The popularity of historical dramas in film and on television has caused much controversy, as historians take issue with fictional scripts being passed off as fact, and treated as such by viewers lacking the specialist education to allow them to tell the difference. The Crown, much of which was pure invention, is an obvious example. But one apparently more insidious arrives in our cinemas this week. The Zone of Interest, directed by Jonathan Glazer, is very loosely based on the 2014 novel of the
The successor to big-hitter WW2 dramas Band of Brothers and The Pacific, Masters of the Air centres on the American bomber boys who came to England in 1943 to fight Nazi Germany. How real to life are the triumphs and disasters seen on screen? Historian and author Donald L Miller helps us uncover the true story
Reserved but well respected, Major Gale Cleven – alias Buck – was at the emotional heart of the 'Bloody Hundredth' whose missions against Nazi Germany in WW2 are dramatised in Apple TV+'s Masters of the Air
Pilot, party boy and maverick, Major John C Egan – widely known as Bucky – was one of the de facto the leaders of the 'Bloody Hundredth' whose exploits in WW2 form the focus of Apple TV+ drama Masters of the Air