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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 Jess...

24 Sep 20201h 11min

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.Learn more about the true story Foll...

8 Sep 20201h 1min

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 Memoi...

27 Aug 202056min

Author Furman Daniel joins us today to separate fact from fiction in the classic World War II film Patton.Learn more about the true storyGet Furman's book Patton: Battling with History: https://links....

12 Aug 20201h 16min

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 fi...

30 Juli 202053min

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.Learn more about the true story Listen to Erica's episo...

14 Juli 20201h 5min

Today marks the 157th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863).How much of the movie's depiction of the battle is historically accurate? I'm joined by Jim Hessler and Eric Lindblade to...

1 Juli 20201h 19min

June 6th, 1944. D-Day.Fast forward 76 years and today, June 6th, 2020, we'll chat with author and historian Marty Morgan to separate fact from fiction in one of the most popular movies depicting D-Day...

6 Juni 20202h 4min