BASED ON A TRUE STORY (BOATS EP. 353) — During the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States sent shockwaves around the world as they upset the four-time defending gold medalist Soviet Union team in a game that would go on to be called the "Miracle on Ice." That story is told in the 2004 Disney movie we'll be talking about today. Where to watch Miracle now To help us separate fact from fiction, we'll be talking to the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame coach Lou Vairo. Most relevant to our discussion today among Lou's long list of achievements was as a scout for the U.S. Men's Ice Hockey Team at the 1980 Winter Olympics which is depicted in the movie. So, he was there for a lot of the events depicted in the movie and will share a lot of behind the scenes of the true story. Get Lou's new autobiography Also mentioned in this episode Lou Vairo's bio at the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Did you enjoy this episode? Unlock ad-free episodes Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/353 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOATS THIS WEEK (OCT 14-20, 2024) — This Wednesday is the anniversary of Marie Antoinette's execution in 1793 that we saw inn the opening sequence of Ridley Scott's Napoleon (2023). After that, we'll travel exactly 169 years from 1793 to 1962, because Wednesday is also depicted in Thirteen Days (2000) as it's showing the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis. For our final historical event from the movies this week, we'll hop to October 19th, 1781 as it's shown in The Patriot (2000) to see how it shows the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.  After learning about this week's birthdays from historical figures in the movies, we'll wrap up this episode by comparing history with another of Ridley Scott's movies, The Last Duel, which released in the U.S. on October 15th, 2021. Finally, we'll get a little behind the scenes update about BOATS This Week episodes for the remainder of 2024. Until next time, here's where you can continue the story. Events from this week in history Wednesday: Napoleon (2023) | BOATS Napoleon Miniseries Wednesday: Thirteen Days (2000) Saturday: The Patriot (2000) | BOATS #60 Birthdays from this week in history Monday: Dwight D. Eisenhower in The Longest Day (1962) Wednesday: Oscar Wilde in Wilde (1997) Sunday: Mickey Mantle in 61* (2001) Historical movies releasing this week in history Tuesday: The Last Duel (2021) Mentioned in this episode JFK's October 22nd, 1962 speech Cuban Missile Crisis timeline Eric Jager's book that they based The Last Duel on Eric Jager's article Modern-day photos of Saint-Martin-des-Champs Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/352 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOATS THIS WEEK (OCT 7-13, 2024) — 57 years ago tomorrow, Che Guevara was captured in Bolivia just before his execution. Then, two years later, Omar Sharif portrayed him in the movie version of Che's story that we'll compare to the true story of this week's event. Then, we'll shift to Eight Men Out because as baseball season comes to a close, one of the darkest moments in Major League Baseball history happened this week back in 1919.  This Saturday marks the anniversary of Christopher Columbus making landfall, which was shown in the movie 1492: Conquest of Paradise. For this week's historical movie release, the Tom Hanks movie Captain Phillips was released 11 years ago this Friday. Until next time, here's where you can continue the story. Events from this week in history Tuesday: Che! | BOATS #115 Wednesday: Eight Men Out | BOATS #132 Saturday: 1492: Conquest of Paradise | BOATS #186 Birthdays from this week in history Wednesday: Eugene Bullard in Red Tails Friday: Eleanor Roosevelt in The First Lady Sunday: Jane Grey in Becoming Elizabeth Historical movies releasing this week in history Friday: Captain Phillips | BOATS #28 Mentioned in this episode Meet Félix Rodríguez, The CIA Operative Who Captured Che Guevara And May Have Tortured A DEA Agent by Marco Margaritoff Infamous America's and the Black Sox Scandal A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/351 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOATS THIS WEEK (SEP 30-OCT 6, 2024) — Thousands of years ago this week, Alexander the Great fought his final decisive battle against Darius III so we'll start our journey by comparing the true story of Gaugamela with the battle in 2004's Colin Farrell movie. Then we'll hop onto the baseball field because tomorrow, October 1st, 1961, is when Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's MLB home run record. We'll learn about the Billy Crystal-directed movie called 61* (we'll learn about the * in the movie's title in the episode). For our third event from this week in history according to the movies, we'll learn about the Battle of Mogadishu—or, as it's commonly called, the Black Hawk Down Incident. That happened on Thursday this week, October 3rd, 1993. Then, after a few historical birthdays from this week in history, we'll wrap up today's episode by comparing history with 2010's The Social Network. Until next time, here's where you can continue the story. Events from this week in history Monday: Alexander | BOATS #157 Tuesday: 61* Thursday: Black Hawk Down | BOATS #105 Birthdays from this week in history Wednesday: Paul von Hindenburg in Hitler: Rise of Evil Wednesday: Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhi Saturday: Ray Kroc in The Founder Historical movies releasing this week in history Tuesday: The Social Network Mentioned in this episode Steven Bertoni's article on Sean Parker Wall Street Journal article on Peter Thiel and Facebook's political ads Baseball this week: See "The Whammer" in The Natural Baseball this week: Say Hey, Willy Mays! Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/350 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOATS THIS WEEK (SEP 23-29, 2024) — AMC's Turn: Washington's Spies shows us how Benedict Arnold's treason was discovered back on September 24th, 1780. The next day, on Wednesday this week, marks the anniversary of Operation Market Garden coming to a close, which we see in the classic film A Bridge Too Far. And then The Godfather, Part III has a key plot point surrounding a very real event that happened on September 26th, 1978: The death of Pope John Paul I. This week's movie premiere to compare with history is the 2000 sports drama Remember the Titans, which has its 24-year anniversary this Sunday. Until next time, here's where you can continue the story. Events from this week in history Tuesday: Turn: Washington's Spies | BOATS #139 Wednesday: A Bridge Too Far Thursday: The Godfather, Part III Birthdays from this week in history Wednesday: Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty | BOATS #156 Thursday: T.S. Eliot in Tom & Viv Friday: Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici in Medici Historical movies releasing this week in history Sunday: Remember the Titans Mentioned in this episode Turn: Washington's Spies: The "Treason House" where Arnold and Andre met this week in history Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/349 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOATS THIS WEEK (SEP 16-22, 2024) — Tuesday is the 99th anniversary of the bus accident that changed Frido Kahlo's life, and we'll learn more about the way the movie Frida shows it happening. After that we'll jump to the movie with Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin for his being kicked out of the U.S., which happened 72 years ago on Thursday this week. Then we'll learn a bit about the start of an adventure that ended this week in history when The Hobbit was published on September 21st, 1937. Finally, Wednesday is the release anniversary of a classic Martin Scorsese gangster movie releasing, so we'll wrap up this week by learning more about the true story of Goodfellas. Until next time, here's where you can continue the story. Events from this week in history Tuesday: Frida Thursday: Chaplin | BOATS #283 Saturday: Tolkien | BOATS #141 Birthdays from this week in history Wednesday: Greta Garbo in The Silent Lovers Friday: Maxwell Perkins in Genius Friday: "Red" Auerbach in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty Historical movies releasing this week in history Wednesday: Goodfellas Mentioned in this episode Scott Eyman's book Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided BBC documentary with Tolkien Did you enjoy this episode? Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/348 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BASED ON A TRUE STORY (BOATS EP. 347) — Travel back to the 1960s during the Vietnam War while historian Joshua Donohue unpacks the real events behind the 2002 film We Were Soldiers. From the crucial role of helicopter pilots in the heat of battle, to the heart-pounding "Broken Arrow" moment, discover what Hollywood got right and where it took creative liberties depicting the Battle of Ia Drang in We Were Soldiers. Where to watch We Were Soldiers now Where to start learning more of the true story We Were Soldiers Once...and Young Josh's article: Heroic Fight for Wake Island    Also mentioned in this episode Wikipedia's map of the battle Records about Ia Drang at the Library of Congress Did you enjoy this episode? Unlock ad-free episodes Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/347 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOATS THIS WEEK (SEP 9-15, 2024) — Tuesday this week marks the anniversary of the Battle of Marathon, which we see in the movie 300: Rise of an Empire. Then, of course, we'll be looking at this week's anniversary of the 9/11 attacks from the movie United 93. For our third historical event, we'll learn about A Star-Spangled Story and how an event from this week in history inspired the U.S. national anthem. We'll also learn about the true story behind The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which released exactly 19 years ago today. Did you enjoy this episode? Support the next one! Events from this week in history Tuesday: 300: Rise of an Empire Wednesday: United 93 | BOATS #113 Saturday: A Star-Spangled Story Birthdays from this week in history Thursday: Henry Hudson in The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson Friday: Daniel Defoe in Robinson Crusoe Sunday: Marco Polo in Marco Polo Historical movies released this week in history Friday: The Exorcism of Emily Rose Also mentioned in this episode 300: Rise of an Empire: Based on a True Story episode #5 about 300 300: Rise of an Empire: Photos from the battlefield at Marathon as it looks today 300: Rise of an Empire: Map of the Battle of Marathon 300: Rise of an Empire: More about the Battle of Marathon's affect on democracy today The Exorcism of Emily Rose: The Windsor Star 1978 article interviewing the priests The Exorcism of Emily Rose: National Catholic Register article about the 1998 revised rite of exorcism Unlock ad-free episodes Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/346 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOATS TODAY (SEPT 5, 2024) — After four days of fighting the flames, the Great Fire of London was finally extinguished on this day in 1666 so today we'll learn more about how the events from exactly 358 years ago today were shown in the TV miniseries called The Great Fire. Until next time, here's where you can continue the story. Watch it now: Find where The Great Fire is streaming Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/345 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOATS THIS WEEK (SEPT 2-8, 2024) — On this day almost two thousand years ago, the Battle of Actium decided power in Rome. Not coincidentally, we'll learn about that today from a TV show called Rome. The second event from this week in history according to the movies comes from the 1993 film called Geronimo: An American Legend, because Wednesday this week marks the 138th anniversary of that event. For our third event, we'll learn about one of Jesse James' infamous holdups from September 7th, 1876 as it's shown in the movie The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid. Until next time, here's where you can continue the story. Events from This Week in History Monday: Rome Wednesday: Geronimo: An American Legend Saturday: The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid Birthdays from This Week in History Tuesday: James "Whitey" Bulger in Black Mass Thursday: Jesse James in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | BOATS #166 Friday: Marquis de Lafayette in Turn: Washington's Spies | BOATS #139 Saturday: Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age | BOATS #106 (Elizabeth) | BOATS #112 (Elizabeth: The Golden Age) A Historical Movie Releasing This Week Friday: 1992 Mentioned in this episode Krakatoa and Edvard Munch's The Scream Original newspaper reports of each Jack the Ripper victim Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/343 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Editor's Note: The fire started after midnight on September 2nd in London, so if you're in the United States like I am then you might see this minisode release on September 1st due to time zones. BOATS TODAY (SEPT 2, 2024) — The Great Fire of London started exactly 358 years ago today, so we'll learn how well the TV miniseries called The Great Fire shows the way it all started. Until next time, here's where you can continue the story. Watch it now: Find where The Great Fire is streaming Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/344 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOATS THIS WEEK (AUG 26-SEPT 1, 2024) — Tomorrow marks the 60th anniversary of Disney's Mary Poppins premiered, and that event is shown in the 2013 movie called Saving Mr. Banks about the making of Mary Poppins. If that's too confusing, give the episode a listen to unravel it all. From there, we'll travel to the west of Java to the movie incorrectly titled Krakatoa, East of Java. It got the geography wrong in the title, but we'll find out how well it shows the eruption of Krakatoa from August 28th, 1883. Then we'll go to London in 1888 because this Saturday is the anniversary of the first Jack the Ripper victim being discovered; an event from the movie From Hell. Until next time, here's where you can continue the story. Events from This Week in History Tuesday: Saving Mr. Banks Wednesday: Krakatoa, East of Java Thursday: From Hell | BOATS #93 | Jack the Ripper newspaper reports Birthdays from This Week in History Tuesday: President Lyndon B. Johnson in LBJ Friday: Mary Shelley in Mary Shelley Saturday: Caligula in The Robe Historical Movies Releasing This Week Friday: 1992 Mentioned in this episode Krakatoa and Edvard Munch's The Scream Original newspaper reports of each Jack the Ripper victim Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/342 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOATS THIS WEEK (AUG 19-25,2024) — Historical events from the movies start with The Crucible and how it depicts the Salem witch trials from this week in 1692. Then, we'll learn a bit about Patsy Cline's hit song "Crazy" because it was this week in 1961 that she started recording it in the studio, and that's shown in the 1985 biopic about her life called Sweet Dreams. For our third event, we'll learn about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius as it was shown in the movie Pompeii. Editor's note: The filmmakers couldn't have known this, but there's a good chance it didn't actually happen this week in history. Listen to the episode to learn more. Until next time, here's where you can continue the story. Events from this week in history Monday: The Crucible Wednesday: Sweet Dreams Saturday: Pompeii Birthdays from this week in history Friday: King Louis XVI of France in Marie Antionette Saturday: William Wilberforce in Amazing Grace Sunday: Ivan Vasilyevich "Ivan the Terrible" in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Historical movie released this week in history Wednesday: Inglorious Basterds Also mentioned in this episode Photos from the real Pompeii Schindler's List with Dr. Dan McMillan Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/341 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mummy (1999) is packed with supernatural powers, Hollywood magic, and...maybe some truth? After all, mummies were a real thing. We'll chat with acclaimed Egyptologist Dr. Aidan Dodson to find out how much of the movie is based in history. Where to start learning more of the true story Monarchs of the Nile Sethy I, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife More from Aidan's Lives and Afterlives series Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt: Her Life and Afterlife The First Pharaohs: Their Lives and Afterlives Tutankhamun, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife The Nubian Pharaohs of Egypt: Their Lives and Afterlives Thutmose III and Hatshepsut, Pharaohs of Egypt: Their Lives and Afterlives Aidan's author page Did you enjoy this episode? Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/340 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOATS THIS WEEK (AUG 12-18,2024) — Today is the 81st anniversary of the conspiracy theory from the 1984 movie The Philadelphia Experiment. Or is it? Tune in to find out. After that, we'll move into the Shakespearean classic-turned-modern movie Macbeth (2015) because this Wednesday is the 984th anniversary (1040 CE) of King Duncan I of Scotland's death. This week also marks the 79th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day, so our third event will come from the HBO miniseries The Pacific. Until next time, here's where you can continue the story. Events from This Week in History Monday: The Philadelphia Experiment Wednesday: Macbeth Thursday: The Pacific | BOATS The Pacific Miniseries Birthdays from This Week in History Tuesday: Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun Wednesday: Doc Holliday in Tombstone | BOATS #59 | BOATS #142 (Chris Wimmer) | BOATS #317 (Tom Clavin) Thursday: Napoleon Bonaparte in Napoleon | BOATS Napoleon Miniseries Friday: T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia | BOATS #49 Historical Movies Released This Week in History Thursday: Apocalypse Now Saturday: Monty Python's Life of Brian Mentioned in this episode The Philadelphia Experiment II The Philadelphia Experiment (2012) Potsdam Conference photos Chris Wimmer's Legends of the Old West podcast Tom Clavin's Tombstone book Louis Sarkozy's book Napoleon's Library Alexander Mikaberidze's book The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History Lt. Col. John Stockton photo Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/339 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOATS THIS WEEK (AUG 5-11,2024) — This week's events from historical movies starts with Monday's 719th anniversary (August 5th, 1305) of William Wallace's (Mel Gibson) capture shown in the movie 'Braveheart.' In the History Channel's dramatic miniseries "Hatfields & McCoys", we'll see how it portrays the feud between their two families turning to bloodshed for the first time on August 7th, 1882. It was also on August 7th, but in the year 1974, that Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) became the only person in history to ever walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. We'll learn about that from the 2015 Robert Zemeckis film "The Walk." Finally, we'll learn about President Nixon's (Frank Langella) resignation from August 8th, 1974 as it was shown in the Ron Howard film "Frost/Nixon." And last but certainly not least, our 'based on a true story' movie from this week in history is the comedy-drama from August 7th, 2009 "Julie & Julia." Until next time, here's where you can continue the story. Events from This Week in History Monday, August 5th: Braveheart | BOATS #45  Wednesday, August 7th: Hatfields & McCoys Wednesday, August 7th: The Walk Thursday, August 8th: Frost/Nixon | BOATS #4 Birthdays from This Week in History Monday, August 5th: Neil Armstrong in First Man | BOATS #144 Wednesday, August 7th: Mata Hari in Mata Hari | BOATS #74 Sunday, August 10th: Herbert Hoover in The Day the Bubble Burst A Historical Movie Released This Week in History Wednesday, August 7th: Julie & Julia Mentioned in this episode Frost/Nixon: President Nixon's resignation address Julie & Julia: Julie Powell's book Julie & Julia: Julia Child's book Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/338 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOATS THIS WEEK (JUL 29-AUG 4,2024) — There were two major disaster this week in history. The first we'll learn about is an event many consider the worst shark attack in history, which began on July 30th, 1945, and is shown in the movie USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage.  Our next historical disaster marks its 48th anniversary on Thursday this week, and we'll watch the racing movie starring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl called Rush, because it was on August 1st, 1976, that Daniel Brühl's character in that movie, Formula One legend Niki Lauda, nearly died in a fiery wreck during the German Grand Prix. Then, we'll learn about the "Slap Heard 'Round the World" from the World War II movie Patton, because this Saturday is the 81st anniversary of when General George S. Patton slapped U.S. Army Private Charles Kuhl. Last but certainly not least, our 'based on a true story' movie from this week in history is yet another disaster movie: Ron Howard's 2022 movie called Thirteen Lives. Until next time, here's where you can continue the story. Events from This Week in History Tuesday: USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage | BOATS #48 Thursday: Rush | BOATS #70 Saturday: Patton | BOATS #163 Birthdays from This Week in History Monday: Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie Thursday: William Travis in The Alamo | BOATS #172 Sunday: Louis Armstrong in Louis A Historical Movie Released This Week in History Monday: Thirteen Lives Mentioned in this episode Rush: Original footage of Niki Lauda's crash Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/337 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOATS TODAY (JULY 24, 1969/2024) — Apollo 11 splashed down exactly 55 years ago, so today we'll wrap up our 3-part miniseries with the end of Apollo 11 mission. Need to catch up?  Apollo 11 Launch: https://links.boatspodcast.com/333 Apollo 11 Lunar Landing: https://links.boatspodcast.com/334 Apollo 11 Splashdown: https://links.boatspodcast.com/336* Watch the Movie Movie: Find where First Man is streaming True Story: Watch historical coverage Apollo 11's splashdown Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/336 *Additional note: That's this episode, because listing a 3-part miniseries needs a list of 3 parts. This is basically the Dorothy Boyd to my Jerry Maguire: It completes (the list). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll delve into Dick Cheney’s political rise in the Nixon and Ford administrations and his role in post-9/11 policies as they were shown in the 2018 political satire comedy-drama "Vice" from director Adam McKay. Get William's book How America Works . . . and Why It Doesn’t: A Brief Guide to the US Political System: https://links.boatspodcast.com/335book Did you enjoy this episode? Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/335 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOATS THIS WEEK (JULY 22-28,2024) — Events from this week in history include Jeffrey Dahmer's confession on July 22nd, 1991. We'll learn how well Netflix's 2022 smash hit series Monster shows that happening. This week also marks the end of the Apollo 11 mission on July 24th, 1969, but we'll have a special minisode coming out on Wednesday for that, so today we'll back up a couple days to compare the movie First Man's depiction of the lunar landing from a couple days ago on July 20th, 1969. Our final event takes us to France this week in 1890 to where Vincent van Gogh was shot...by himself? Or someone else? We'll compare history with how the movie At Eternity's Gate shows this week's event. And last but certainly not least, our 'based on a true story' movie from this week in history is an action movie called Shamshera, which released on July 22nd, 2022. Until next time, here's where you can continue the story. Events from this week in history Monday: Dahmer | BOATS #217 Wednesday: First Man | BOATS #144 Saturday: At Eternity's Gate | BOATS #193 Birthdays from this week in history Thursday: Amelia Earhart in Amelia Friday: Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method Saturday: Bugs Bunny in A Wild Hare A historical movie released this week in history Monday: Shamshera Mentioned in this episode First Man: Original footage of Neil Armstrong's first step Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/334 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOATS TODAY (JULY 16, 1969/2024) — We'll introduce the concept of BOATS Today while we learn about Apollo 11's launch sequence from today in history as it was shown in the movie Men in Black 3. Until next time, here's where you can continue the story. Mentioned in this episode Movie: Find where Men in Black is streaming True Story: Watch NASA's footage of Apollo 11's launch Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/333 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOATS THIS WEEK (JULY 15-21,2024) — Events from this week in history include Napoleon’s surrender aboard HMS Bellerophon that happened on July 15th, 1815, and we'll learn how it was shown in the 2023 biopic.  