Midway (1976) with Jon Parshall's Historical Commentary

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 co...

9 Jan 202318min

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 morehttps://links.boatspodc...

9 Jan 20231min

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 Str...

5 Jan 202340min

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 ...

17 Des 202247min

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/219guestDid you enjoy this episode? Le...

10 Des 202219min

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 ne...

2 Des 202252min

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 Mahara...

21 Nov 20221h 15min

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 w...

8 Nov 202258min