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 The Patriot does get some stuff right. **One thing it gets right, which we see from the very beginning of the movie, is that British troops destroyed everything in their path**. We see this multiple times in the movie because almost every time British troops would “visit” someone’s property they would kill the people’s their and burn all buildings down. **Another thing this film gets right is that one of the Colonials biggest strengths was knowing the land.** This is even brought front and center when Benjamin tells Gabriel that he raised him to know the quickest paths right before they separated to recruit men. The film also is right in its portrayal of how soldiers would recycle anything they could. This is **most prominent in the movie when we see Benjamin melt down all of Thomas’s toy soldiers to use as bullets**. -Maddy W
+The movie is set during the American Revolution and does accurately portraying the general conflict between American colonists and British forces in the late 18th century. As well as show the use of guerrilla tactics by American militia forces which were crucial in many battles during the war and the film does capture the brutality of the conflict, including the impact on civilians and the burning of homes. However, the film takes liberties with historical accuracy especially with its characters and specific events. For example, the protagonist Benjamin Martin is fictional and certain events, like the burning of a church filled with townspeople probably were not documented occurrences in the American Revolution. - jedidia
+This movie gets the way that they fought in lines with muskets correct and firing until one side fell and was defeated and I found it interesting to see it play out in a live action setting rather than reading about it like I usually do. - Kazu
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 Besides the glossing over of the issue of slavery, a thing that was historically inaccurate that I believe was mostly put in there for shock value was the scene with the British burning down the church with civilians still inside. While there is evidence the British occasionally burned down churches during the Revolutionary War, there is very little evidence that supports the notion that any civilians were inside when that happened. **The scene itself is dramatic and makes audiences hate the British even more due to how villainized and one dimensional they're portrayed. It's another way to show how they're the bad guys and the patriots are the good guys who were wronged and are therefore justified in their war.**-Vumiliya V.
+There were some errors in this film like the film simplifies the motivations and roles of various groups. the British forces are showed villainous and the American side as purely heroic. When it was more complicated than that. The film also inaccurately portrayals the realities of slavery in the American South. It portrays enslaved people on Martin's plantation as free workers, which is historically inaccurate. Slavery was deeply embedded in the Southern colonies and plantation owners like the historical figures Martin is based on were often slave owners. - jedidia
+The inaccuracies shown when it comes to slavery are that the Americans are shown to be generally more kind to their slaves and the British are shown to be more comically evil in all other ways. I understand why they made this decision and I get that they have to make an entertaining movie but I am sure that it was not this black and white and that both sides committed both good and bad things during this conflict. -Kazu