Then, we'll learn about the Apollo 11 miniseries that we’ll launch tomorrow on the exact anniversary of the launch from July 16th, 1969, before finishing up in the animated classic Anastasia for the murder of the Romanovs on July 17th, 1918. In the birthday segment, “Machine Gun” Kelly, Lizzie Borden, Alexander the Great, and my mom (remember to say "hi" to your mom this week). And last but certainly not least, we did our own special Barbieheimer mashup to celebrate those two movies releasing exactly one year ago this week, on July 21st, 2023. Until next time, here's where you can continue the story. Events from this week in history Monday: Napoleon | BOATS Napoleon Miniseries Tuesday: Men in Black 3 Wednesday: Anastasia | BOATS #94 Birthdays from this week in history Thursday: "Machine Gun" Kelly in Machine-Gun Kelly Friday: Lizzie Bordeon in Lizzie Saturday: Alexander the Great in Alexander| BOATS #157 A historical movie released this week in history Sunday: Barbie Sunday: Oppenheimer Mentioned in this episode Napoleon: The Surrender of Napoleon by Frederick Lewis Maitland Men in Black 3: Convert time zones with World Time Buddy Oppenheimer: US Army's Trinity Test Site Open House Oppenheimer: Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/332 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between July 8th and July 14th as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies, along with a recommendation for a movie that was released this week in history. Events from This Week in History Wednesday: The Battle of Britain Thursday: Hamilton Sunday: One Nation, One King Birthdays from This Week in History Wednesday: Nikola Tesla in Tesla | BOATS #201 Thursday: Robert the Bruce in Braveheart | BOATS #45 Sunday: Woody Guthrie in Bound for Glory A Historical Movie Released This Week in History Tuesday: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | BOATS #216 Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/331 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between July 1st and July 7th as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies, along with a recommendation for a movie that was released this week in history. Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this into your browser: https://links.boatspodcast.com/330 Events from This Week in History Monday: The Trench Wednesday/Thursday: 1776 Thursday: The Pride of the Yankees Saturday: Lawrence of Arabia | BOATS #49 Sunday: Project Blue Book | BOATS Series Birthdays from This Week in History Monday: Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (my favorite, what's yours?) Monday: Seretse Khama in A United Kingdom Friday: P.T. Barnum in The Greatest Showman Saturday: John Paul Jones in John Paul Jones Sunday: Satchel Paige in Don't Look Back A Historical Movie Released This Week in History Monday: Public Enemies (2009) Tuesday: Boneyard (2024) Did you enjoy this episode? Get the BOATS email newsletter Leave a comment Support our sponsors Unlock ad-free episodes Note: If your podcast app doesn't support clickable links, copy/paste this in your browser to find all the links: https://links.boatspodcast.com/330 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Starz TV series Black Sails is a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novel "Treasure Island." It's a story filled with squashbuckling pirates who dare to wage war against self-described civilized nations. Are you ready to travel back to the Golden Age of Piracy? We'll be joined today by Colin Woodard, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Republic of Pirates. Get Colin's book: The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down https://links.boatspodcast.com/329book Find more of Colin's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/329guest Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/329 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between June 24th and June 30th as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies, along with a recommendation for a movie that was released this week in history. Events from This Week in History Tuesday: They Died with Their Boots On | BOATS #198 Friday: 37 Days Sunday: Gettysburg | BOATS #280 Birthdays from This Week in History Monday: General Kitchener | Young Winston | BOATS #259 Tuesday: George Orwell | Mr. Jones Friday: King Henry VIII | The Other Boleyn Girl | BOATS #92 A Historical Movie Released This Week in History Lansky Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/328 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between June 17th and June 23rd as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies, along with a recommendation for a movie that was released this week in history. Events from This Week in History Monday: Amelia Monday: All the President's Men | BOATS #122 Thursday: Lizzie Saturday: The Hobbit | BOATS LoTR Series Birthdays from This Week in History Wednesday: Lou Gehrig | The Pride of the Yankees Saturday: John Dillinger | Public Enemies Sunday: Alan Turing | The Imitation Game | BOATS #147 A Historical Movie Released This Week in History Surrounded Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/327 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between June 10th and June 16th as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that was released this week in history. Events from This Week in History Wednesday: Loving | BOATS #76 Saturday: Waterloo | BOATS #174 Saturday: J. Edgar | BOATS #185 Birthdays from This Week in History Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank | BOATS #253 John Nash in A Beautiful Mind | BOATS #32 Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Che! | BOATS #115 A Historical Movie Released This Week in History Tag | BOATS #140 Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/326 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this, the anniversary of the Battle of Midway, we'll bring Jon Parshall back on the podcast to provide a historical commentary on the 1976 movie. Watch the video version here: https://links.boatspodcast.com/325 Get Jon's book: Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway: https://links.boatspodcast.com/325book Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/325 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between June 3rd and June 9th as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that was released this week in history. Events from This Week in History Tuesday: The Longest Day | BOATS #134 Thursday: The Longest Day | BOATS #134 Thursday: Saving Private Ryan | BOATS #159 Birthdays from This Week in History Nathan Hale in Turn: Washington's Spies | BOATS #139 Paul Gauguin in At Eternity's Gate | BOATS #193 Donald Duck in The Wise Little Hen A Historical Movie Released This Week in History A Sunday Horse Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/324 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roland Emmerich's 2019 movie simply called "Midway" shows a lot more than the Battle of Midway. We'll be joined today by one of the historical consultants on the movie who is also the co-author of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. Get Jon's book: Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway: https://links.boatspodcast.com/323book Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/323 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between May 27th and June 2nd as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that was released this week in history. Events from This Week in History Monday: Sink the Bismark or watch it on YouTube Saturday: Harriet | BOATS #187 Saturday: Watchmen Birthdays from This Week in History Walt Whitman in Beautiful Dreamers Brigham Young in Hell on Wheels | BOATS #202 Marilyn Monroe in Blonde A Historical Movie Released This Week in History Rocketman | Elton John's wedding footage | Elton John interview about his name Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/322 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historians weren't there, but that doesn't mean they don't know the true story about one of the most documented people in all of human history. Let's put Napoleon's new film to the test with Louis Sarkozy, historian and author of "Napoleon's Library." Join us as we dissect the movie's portrayal, separate fact from fiction, and uncover the real Napoleon. Get Louis' new book: Napoleon's Library: The Emperor, His Books and Their Influence on the Napoleonic Era https://links.boatspodcast.com/321book Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/321 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between May 20th and May 26th as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that was released this week in history. Events from This Week in History The Spirit of St. Louis Amelia The Messenger Birthdays from This Week in History Monster | BOATS #217 Houdini & Doyle Victoria A Historical Movie Released This Week in History Kandahar Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/320 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between May 13th and May 19th as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that was released this week in history. Events from This Week in History Darkest Hour | BOATS #299 The New World The Other Boleyn Girl | BOATS #92 Birthdays from This Week in History American Gangster Behind the Candelabra The Perfect Game Historical Movie Releasing This Week Back to Black | Find showtimes near you Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/319 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between May 6th and May 12th as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that was released this week in history. Events from This Week in History The Hindenburg | BOATS #91 | The Hindenburg Disaster Footage Band of Brothers | BOATS Miniseries Operation Finale | BOATS #162 Birthdays from This Week in History Truman The Good Lord Bird Midnight in Paris Movies Released This Week in History Escape from Auschwitz Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/318 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did Hollywood get it right? Join us as we delve into the iconic Western film Tombstone with a special guest: the author of the book Tombstone, New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin! We'll separate myth from reality, analyzing the portrayal of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, the infamous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and the taming of a wild frontier town. Learn more about the true story: Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell https://links.boatspodcast.com/317book Get Tom's new book: Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West https://links.boatspodcast.com/317throneofgrace Tom's website: https://links.boatspodcast.com/317guest Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/317 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between April 29th and May 5th as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that was released this week in history. Events from This Week in History The Pride of the Yankees Gods and Generals The Right Stuff | BOATS #75 Alan Shepard's photo from space Birthdays from This Week in History Hirohito in Midway (2019) | BOATS #158 Calamity Jane in Deadwood: The Movie James Brown in Get On Up Movies Released This Week in History Ed Gein Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/316 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between April 22nd and April 28th as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that was released this week in history. Events from This Week in History Troy | BOATS #133 Chernobyl | BOATS Miniseries Birthdays from This Week in History Vladimir Lenin in The King's Man Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator Ulysses S. Grant in Lincoln Movies Released This Week in History True History of the Kelly Gang Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/315 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the 2004 biographical drama The Aviator, Leonardo DiCaprio portrays the eccentric and brilliant Howard Hughes, a maverick filmmaker and aviation tycoon who revolutionized Hollywood and the airline industry. The film chronicles Hughes' obsessive pursuit of perfection and his struggle with mental illness, offering a captivating glimpse into the life of one of the 20th century's most fascinating and enigmatic figures. Today, we'll learn compare the true story with the movie's version along with legendary journalist and Howard Hughes biographer James B. Steele. Learn more about the true story with James' book: Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness https://links.boatspodcast.com/314book Get James' other work: Forevermore, Nuclear Waste in America https://links.boatspodcast.com/314forevermore America: Who Really Pays the Taxes? https://links.boatspodcast.com/314taxes The Betrayal of the American Dream https://links.boatspodcast.com/314americandream America: What Went Wrong?: The Crisis Deepens https://links.boatspodcast.com/314crisisdeepens America: What Went Wrong? https://links.boatspodcast.com/314america James Steele and Donald Barlett's website: https://links.boatspodcast.com/314guest Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/314 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between April 15th and April 21st as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History The Conspirator | BOATS #175 Pearl Harbor | BOATS #212 The Red Baron Birthdays from This Week in History The Life of Leonardo da Vinci Breach | BOATS #69 Valkyrie | BOATS #62 Movies Released This Week in History The Conspirator | BOATS #175 Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/313 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between April 8th and April 14th as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Lincoln | BOATS #170 Apollo 13 | BOATS #15 The Conspirator | BOATS #175 Titanic | BOATS #35 Birthdays from This Week in History The First Lady Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier | BOATS #151 or The Alamo | BOATS #172 Gunpowder Movies Released This Week in History Sweetwater or The Pope's Exorcist Did you enjoy this episode? Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/312 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Unlock ad-free episodes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between April 1st and April 7th as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History The Highwaymen | BOATS #178 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | BOATS #166 Grant Birthdays from This Week in History A United Kingdom | BOATS #238 Pearl Harbor | BOATS #212 or Midway | BOATS #158 The United States vs Billie Holiday Movies Released This Week in History The Best of Enemies Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/311 Get the BOATS email newsletter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/newsletter Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between March 25th and March 31st as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Immortal Beloved Knute Rockne All American Birthdays from This Week in History At Eternity's Gate | BOATS #193 The Naked Maja Bach, the animated series Movies Released This Week in History The Zookeeper's Wife Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/310 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between March 18th and March 24th as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Waterloo | BOATS #174 The Blue Max Hitler: The Rise of Evil Birthdays from This Week in History Tombstone | BOATS #142 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Feud Houdini Movies Released This Week in History Selena Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/309 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between March 11th and March 17th as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Schindler's List | BOATS #261 Valkyrie | BOATS #62 Rome Birthdays from This Week in History Selma | BOATS #167 Oppenheimer Klaus Movies Released This Week in History Finding Steve McQueen Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/308 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2016's War Dogs, we learn the true story of two young men who win a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan. Today, we'll talk to one of the real people the movie was based on, David Packouz, who is played by Miles Teller in the movie. Follow David's work Singular Sound: https://links.boatspodcast.com/307guest Instafloss: https://links.boatspodcast.com/307instafloss War Dogs Academy: https://links.boatspodcast.com/307wardogsacademy Did you enjoy this episode? Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/307 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events between March 4th and March 10th as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History The Alamo | BOATS #172 Selma | BOATS #167 Mary Queen of Scots | BOATS #138 Birthdays from This Week in History The Agony and the Ecstasy Rob Roy Gagarin or First Orbit Documentary Movies Released This Week in History The Ordeal of Patty Hearst Honorable Mention: Nosferatu Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/306 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from February 26th to March 3rd as they're shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Waco The Crucible | BOATS #143 Seabiscuit | BOATS #131 Birthdays from This Week in History Walk the Line Constantine and the Cross The Alamo | BOATS #172 Movies Released This Week in History Being Flynn Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/305 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from the first week of the year as they were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Letters from Iwo Jima Malcolm X | BOATS #128 Flags of Our Fathers Birthdays from This Week in History Copernicus The Alamo | BOATS #172 Turn: Washington's Spies | BOATS #139 Movies Released This Week in History Bitter Harvest and Behind the True Story of Bitter Harvest ...or maybe Cocaine Bear :) Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/304 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from the first week of the year as they were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Mata Hari | BOATS #74 The St. Valentine's Day Massacre Young Guns | BOATS #146 Birthdays from This Week in History Glory | BOATS #169 Shackleton Ford v Ferrari or Ferrari Movies Released This Week in History Pompeii Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/303 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from the first week of the year as they were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Mary Queen of Scots | BOATS #138 The Pacific | BOATS miniseries Julia Birthdays from This Week in History Hamilton Turn: Washington's Spies | BOATS #139 Tesla | BOATS #201 Movies Released This Week in History Stagecoach Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/302 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from the first week of the year as they were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Lincoln | BOATS #170 All Quiet on the Western Front | BOATS #218 The Buddy Holly Story Birthdays from This Week in History 42 | BOATS #2 The Rosa Parks Story The Spirit of St. Louis Movies Released This Week in History Patton | BOATS #163 Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/301 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from the first week of the year as they were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Zulu Steve Jobs | BOATS #23 U-571 The Challenger Birthdays from This Week in History Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood MacArthur Pollock Movies Released This Week in History The Mothman Prophecies | BOATS #77 Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/300 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last year, we covered the early life of Winston Churchill with biographer Furman Daniel. Today, we'll bring chat with Furman again to learn more about Churchill during World War II as he was depicted in the 2017 movie Darkest Hour. Learn more about the true story Furman's book on Churchill isn't available yet, so until it is here are some of his other books. Patton: Battling with History: https://links.boatspodcast.com/299book 21st Century Patton: Strategic Insights for the Modern Era: https://links.boatspodcast.com/299patton The First Space War: How the Patterns of History and the Principles of STEM Will Shape Its Form: https://links.boatspodcast.com/299spacewar Did you enjoy this episode? Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/299 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from the first week of the year as they were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Sully El Chapo The French Revolution Birthdays from This Week in History John Adams The Story of Alexander Graham Bell Apollo 13 | BOATS #15 or First Man | BOATS #144 Movies Released This Week in History Bonnie and Clyde | BOATS #195 Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/298 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from the first week of the year as they were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Milk Roman Empire Walk the Line Birthdays from This Week in History Frost/Nixon | BOATS #4 or All the President's Men | BOATS #122 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | BOATS #166 Turn: Washington's Spies | BOATS #139 Movies Released This Week in History The Sopranos | BOATS #286 Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/297 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This summer, the Summer Olympics return to Paris, France for the first time since the 1924 games that were shown in the classic movie Chariots of Fire. So in our first episode of 2024, we'll look forward to warmer days as Jill and Alison from my favorite Olympics/Paralympics podcast join us to dig into the true story behind Chariots of Fire. Learn more about the Olympics/Paralympics Follow Keep the Flame Alive: https://links.boatspodcast.com/296guest Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/296 Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy 2024! In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from the first week of the year as they were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Emancipation Bonnie and Clyde | BOATS #195 I, Tonya Birthdays from This Week in History Sons of Liberty J. Edgar | BOATS #185 Pocahontas | BOATS #27 Movies Released This Week in History The King's Speech Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/295 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from this week in history that were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for movies that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Joyeux Noel | BOATS #31 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Evel Knievel Birthdays from This Week in History Black Sails The Danish Girl | BOATS #14 The Man Who Would Be King Movies Released This Week in History The Wolf of Wall Street | BOATS #25 Unbroken Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/294 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why is Christmas on December 25th? Why is a tree part of the tradition? Where did the idea of giving gifts come from? On today's episode we'll go back to an interview with Heather LeFebvre from 2019 to learn more about the history of Christmas. Learn more about the true story Get Heather's book: https://links.boatspodcast.com/293book See more of Heather's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/293guest Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/293 Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from this week in history that were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for movies that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History The Man Who Invented Christmas | BOATS #220 Band of Brothers | BOATS series At Eternity's Gate | BOATS #193 Birthdays from This Week in History 37 Days Lincoln | BOATS #170 or The Conspirator | BOATS #175 Robin Hood | BOATS #149 Movies Released This Week in History Platoon Gangs of New York Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/292 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from this week in history that were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for movies that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History W.E. | BOATS #209 Young Winston | BOATS #259 The Right Stuff | BOATS #75 Birthdays from This Week in History Edvard Munch Lincoln | BOATS #170 The Man Who Saw Tomorrow Movies Released This Week in History A Beautiful Mind | BOATS #32 Silkwood Philadelphia Mentioned in This Episode Chuck Yeager's X1-A Audio - Click "View the Document" Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/291 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alexander Mikaberidze is a historian and professor at Louisiana State University who specializes in Napoleonic studies. Today he'll join the podcast to dig deep into the historical accuracy of 2023's Napoleon. Learn more about the true story The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History: https://links.boatspodcast.com/290book Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace: https://links.boatspodcast.com/290kutuzov Also mentioned in this episode: The Burning of Moscow: Napoleon's Trail by Fire, 1812: https://links.boatspodcast.com/290burningmoscow Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/290 Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from this week in history that were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for movies that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Tora! Tora! Tora! | BOATS #82 Pearl Harbor | BOATS #212 Wake Island | BOATS #171 Radioactive | BOATS #234 Birthdays from This Week in History Crazy Horse They Died with Their Boots On | BOATS #198 Mary, Queen of Scots | BOATS #138 Movies Released This Week in History Lawrence of Arabia | BOATS #49 Mentioned in This Episode Marie Curie's speech Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/289 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from this week in history that were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for movies that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Little