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** He goes nuts at ''Film/{{Apocalypto}}'' (also another Mel Gibson film), which while accurate in some ways in portraying the Mayan civilization, gets some things wrong like how the protagonists have never seen a Mayan city despite Mayan cities were everywhere, a girl suffering from smallpox despite smallpox not appearing in the Americas until the Europeans arrived, the Mayan practicing human sacrifices despite it actually being the Aztecs who practiced human sacrifices, and the finally, the one that broke the camel's back and angers Nick the most was [[spoiler:the final scene of the movie of the arrival of the Spanish, something that would never happen until 600 years later, which by that point the Mayan civilization had collapsed.]]

** One film that pisses him the most is ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', since not only is the film historically inaccurate and lies to the audience by claiming the story is true, it also uses HollywoodTactics like how the Scots wearing no armor but kilts were able to defeat the English who had armor, a bad romance plot, the director taking jabs on the English every chance he got like the Scots and Irish joining forces against them and the film is disrespectful to both the English and the Scots by ruining William Wallace character (this is because while Nick is English, he is also Scottish from his father side of family who are from Clan Robertson, hence why he makes a big deal with this movie). You can tell how much he hated this movie by the ClusterFBomb he gives.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Despite the many faults he finds in Film/{{Alexander}}, Nick praises Creator/OliverStone for portraying UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat as a bisexual despite backlash by some homophobic protesters during the film's release.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Nick also tackles examples of these, most notably the treatment of the British in ''Film/ThePatriot''.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Another thing that Nick doesn't like, since it hides the fact the past wasn't that great for some people. For example, one of the wives of the soldiers in ''Film/WeWereSoldiers'' who's white is shocked to learn stores outside of the Army base practice segregation. However, something like that should not have been unknown to her, since the movie is set during the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement, where the news reported about it.

* BerserkButton: For Nick, it's Films that are Historically Inaccurate due to the creators not doing research or they didn't care, abusing the ArtisticLicenseHistory trope and putting in Idiot plotlines with Creator/MelGibson being the most guilty of this.
** One film that pisses him the most is Film/{{Braveheart}} since not only is the film Historically Inaccurate and lies to the audience by claiming the story is true, it also uses HollywoodTactics like how the Scots wearing no armor but kilts were able to defeat the English who had armor, a bad romance plot, the director taking jabs on the English every chance he got like the Scots and Irish joining forces against them and the film is disrespectful to both the English and the Scots by ruining William Wallace character (This is because while Nick is English, he is also Scottish from his father side of family who are from Clan Robertson, hence why he makes a big deal with this movie). You can tell how much he hated this movie by the ClusterFBomb he gives.
** He goes nuts at Film/{{Apocalypto}} (also another Mel Gibson film) which while accurate in some ways in portraying the Mayan civilization, gets some things wrong like how the protagonists have never seen a Mayan city despite Mayan cities were everywhere, a girl suffering from smallpox despite smallpox would not appear in South America until the Europeans arrived, the Mayan practicing human sacrifices despite it's actually the Aztecs who practice human sacrifices and the finally the one that broke the camel's back and angers Nick the most was [[spoiler:the final scene of the movie of the arrival of the Spanish, something that would never happen until 500 years later which by that point the Mayan civilization had collapsed.]]

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Another thing that Nick doesn't like since it hides the fact the past wasn't that great for some people. For example, one of the wives of the soldiers in Film/WeWereSoldiers whose White is shocked to learn stores outside of the Army Base practices Segregation. However, something like should have not been oblivious to her since the movie it set during the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement where the news reported about it.

* AdmiringTheAbomination: At the start of the ''Film/ThreeHundred'' review, Nick states that he is fascinated by the history of Sparta despite disliking [[TheSpartanWay its cruel society]].

* BerserkButton: For Nick, it's Films that are Historically Inaccurate due to the creators not doing research or they didn't care, abusing the ArtisticLicenseHistory trope and putting in Idiot plotlines. One film that pisses him the most is Film/{{Braveheart}} since not only is the film Historically Inaccurate and lies to the audience by claiming the story is true, it also uses HollywoodTactics like how the Scots wearing no armor but kilts were able to defeat the English who had armor, a bad romance plot, the director taking jabs on the English every chance he got like the Scots and Irish joining forces against them and the film is disrespectful to both the English and the Scots by ruining William Wallace character (This is because while Nick is English, he is also Scottish from his father side of family who are from Clan Robertson, hence why he makes a big deal with this movie). You can tell how much he hated this movie by the ClusterFBomb he gives.

'''History Buffs''' is a YouTube series hosted by Nick Hodges which evaluates the accuracy of historical feature films. It generally deals with how filmmakers utilize the ArtisticLicenseHistory trope and how this can be a good or bad thing, often providing proper context to events that Hollywood has ignored.

* AnachronismStew: The presence of turkeys in Spain at the start of ''FourteenNinetyTwoConquestOfParadise'', even though the continent the turkeys are from hasn't been discovered yet.

* BrickJoke: Used with clips from the "shine box" scene in ''GoodFellas'' to make fun of JoePesci's rap song (yes, you read that right).

