the Nazis had...way better than the stg-44 whachamacallit...

[Smellycat]

Best move for an sequal for 300 would be to turn thing around, to show the Persians as the victims and the Greeks as the monsters. Too bad thats probably not going to happen.

Looks like you getting lucky:http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/300/...requel_xerxes/

ZACK SNYDER PUSHING FORWARD ON THE 300 SEQUEL XERXES

Following the box office success of 300, another movie seemed like a sure thing, but one minor detail was that Frank Miller, the creator of the graphic novel source material, hadn't written and drawn one yet. Earlier this year, Dark Horse Comics confirmed plans to publish a prequel written and drawn by Frank Miller called Xerxes, named after the Persian king leading the invading forces in 300. This week, Zack Snyder announced that he and his 300 writing partner Kurt Johnstad started work last week on adapting Xerxes. However, Snyder does not officially have a deal to direct Xerxes... yet. Snyder also provides us with the three part premise of Xerxes, which seems to make it both a prequel and a movie that takes place during the same days as the Battle of Thermopylae. Included in Xerxes will be the Battle of Marathon (the bulk of the prequel part), the back story of Xerxes and the story of Athenian politican/general Themistocles and the Battle of Artemsium (the concurrent part). So, while 300 was mostly about the Spartans, Xerxes appears to be more about the Athenians and the Persian invading forces. Xerxes is also certainly good news for Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro (presuming he will be returning) who around the release of 300 in 2007 had recently found himself unemployed when his Paulo character was killed off on LOST. In the meantime, Zack Snyder is also continuing work on his next two movies: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (9/24/10) and Sucker Punch (3/25/11).