Big Man | BOATS #268 Public Enemies Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story | BOATS #217 Birthdays from This Week in History Dragon : The Bruce Lee Story | BOATS #154 Hendrix Holmes & Watson or The Adventures of Mark Twain Movies Released This Week in History Gandhi Schindler's List | BOATS #261 (Interview) and BOATS #58 (Narrative) Frances | BOATS #197 Mentioned in This Episode Washita Battlefield National Historic Site Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/288 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from this week in history that were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as recommendations for movies that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History JFK | BOATS #274 (Interview) and BOATS #126 (Narrative) LBJ | BOATS #127 The Pianist | BOATS #34 Birthdays from This Week in History The Kennedys De Gaulle 61* or Manhattan Merry-Go-Round Movies Released This Week in History Casablanca Mentioned in This Episode:  Photograph of Mrs. Frederickson Dates for restrictions against Jews in Warsaw, 1939 Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/287 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Scott Hoffman takes us inside how well the movies like Casino, Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco, and the TV series The Sopranos portray the Outfit and the Mafia. To hear more Mafia stories, pick up Scott's book called Inside. Get Scott's book: https://links.boatspodcast.com/286book Jump to the movies we're talking about today 00:00 - Introduction 05:35 - Casino 23:22 - Goodfellas 51:29 - Donnie Brasco 56:40 - The Sopranos 01:45:34 - Conclusion Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/286 Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from this week in history that were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as a recommendation for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Silkwood Young Winston | BOATS #259 Saving Lincoln Birthdays from This Week in History The Impressionists Waterloo | BOATS #174 or BOATS #155 (Les Mis) Patton | BOATS #163 Movies Released This Week in History Malcolm X | BOATS #128 Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/285 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from this week in history that were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as a recommendation for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure From Hell | BOATS #93 | BOATS #93 Free Bonus Episode All Quiet on the Western Front | BOATS #218 Birthdays from This Week in History Stars and Stripes Forever Radioactive | BOATS #234 Houdini and Doyle Movies Released This Week in History The Ten Commandments | BOATS #66 & BOATS #67 Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/284 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Classic film historian Scott Eyman's new book is out today! It's called Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex and Politics Collided, so today we'll be chatting with Scott about Charlie Chaplin's life as it was depicted in the 1992 biopic from Richard Attenborough. Learn more about the true story Get Scott's new book: https://links.boatspodcast.com/283book See more of Scott's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/283guest Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/283 Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from this week in history that were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as a recommendation for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Ali | BOATS #11 Argo | BOATS #17 Gunpowder Birthdays from This Week in History John Adams The Founding of a Republic The Story of Will Rogers Movies Released This Week in History Titanic | BOATS #35 Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/282 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events from this week in history that were shown in the movies. We'll also learn about birthdays from historical figures who have been portrayed in the movies as well as a recommendation for a movie that first premiered this week in history. Events from This Week in History Jobs The Pacific | BOATS Series on The Pacific The Fellowship of the Ring | BOATS Series on The Lord of the Rings Tombstone | BOATS #142 Birthdays from This Week in History Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Surviving Picasso Pirates of Silicon Valley | BOATS #98 Movies Released This Week in History Bohemian Rhapsody | BOATS #125 Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/281 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We travel back to the 1993 film Gettysburg along with military historian and author Gregory J.W. Urwin to find out how well it does showing the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War. Learn more about the true story Get Gregory's book Custer Victorious: https://links.boatspodcast.com/280book Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears: https://links.boatspodcast.com/280searsbook Gettysburg: The Last Invasion by Allen Guelzo: https://links.boatspodcast.com/280guelzobook Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/280 Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in these movies: The Patriot, MacArthur, and X-Men: First Class. Events from This Week in History The Patriot | BOATS episode #60 MacArthur X-Men: First Class Birthdays from This Week in History Norma Jean & Marilyn Hollywoodland 61* Movies Released This Week in History Dances with Wolves Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/279 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in these movies: Eight Men Out, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, and The Right Stuff. Events from This Week in History Eight Men Out | BOATS episode #132, Infamous America Season 2 1492: Conquest of Paradise | BOATS episode #186 The Right Stuff | BOATS episode #75 Birthdays from This Week in History Red Tails The First Lady Becoming Elizabeth Movies Released This Week in History The Great Dictator Giant Mentioned in this episode Chuck Yeager's autobiography Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/278 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in these movies: Black Hawk Down, Sergeant York, and Che! Events from This Week in History Black Hawk Down Sergeant York Che! (or the two-part movie also called Che. Part 1 and Part 2) Birthdays from This Week in History Hitler: The Rise of Evil (or Wonder Woman) Gandhi The Founder Movies Released This Week in History The Bridge of the River Kwai Lincoln Mentioned in this episode Meet Félix Rodríguez, The CIA Operative Who Captured Che Guevara And May Have Tortured A DEA Agent: https://allthatsinteresting.com/felix-rodriguez Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/277 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in these movies: Robinson Crusoe, Alexander, and 61*. Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/276 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in these movies and TV series: Patty Hearst, Chaplin, Tolkien, and Turn: Washington's Spies. Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/275 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conspiracies still swirl around the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Many of those were depicted in Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK, and today we'll dig deep into the true story with historian Marty Morgan. Mentioned in this episode Marty on YouTube: https://links.boatspodcast.com/274guest Look for Marty on The UnXplained with William Shatner: https://links.boatspodcast.com/274unxplained Historical tours: https://links.boatspodcast.com/274tours Get Marty's book about the 507th: https://links.boatspodcast.com/274downtoearth Marty's D-Day book: https://links.boatspodcast.com/274dday Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/274 Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in these movies: United 93, A Star-Spangled Story, and Frida. Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/273 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Give value back: https://links.boatspodcast.com/value Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Geromino: An American Legend, The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, and All Eyez On Me. Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/272 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Krakatoa East of Java, From Hell, and Rome. Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/271 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Sweet Dreams, Pompeii, and Saving Mr. Banks. Mentioned in this episode Photo of Pompeii residents as they died: https://links.boatspodcast.com/270pompeii Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/270 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in The Pacific, The Crucible, and The Battle of Britain. Mentioned in this episode The "Big Three" photo at the Potsdam Conference: https://links.boatspodcast.com/269potsdamphoto Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/269 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historian and author Gregory J.W. Urwin joins Based on a True Story to separate fact from fiction in the 1970 satirical western Little Big Man. Learn more about the true story Get Gregory's book Custer Victorious: https://links.boatspodcast.com/268book Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/268 Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Hatfields & McCoys, The Walk, and Frost/Nixon. Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/267 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Rush, Patton, and Braveheart. Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/266 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in At Eternity's Gate, Bonnie and Clyde, and USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage. Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/265 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The author of Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire, Jens Heycke, joins Based on a True Story to help us separate fact from fiction in the film Hotel Rwanda. Learn more about the true story Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire: https://links.boatspodcast.com/264book Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/264 Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Anastasia, Eight Men Out, and Dahmer. Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/263 Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Battle of Britain, Hamilton, and One Nation, One King. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/262 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan McMillan is the author of How Could This Happen: Explaining the Holocaust, and he's joining the podcast to help us separate fact from fiction in the film Schindler's List. Learn more about the true story How Could This Happen: Explaining the Holocaust: https://links.boatspodcast.com/261book Learn about Dan's work at Save Democracy in America: https://links.boatspodcast.com/261guest Did you enjoy this episode? Find everything at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/261 Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in 1776, Lawrence of Arabia, and Project Blue Book. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/260 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode looks at how well the 1972 film Young Winston shows early years of Winston Churchill before he became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Joining us today is Furman Daniel, author of the upcoming book Mud, Blood, and Oil Paint: The Remarkable Year that Made Winston Churchill. Learn more about the true story Furman's book on Churchill isn't available yet, so until it is here are some of his other books. Patton: Battling with History: https://links.boatspodcast.com/259book 21st Century Patton: Strategic Insights for the Modern Era: https://links.boatspodcast.com/259patton The First Space War: How the Patterns of History and the Principles of STEM Will Shape Its Form: https://links.boatspodcast.com/259spacewar Did you enjoy this episode? Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/259 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in 37 Days, Gettysburg, and The Trench. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/258 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Lizzie, The Hobbit, and They Died with Their Boots On. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/257 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1998's The Thin Red Line is set during the Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II. How well did it do telling the true story? Historian and author Marty Morgan joins Based on a True Story to help us separate fact from fiction in the film. Learn more about the true story Follow Marty on YouTube: https://links.boatspodcast.com/256guest Get Marty's book Down to Earth: The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Normandy: https://links.boatspodcast.com/256book Get Marty's book D-Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion: https://links.boatspodcast.com/256ddaybook Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours: https://links.boatspodcast.com/256tours Did you enjoy this episode? Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/256 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Waterloo, J. Edgar and Amelia. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/255 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/254 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We'll do something a little different today. Instead of learning about the history behind a movie, we'll learn about the history of Hollywood itself with a man who lived it: George Stevens, Jr. Learn more about the true story Get George's book: https://links.boatspodcast.com/253book Listen to the audiobook: https://links.boatspodcast.com/253audiobook Did you enjoy this episode? Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/253 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Watchmen, Harriet and Midway. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/252 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HBO's Chernobyl miniseries tells the story of the worst nuclear disaster in history. Today, we'll be looking at the final episode in the miniseries called Vichnaya Pamyat. Did you enjoy this episode? Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/251 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in The Messenger, Bonnie and Clyde and Dunkirk. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/250 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HBO's Chernobyl miniseries tells the story of the worst nuclear disaster in history. Today, we'll be looking at the fourth episode in the miniseries called The Happiness of All Mankind. Did you enjoy this episode? Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/249 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in The Other Boleyn Girl, The Spirit of St. Louis and Amelia. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/248 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HBO's Chernobyl miniseries tells the story of the worst nuclear disaster in history. Today, we'll be looking at the third episode in the miniseries called Open Wide, O Earth. Did you enjoy this episode? Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/247 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Band of Brothers, Operation Finale and Amazing Grace. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/246 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HBO's Chernobyl miniseries tells the story of the worst nuclear disaster in history. Today, we'll be looking at the second episode in the miniseries called Please Remain Calm. Did you enjoy this episode? Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/245 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Gods and Generals, The Right Stuff and The Hindenburg. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/244 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HBO's Chernobyl miniseries tells the story of the worst nuclear disaster in history. Today, we'll be looking at the first episode in the miniseries called 1:23:45. Did you enjoy this episode? Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/243 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Troy and Chernobyl. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/242 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in The Conspirator, Pearl Harbor and The Red Baron. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/241 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Apollo 13, The Conspirator and Titanic. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/240 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Grant and Lincoln. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/239 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the 2016 movie A United Kingdom, we learn about the controversial interracial marriage between Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams. How well did the movie do telling the true story? Author Jens Heycke joins Based on a True Story to help us separate fact from fiction in the film. Learn more about the true story Get Jens' new book: https://links.boatspodcast.com/238book Did you enjoy this episode? Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/238 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Immortal Beloved and The Highwaymen. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/237 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Waterloo, The Blue Max and Hitler: The Rise of Evil. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/236 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Schindler's List, Valkyrie and Rome. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/235 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're learning about the 2019 movie Radioactive with Lauren Redniss, who is the artist and author who wrote the book of the same name that the movie was based on. Learn more about the true story Get Lauren's book: https://links.boatspodcast.com/234book See more of Lauren's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/234guest Did you enjoy this episode? Join the BOATS Discord community: https://links.boatspodcast.com/discord Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/234 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in The Alamo, Selma and Malcolm X. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/233 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Waco, The Crucible and Seabiscuit. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/232 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, we'll learn about historical events that happened this week in history as they were depicted in Malcolm X, Flags of Our Fathers and Patton. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/231 Read the Investigating Iwo eBook mentioned: https://links.boatspodcast.com/231book Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the week between February 13th to February 19th, we'll be learning about historical events that were depicted in Mata Hari, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre and Young Guns. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/230 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're learning about the 2006 movie One Night with the King. Dr. Michael LeFebvre is a Fellow at the Center for Pastor Theologians and an Old Testament scholar who will join us to separate fact from fiction in the movie. Learn more about the true story Reach Michael's article on Esther mentioned in the episode: https://links.boatspodcast.com/229article Listen to Michael's podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/229podcast See more of Michael's books: https://links.boatspodcast.com/229guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/229 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the week between February 6th to February 12th, we'll be learning about historical events that were depicted in Mary Queen of Scots, The Pacific and Julia. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/228 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the week between January 30th to February 5th, we'll be learning about historical events that were depicted in Lincoln, All Quiet on the Western Front and The Buddy Holly Story. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/227 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the week between January 23rd to January 29th, we'll be learning about historical events that were depicted in Steve Jobs, U-571 and The Challenger Disaster. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/226 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're learning about the 2004 movie King Arthur starring Clive Owen and Keira Knightley. Professor Armstrong is a medievalist who has been published numerous times over decades for her work studying the legends of and surrounding King Arthur, and she'll join us today to separate fact from fiction in the movie. Learn more about the true story Get King Arthur: History and Legend: https://links.boatspodcast.com/225lecture Get Professor Armstrong's translation of Morte Darthur: https://links.boatspodcast.com/225book Follow Professor Armstrong on Twitter: https://links.boatspodcast.com/225guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/225 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the week between January 16th to January 22nd, we'll be learning about historical events that were depicted in El Chapo, La Révolution française (The French Revolution) and Zulu. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/224 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the week between January 9th to January 15th, we'll be learning about historical events that were depicted in Netflix's Roman Empire, Walk the Line and Sully. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/223 Learn more about BOATS This Week: https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Introducing Based on a True Story This Week, a fun new way to learn about movies that portray events that happened this week in history and the true story behind them. Learn more https://links.boatspodcast.com/thisweek Support the show to get ad-free episodes https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're learning about the 1960 movie Spartacus that was directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier and Jean Simmons. We'll learn about the real history from Barry Strauss, author of The Spartacus War, an authoritative account of the true story. Learn more about the true story Get The Spartacus War: https://links.boatspodcast.com/221book Follow Barry's podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/221podcast See all of Barry's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/221guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/221 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're replaying an episode of Based on a True Story from 2018 about the 2017 movie The Man Who Invented Christmas. The story the movie tells the tale of Charles Dickens as he struggles to write A Christmas Carol. Learn more about the true story Read the book the movie is based on: https://links.boatspodcast.com/220book Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/220 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll learn about the World War One armistice from our friends at the History Daily podcast. Learn more about History Daily: https://links.boatspodcast.com/219guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/219 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All Quiet on the Western Front has been adapted to the screen multiple times since World War I veteran Erich Maria Remarque published his novel of the same name in 1929. Today we'll learn about the newest adaptation that was released on Netflix on October 28, 2022. Helping us separate fact from fiction in the movie is Dr. Christopher Warren, who is the Vice President of Collections and Senior Curator at the National World War I Museum and Memorial. Learn more about the true story Visit the National WWI Museum and Memorial online: https://links.boatspodcast.com/218guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/218 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dahmer was watched for 865 million hours in the first 28 days, making it one of the most popular Netflix originals of all time. Today we'll dive into the true story behind the series with Robyn Maharaj, who wrote the book Grilling Dahmer: The Interrogation of "the Milwaukee Cannibal" with Patrick Kennedy, the detective in charge of interrogating Jeffrey Dahmer after his capture. Learn more about the true story Get Robyn's book Grilling Dahmer: https://links.boatspodcast.com/217book Follow Robyn on Amazon: https://links.boatspodcast.com/217guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/217 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Disney has released five movies in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, and while they're clearly fictional movies they pull from and have influenced our views of what the real pirates of history were like. New York Times Bestselling and Pulitzer Prize Finalist author Colin Woodard has a fantastic book called The Republic of Pirates and today he'll help us separate fact from fiction in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Learn more about the true story Get Colin's book The Republic of Pirates: https://links.boatspodcast.com/216book Visit Colin's site: https://links.boatspodcast.com/216guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/216 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2021 Amazon Original Movie Being the Ricardos tells us the story behind the scenes of the husband/wife team behind I Love Lucy, Dezi Arnaz (Javier Bardem) and Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman). To help us separate fact from fiction in the movie, we'll learn from Michael Karol, author of the book Lucy A to Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia. Learn more about the true story Get Michael's book Lucy A to Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia: https://links.boatspodcast.com/215book Find more of Michael's books: https://links.boatspodcast.com/215guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/215 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is part 2 of 'A Nightmare Before Halloween' with 16 spooky stories to help you get into the Halloween spirit! Find the podcasts in this episode True Crime Island: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214truecrimeisland Based on a True Story: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214boats The Asian Madness Podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214theasianmadnesspodcast Sistas Who Kill: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214sistaswhokill Hometown History: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214hometownhistory Coffee and Cases: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214coffeeandcases Military Murder: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214militarymurder Dystopian Simulation Radio: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214dystopiansimulationradio Cults, Crimes & Cabernet: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214cultscrimescabernet Morbidology: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214morbidology Dark Pountine: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214darkpoutine Hillbilly Horror Stories: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214hillbillyhorrorstories True Consequences: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214trueconsequences Gone Cold: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214gonecold Crime Stories with Nancy Grace & Crime Online: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214crimestories True Crime IRL & True Crime Sleep Stories: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214truecrimeirl Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/214 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire, Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts, including Based on a True Story. