In gladiator 2 Denzel says 'hose him off' but they wouldn't have had hoses of any kind, it would've been pipes so he should have said 'pipe this guy off'

Whenever nobles tell stoopid peasants how to do basics in order to justify (to the audience) why they're in charge because they're so smart:

• In Bridgerton, Duke Hastings returns to his manor to find it in disarray. He tells his peasants they have to let land lay in fallow so the ground can restore nutrients. The concept of fallow land was thousands of years old at this point, and even the 3 field system was 800 years old in Europe.

• In Kingdom of Heaven, John of Ibelin (a French blacksmith) explains to native Palestinians how to irrigate their farmlands. Europeans learned irrigation from Arabs, not the other way around.

• In a later season of Game of Thrones, Lady Sansa commands her soldiers to wear furs between their skin and armor so the metal doesn't sap their heat in winter. She tells this to soldiers from the land where winter lasts years.

Battles portrayed as disorganised melee fighting instead of formation fighting.

European women didn’t really start wearing underwear until the 19th century. I haven’t really observed any books or films messing this up but I still think it’s one of those amazing weird historical facts that few people are aware of.

Saying “fire!” when all you have are bows and arrows that aren’t on fire.

Still upset that we didn’t get historically accurate armor in the odyssey which I haven’t even seen yet.

Making historical characters lie to the audience so that the audience doesn’t hate them (Lawrence of Arabia knew he was fucking over the Arabs but the movie goes out of its way to make him seem clueless about this even though the film also makes him out to be a tactical and strategic genius).

Any dinosaur thing that has flowers or grass before the late Cretaceous

I would also say having dinosaurs from different periods living at the same time, but that is not a small inaccuracy. Stegosaurus lived further away in time from T. rex than even us!

The monkey from Aladdin wearing a fez, fezes are like 1800s stuff rifles were used when monkeys wore fezes.

One from my dad: in the movie Glory, the final scene where they assault the fort. My dad grew up obsessed with Civil War battles and instantly pointed out that the assault was being made from the wrong direction. He paused the vhs and pointed to the position of the sun and said it was backwards, they had approached from the other cardinal direction in reality. He also had a few things to say about the arms and tactics used but it's been so long I've forgotten them

The opening text in Braveheart says Edward I "Longshanks" invaded Scotland in 1280 after the Scotttish king died. In reality, the king died in 1286, and Edward didn't take over until 1292, then precipitating the First Scottish War of Independence. Also, the lack of a bridge at the Battle of Sterling Bridge was pretty silly in hindsight.

No Country For Old Men:

• Anton Chighur uses a Gen 2 Glock 19 in one scene. This is anachronistic because the movie takes place at some point in the year 1980. Glock handguns were introduced into Austrian military service in 1982, became available for purchase by civilians starting in 1983, and were introduced to North America in 1985. Furthermore, the Glock 19 specifically was not produced until 1988.

• In another scene Anton Chighur uses an Interdynamic KG-99 that seems to have been converted to full auto, meaning it's possibly supposed to be a TEC-9 in the context of the scene (the McCarthy novel calls it a TEC-9). The KG-99 was introduced in 1982, and the TEC-9 was introduced in1984.

Shutter Island:

• Leonardo Dicaprio's character (Edit: Ben Kingsley) uses the term "zombie" at one point to describe the effects of a lobotomy. This is anachronistic because the film is set in 1954. It wasn't until the film Night of the Living Dead in 1969 did the term come to mean a mindless, shambling corpse. In 1954 the term zombie would have been more associated with Voodoo and witchcraft, as in a mind controlled servant magically bound to a sorceror.

Words and phrases that didn't exist yet. Like: "bleed out" used by ordinary people in the 1970s or even before. I don't know how long normies have used the term but my wild guess is the 1990s maybe.

Ninja edit. Stranger Things had stuff like: "trust issues", "stay frosty", "I think I just threw up in my mouth." etc. I stopped making a list because I tried to ignore all of them.

Lu Bu was:

1. Not a real historical figure in the "high-ranking warlord" sense
2. Only slightly above average height
3. Not some warrior demigod with a fuckass halberd (although he was allegedly a pretty decent shot with a bow)

Fuckin' Luo Guanzhong trying to turn everyone into a manga badass, and glazing the Shu Han kingdom when they really didn't deserve it

In The Odyssey, Matt Damon does his trick shot into a sheet of chipboard

Japanese imagined western fantasy transposes a lot without realizing it, characters saying itadakimasu before meals, and the mages in witch hat atelier keep ingredients in square drawer Chinese medicine cabinets, and they describe ordinary ink as using wood soot (Japanese ink is made this way) rather than oak gall.

All of 10,000 BC

Off the top of my head:

• Horses weren't domesticated yet

• Mammoths were already extinct (at least in Egypt)

• No one was building pyramids

Also I don't know if this counts but it really bothers me when a movie is set in a very particular place but shot in a completely different biome. The most egregious examples I can think of are:

• Diamonds Are Forever, which was filmed entirely in Nevada, but is partially set in South Africa. Like dude I can tell that's the same desert you filmed like 10 minutes ago, don't try and tell me it's the Kalahari or whatever.

• Alien vs. Predator 2: Requiem: besides being a terrible film that shits all over the Alien and Predator franchises, it expects us to believe that a temperate rain forest in British Columbia full of ferns and shit is fucking Colorado.

Do biopics count?

In Bohemian Rhapsody (it sucks btw, I don’t recommend it) Queen play Fat Bottomed Girls (from 1978) on their 1974 tour. Freddie Mercury is also diagnosed with HIV in 1985 in that film. He was diagnosed in 1987 in real life.