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Nick is disgusted by the portrayal of ChristopherColumbus in ''FourteenNinetyTwoConquestOfParadise''. Contrary to the film's depiction of Columbus as a benevolent rogue and visionary, Nick rightfully points to abundant evidence that the real Columbus was a borderline AxeCrazy war criminal and profiteer. He is also baffled that people still insist Columbus was a hero despite his genocidal actions and the fact that he neither discovered the Americas or proved the Earth was round.
** Also at issue is the treatment of the American Revolution in ''ThePatriot'', especially where slaves are concerned. The movie suggests that GeorgeWashington's promise to free black men who fought for the Revolution embodied the American ideal of equality, when in fact the Americans were desperate to counteract a similar offer made to the slaves by the British and stop them from gaining an advantage. Not only did American ideals not apply to non-whites at the time of the Revolution, but most of the black men who fought for the Americans ended up never being freed. Creator/MelGibson's character Benjamin Martin technically counts, as one of the inspirations for the character, Francis Marion, was a slave-owner whose slaves fled his plantation and enlisted with the British... which, as Nick points out, says a lot about the man.
** UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat gets a couple of ones by omission in OliverStone's ''Film/{{Alexander}}'', most notably the incident where he marches his men back to Babylon through the perilous Gedrosian desert and ends up losing 12,000 men. The film depicts this as a blunder made by Alexander, when most scholars agree that Alexander was deliberately punishing his men for threatening to revolt over not being able to return home.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Nick also tackles examples of these, most notably the treatment of the British in ''ThePatriot''.

** AlexanderTheGreat gets a couple of ones by omission in OliverStone's ''Film/{{Alexander}}'', most notably the incident where he marches his men back to Babylon through the perilous Gedrosian desert and ends up losing 12,000 men. The film depicts this as a blunder made by Alexander, when most scholars agree that Alexander was deliberately punishing his men for threatening to revolt over not being able to return home.

** Also at issue is the treatment of the American Revolution in ''ThePatriot'', especially where slaves are concerned. The movie suggests that GeorgeWashington's promise to free black men who fought for the Revolution embodied the American ideal of equality, when in fact the Americans were desperate to counteract a similar offer made to the slaves by the British and stop them from gaining an advantage. Not only did American ideals not apply to non-whites at the time of the Revolution, but most of the black men who fought for the Americans ended up never being freed.
*** MelGibson's character Benjamin Martin technically counts, as one of the inspirations for the character, Francis Marion, was a slave-owner whose slaves fled his plantation and enlisted with the British... which, as Nick points out, says a lot about the man.

* TheSpartanWay: In the ''Film/ThreeHundred'' review, Nick goes through Sparta's child-rearing practices in detail.

* TheSpartanWay: In the Film/ThreeHundred review, Nick goes through Sparta's child-rearing practices in detail.

* AdmiringTheAbomination: At the start of the ''Film/{{300}}'' review, Nick states that he is fascinated by the history of Sparta despite disliking [[TheSpartanWay its cruel society]].

* TheSpartanWay: In the Film/{{300}} review, Nick goes through Sparta's child-rearing practices in detail.

* AdmiringTheAbomination: At the start of the ''Film/{{300}}'' review, Nick states that he is fascinated by the history of Sparta despite disliking [TheSpartanWay its cruel society].

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Nick also tackles examples of these, most notably the treatment of the British in ''ThePatriot''.

** AlexanderTheGreat gets a couple of ones by omission in OliverStone's ''Film/{{Alexander}}'', most notably the incident where he marches his men back to Babylon through the perilous Gedrosian desert and ends up losing 12,000 soldiers. The film depicts this as a blunder made by Alexander, when most scholars agree that Alexander was deliberately punishing his men for threatening to revolt over not being able to return home.

** AlexanderTheGreat gets a couple of ones by omission in OliverStone's ''Film/{{Alexander}}'', most notably the incident where he marches his men back to Babylon through the perilous Gedrosian desert and ended up losing 12,000 soldiers. The film depicts this as a blunder made by Alexander, when most scholars agree that Alexander was deliberately punishing his men for threatening to revolt over not being able to return home.

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: Tavington's interest in settling in Ohio in ''ThePatriot'', even though Ohio still legally belonged to the Native Americans at the time the film was set.

* BrickJoke: Used with clips from the shinebox scene in ''GoodFellas'' to make fun of JoePesci's rap song (yes, you read that right).

'''History Buffs''' is a YouTube series hosted by Nick Hodges which evaluates the accuracy of HistoricalDramas. It generally deals with how filmmakers utilize the ArtisticLicenseHistory trope and how this can be a good or bad thing, often providing proper context to events that Hollywood has ignored.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Nick is disgusted by the portrayal of ChristopherColumbus in ''FourteenNinetyTwoConquestOfParadise''. Contrary to the film's depiction of Columbus as a benevolent rogue and visionary, Nick rightfully points to abundant evidence that the real Columbus that a borderline AxeCrazy war criminal and profiteer. He is also baffled that people still insist that Columbus was a hero despite his genocidal actions and the fact that he neither discovered the Americas or proved the Earth was round.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Nick is disgusted by the portrayal of ChristopherColumbus in ''FourteenNinetyTwoConquestOfParadise''. Contrary to the film's depiction of Columbus as a benevolent rogue and visionary, Nick rightfully points to abundant evidence that the real Columbus that a borderline AxeCrazy war criminal and profiteer. He is also baffled that people still insist that Columbus was a hero despite his actions and the fact that he neither discovered the Americas or proved the Earth was round.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Nick is disgusted by the portrayal of ChristopherColumbus in ''[FourteenNinetyTwoConquestOfParadise 1492: Conquest of Paradise]''. Contrary to the film's depiction of Columbus as a benevolent rogue and visionary, Nick rightfully points to abundant evidence that the real Columbus that a borderline AxeCrazy war criminal and profiteer. He is also baffled that people still insist that Columbus was a hero despite his actions and the fact that he neither discovered the Americas or proved the Earth was round.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Nick is disgusted by the portrayal of ChristopherColumbus in ''1492ConquestOfParadise''. Contrary to the film's depiction of Columbus as a benevolent rogue and visionary, Nick rightfully points to abundant evidence that the real Columbus that a borderline AxeCrazy war criminal and profiteer. He is also baffled that people still insist that Columbus was a hero despite his actions and the fact that he neither discovered the Americas or proved the Earth was round.