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two-part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much murder and mayhem? Find the podcasts in this episode Foul Play: Crime Series: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213foulplay Murder She Told: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213murdershetold Crime Salad: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213crimesalad Crimelines: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213crimelines Frightful: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213frightful Reverie True Crime: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213reverietruecrime Rotten to the Core: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213rottontothecore The Trail Went Cold: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213thetrailwentcold Once Upon A Crime: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213onceuponacrime Criminology: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213criminology The Peripheral & Generation Why: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213theperipheral Live, Laugh, Larceny: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213livelaughlarceny The Hidden Staircase: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213thehiddenstaircase True Crime Cases with Lanie & It's Haunted...What Now?: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213truecrimecaseswithlanie Obscura: A True Crime Podcast & Disaster: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213obscura Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Released in 2001, Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor is often criticized as being entirely inaccurate as it attempts to tell the story of the surprise attack on December 7th, 1941 that led to the United States entering World War II. Today we'll be joined by historian and author Marty Morgan to take a deep dive into what details the movie got right and what it got wrong. Learn more about the true story Watch Marty's documentary about the Oberg color film footage: https://links.boatspodcast.com/212oberg Visit Marty's site: https://links.boatspodcast.com/212guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/2dc24e37-b42f-51d4-b4bf-91aeb304ddc7 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/212 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The classic TV series The X-Files is fiction, but there are some true stories and UFO cases that inspired episodes of the series. To help us learn more about them, we'll chat with UFO researcher and host of Our Strange Skies, Rob Kristoffersen. Learn more about the true story Listen to the episode Rob recommended: https://links.boatspodcast.com/211raechelseyes Follow the Our Strange Skies podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/211guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/46e56faa-fc96-51eb-9692-21ac8f45dd2b Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/211 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dolemite Is My Name is the 2019 biopic about Rudy Ray Moore, the comedian, singer, actor, and film producer who has often been given the nickname the "godfather of rap." We'll chat with Mark Jason Murray, who was the Research Consultant on the film and author of Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself: The Authorized Biography Of Rudy Ray Moore Aka Dolemite. Learn more about the true story Get Mark's book: https://links.boatspodcast.com/210book Learn more about Rudy Ray Moore: https://links.boatspodcast.com/210guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/ff13a859-0993-507f-9b6b-cf28fb124bc1 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/210 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The movie's title W.E. stands for Wallis and Edward. Was the movie correct to suggest King Edward VIII's reason for abdicating the throne in 1936 was so he could marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson? We'll chat with author Andrew Lownie about the true story to find out more. Learn more about the true story Get Andrew's book, Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor: https://links.boatspodcast.com/209book Learn more about Andrew's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/209guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/c76af887-07ea-5de6-bce5-86e8f4527dfa Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/209 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zero Dark Thirty shows the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden. Peter Bergen is the author of The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden and he joins us today to dig into the true story behind the movie. Learn more about the true story Get Peter's book, The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden: https://links.boatspodcast.com/208book Also mentioned on this episode, Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad: https://links.boatspodcast.com/208manhunt Learn more about Peter's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/208guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/2db2725a-3da3-56a6-9ad7-dcf879e3f74f Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/208 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode was originally released on August 28, 2017. This is a remastered version of that interview. Matt Bondurant joins us today episode as we compare what really happened with the movie Lawless. Matt's grandfather, Jack, and two grand-uncles that were the inspiration for his book that the movie is based on, The Wettest County in the World. Learn more about the true story Get Matt's new book, Oleander City: https://links.boatspodcast.com/207newbook Pick up The Wettest County in the World: https://links.boatspodcast.com/207book Learn more about Matt: https://links.boatspodcast.com/207guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/ecd0fdbc-d16a-559d-a654-57040bf1a99a Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/207 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack Horner was the Paleontology Consultant on all six of the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World movies. He joins Based on a True Story to chat about the real dinosaurs we saw in the franchise. Learn more about dinosaurs! Follow Jack's work at https://links.boatspodcast.com/206guest How to Build a Dinosaur: https://links.boatspodcast.com/206book Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/e652d905-dec0-414d-ab59-9a37b681c3d0 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/206 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not all movies try to be historically accurate, and yet they still depict moments in history. To help us extract history from the satirical comedy, we’ll be chatting with professor, scholar, and author of Jesus of Hollywood and Bible and Cinema, Adele Reinhartz. Learn more about the true story Get Adele's books: Jesus of Hollywood: https://links.boatspodcast.com/205book Bible and Cinema: https://links.boatspodcast.com/205bibleandcinema Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/808e0195-2daf-45c7-a635-9d30c3b56616 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/205 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle at Dunkirk, was an event that many believe kept Britain in World War II before the United States even joined the fight as it took place between May 26 - June 4, 1940. Today we'll be chatting with Joshua Levine, who was the historical consultant on the 2017 movie from director Christopher Nolan that depicts the event. Learn more about the true story Get Joshua's book Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture: https://links.boatspodcast.com/204book Find all of Joshua's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/204guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/35dfc185-7d95-4bd6-98a9-2ca2d245f741 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/204 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll be talking about the 1956 movie The Conqueror with author Ryan Uytdewilligen. Learn more about the true story Get Ryan's book, Killing John Wayne: https://links.boatspodcast.com/203book Find all of Ryan's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/203guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/de72a04c-52ab-4e67-9769-bf5d33de1e2d Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/203 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by author Sheila Myers to learn about the real character of Thomas 'Doc' Durant in AMC's Hell on Wheels. Want to hear more stories of the Durant family? Imaginary Brightness: a Durant Family Saga - A Novel: https://links.boatspodcast.com/202book Or pick up Sheila's new book The Truth of Who You Are: https://links.boatspodcast.com/202newbook Find all of Sheila's books: https://links.boatspodcast.com/202guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/3ac9a3a0-b26a-4f1e-add4-7f45e73a84c3 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/202 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Richard Munson joins the podcast to discuss the historical accuracy of the 2020 movie 'Tesla.' Dig deeper into the true story Pick up Richard's book called Tesla: Inventor of the Modern: https://links.boatspodcast.com/201book Find more of Richard's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/201guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/a270e11a-86be-47b9-ada7-ae0bd4245191 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/201 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2020 movie Worth shows how Kenneth Feinberg (played by Michael Keaton) and Camille Biros (played by Amy Ryan) tackled the impossible task of determining the worth of life to help families affected by the September 11th attacks. Kenneth and Camille join us today to chat about what the movie got right, what it got wrong and a peek into the true story. Dig deeper into the true story Read Kenneth's book that the movie was based on called What Is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11: https://links.boatspodcast.com/200book Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/8cc6f7da-e63a-4a01-9cf0-e1597ff27693 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/200 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Brian Dirck is a Professor of History at Anderson University and author of multiple books on President Lincoln. He joins us today to chat about the real history behind the fantasy/horror movie Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Learn more about the true story with Brian's books The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death: https://links.boatspodcast.com/199blackheavens Lincoln and the Constitution: https://links.boatspodcast.com/199constitution Lincoln the Lawyer: https://links.boatspodcast.com/199lawyer Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/1da32691-432e-4c4d-bfc3-ab00f89dae85 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/199 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll be learning about George Armstrong Custer as he was depicted in the classic 1941 film They Died with Their Boots On. To help us separate fact from fiction in the movie, we’ll be chatting with Professor Gregory J. W. Urwin from Temple University. Gregory is a military historian and author of Custer Victorious: The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer. Learn more about the true story Get your copy of Gregory's book: https://links.boatspodcast.com/198book Find Gregory's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/198guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/21c44401-4374-4c90-a7bc-daed0a00bf94 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/198 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 1982 movie Frances tells the story of Hollywood actress Frances Farmer and how her struggles with mental health issues affected her career. We'll be joined by writer and author Jack El-Hai to learn about the film's historical accuracy. Learn more about the true story with Jack's books The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness: https://links.boatspodcast.com/197book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII: https://links.boatspodcast.com/197psychiatrist See more of Jack's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/197guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/7e935a05-eece-4672-843e-f668cd57000b Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/197 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Moneyball tells the story of sabermetrics and the Oakland Athletics' 2002 season and joining us to separate fact from fiction is attorney Will Cooper, who worked in the A's clubhouse during the timeline of the movie. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/1fdcc2b4-4204-4a10-b326-791a36f33b93 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/196 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historian and author John Neal Phillips joins the show to chat about the historical accuracy of the 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde. Learn more about the true story with John's books Running With Bonnie and Clyde: The Fast Yen Years of Ralph Fults: https://links.boatspodcast.com/195running My Life with Bonnie and Clyde: https://links.boatspodcast.com/195mylife Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/d826124a-0353-4d19-af91-8fed0f1d5714 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/195 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll be chatting with the Creator and Showrunner of the History Channel's Project Blue Book about what it takes to create a TV show that is inspired by true events. Sign the Save Blue Book Petition Learn more about the campaign to save Season 3 of Project Blue Book on http://savebluebook.com Sign the official petition at http://change.org/savebluebook. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/1158c2d8-9fec-41e7-9e4e-77a84bb5d53c Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/194 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steven Naifeh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has a new book out called Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved. He'll be joining us today to learn about the 2018 movie At Eternity's Gate. Learn more about the true story with Steven's books Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved: https://links.boatspodcast.com/193book Van Gogh: A Life: https://links.boatspodcast.com/193vangogh Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/ce9bb205-5dbc-49fb-b0d3-982650ec6cf4 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/193 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our three-part series covering HBO's The Pacific wraps up today with the last three episodes. Episodes we're covering today: 8. Iwo Jima 9. Okinawa 10. Home Learn more about Marty's work D-Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion: https://links.boatspodcast.com/192ddayphoto Down to Earth: The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Normandy: https://links.boatspodcast.com/192the507th Watch Marty on What on Earth? https://links.boatspodcast.com/192whatonearth Find Strange Evidence on TV: https://links.boatspodcast.com/192strangeevidence Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/a64a3eb3-a594-43d2-b862-7ea8c5d668b7 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/192 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're continuing our look at the HBO miniseries The Pacific by looking at the three episodes that cover Peleliu. Episodes we're covering today: 5. Peleliu Landing 6. Peleliu Airfield 7. Peleliu Hills Learn more about Marty's work D-Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion: https://links.boatspodcast.com/191ddayphoto Down to Earth: The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Normandy: https://links.boatspodcast.com/191the507th Get Call of Duty Vanguard: https://links.boatspodcast.com/191callofduty Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/0c028d79-2134-4cfb-a8ea-c773463d5705 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/191 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're kicking off a three-part series on the HBO miniseries The Pacific by looking at the first four episodes. Episodes we're covering today: 1. Guadalcanal/Leckie 2. Basilone 3. Melbourne 4. Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika Learn more about Marty's work D-Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion: https://links.boatspodcast.com/190ddayphoto Down to Earth: The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Normandy: https://links.boatspodcast.com/190the507th Get Call of Duty Vanguard: https://links.boatspodcast.com/190callofduty Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/be44c2b6-7cc3-449f-bcad-975ecf1dd0fe Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/190 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roland Tec's mother, Nechama, wrote the book that 2008's Defiance was based on. He was also a co-producer on the movie, so we'll get to hear some stories from the set as well as the historical accuracy of the movie. Learn more about the true story Get Nechama Tec's book the movie was based on: https://links.boatspodcast.com/189book Find Roland's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/189guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/b7b4f1f7-4e0f-4450-9462-572c3b3cba1c Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/189 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Marquis de Lafayette is a historical figure who has been largely left out of the cultural spotlight. So, instead of looking at a single movie, we'll instead look at a few different depictions of Lafayette with podcaster, historian and author Mike Duncan. Learn more about the true story Get Mike's book about Lafayette: https://links.boatspodcast.com/188book Follow Mike's podcast Revolutions: https://links.boatspodcast.com/188guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/e0775e5a-892e-47d9-83b7-1837384b10d3 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/188 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll hear from Dr. Larson, the historical consultant on the 2019 movie Harriet about the life of Harriet Tubman. Learn more about the true story Get Dr. Larson's book Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero: https://links.boatspodcast.com/187book Find more of Dr. Larson's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/187guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/731babde-794a-4d75-9826-98287dde371b Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/187 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patrick Wyman is a historian, host of the Tides of History podcast and author of The Verge. He joins us today to dive into the historical accuracy of Ridley Scott's 1992 movie 1492. Learn more about Marty's work Get Patrick's book, The Verge: https://links.boatspodcast.com/186book Listen to Patrick's podcast, Tides of History: https://links.boatspodcast.com/186guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/94fa2ea7-2005-412a-8bf8-02b8fcd70676 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/186 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2011 biopic from Clint Eastwood offers a look into the life of J. Edgar Hoover. Today we'll be talking to author and former FBI agent Paul Letersky, who was Hoover's assistant in the FBI. Learn more about the true story Get Paul's book The Director: My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover: https://links.boatspodcast.com/185book Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/e6a424d9-c529-453d-9e42-86e62f123dc2 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/185 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're wrapping our series on Band of Brothers today as we look as the last three episodes of the HBO miniseries. Episodes we're covering today: 8. The Last Patrol 9. Why We Fight 10. Points Learn more about Marty's work D-Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion: https://links.boatspodcast.com/184ddayphoto Down to Earth: The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Normandy: https://links.boatspodcast.com/184the507th Watch Marty on What on Earth? https://links.boatspodcast.com/184whatonearth Find Strange Evidence on TV: https://links.boatspodcast.com/184strangeevidence Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/f108bbae-8b4a-4d20-9b5a-a95043ad8cad Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/184 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're continuing our look at the historical accuracy of Band of Brothers as we cover episodes six and seven while Easy Company is in Bastogne. We'll wrap up the series in our next episode of Based on a True Story. Episodes we're covering today: 6. Bastogne 7. The Breaking Point Learn more about Marty's work D-Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion: https://links.boatspodcast.com/183ddayphoto Down to Earth: The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Normandy: https://links.boatspodcast.com/183the507th Watch Marty on What on Earth? https://links.boatspodcast.com/183whatonearth Find Strange Evidence on TV: https://links.boatspodcast.com/183strangeevidence Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/19cc6301-ceb7-4e68-ab78-ee25bc7fd401 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/183 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

