Ancient empires on the silver screen
Medieval and Renaissance mix-ups
The wild West and Victorian eras
Modern history and the retro rewind
schopenhauer Jack Dawson's historical mistake about Lake Wissota in the movie Titanic
The movie Catch Me If You Can, set in the 1960s, features a FedEx shipping box that didn't exist until what year?
In the movie Apollo 13, set in 1970, what famous product's logo on a cassette tape is from the mid-1980s?
schopenhauer Spot the modern mistakes in historical movies to discover when famous inventions were actually made.
schopenhauer Indiana Jones films often feature travel maps showing countries that did not exist during the movies' eras.
Which country name appears on the travel map in Raiders of the Lost Ark (set in 1936) before its 1939 name change?
Which Queen song is performed in Bohemian Rhapsody during a 1974 scene, four years before its actual 1978 release?
schopenhauer Back to the Future Guitar
He's playing that fifty-eight Gibson! (that Gibson!) / Back in fifty-five, yeah-yeah! (fifty-five!)
schopenhauer The historical timeline of Queen songs in the movie Bohemian Rhapsody
schopenhauer The Queen biopic features the band performing a hit song years before they actually wrote it.
The 2007 film Zodiac, set in 1969, features a scene with a song by which artist that wasn't released until 1971?
Which man-made Wisconsin lake does Jack Dawson mention in Titanic, despite it not existing until 1917?
Titanic's fake lake: Jack Dawson mentions ice fishing on Lake Wissota, which wasn't created until five years after the ship sank.
In the 1994 film Forrest Gump, Forrest receives a letter from Apple Computer with a logo from which decade?
What year's model of the Millennium Falcon toy was accidentally used in Stranger Things, which was set in 1983?
A chronological inconsistency in which a person, object, or event is placed in the wrong time period. The television series Stranger Things, set in 1983, features a Volkswagen Cabrio model not manufactured until 1988.