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"Fact or Fiction" Braveheart (TV Episode 2001) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Oct 5, 2019 · Here ten false historical facts in Braveheart, and ten true facts. 1# Wallace’s family The tall and strong William Wallace might have become the champion of the people, but certainly he wasn’t born in a ruinous thatched hut in the Scottish countryside.
- The Name!
- Wallace’s Childhood
- Wallace’s Wife
- Jus Primae Noctis
- The Dress Sense
- The Weapons
- The Blue Face Paint
- The Battle of Stirling Bridge
- The Battle of Falkirk
- Sir John de Graham
First off, the name of the film is Braveheart and the film is about William Wallace. Your average viewer would assume that Wallace himself was known as Braveheart. Unfortunately, if anybody is the “real” Braveheart then that would be King Robert the Bruce. After Robert died, his friend James Douglas took the King’s heart on crusade to honour his dy...
This is one thing we know very little about. The film portrays Wallace and his family as poor farmers living in a Highland glen. In reality, Wallace was the son of a minor nobleman, born in either Ellerslie or Elderslie in the Southwest of Scotland. The idea of his father and brother heading off to fight the occupying English while William was just...
If we give Blind Harry the benefit of the doubt then Wallace was indeed married. His wife was called Marion Braidfute but this was deliberately changed for the film to avoid any confusion with Robin Hood. While Marion’s murder didn’t start Wallace’s trouble with the English, it did allegedly draw things to a head. The story is that she was killed b...
The idea that King Edward of England introduced a law that meant nobles could sleep with their female subjects on their wedding night is a ridiculous myth. There are doubts that it happened anywhere in the world, but it certainly didn’t happen in Scotland.
Pretty short and sweet – while a form of tartan did exist back then, it didn’t look like this. The belted plaid that Mel Gibson and his pals wear didn’t come around until few hundred years later. On the other side, the English soldiers wouldn’t have been wearing matching royal uniforms either.
Wallace’s idea in the film to make big spears, twice as long as a man is actually very accurate. The Scots main tactic was to use incredibly long spears in tightly packed schiltron formations, and it worked to great effect. Also, the English army really did rely heavily on their cavalry and archers although the longbowmen are downplayed in the film...
Yes, it looks good in the film. No, it’s not accurate in any way. The idea comes from blue paint or swirling tattoos that some tribes living in Scotland allegedly wore into battle against the Romans. This was what earned themselves the Roman name Picti or painted people. Braveheart is around 1000 years too late for that.
Where was the bridge?! Of all the problems with Braveheart, this is the only one that I would declare as completely unforgiveable. Wallace’s most famous victory was achieved by waiting for just the right amount of the English army to cross the narrow bridge and then charging before they could form up. The English were caught completely unawares and...
Unlike in Braveheart, Wallace hadn’t really gone looking for a fight when Falkirk came around. He had been carefully avoiding battle when caught by an army led by King Edward. The Irish mutiny, while a funny moment in the film, just didn’t happen. The Scots stood in their tightly packed, hedgehog-like schiltrons defending a few unsuccessful charges...
Another odd omission from Braveheart is Wallace’s close friend Sir John de Graham of the Bright Sword. The film creates a great friendship with the fictional character Hamish, so it surprises me that Wallace’s real right hand man didn’t feature. Sir John died at the Battle of Falkirk and would even have been the perfect tragedy for a Hollywood film...
- Jus Primae Noctis. In the film’s opening act Edward Longshanks is seen invoking Kus primae Noctis, a medieval legal right which allowed nobles to have sexual relations with subordinate women on their wedding nights.
- Battle of Stirling Bridge. In Braveheart the Battle of Stirling Bridge, one of Wallace’s forces most momentous victories, is missing two key elements: rebellion leader Andrew de Moray and, perhaps more crucially, the bridge.
- The real Braveheart. The title itself has been tarred with the label of historically false. The “Brave Heart” is a title used to described Robert the Bruce.
- Wallace’s father. Wallace’s father’s name was Alan Wallace, not Malcolm, and he would not have been killed when Wallace was a boy, according to historian Gary Stewart.
One of the most common questions I'm asked is how factual Mel Gibson's portrayal of William Wallace was in the 1995 film Braveheart. The short answer is that is hasn't an iota of fact in it. The long answer appears below.
Dec 22, 2001 · Braveheart: With Craig Mair, Tony Robinson, David Ross, Fiona Watson. Tony Robinson explores the mysterious origins and story of William Wallace, whose historical legacy is memorialized in the Hollywood blockbuster Braveheart.
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Mar 12, 2019 · While Braveheart states that the reason Wallace attacked Lanark and killed the sheriff, William Heselrig, was that the sheriff had killed his wife, this seems an unlikely explanation as it doesn’t appear Wallace was married at the time.