June 6th, 2021 is the 77th anniversary of D-Day. This year also marks the 20th anniversary of the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. So, today we'll kick off a 3-part miniseries of our own where we cover Band of Brothers with World War II historian and author Marty Morgan. Episodes we're covering today: 1. Currahee 2. Day of Days 3. Carentan 4. Replacements 5. Crossroads Learn more about Marty's work D-Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion: https://links.boatspodcast.com/182ddayphoto Down to Earth: The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Normandy: https://links.boatspodcast.com/182the507th Watch Marty on What on Earth? https://links.boatspodcast.com/182whatonearth Find Strange Evidence on TV: https://links.boatspodcast.com/182strangeevidence Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/cee09d82-6108-4801-8976-a9a5b927239e Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/182 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll learn about the historical accuracy of 2003's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Helping us separate fact from fiction is Gordon Laco, who was the Lead Technical Advisor and Historical Consultant for the movie. Learn more about Gordon's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/181guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/dddda3a6-a986-4dc7-b8fb-f05413186bdb Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/181 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2003's The Last Samurai we learn the story of Captain Nathan Algren, an American soldier who travels to Japan to train the early Imperial Japanese Army to fight off a rebellion against the Emperor. How much of it actually happened? That's what we'll look at in this episode. Dr. Brian Dirck joins us again to separate fact from fiction in the film. Dr. Dirck is a Professor of History at Anderson University. Learn more about the true story with Brian's books The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death: https://links.boatspodcast.com/180blackheavens Lincoln and the Constitution: https://links.boatspodcast.com/180constitution Lincoln the Lawyer: https://links.boatspodcast.com/180lawyer Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/6b9514d2-db8d-48e1-b28a-333990ee1459 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/180 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Christianity, Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Today we're going to learn about the depiction of that event on screen as we saw in 2004's The Passion of The Christ. To help us learn more, we'll be joined by the Professor of New Testament and Archaeology at Covenant Theological Seminary, Dr. David Chapman. Learn more about the true story with David's books The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus: Ancient Texts and Modern Commentary: https://links.boatspodcast.com/179book Ancient Jewish and Christian Perceptions of Crucifixion: https://links.boatspodcast.com/179perceptions Find more of David's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/179guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/22465690-4a21-4664-b20b-64264118819f Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/179 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Based on a True Story, we'll learn from the research consultant on The Highwaymen about the historical accuracy of the film. John Neal Phillips is a historian and author of Running With Bonnie and Clyde: The Fast Yen Years of Ralph Fults and editor of Blanche Barrow's memoir, My Life with Bonnie and Clyde. Learn more about the true story with John's books Running with Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults: https://links.boatspodcast.com/178book My Life with Bonnie and Clyde: https://links.boatspodcast.com/178mylife Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/ac8a747a-bcb9-4bf2-943b-c9aba4e0bf02 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/178 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're going back to 1977 and Ridley Scott's feature film directorial debut, The Duellists. The movie tells the tale of two soldiers in Napoleon's army who duel with each other for over a decade. Historian and professor at Louisiana State University, Alexander Mikaberidze, returns to help us separate fact from fiction in the movie. Learn more about the true story with Alexander's books The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History: https://links.boatspodcast.com/177globalhistory The Battle of the Berezina: Napoleon's Great Escape: https://links.boatspodcast.com/177greatescape The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon Against: Kutuzov: https://links.boatspodcast.com/177borodino Russian Eyewitnesses of the Campaign of 1807: https://links.boatspodcast.com/177eyewitnesses The Russian Officer Corps of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: 1792-1815: https://links.boatspodcast.com/177officercorps Find more of Alexander's books: https://links.boatspodcast.com/177guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/98cf17d9-a93e-4935-b2a0-5e7225b6793a Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/177 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Released in 2020, Greyhound was written by Tom Hanks, who also starred in the lead role. The movie was based on a novel by C.S. Forester called The Good Shepherd. Today, we'll be joined by the Naval Consultant on the film, Gordon Laco, to discuss its historical accuracy. Learn more about Gordon's work Find Gordon on the web: https://links.boatspodcast.com/176guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/b9127e55-9d9c-4eef-a655-bce565013295 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/176 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2010's The Conspirator tells the story of Mary Surratt and her alleged involvement in Lincoln's assassination. Dr. Brian Dirck joins us again to separate fact from fiction in the film. Dr. Dirck is a Professor of History at Anderson University and author of multiple books on President Lincoln, including Lincoln and the Constitution, The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death and Lincoln the Lawyer. Learn more about the true story with Brian's books The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death: https://links.boatspodcast.com/175book Lincoln and the Constitution: https://links.boatspodcast.com/175constitution Lincoln the Lawyer: https://links.boatspodcast.com/175lawyer Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/41958302-4537-4296-b9c3-ea60a78481f1 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/175 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll learn about the classic 1970 film Waterloo and its depiction of Napoleon's final defeat. Joining us to discuss the historical accuracy of Waterloo is historian and professor at Louisiana State University, Alexander Mikaberidze. Alexander has also written numerous books on the Napoleonic era, including his latest which is called The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History. Learn more about the true story with Alexander's books The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History: https://links.boatspodcast.com/174globalhistory The Battle of the Berezina: Napoleon's Great Escape: https://links.boatspodcast.com/174greatescape The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon Against Kutuzov: https://links.boatspodcast.com/174borodino Russian Eyewitnesses of the Campaign of 1807: https://links.boatspodcast.com/174eyewitnesses The Russian Officer Corps of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: 1792-1815: https://links.boatspodcast.com/174officercorps Find more of Alexander's books at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/174guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/778ccefa-fc07-495a-8837-2eb7918b9f2c Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/174 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the movie Donnie Brasco we see the story of an FBI agent who goes into deep cover infiltrating the New York mafia families. The truth is Donnie Brasco was the under-cover name for Joe Pistone. He joins us today along with actor and Joe's co-host on the Deep Cover Podcast, Leo Rossi. Learn more about the true story Follow Joe and Leo's podcast Deep Cover Podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/173guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/98032571-873a-4e2e-8a67-213402fcfde3 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/173 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How much of 2014's The Alamo really happened? To help us separate fact from fiction in the movie, we’ll be chatting with professor, historian and author Stephen L. Hardin. Stephen was also a historical consultant on the movie we’ll be chatting about today, so we’ll get some extra insight into the production of the film as well. Learn more about the true story with Stephen's books Lust for Glory: An Epic Story of Early Texas and the Sacrifice That Defined a Nation https://links.boatspodcast.com/172lustforglory Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 https://links.boatspodcast.com/172texianiliad Texian Macabre: A Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early Houston https://links.boatspodcast.com/172texianmacabre Houston Displayed, or, Who Won the Battle of San Jacinto? https://links.boatspodcast.com/172sanjacinto Find more of Stephen's work on his website: https://links.boatspodcast.com/172guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/c4aeba38-92b0-4fff-8121-253d90840a30 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/172 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wake Island was attacked on the same day as Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 (December 8th on Wake Island across the International Date Line). A few months later, on August 11th, 1942, Paramount Pictures released the war propaganda film Wake Island. To help us separate fact from fiction in the movie, we’ll be chatting with Professor Gregory J. W. Urwin from Temple University. Gregory is a military historian who has written two fantastic books about Wake, including Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island, which is a book that many consider to be the definitive account of the battle. Learn more about the true story Get Gregory's book Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island: https://links.boatspodcast.com/171book Or his book Victory in Defeat: The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity, 1941-1945: https://links.boatspodcast.com/171captivity Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/a4050cbc-b068-4369-871b-43021f5eb78e Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/171 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How historically accurate was 2012's Lincoln? To help us separate fact from fiction in the movie, we’ll be chatting with Dr. Brian Dirck, who is a Professor of History at Anderson University and author of multiple books on President Lincoln, including Lincoln and the Constitution, The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death and Lincoln the Lawyer. Learn more about the true story Pick up Brian's book The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death: https://links.boatspodcast.com/170book Another of Brian's books Lincoln and the Constitution: https://links.boatspodcast.com/170constitution And Lincoln the Lawyer: https://links.boatspodcast.com/170lawyer Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/0695cd18-fb40-4b73-ad3b-2166b00eb7b9 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/170 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1989's Glory is currently the most requested movie to cover. Gregory J. W. Urwin is an author, military historian, and Professor at Temple University. He'll join us today to separate fact from fiction in Glory. Learn more about the true story A Brave Black Regiment by Louis F. Emilio with an introduction by Gregory J. W. Urwin: https://links.boatspodcast.com/169emilio Black Flag Over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War, Edited by Gregory J. W. Urwin: https://links.boatspodcast.com/169book Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, edited by Russell Duncan: https://links.boatspodcast.com/169shaw A Voice of Thunder: A Black Soldier's Civil War, edited by Donald Yacovone: https://links.boatspodcast.com/169yacovone On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front, edited by Virginia Adams: https://links.boatspodcast.com/169adams Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/9e2ad4e6-946f-4019-85e4-dacf54db8ee9 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/169 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Back on episode #152 of Based on a True Story, we covered season 1 of the History Channel's Project Blue Book. Today, Rob Kristoffersen comes back on the podcast to talk about the events we saw in season 2. Learn more about the true story Follow Rob's podcast Our Strange Skies: https://links.boatspodcast.com/168guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/2e5305dd-0616-47ea-b24a-359821c15e66 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/168 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Clayborne Carson is the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor of History at Stanford University and the founding director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford. He joins us today to compare history with the 2014 movie Selma.  Learn more about the true story Listen to Dr. Carson's podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/167podcast Read the Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr edited by Dr. Carson: https://links.boatspodcast.com/167book Find thousands of documents, photos and more at the King Institute: https://links.boatspodcast.com/167guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/a30b4a67-5557-4816-a378-dbd5a8cade97 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/167 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Wimmer is the host and producer of the extremely popular Legends of the Old West and Infamous America podcasts. He joins us today to compare history with the 2007 movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Learn more about the true story Follow Chris's podcast Legends of the Old West: https://links.boatspodcast.com/166guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/d7181892-f71b-4ae7-8716-2071e974502c Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/166 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eric Marcus is a journalist, founder and host of the Making Gay History Podcast. He joins us today to compare history with the 2015 Roland Emmerich movie Stonewall. Learn more about the true story Follow the Stonewall season of Eric's Making Gay History Podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/165guest Stonewall Fact Sheet: https://stonewall50consortium.org/stonewallfactsheet.pdf Stonewall First Anniversary Pride March Fact Sheet: https://stonewall50consortium.org/pridemarchfactsheet.pdf Making Gay History Podcast Stonewall Season: https://makinggayhistory.com/season-five/ "Stonewall: The Making of a Monument" NY Times Op-Doc: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/opinion/gay-pride-stonewall.html Stonewall National Monument 3-D Tour: https://cyark.org/projects/stonewall-national-monument/Guided-Tour/snm-en Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter (the definitive book on the Stonewall uprising): https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9780312671938 “The Stonewall You Know is a Myth”: https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000006322550/stonewall-lgbt-pride-anniversary.html Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/0bc7c995-e246-4321-9cd6-14ff1f57113d Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/165 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2002 John Woo movie 'Windtalkers' tells the story of a Navajo code talker during World War II. Is the film historically accurate? Judith Avila is the author of Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII Learn more about the true story Get Judith and Chester Nez's book Code Talker: https://links.boatspodcast.com/164guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/566b5fd6-886a-4fbf-960b-ace9f09cf231 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/164 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Furman Daniel joins us today to separate fact from fiction in the classic World War II film Patton. Learn more about the true story Get Furman's book Patton: Battling with History: https://links.boatspodcast.com/163guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/7998af84-06c8-46f7-b810-b37083961029 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/163 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our story today covers the capture of the notorious Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann. The operation to hunt him down and bring him to justice was depicted in the movie Operation Finale, and today we'll find out how many of the things we saw on screen actually happened. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/1c1b0322-1757-40b6-82e2-6685c30c3f52 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/162 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Erica Kelley is the host of the Southern Fried True Crime podcast. She joins us today to separate fact from fiction in the 2019 movie Just Mercy. Learn more about the true story Listen to Erica's episode about the true story: https://links.boatspodcast.com/161guestepisode Follow Erica's podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/161guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/53c6cdd3-287e-4bee-87c0-49b6dd242c2a Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/161 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today marks the 157th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863). How much of the movie's depiction of the battle is historically accurate? I'm joined by Jim Hessler and Eric Lindblade to find out. Jim and Eric are both Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guides and are the co-hosts of The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast. Learn more about the true story Follow The Battle of Gettysburg podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/160guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/87120cef-c911-4d1c-8818-6b3bb330d5c1 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/160 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

June 6th, 1944. D-Day. Fast forward 76 years and today, June 6th, 2020, we'll chat with author and historian Marty Morgan to separate fact from fiction in one of the most popular movies depicting D-Day, Saving Private Ryan. Learn more about the true story Get Marty's book D-Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion: https://links.boatspodcast.com/159book Another of Marty's books mentioned is Down to Earth: The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Normandy: https://links.boatspodcast.com/159the507th Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/0c94adee-b440-409c-b7e8-6147088a7290 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/159 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Craig Symonds is the Earnest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the Naval War College as well as Professor Emeritus of History at the U.S. Naval Academy. He also has a great book called The Battle of Midway that dives into the true history behind the battle. He joins us today to discuss the historical accuracy of the 2019 movie Midway. Learn more about the true story Get Craig's book The Battle of Midway: https://links.boatspodcast.com/158book Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/337c99bc-142c-4456-b0ce-c03a5ccc252f Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/158 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ryan Stitt is the host of The History of Ancient Greece Podcast, and he joins us today to separate fact from fiction in the 2004 movie Alexander. Learn more about the true story Follow Ryan's podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/157guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/f3c27ad3-6809-4732-95d3-9b9e8acccf49 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/157 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1962's Mutiny on the Bounty is one of the most popular requests to cover and today we'll do that with the help of Brandon Huebner, the host of The Maritime History Podcast. Learn more about the true story Follow Brandon's show The Maritime History Podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/156guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/a52b0228-d295-4dd7-bfbf-36080e07ef4c Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/156 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maurice Samuels, Author and Yale's Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French, joins the Based on a True Story podcast to separate fact from the fiction we saw in 1998's depiction of Les Miserables. Learn more about the true story Get your copy of Maurice's book: https://links.boatspodcast.com/155book Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/28955942-3d61-45c2-bbb4-d4c3d7af04d4 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/155 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Matthew Polly joins the Based on a True Story podcast to separate fact from the fiction we saw in 1993's Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. Matthew's book called Bruce Lee: A Life is considered the authoritative biography on the film legend and martial artist. Learn more about the true story Get your copy of Matthew's book: https://links.boatspodcast.com/154book Find Matthew's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/154guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/66004362-01bb-490e-b8b4-94c3f68000f7 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/154 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll learn about the historical accuracy of the movie 12 Years a Slave with Professor Greg Jackson from the History That Doesn't Suck podcast. Learn more about the true story Subscribe to Greg's podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/153guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/9f4814a1-6d40-4f6c-ab0e-476fa2c7a096 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/153 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

UFO expert Rob Kristoffersen joins Based on a True Story to discuss the historical accuracy of the History Channel's TV show Project Blue Book. Learn more about the true story Follow Rob's podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/152guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/d4cde2c9-7b36-4023-a767-bbe939a4dfb7 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/152 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Michael Wallis joins the Based on a True Story podcast to separate fact from the fiction we saw in Disney's 1955 film Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier. Learn more about the true story Get your copy of Michael's book, David Crockett: The Lion of the West: https://links.boatspodcast.com/151book Find all of Michael's books: https://links.boatspodcast.com/151guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/c3563cdd-9f51-4941-93fe-2033f569a8bf Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/151 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Downton Abbey was filmed at Highclere Castle, which is Lady Carnarvon's home. On this episode of the Based on a True Story podcast, she'll join us to talk about the historical accuracy of the Downton Abbey movie and TV series. Learn more about the true story Find all of Lady Carnarvon's books: https://links.boatspodcast.com/150guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/21a6f4d5-0acc-4b4b-ab17-af2fd1678bcf Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/150 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are many versions of Robin Hood's story that have been on the big screen. Today we'll chat with historian Dr. Sean McGlynn about the 1991 classic Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Learn more about the true story Get your copy of Dr. McGlyyn's book called Robin Hood: A True Legend: https://links.boatspodcast.com/149book Also mentioned in the episode is another of his books, Blood Cries Afar: The Magna Carta War and the Invasion of England 1215-1217: https://links.boatspodcast.com/149magnacartabook Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/6ee3918f-459b-42ad-a8b0-463915d2d204 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/149 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doran Cart is Senior Curator at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. He joins us today to talk about the historical accuracy of the hit blockbuster movie 1917. Learn more about the true story Visit the National WWI Museum and Memorial website: https://links.boatspodcast.com/148guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/1bed6286-e7bb-45dc-b53f-f462c3c90b4e Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/148 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark is the producer of the official Bletchley Park podcast. He joins us today to discuss the historical accuracy of the 2014 film The Imitation Game and do some fact checking on the original Based on a True Story episode from back in 2016. Learn more about the true story Follow the Bletchley Park podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/147guest Plan your visit to the home of the codebreakers during World War II: https://links.boatspodcast.com/147bletchleypark Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/33c2a92b-b7ce-42b4-b749-35d972df48cd Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/147 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How much do you know about Billy the Kid? On the popular Infamous America podcast, Chris Wimmer has dug deep into the life of one of most famous outlaws in the Old West. He joins us today to separate fact from the fiction we saw in the 1988 movie about Billy the Kid, Young Guns. Want more of the true story? Subscribe to Infamous America and listen to a full season of episodes telling the true story of Billy the Kid: https://links.boatspodcast.com/146guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/6679fac8-88f4-4513-b0b7-c06d70cc71c9 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/146 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the Christmas season approaches, let's take a step back from the hustle and bustle to learn about the history and festivities over the millennia that have resulted in the holiday traditions we're familiar with today. Links from today's episode Pick up your own copy of Heather's book, The History of Christmas: https://links.boatspodcast.com/145book Follow Heather's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/145guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/58b96451-5485-43e8-a909-551e1800b4dc Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/145 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our story today is as close to traveling through time and space as we can without a single mention of the Doctor. That's because today we're going to travel back in time to discuss the true story of Neil Armstrong as we saw in the movie First Man. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/4e3bace3-5e6c-4fdb-bac3-4d68826d4dac Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/144 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story of the Salem witch trials was brought to the world's spotlight thanks to Arthur Miller's play The Crucible. Today, we'll look at the historical accuracy of the 1996 movie based on that play. