After Watergate, Richard Nixon Created the Career Path for All Ex-Presidents
On August 9, 1974, Richard Nixon became the first and only U.S. president to resign from office—to avoid almost certain impeachment. Utterly disgraced, he was forced to flee the White House with a sma...
5 Sep 201937min
Women Warriors: How Females Have Fought in Combat Since History's Beginning
From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, battle was not a metaphor for women across history.But for the most part, women warriors have been p...
3 Sep 201950min
Hollywood Hates History, Part 8: Dracula Untold (2014)
Dracula Untold has absolutely no right being as historically accurate as it is. Made in 2014, this was Universal Studio's first attempt to use the intellectual property of their 1930s monster movies a...
29 Aug 201952min
Hollywood Hates History, Part 7: The Alamo (2004)
In the final two episodes of this mini-series, Steve and Scott talk about movies that actually do a good job of conveying history, or at least as much as possible when handled by Hollywood producers e...
27 Aug 201945min
Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 8
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24 Aug 201910min
Hollywood Hates History, Part 6: The Scarlet Letter (1995)
Demi Moore did not win any Academy Awards for her portrayal of 17th-century Puritan Hester Prynne. But she did succeed in transforming Nathaniel Hawthorne's famous moral drama into a Cinemax movie tha...
22 Aug 201945min
Hollywood Hates History, Part 5—The Conqueror (1956)
In our second John Wayne film, we watch the Duke put on a fake fu manchu mustache and yellow face makeup to play the role he was born NOT to play: Genghis Khan. Scott and Steve discuss the infamous fi...
20 Aug 201942min
Hollywood Hates History, Part 4—The Green Berets (1968)
John Wayne was 62 years old when he tried to portray a fit Vietnam War Green Beret colonel, but the obvious age gap isn't the only head scratcher in this film. Released in 1968, the film was Lyndon B....
15 Aug 201931min
