Based on a True Story

By Dan LeFebvre

We've all seen movies that claim to be 'based on a true story', but have you ever wondered how accurate they are? That's what we'll find out as we compare Hollywood with history.... more

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November 18, 2020Lincoln with Dr. Brian Dirck
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.

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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
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56min
November 05, 2020Glory with Gregory J. W. Urwin
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.

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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
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1h 22min
October 21, 2020Project Blue Book Season 2 with Rob Kristoffersen
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.

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Follow Rob's podcast Our Strange Skies: https://links.boatspodcast.com/168guest
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1h 23min
October 06, 2020Selma with Dr. Clayborne Carson
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
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54min
September 24, 2020The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford with Chris Wimmer
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.

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Follow Chris's podcast Legends of the Old West: https://links.boatspodcast.com/166guest
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1h 17min
September 08, 2020Stonewall with Eric Marcus
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.

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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
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1h 8min
August 27, 2020Windtalkers with Judith Avila
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

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Get Judith and Chester Nez's book Code Talker: https://links.boatspodcast.com/164guest
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1h 2min
August 12, 2020Patton with Furman Daniel
Author Furman Daniel joins us today to separate fact from fiction in the classic World War II film Patton.

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Get Furman's book Patton: Battling with History: https://links.boatspodcast.com/163guest
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1h 23min
July 30, 2020Operation Finale
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.

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59min
July 14, 2020Just Mercy with Erica Kelley
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.

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Listen to Erica's episode about the true story: https://links.boatspodcast.com/161guestepisode
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1h 11min

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