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/d127df3f-c0d1-482e-97dc-7d2431faabe3 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/143 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today (October 26th) is the anniversary of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Chris Wimmer is the Host and Producer of the Legends of the Old West podcast. He joins us today to separate fact from the fiction of the events surrounding and during the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral as it was depicted in the classic film Tombstone. Learn more about the true story Follow the Legends of the Old West podcast at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/142guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/d3e6d594-a0bd-404f-8176-907d36e6377a Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/142 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historian and Tolkien scholar John Garth breaks down the historical accuracy of the 2019 biopic about the life of J.R.R. Tolkien simply called Tolkien. Learn more about the true story Follow John's work and get his books at https://links.boatspodcast.com/141guest Get the award-winning Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth on Amazon: https://links.boatspodcast.com/141book Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/67a4b13c-6ee0-430f-94c1-25c92b6eb00f Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/141 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story behind 2018's Tag seems almost too ridiculous to be true. What better way to separate fact from fiction than by chatting with some of the real guys that the movie is based on? That's exactly what we'll do today. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/6bb286b5-e403-4c11-a2b4-413a22f5c038 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/140 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a first for Based on a True Story, today we'll chat about the TV series Turn: Washington Spies. Joining me to dive behind the history of the popular AMC show is Michael Troy from the American Revolutions podcast.   Subscribe to Michael's podcast at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/139guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/1025f77d-5412-41aa-9ce2-7beba07d28d0 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/139 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story of Mary Stuart and her cousin Queen Elizabeth I is one that's been told many times over. We've looked at the story from Elizabeth's side when we looked at the two Elizabeth movies a little while back. Today, we'll look at the story from a different perspective as told in the 2018 movie called Mary Queen of Scots. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/7baf4a1e-0075-4578-b135-602e882c205b Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/138 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I'm honored to be joined by the renowned Dr. Zahi Hawass to learn more about how much of the 1963 classic film Cleopatra was historically accurate.   Find Dr. Zahi Hawass online at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/137guest Get Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt: https://www.amazon.com/Cleopatra-Search-Last-Queen-Egypt/dp/1426205457/ Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/fc2e06ac-370d-4745-83d8-9d4710266a53 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/137 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This isn't a normal episode of Based on a True Story. Let's take a few moments to chat about some of the changes coming to the podcast. Questions or concerns? Reach out to me at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode will talk about the renowned artist Vincent van Gogh as depicted in the movie Loving Vincent. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/fb9262e6-5e84-4b02-908b-deaab971f6b6 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/135 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

D-Day was June 6th, 1944. The 75th anniversary is this week, and if there's one movie that has changed the perception of the invasion it's The Longest Day. So, we'll chat with author and historian Marty Morgan to find out how much The Longest Day got right...and what it didn't. Marty's work mentioned in the episode: Marty's books D-Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion Down to Earth: The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Normandy More about Marty Marty's site Marty's D-Day tour   Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/a9fb7a2f-05ae-4e61-8874-edad17614ada Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/134 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll travel back in time to the days of Greek mythology as we compare the 2004 movie Troy with history.  Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/2edc156f-feeb-4679-9465-665b3ed3460c Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/133 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the story of the 1919 Black Sox scandal that rocked the world of Major League Baseball. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/d4d07bf9-221a-4947-9534-83f0fc9e5b75 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/132 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been called a rags to riches story, and an inspiration to millions. But how much of 2003's Seabiscuit actually happened? Let's find out! Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/f0415180-ba09-4700-9ba3-b1557e909c3b Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/131 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes, Hollywood exaggerates nature's fury on screen. Today, we'll learn about one of the stories that reminds us how scary it can really be. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/5ae36531-e06e-4053-a6e4-49894a7ad180 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/130 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two years ago, we covered The Fellowship of the Ring as an April Fools Day surprise. Last year, it was a little less of a surprise when we continued the story with The Two Towers. This year, the trilogy will come to an end with the epic conclusion in The Return of the King. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/57781645-96ea-46b6-b7f4-08683431e8da Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/129 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll learn about Malcolm X, the man whose childhood saw his family get attacked by the KKK to an adulthood where he turned to robbery and drugs before growing into a civil rights activist and minister speaking out against racism in the United States. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/ae069329-866b-4a63-be16-a81ec53718b9 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/128 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last episode we learned about Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK. This week we'll learn about the 2016 film LBJ that covers President Lyndon Baines Johnson, the man who became President the moment John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/3a8dc365-52bf-4cae-ba2f-bfa092b8078c Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/127 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To say Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK caused a lot of controversy is an understatement. With all the conspiracies circling the assassination of President Kennedy, let's take some time to compare JFK to history. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/8d4f5c3a-f663-49ad-87c9-689a28e337bd Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/126 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rami Malek stars in the blockbuster film about Freddie Mercury's life. Since it's release, there have been many reviews who have dinged the film for its historical accuracy. Are they right? Let's compare history with Bohemian Rhapsody! Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/fbfea906-e0cb-43e9-9591-1cc7089ca41d Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/125 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Going from Major League Baseball player to spy isn't your average change in jobs. But then, Moe Berg wasn't your average baseball player. Let's dig into Moe's life as we compare The Catcher Was a Spy with history. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/4565c344-5870-469c-bab5-11759bc6ab0e Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/124 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a special treat, you'll get access to one of the minisodes that are normally exclusive to Based on a True Story patrons on the weeks between regular episodes. Listen in and you'll get the explanation for how minisodes are different from regular episodes. The episode's duration isn't the key factor. The story we're looking at today is all about the real Aladdin. Brought to life in Disney's animated classic, the folktales that Aladdin came from includes some details that may sound familiar and many details that might surprise you. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/9f434da5-fb1a-43f1-9266-32e74d76f4a7 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A couple years ago, we covered The Greatest Showman as a pre-release episode. In other words, the podcast episode came out before the movie did. In that episode, we learned about the life of P.T. Barnum. In this episode, we're going back to Barnum's life as this time we give The Greatest Showman the typical Based on a True Story treatment -- comparing it to history. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/09bf7d2f-8e0a-41d3-883f-edddb8810a86 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/123 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Nixon's resignation in 1974 was the first time for a U.S. president. That same year, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein released their book that went into detail how they broke the Watergate scandal wide open with articles that eventually led to Nixon's resignation. Let's learn more about what happened as we compare history with the 1976 film based on and named after the book, All the President's Men. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/ae328640-2080-4138-920a-a7ca57e1464b Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/122 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last week on the podcast, we learned all about the life of Charles Dickens as it was told in the movie The Man Who Invented Christmas. While that’s not a requirement before listening to this episode, it’ll help you get a little more of a behind the scenes of what it was like for the man who wrote what we’re going to be hearing today. That’s because today, we’re going to do something special. We’re not going to be covering a movie today, although there have been numerous versions of this story adapted for the big screen. This is the entire, unabridged version of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens that was first published in December of 1843. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/144a072f-508c-4dbd-8425-577efb7707ad Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/121 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time to get in the Christmas spirit! The subject of our episode today is the 2017 movie about Charles Dickens and his writing of A Christmas Carol. Did Charles invent Christmas? Let's find out. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/a85e1971-a6f6-4da5-9c7a-cb8adb8e8a4b Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/120 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2004 film Finding Neverland stars Johnny Depp as J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan. How much of the movie was true and how much was changed? Let's find out. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/5eecdf60-1a7a-4ad2-951f-9771c5a2661f Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/119 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his first movie after Lord of the Rings, Viggo Mortensen portrays Frank T. Hopkins as he rides on his horse, Hidalgo, in The Ocean of Fire long-distance race. How much of the movie really happened? Let's find out. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/31c2c030-3d98-4b49-9242-a99a619353e4 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/118 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Called the Scottish Robin Hood, Rob Roy's story has been the subject of books and movies. Today, one of the most popular renditions of that is the 1995 film starring Liam Neeson. I'm joined by Moxie LaBouche on this episode to learn more about the real Rob Roy. Listen to Moxie's show, Your Brain on Facts, at https://links.boatspodcast.com/117guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/52a4d743-723f-4567-b088-60553db2a808 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/117 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After inventing the lie detector test, William Moulton Marston came up with the character of Wonder Woman. His inspiration was his wife Elizabeth, and his significant other, Olive. Learn more about their story as we compare history with the movie Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/4829f600-313e-4483-8bcd-7380b83f48cc Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/116 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today marks the 51st anniversary of revolutionary Che Guevara's capture that led to his death. How much do you know of his story? Let's find out as we compare 1969's Che! with history. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/32a1746b-fed0-414a-983a-73037bd7e64f Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/115 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author J.G. Ballard wrote the novel Empire of the Sun based on his own childhood. That's the first level of creative difference between truth and fiction. By the time it was adapted for the big screen, there were bound to be some things that were changed. So, what really happened? Let's find out. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/f0a6736f-3fcc-49a5-9f53-53b39ea8c766 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/114 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The world changed on Tuesday, September 11th, 2001. Today, we'll honor the memory of those who lost their lives that day as we look at the historical accuracy of the movie United 93. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/fbc33fab-6f2c-449a-b4cf-2febbc2fc367 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/113 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On episode 106, we learned about the movie Elizabeth. That's the first of two movies in a series, so we're heading back to the time of Queen Elizabeth I as we complete the second part in Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/3d8ff924-96f5-4e97-82ad-9436dddd1271 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/112 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When three girls are taken from their homes, they risk their lives to find the rabbit-proof fence in Australia and walk home over a thousand miles away. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/2fc15c90-2f15-4c06-87c4-1ed44de755d8 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/111 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dive into the world of the supernatural as I'm joined by UFO expert Rob Kristoffersen to chat about Whitley Strieber's experience that we saw in the movie Communion. Check out Rob's show at https://links.boatspodcast.com/110guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/ba39dadf-7250-40cd-93a4-bdaa3fe55331 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/110 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How much do you know about the story behind Winnie the Pooh? Let's dive into the beloved children's stories as we compare history with the movie Goodbye Christopher Robin. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/cd00baba-232c-4bfb-b244-8d78333cacd9 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/109 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Ghost and the Darkness tells the story of the man-eaters of Tsavo as they terrified railway workers in 1898. Did it really happen? Let's find out. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/b846d769-1ea7-41d0-8896-35adfc344955 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/108 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Learn more about World War I Medal of Honor recipient who was the subject of the 1941 Gary Cooper film simply called Sergeant York. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/3c515fc4-f2bb-4422-9aa9-58aa648ef5b6 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/107 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Producer Melissa requested we cover the movie Elizabeth, so pack your bags and travel back in time to the days just after King Henry VIII as we compare the movie with history. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/cb9cd330-75a7-453e-940e-9a61086d7ca0 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/106 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Hollywood covers the Battle of Mogadishu, how much of what we see is accurate? That's what Based on a True Story Producer Brian wanted to know when he requested this week's episode. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/0323c016-4215-464e-9a9b-3d2a197fcf6e Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/105 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The term "housekeeping" in a podcast refers to the parts at the beginning or end of a show where the host makes announcements and updates. With the podcast coming back, I'll outline some of the changes as we peel back the layers of the podcast to give you an inside look behind the mic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One month ago today, my father passed away unexpectedly. As this podcast is something I do in my spare time, there are more important things going to eat up that time. For now, it's time to take a step back from the podcast. Based on a True Story will be back at some point. I don't know when. If you stay subscribed, you'll be the first to get new episodes when they're available. Learn more at https://links.boatspodcast.com/103 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, a family was left without a father. A wife without her husband. That's the scenario behind the 2016 Jackie, and the subject of this week's episode. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/608d8c9c-04b8-4b88-b47a-70cafd62f4d0 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/102 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For generations, James Fenimore Cooper's classic American novel has been recreated in various forms for the big and small screen. As a novel, it's not entirely factual and yet it's a film many consider to be true by its mere popularity. This week we'll learn about the most recent and most popular rendition, the 1992 version of The Last of the Mohicans. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/5d242462-ee1a-4a6c-a1ec-3bcd31c363ce Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/101 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To celebrate the show's anniversary and episode 100, we'll be looking at a story that's special to me...that of King Arthur. We can't hope to cover everything about Arthur that's been written for thousands of years in a single episode, but we'll try to get a good primer about the story as we saw in 2004's King Arthur. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/7c5a44ba-6130-4685-a460-58848b4c4eae Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/100 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Surprise! Enjoy April Fools Day with this special bonus episode as we continue our look at The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/5767ce03-366f-4752-83b2-b16b1fe3f2d0 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/99 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mac vs PC. It's a flame war that's fueled by people on both sides who love to hate the other side. How did it all start? We'll find out as we dig into the true story behind Pirates of Silicon Valley. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/f4864b02-cb45-45d7-826e-52699b1ce365 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/98 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde was one of the films that many consider to be the starting point for the taming of violence in mainstream Hollywood. How much of it was true? Let's find out. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/aac89109-bcb9-48ff-a732-7d434f713f1a Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/97 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did the Nazis really steal all that artwork we saw George Clooney, Matt Damon and Bill Murray chase after in The Monuments Men? That's what we'll find out this week. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/a4fe0dc1-bdbf-43b1-800d-909ca0eff2a9 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/96 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today is the 55th anniversary of the surprise death of country music legend Patsy Cline. In honor of her life, let's learn more about it as we compare history with the 1985 biopic, Sweet Dreams. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/6b073da3-78c3-48c9-a4a1-f67e2f913134 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/95 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 1997 animated film Anastasia tells a beautifully touching tale of the Grand Duchess trying to find her family...but how much of the story we see on screen is true? This week we'll dive into the mystery surrounding the story of Anatasia's alleged disappearance. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/7ca49786-b285-4b02-b7a3-186202eacb14 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/94 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we learned about Jack the Ripper's brutal murders. After you listen to the regular episode, this bonus episode will help us get a little better historical context. You'll get a peek into some of the research that goes into episodes as we follow each murder with articles and reports from the time of Jack the Ripper's reign of terror in London. Be warned, this episode contains some very disturbing content about the Jack the Ripper murders. Listen to this on your own before listening with kids. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/f0f41d4a-22e6-4027-ae25-35e59121ddd7 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/93bonus Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack the Ripper was a serial killer before the term was coined. Be warned, today's episode contains some very disturbing content about the murders...check it out before listening with kids. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/b433ea76-8339-441d-9ca3-be9d1bfc6e2a Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/93 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2008's The Other Boleyn Girl gives us a peek into what it could've been like roaming the English court during King Henry VIII's reign. But how much of what we saw of the relationship between King Henry VIII, Anne and her sister Mary Boleyn was true? That's what we'll find out as we compare history with The Other Boleyn Girl. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/4bd40604-6060-4dde-8bcb-52e5656abaf5 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/92 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was an event that was compared to the sinking of the Titanic, except when the Hindenburg crashed it was caught on film...ending the promising industry of commercial airship travel. This week we're comparing history with the 1975 Oscar-nominated film that shows one of the conspiracy theories about the cause of the disaster. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/1da27848-e507-456a-8b87-9966f838e864 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/91 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How much of Michael Keaton's 2016 masterpiece is true to the history of McDonald's rise to the top of the fast-food industry? Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/42613dd4-bbb0-4a3d-84b3-262388c29792 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/90 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a highly requested episode, this week we're focusing on the film starring a young Leonardo DiCaprio heading up an all-star cast in this classic interpretation of the Alexandre Dumas classic. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/34cb4db4-e5bd-4544-b7f7-43fec7f76894 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/89 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was an epic fight between two martial arts masters...Bruce Lee and Wong Jack Man. But how much of the film that was inspired by this true event is actually true? Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/c10efaa4-d9a0-4e1e-be2a-8d7d6d9e5efd Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/88 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ever heard of the U.S. Cavalry's attempts at replacing horses with camels? Historian, author and podcaster Scott Rank joins me on this episode to learn more about this little-known event in U.S. history. Check out Scott's podcast here: https://links.boatspodcast.com/87guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/a471ef9e-dd08-4559-a326-1623ce97afa3 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/87 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy New Year! Pack your backs for our first adventure of the year. We're headed to the Amazon today as we compare history with The Lost City of Z. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/8043a1b8-0358-48be-995e-53fbac418a58 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/86 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas! With today being Christmas, I wanted to do something a little different and share a few classic holiday tales to help keep you company as you handle your holiday tasks, whether they're around the house or around town. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/072d480c-afe1-4a44-9bad-a53ca3b0a7c7 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/85 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just in time for Christmas day, a new film being released tells the story of a young P.T. Barnum's rise to riches. But who was the real P.T. Barnum and how did he really begin the "greatest show on earth"? Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/bde3224e-4f69-402e-a3fa-10fa4adf593e Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/84 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jane Austen's relationship with Tom Lefroy was something we saw on screen during the 2007 film Becoming Jane. But was it real, or just a fictional story? Let's find out. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/8b28f31c-dc51-42e7-bfb3-c1212a856f87 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/83 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

