“JASON BOURNE WITH MORE MUD”
Feb 20, 2020
4 minutes
Sam Mendes’s 1917 is the first First World War ‘event’ film since Steven Spielberg’s Warhorse (2011). It has received critical acclaim and is bound to be an awards ceremony success. The director deserves his plaudits, as does the cinematographer because the action is gripping, the visualisation of the battlefield is stunning and on occasion eerily beautiful. From a historian’s perspective, however, it is no surprise that liberties have been taken with context, chronology, historical detail and even geography.
Historians love to nit-pick the details, and this film has plenty of mistakes to spot – whether they are deliberate or casual. The presence of a Sikh soldier among
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