December 7th is Pearl Harbor Day, and the perfect day to watch a movie in remembrance of that day. Which one should you watch? This week I'm joined by Corey Constable from the Omitted podcast to discuss the historical accuracy of both 2001's Pearl Harbor and 1970's Tora! Tora! Tora! to determine which one you should watch this Pearl Harbor Day.  Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/058e5d67-4515-4318-aecc-b5ca33cfe12f Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/82 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today is the 922nd anniversary of Pope Urban II preaching the Crusades. That's why we're going back to the 12th century this week to learn the true story behind the movie Kingdom of Heaven. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/a5f98a93-76c4-420c-b80a-9464ffd46569 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/81 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Even today, Das Boot is seen as one of the defining films to showcase what World War II was like for German submariners. But was it true? That's what we'll aim to find out in this episode. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/34c4b6e2-ed4b-4a50-a625-a6befee9ac0a Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/80 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a couple of weeks, the movie Darkest Hour will dive into the life of Winston Churchill. With that in mind, let's do our own dive into the life of the politician and speaker this week so when you go see the movie you'll be able to tell how accurate it is. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/34f92480-abfb-4e62-bd83-c578851b144a Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/79 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nicole Kidman stars as actress Grace Kelly in a film that tells the story of her transition from Hollywood royalty to actual royalty as the Princess of Monaco. How much of the film is true? That's what we'll find out in this episode. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/e61b1d7a-aab7-4a8e-a3dc-4b8b6b5fb7b2 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/78 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Halloween! To get in the spirit of the season, this week I'll be joined by Sam Fredrickson from the Not Alone podcast as we dive into what really happened surrounding The Mothman Prophecies. Check out Sam's show at http://www.notalonepodcast.com/ Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/6617bf6a-92e0-4163-9589-f393f63be35d Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/77 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Loving was released in 2016 and depicts the story of Richard and Mildred Loving as they struggled against racial barriers. Their case, Loving v Virginia, would go all the way to the Supreme Court and be the catalyst to legalizing interracial marriages in the United States today. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/24064256-8456-45e9-8ca1-1d02a6e99f1b Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/76 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 1983 film The Right Stuff is considered by many to be an epic masterpiece. Before the Apollo program, The Right Stuff tells the story of the first astronauts in the United States and the race to get into space. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/6fe50770-ccd5-4c1a-9056-675b465c8815 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/75 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're diving into the classics this week as we compare history with Mata Hari. Released in 1931, Mata Hari tells the story of the woman who many considered to be one of the most dangerous spies during World War I. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/8a1ae9c6-5726-4c99-8863-a53b91249f22 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/74 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you're a fan of history, 2008's Flash of Genius tells the story about something that probably never even crossed your mind. One man's journey to inventing the intermittent windshield wiper and how the huge car manufacturers tried to steal it from him. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/553acedb-63ad-49a4-852c-738e0bb97e64 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/73 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get a look at a different angle of World War II as we compare the 2001 film Enemy at the Gates with history. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/a1035d00-7450-44fe-8222-edb1f999d55e Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/72 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you're a fan of Kung Fu movies, Ip Man is one you've already seen. If you think everything you saw on the screen actually happened, you might be surprised with the true story. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/98294bb5-2bd3-4e22-a855-5319bc89caf2 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/71 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Formula One racing in the 1970s was about more than just fast cars. This week we'll compare history with the 2013 Ron Howard movie Rush. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/0893c166-2f5f-40c9-8e88-e3cb3e893889 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/70 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Spies and espionage between Russia and the USA. It almost seems like it could be a subject in today's headlines, but on this week's episode we'll look at one of the most damaging cases of espionage inside the FBI. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/09e384f7-8e15-4046-8339-61a4cd1a253b Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/69 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Bondurant joins us on this week's episode as we compare what really happened with the movie Lawless. Matt's grandfather, Jack, and two grand-uncles that were the inspiration for his book that the movie is based on, The Wettest County in the World. Get Matt's book: https://links.boatspodcast.com/68book Learn more about Matt: https://links.boatspodcast.com/68guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/1a5b8b2f-f81e-4df4-bdd8-a9a563411ddf Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/68 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we'll conclude our look into the historical accuracy of Cecil B. DeMille's classic film, The Ten Commandments. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/e42494ee-bf8d-4c57-b1a6-f733168ee28a Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/67 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With almost four hours of movie and plenty of religious subject matter to cover, we'll have to split this movie up into two parts to do it justice. On this episode we'll cover all the way up until the movie's intermission. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/0b813f6a-b0d9-45a8-b976-853eaaa122f1 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/66 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2016's Genius tells the story of book editor Max Perkins and the authors he discovered, including Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/a59354ce-3013-4e8a-862d-c5fbc0d24bb5 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/65 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can you handle the truth? This week we'll see how much of A Few Good Men we can compare with history. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/b9368a7b-37a6-40d9-b25e-7e24e9ac6b5a Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/64 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jamaica we have a bobsled team! Every sports fan loves the story of an underdog's rise to success. Disney's Cool Runnings is that and more. But is it historically accurate? That's what we aim to discover on this week's episode. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/cbbc12a9-3c30-43e4-856a-cbc4c9cb3b1a Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/63 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Political mutiny and clandestine plots against Adolf Hitler are the subject of this week's episode as we compare history with 2008's Valkyrie. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/41fc2e6f-1690-4802-9dd0-5f611a2fafd6 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/62 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk comes out on July 21st, but before it does let's take a moment to learn the true story so you can judge the film's historical accuracy for yourself when you go see it in theaters. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/993768b7-2097-4684-a358-90b9fd550c25 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/61 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

July 4th is America's birthday, and this week we'll honor that as we compare history with Mel Gibson's epic Hollywood blockbuster, The Patriot. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/eb8797a1-b13e-4759-b3cd-abed34977bc2 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/60 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday have earned quite a reputation thanks to numerous Hollywood incarnations over the years. Arguably one of the most popular was with Tombstone. Let's find out how historically accurate Tombstone was. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/8fa2442a-8d06-45ae-a1e0-3e68e350aff1 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/59 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was one of the darkest hours in the world and amidst the horrors, Oskar Schindler managed to help save many lives from certain death. This week we'll find out how much of it was actually true as we compare history with Schindler's List. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/df3ba277-92d1-4791-9847-4e9857ef2ec9 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/58 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a first for Based on a True Story, we'll get an exclusive peek behind the true story of Bitter Harvest from the film's writer, Richard Bachynsky-Hoover. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/0417e6ce-a243-4930-9a39-ad898a5093cc Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/57 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker put on a great performance in The Experiment in a story that's based on what most consider the most controversial psychology experiment in modern history. Was it proof that evil conquers good? Or was it just an example of a single experiment gone wrong? You decide... Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/b24e2e47-e321-4024-93a9-01c8af00dc26 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/56 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 30th, 1943 was opening day for a new league. Did women really replace the men in baseball during World War II? This week on the podcast we'll learn more about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League as we compare history with A League of Their Own. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/135c0c75-6243-405a-acfc-c858acc7d2ed Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/55 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carl Brashear was the first to do many things. This week we'll compare history with Cuba Gooding Jr and Robert DeNiro's film Men of Honor. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/dee1dcfa-c59a-446d-8d26-960b92d0bae9 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/54 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a special listener request, we'll cover Cadillac Records and learn the true story behind the history of blues in Chicago. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/d18199ee-7bb1-433e-bd9f-33249b6193c2 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/53 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special guest Cody Wheat from the Shots of History podcast joins me this week as we compare history with The Untouchables. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/84aa0858-513b-4f90-b071-80376b07bf9b Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/52 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, Citizen Kane is considered by many to be one of the greatest films of all time. However, when the movie Citizen Kane was released, the man who's life inspired the film was outraged. He tried his best to keep the movie from seeing the light of day. What would spark such outrage? Let's compare history with Citizen Kane. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/e642ea3d-97d3-44f6-a35a-a8f56fd4d034 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/51 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No one expects Disney's Mulan to be very historically accurate, but let's take a few moments to learn more about the real story behind the movie. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/ecdb6fd5-5429-4393-afd0-cbc4fd524585 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/50 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Very few classic films from Hollywood have shaped how people in the U.S. see the Middle East more than Lawrence of Arabia...but is the movie historically accurate? Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/8ff12db9-32e7-423d-8804-acd406a86b28 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/49 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was the single worst sea disaster in the U.S. Navy, and it was covered up by the U.S. government at the end of World War II. Learn the true story behind USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/652e38ef-3762-4108-8e09-2111032463d0 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/48 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Newsies tells the story of the little guys (quite literally, the young newsboys) against "the man". In this case, "the man" being newspaper barons Joseph Pulitzer and William Hearst. As fun as the movie may be, is it historically accurate? Let's find out! Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/cd210b21-cb85-4cd3-b27e-25b63d70d1cb Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/47 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You know the story. Frodo and his band of companions start the journey to take the One Ring to Mordor. But is the story we saw on the big screen true to the story? Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/2a09d256-1db2-47dd-9bb6-9231edaf6f0b Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/46 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

William Wallace is still considered to be an incredibly important person in Scottish history. But is Mel Gibson's version accurate to the real William in history? Let's find out! Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/2c4d6dc2-6f75-491d-bdcc-78127c2ee7a8 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/45 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who doesn't love a good conspiracy theory? We've got a doozy this week as we compare history with The Men Who Stare at Goats. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/c938241a-29c9-4f9a-9dd3-94d13cbf0142 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/44 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you a Disney fan? Then you'll love this deep dive into the remarkable early life of Walt Disney as we compare history with the movie Walt Before Mickey. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/ad0c1774-4c44-4ce7-bb8e-fd1f48e2b600 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/43 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's outdoor sports, then there's extreme outdoors activities. In this week's episode we'll compare history with Hollywood's version of Everest. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/ef3413ba-7f1e-4df8-92e8-467c1430074a Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/42 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you watch the Oscars last night? What a crazy turn of events with the whole Best Picture scandal. While most of the media will be covering Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway's goof at the end, we'll be covering one of the movies nominated for Best Picture that was based on the an amazing true story. Today, let's compare history with Hollywood's version of Lion. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/17c6d405-fd39-4687-ab63-46957eef4b18 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/41 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Friday, Bitter Harvest hits the theaters and tells a story that most people haven't heard. Learn the true story before you go see the film. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/30ca3a6c-7d5c-41d8-a3e3-22c0e8d35520 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/40 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Florence Foster Jenkins is up for a couple Academy Awards. Let's find out how accurate the movie is by comparing Hollywood with history. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/cb3ed6f2-14e0-4311-ad22-1e4a24231185 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/39 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Compare history with Hollywood's version of Black Mass. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/62fa1200-fce2-4ac6-a2a6-8017ca21e90c Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/38 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Compare history with Hollywood's version of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/e0e8fa46-763b-471d-9e68-9c05e6b9f4bb Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/37 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Compare history with Hollywood's version of The Big Short. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/dcfa9136-2431-445f-93e2-a30f53a8487e Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/36 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You've seen the movie. But how much of Titanic was true, and how much of it was made up for the film? Let's compare history with Hollywood's blockbuster film, Titanic. Links Titanic movie Last Dinner On the Titanic: Menus and Recipes from the Great Liner Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/c4eadab1-ac8f-468e-8540-34466835a068 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/35 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He lived through unthinkable measures. At a time when millions were slaughtered, including his family and friends, Wladyslaw Szpilman managed to survive the Holocaust. He was The Pianist, and in 2003 there was a movie starring Adrian Brody telling his incredible story. But how much of it is true? Let's compare history with Hollywood's version of The Pianist. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/b16bd10c-386d-42ff-bc79-9e05ea46b518 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/34 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we'll do something a bit different as we look ahead. Instead of learning about a movie that's already been released, we'll look ahead to a movie coming out this next weekend. Hidden Figures tells the remarkable story of women at NASA who worked as Computers. Before you go see the movie in theaters, learn more about the women so you'll be able to tell just how accurate the movie is on your own. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/60669fb9-4cd7-4253-a4b6-3b0fbde4c9db Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/33 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On October 11th, 1994, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced their Nobel prize winners. Three brilliant scientists jointly won the coveted award. They were Professor John C. Harsanyi from the University of California, Berkley, Dr. John F. Nash from Princeton University and Professor Dr. Reinhard Selten, from the University of Bonn in Bonn, Germany. Less than a month later, on November 13th, 1994, a writer for The New York Times wrote a great article called The Lost Years of a Nobel Laureate which told the story of one of those men, Dr. John Nash. The author of that article was Sylvia Nasar. Sylvia, who was a staff writer at the Times when she wrote the article, would go on to expand on the article. In 1998, her book called A Beautiful Mind was released to critical acclaim. It would go on to be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and win the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Soon after, muti-award winning Hollywood producer Brian Grazer read an excerpt from Sylvia's book in the Vanity Fair magazine. Brian is the co-founder of Imagine Entertainment, a company he co-founded with director Ron Howard in 1986. Brian's films, which include some we've covered on the podcast such as Apollo 13 and Frost/Nixon, have won 43 Academy Awards and 131 Emmys. Needless to say, he knows a good story when he sees one. And he wasted no time in purchasing the film rights for Sylvia's book. On December 13th, 2001, the film A Beautiful Mind premiered to a limited audience before it's nation-wide release on January 4th, 2002. With a budget of about $58 million, A Beautiful Mind had an all-star cast led by Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer, Paul Bettany and more. All under the helm of the talented Ron Howard as director. The film was a smash hit as it earned over $317 million worldwide on its way to winning the coveted Oscar for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Despite such great numbers, many critics said the filmmakers changed around many of the key details, and omitted many more. Are they correct? Let's find out as we dive into the world of the Nobel Laureate John Forbes Nash, Jr., as we learn the true story behind A Beautiful Mind. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/6b4526c1-0d27-42fb-b96b-20279540154e Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/32 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the Christmas season upon us, I wanted to cover a film that'd help represent the Christmas spirit. In 2005, French filmmaker Christian Carion released his second full-length feature film. Joyeux Noël, which translated to English means Merry Christmas, was released in France on November 9th, 2005, and only ended up making about $3.5 million at the box office. That's significantly less than the $22 million it cost to make. The film wasn't released in the United States until June of 2006, which might be why it only made about $1 million in the U.S. A film about Christmas released in June doesn't set it up for success. Still, despite not winning at the box office the film won the hearts of critics. In 2006, Joyeux Noël was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year at the Academy Awards, the Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes and the Best Film not in the English Language at the BAFTA Awards. The story behind the film is of the 1914 Christmas truce, an event that took place as World War I was just getting started, and almost ended it before it began. Seemingly out of nowhere, enemy soldiers decided to lay down their arms and instead spent December 25th, 1914, by singing Christmas songs and exchanging gifts. What more could highlight the Christmas spirit than soldiers deciding to stop one of the bloodiest wars in human history? Even if it was just for a short time. At the end of Joyeux Noël, there's a bit of text on the screen that says the characters are fictional. But it's director, Christian Carion, claims the film is historically accurate. So how accurate is it? Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/13dbc4ab-6d31-4b3e-a602-3a1edb47291a Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/31 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom McCarthy started his acting career with a short movie in 1989 called Roast Suckling. Although that's probably not something most have seen, he's one of those actors that you'd recognize when you see him. Probably because he's been in a lot of movies and TV shows you've seen. He played a background character in Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts' 1997 thriller Conspiracy Theory. In 2000, Tom has a recurring role on Boston Public as the character Kevin Riley. After more background character roles in movies such as Syriana and the Oscar nominated Flags of Our Fathers, Tom again had a recurring role on a TV show in 2008, this time for The Wire. Some of Tom's more recent characters were Gordon, the loveable doctor who plays the new husband of John Cusack's ex-wife in the disaster movie 2012. Or as Dr. Bob in the comedy Little Fockers. But Tom's career extends way beyond acting. In 2009, Tom worked with Pete Docter and Bob Peterson to write the Pixar movie Up. In 2011, he directed the pilot episode for a little show on HBO called Game of Thrones. Unfortunately, HBO didn't like how it turned out, so they had to reshoot it. Tom's career hit new heights when he wrote and directed the film that won the Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Eight movies were nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture in 2016. While the writers for films like Room and Brooklyn were inspired by things that happened in history, their stories aren't based on those events. Still, that leaves four movies that were based on a true story. They are The Revenant, which was a movie we already learned about in the first episode, The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, and last but not least, the movie that is the topic of our story today. Spotlight ended up beating out the other seven nominees as it won two of the seven Oscars it was nominated for, including the coveted Best Picture and Best Writing, Original Screenplay for Tom McCarthy and his writing partner, Josh Singer. Although Spotlight tells the story of corruption and cover-ups in the Catholic Church, Josh Singer explained in an interview with Creative Screenwriting that was secondary to the movie's plot. Josh said, "This story isn’t about exposing the Catholic Church. We were not on some mission to rattle people’s faith. In fact, Tom came from a Catholic family. The motive was to tell the story accurately while showing the power of the newsroom—something that’s largely disappeared today. This story is important. Journalism is important, and there is a deeper message in the story." So if the cover-up was secondary to the movie's story, how much of the film was true? Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/f6dfccac-8cb9-404b-bc42-e108ee9b879b Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/30 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are few movies that stand near the top of the all-time list for income. One of those movies is The Sound of Music. With a budget of about $8 million when it was produced in the 1960s, it was one of the bigger budget films when it was made. That $8 million is about $62 million in today's United States dollars. When it was released in 1965, it raked in over 35 times that amount, about $286 million on its way to an impressive five Academy Awards, including the Oscar for Best Picture in 1966. That equates to about $2.1 billion dollars today. Yes, that's billion with a "b". And since then it's made a couple hundred million more. So when you adjust for inflation, as of this writing, that ranks The Sound of Music as the fifth-highest grossing film of all time. That's behind Gone with the Wind at number one, followed by Avatar, Star Wars, and Titanic. In a 2008 interview, the youngest of the von Trapp family portrayed in the film, Johannes von Trapp, said, "The Sound of Music was great, but it was an American version of my family’s life. It wasn’t what we were." So if the movie isn't who they were, that begs the question: who were the real von Trapp family? Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/954c855d-47b5-436b-9e55-ff5ddfb8f1e8 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/29 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Between 2004 and 2016, Paul Greengrass directed a total of six movies. Four of those have Matt Damon in them. Three of them are about the fictitious Jason Bourne character. Two of them are based on a true story. Today, we're going to be looking at one of those movies. In an effort to make 2013's Captain Phillips as authentic as possible, Paul Greengrass kept two groups of actors separate. One group had Tom Hanks playing the man the movie is named after, Captain Rich Phillips. In the other group were the actors portraying the Somali pirates. These two groups of actors never met until their roles on set together. In an interview after the film was released, Tom Hanks explained, "We were kept separate for all that time. We could see guys that looked like they were Somalis but we didn't know who was who until they came roaring into us the day that we were shooting the scene where they were taking over the bridge of the ship." Despite attempts at making the film as realistic as possible by doing things like keeping the actors separate, after Captain Phillips was released, many of the crewmen claimed the movie didn't accurately depict what happened. With a budget of $55 million, Captain Phillips made about half that on opening weekend on its way to a profitable $107 million in theaters. It was also nominated for six Oscars, and while it didn't end up winning at the Academy Awards, much of the movie's success can be attributed to the amazingly intense way the film portrays the situation. It seems so real. But is it? Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/b6897ca7-3043-477e-93f2-4b2c774dfc2c Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/28 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the Thanksgiving season upon us, I thought it'd be a great opportunity to travel back in time to the days of Colonial America. Then I realized there's not really a lot of movies about the actual Thanksgiving story. So I decided to go with something that, although not about the Thanksgiving story itself, could transport us back to those days. And it's also a great opportunity to do something we haven't tackled yet on the podcast, a Disney animation. In the mid-1990s, the animation team at Disney was on a roll. Tapping into their pool of talent, Aladdin animator Eric Goldberg and The Rescuers Down Under director Mike Gabriel teamed up to take on a new challenge: adapting a true story for the big screen in Pocahontas. Timed to release on exactly 400 years after the real Pocahontas was born, Disney released their own musical interpretation of the story on June 16th, 1995. The movie boasted an amazing all-star cast including Irene Bedard, Mel Gibson, and Christian Bale, just to name a few. With a budget at about $55 million to make, it was a smash hit in the box office as it raked in over half that in the opening weekend. In all, it made over $140 million in theaters. At the time, that put it at #8 on the all-time Disney list of box office results. Of course, as time goes on its dropped quite a bit—as of recording this, thanks to Disney's acquisition of Pixar and Star Wars, Pocahontas is #65. While it was certainly a box office success, Pocahontas was severely criticized by a lot of historians for telling a tale that most people now believe to be a true story when, in fact, it was almost entirely inaccurate with what actually happened. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/727a37fb-bf8f-4590-a16c-4251510dcf65 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/27 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nechama Tec was born in Lublin, Poland in 1931. When she was eight years old, her life would forever change as Nazis invaded her hometown. As a Polish Jew, she survived the Holocaust thanks to Polish Catholics who hid her from the Nazis. Over forty years later, in the 1980s, Nechama started doing research on the events that she had lived through. Her book, When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland was published in 1986. It was while Nechama was researching for this book that she called up a man named Tuvia Bielski, who was living in Brooklyn at the time. "He was very friendly and wanted to know what book I'm writing," Nechama recalled in an interview with NPR. After explaining that she was researching the story of a man who had helped over 300 Jews escape the Nazis, Tuvia replied: "Big deal. When you come to me, I will show you how people saved more than a thousand." And that's how Nechama found the topic for her next book, which would be published in 1993 titled Defiance: The Bielski Partisans. Nechama's book about the Bielski brothers never reached #1 on the New York Times Best-Seller's List, but it won numerous awards, including the International Anne Frank Special Recognition Prize. One of Edward Zwick's friends found the book and was so fascinated by it that he passed it onto the director. Initially, Edward was hesitant of doing yet another Holocaust movie, but he was so enthralled by the story that he couldn't resist. In 1999, Edward acquired the film rights and started work on the film. It took nearly a decade before it was ready to start shooting. And when it did, they had to act fast. Actor Daniel Craig was cast for the lead role in May of 2007, but they had to start shooting right away so he could move onto another obligation as James Bond in Quantum of Solace. So shooting for Defiance began in September of 2007 and wrapped up in just three months. On January 19th, 2009, Defiance was released to underwhelming box office numbers. With a budget of $32 million, the film would go on to only make back about $28 million in theaters. After Nechama saw the film, she was shocked by some of the changes Hollywood made. Let's find out just how much changed as we learn the true story behind Defiance. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/517162cf-8e8b-4016-8e66-07a2df16f818 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/26 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest in the line of collaborations between actor Leonardo DiCaprio and director Martin Scorsese is 2013's The Wolf of Wall Street. It received positive reviews, and also held the honor of topping the most-pirated films list of 2014. That's according to copyright tracking firm Excipio, which puts out a list of the most pirated films each year. Their report indicated The Wolf of Wall Street was the most-pirated in 2014 with over 30 million illegal downloads. But that didn't stop The Wolf of Wall Street from raking in almost $400 million, about four times what it cost to make, and making it Martin Scorsese's highest-grossing film. Oh, and as a fun little fact, the movie also had variations on the F-word being said 569 times. Since the film clocks in at an even 180 minutes, or exactly three hours, that comes to 3.16 uses per minute. That's the most uses in a mainstream film, assuming you don't count 2014's Swearnet: The Movie and a documentary dedicated to the word. And the swearing is just part of it. The film was on the path to an NC-17 rating thanks to rampent use of explicit sex, drugs and, of course, the swearing. But that wouldn't work in theaters, so Scorsese agreed to remove a few scenes filled with sex and nudity so it could get an R rating. If you've seen the movie, you'll know how crazy the story is. Surely most of that was added for the big screen. Or was it? Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/ff3c5b0e-ab17-4285-a2ff-c3ce9e7abd1b Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/25 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Halloween! I wanted to do something special this week. I thought it'd be fun to cover the true story behind something scary. But after starting to look for some movies to fit the bill, I quickly realized most of the scary movies that claim to be based on a true story also require a belief in something extraordinary—something supernatural. Some stories are simply strange, and we don't know the truth. The only thing we do know is what those who lived through the events claim. With that in mind, and in the spirit of Halloween, let's hear the tale of those who were involved and see how it compares to Hollywood's reinterpretation of The Conjuring. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/7039fdcd-c1a0-4f1e-8f55-76341af8a1a9 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/24 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Few can debate the huge impact Steve Jobs had on the world. So it's no wonder that after Steve Jobs passed away in 2011, there was in influx of news and media surrounding the life of the outspoken Apple co-founder and CEO. If you listened to episode on The Social Network, you'll already know how Aaron Sorkin dropped the true story for a good story. So how did he do for his movie about Apple's famous CEO and co-founder? Let's find out as we compare Hollywood with history for 2015's Steve Jobs. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/10b68310-69ae-4aa3-a633-0539278ef0f4 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/23 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You've probably heard of the song Amazing Grace. It's one of those Christian hymns that just about everyone has heard, or at least heard of, at some point. It was first published in 1779 by John Newton. While you may think the named after John's song is about John's life, it's not. Instead it's about a man who was perhaps the first to be influenced by John's moving life story and the song. It's about a man who was perhaps the single most influential man in the abolishment of slavery in Britain. Let's learn the true story behind the movie Amazing Grace. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/2bafe484-1bfc-4cb4-9d97-8fa9884744d7 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/22 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a retelling of one of the greatest moments in U.S. Coast Guard's history, The Finest Hours is a feel-good movie of true heroism. When sitting down to write the film, screenwriters Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson had the chance to do something not everyone does: interview the actual people who lived the story. Since they had the chance to talk to the survivors, does that mean the story was historically accurate? Let's find out as we learn about the true story of The Finest Hours. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/564b2f6a-1ddc-4a7c-a8c2-4bbc66d0078c Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/21 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elizabeth Short's murder was considered to be the crime of the century. And it's a mystery that many are still fascinated by, decades later. So when Brian De Palma directed a 2006 movie of the same name, many moviegoers wanted to see a true crime story of The Black Dahlia. They were sorely disappointed. Let's dive into the real story of The Black Dahlia and find out just how accurate the movie was. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/ad3b4776-6d5d-4602-9a24-deaed455344a Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/20 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The movie Deepwater Horizon comes out on this Friday. So again we're going to take some time to look ahead at a movie. Before you go see the movie in theaters, let's take a few minutes to learn what happened before, during, and after the disaster so you'll know just how accurate Hollywood was during its retelling. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/ca08a419-7062-466f-8cc1-0e26faae9865 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/19 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite having an all-star cast and being based on a true story, most of the characters in the film didn't actually exist. Instead, Hollywood opted to merge together multiple people into a single character to help push the story forward while not having to deal with an ensemble cast in the hundreds. As I'm sure you can guess, this also forced them to change the story around from the way things really happened. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/711a0d24-bbfb-482e-9947-f2396710e48d Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/18 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Even though Argo starts off with text that says it's based on a true story, the movie was actually based primarily on two sources: a book by Tony Mendez, the CIA agent Ben Affleck plays, and a 2007 article on Wired by Joshuah Bearman. So how much of Argo is true? And how much of it was fictionalized for the film? Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/f6ae86e0-8a64-45d0-a2b3-c4931c3512cc Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/17 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pawn Sacrifice tells the story of one of the greatest chess players of all time—Bobby Fischer. How do you make the game of chess into an interesting story? With Bobby Fischer's life, you don't need to stretch it too far. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/c9febc84-e115-42ec-aecb-c9313316ef43 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/16 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ron Howard and Tom Hanks teamed up for their second of now four movies the duo have worked on together in 1995 with Apollo 13. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/79646d4b-573a-4e00-8213-783f2e402dd7 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/15 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lili Isle Elvenes, better known as Lili Elbe, was one of the first known recipients of a gender reassignment surgery. In 2015, her life was brought to the forefront of many people's minds when Alicia Vikander won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the film. Despite the film's success at the Academy Awards, there was a fair share of inaccuracies in the story on the big screen. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/b49c2cef-4d2e-45ca-8239-c91257753244 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/14 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Social Network tells the story behind one of the world's most popular websites, Facebook. It's got everything that makes for a great story--there's greed, corruption, lawsuits and Justin Timberlake. But how true is the depiction of the site's early days? Let's find out. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/4e34d776-989a-493f-85e3-8123225ddec3 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/13 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthropoid hits theaters on Friday. It's the story of how the Czechoslovakian government, forced into exile after the Germans occupied their homeland in 1938, tried to fight back and take down Reinhard Heydrich at the height of World War II. Learn the true story before you see the movie. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/352afdb3-6d6f-4e8c-9cd8-5d96d6406b22 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/12 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will Smith would say Ali was the film he was most proud of as an actor. And it tells a very important story of a true legend: Muhammad Ali. Although it wasn't a box office success by the numbers, Will Smith and Jon Voight would go on to be nominated for their own Academy Awards for the film for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/29246d58-9f5c-440b-ba87-27e1c2aec77a Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/11 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pain & Gain is the first comedy we've covered here on the show. It was also the first comedy for Michael Bay since another Miami-based story, Bad Boys II in 2003. Another first for Pain & Gain is that, unlike the Transformer series, it is Michael Bay's first movie with a shred of truth. But the real story is anything but a comedy. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/cbc78b1c-aebd-4c30-8c40-097fdcd7081f Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/10 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2007, director David Fincher helmed the movie simply entitled, Zodiac, which tells the thrilling story of a rash of killings in the 1960s and 70s. Despite the film's failure at the box office, the subject is one that seems to pique the public's interest whenever it's mentioned. In fact, it was just a few months ago during this year's presidential race in the United States when an internet meme led to a conspiracy that Republican Senator Ted Cruz was compared to an infamous serial killer known only as the Zodiac Killer. The conspiracy grew enough attention that Cruz's wife even replied to the comments, and of course she denied the claim. And while it's silly to assume Cruz, who was born in 1970, is a serial killer who has murders attributed to them going back as far as the late 1960s, the Zodiac Killer is one of those mysteries that keeps people wondering. Perhaps it's because, to this day, it's still unexplained. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/1a9fffab-7377-4d69-810a-621c1557c2ba Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/09 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2002, Steven Spielberg started filming the life of Frank Abagnale. Fortunately it only took about four months of filming for Spielberg to get the shots he needed. On Christmas Day of 2002, Spielberg's DreamWorks released Catch Me If You Can. The movie, which was directed by Spielberg himself, starred a young Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Abagnale along with other Hollywood stars such as Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken and Martin Sheen.  The film was a box office hit as it raked in over $160 million dollars. Frank Abagnale himself gave the film that was based on his life story some high praise -- but he was quick to point out there were plenty of inaccuracies. According to Frank, "it's important to understand that it is just a movie…not a biographical documentary." So who was Frank Abagnale? And what is the true story of one of the world's most prolific con artists? Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/09fb95b7-4603-4cf4-b398-921e39c22d6c Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/08 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Clancy is known for his captivating military stories with stunningly accurate technical details. Clancy's career started with a fascinating novel: The Hunt for Red October. The Hunt for Red October is based on the true story of a brilliant young political officer by the name of Valery Sablin. While Clancy was praised by military officers for its technical accuracy, as it turns out the story of Valery Sablin differs pretty significantly from Hollywood's version. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/fe5e3e62-edcc-4c09-a276-b7aabfcc3e06 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/07 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Next Friday, on June 24th, director Gary Ross, the three-time Academy Award nominated writer and director behind Seabiscuit, The Hunger Games and Pleasantville, has taken his place behind the camera once again in a movie he's written. This time Ross takes his talents back in time to tell the true true story of a farmer in Mississippi named Newton Knight. But how much of Free State of Jones is truth? Get to know the true story before you see the movie. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/845488dd-0253-4ebd-bbf6-f5b30b89475e Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/06 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This year, Zack Snyder directed the epic Batman v Superman superhero movie, but it wasn't his first foray into comics. In fact, that came in 2006 when he directed the epic retelling of Frank Miller's popular comic book, 300. The movie with the same name was a smash hit and became an instant classic as it told the story of the hero King Leonidas and his small band of 300 Spartans against an insurmountable horde of enemies. But we all know Synder's interpretation was based on Miller's comic, so how much of it was actually true? Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/8543948a-fc86-4e64-bb31-3b19000b9dbb Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/05 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eight years ago, in 2008, Ron Howard directed the Oscar-nominated retelling of what are still the most popular political interviews to ever air on national TV. Frost/Nixon tells the story of 12 interviews performed by British talk-show host David Frost with the former President Nixon. The interviews were performed three years after Nixon had made history by becoming the first United States president -- and only president -- to ever resign from office. Then, in the interviews, Nixon did something else a president never does -- admit guilt on national TV. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/d7f34754-d090-4b2f-b716-6ade89580728 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/04 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Benedict Cumberbatch and Kiera Knightley starred in 2014's The Imitation Game. Set in the midst of World War II, The Imitation Game tells the story of British mathematician Alan Turing and his quest to conquer the German Enigma code. While the movie did a great job relaying what it did, there's more to the story of Turing's amazing life and its incredibly sad end. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/062d83e9-20ac-44f0-aed3-b149aa290c3f Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/03 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On April 15th, Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson Day, in honor of the man who broke down racial barriers by becoming the first black player in the MLB. A few years ago, a movie named after Jackie's jersey number -- 42 -- was released to an extremely positive critical response. How much of the story was true and what was missing from the movie? We'll find out in this week's episode about the movie 42. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/dc9e54b6-946f-4af4-9d35-b3d40a0b40c4 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/02 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When a movie says it's based on a true story, how much of that is actually real? In our first episode we'll look at the true story behind 2015's blockbuster hit The Revenant. Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/2d02f0c8-2b9e-4b34-ac3d-3b18b8c43db8 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/01 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices