Factual error: Inchtuthil, the fort attacked at the beginning of the film, was abandoned by AD 87, thirty years before the film is set in AD 117. It was also a legionary fortress, with space for several thousand men, not a small outpost as depicted here.
Necrothesp
8th Mar 2016
Centurion (2010)
8th Mar 2016
Centurion (2010)
Factual error: The film is set in AD 117. Agricola, depicted as Governor of Britain, died in AD 93.
3rd Feb 2016
Peaky Blinders (2013)
Episode #2.6 - S2-E6
Factual error: The field marshal is wearing a revolver to the Derby. British soldiers are only ever armed on duty, certainly not when attending social events. He also wears his Sam Browne outside his shoulder strap instead of beneath it; no officer would do this.
26th Jan 2016
Peaky Blinders (2013)
Other mistake: The Birmingham police officer, Moss, is still listed in the credits as Sergeant Moss. He held that rank in Season 1, but in Season 2 he wears inspector's rank insignia. Campbell does address him as Mr Moss, the correct title for an inspector.
26th Jan 2016
Peaky Blinders (2013)
Factual error: Major Campbell heads the Irish branch of the secret service, but reports to Winston Churchill, the Colonial Secretary. The Colonial Office had nothing to do with Ireland, which at that time was part of the United Kingdom.
26th Jan 2016
Peaky Blinders (2013)
Factual error: Michael's impending 18th birthday is often mentioned as the time he becomes an adult and can make his own decisions. The age of majority in 1922 (and until 1970) was 21.
12th Jan 2016
Mary Poppins (1964)
Factual error: The local police constable wears the divisional letter 'H'. H Division of the Metropolitan Police covered Whitechapel. While it is never specified where the upper middle-class Cherry Tree Lane is, it's certainly not in Whitechapel, which was a solidly working-class district in the heart of the East End. He also wears his letter and number on his helmet plate, a 19th century practice that had been abolished by 1910.
21st Dec 2015
Jekyll & Hyde (2015)
Factual error: 1-1 A couple of spelling errors. A "community center" in Ceylon, a British colony, using the American instead of the British spelling. And Columbo listed as the capital of Ceylon; it's Colombo.
21st Dec 2015
The Strain (2014)
Factual error: Abraham and Palmer visit what they describe as a nunnery. However, it is full of men and boys dressed as monks with not a woman in sight, although one novice does refer to the Mother Superior. No Roman Catholic monastery is mixed sex.
21st Dec 2015
The Strain (2014)
Factual error: In the 1960s Abraham says someone went to Belarus. The Soviet Republic (and the region in general) wasn't called Belarus in the 1960s and was never referred to as that; it was Byelorussia or White Russia until 1991.
16th Dec 2015
The Strain (2014)
Revealing mistake: The entire mobile phone network is supposedly down, yet in Grand Central we several times see a man chatting on his mobile.
16th Dec 2015
The Strain (2014)
Occultation - S1-E6
Factual error: Eichhorst seems to be unsure what his SS rank is. He is addressed as Standartenführer (Colonel) but wears the epaulettes of an Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant-Colonel) and the collar patch of a Sturmbannführer (Major). In addition, his other collar patch bears the standard SS lightning runes instead of the death's head of the Totenkopf concentration camp personnel.
14th Dec 2015
Homeland (2011)
Factual error: The Pakistan Air Force officer in the airport is listed in the credits as 'PAF Lieutenant' and is wearing the two pips of an army lieutenant. In fact, the PAF still uses RAF-style ranks, so he should be a Flying Officer, and the PAF also uses distinctive eight-pointed stars instead of pips.
14th Dec 2015
Homeland (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Lt Col Khan leans forward in the airport scene his epaulette can be seen to bear only the single pip of a second lieutenant. When he stands up again he is wearing the pip and emblem of a lieutenant-colonel once more.
14th Dec 2015
Homeland (2011)
Factual error: The Pakistan Army uses British-style rank insignia with the crown replaced with The Star and crescent of Pakistan. The ISI officers are all wearing another badge instead of The Star and crescent. They are also wearing black gorget (collar) patches, whereas they should be wearing scarlet. Lt Col Khan and a number of other more junior officers should not be wearing gorget patches at all, as they are restricted to full colonels and above. ISI officers do not have a separate uniform; they wear ordinary military uniform if they are entitled to it.
14th Dec 2015
Homeland (2011)
Character mistake: Carrie tells Aayan that she can arrange for him to study at the Royal College of Physicians. The college isn't a medical school; it's a professional body.
20th Nov 2015
The Returned (2012)
Factual error: On the missing poster in the hospital, one of the gendarmes is said to hold the rank of Brigadier. This is a Police Nationale rank equivalent to sergeant; it is not used by the Gendarmerie Nationale, since all ordinary gendarmes are equivalent in rank to sergeant. The lowest supervisory rank in the Gendarmerie is Maréchal de Logis-Chef (staff sergeant).
12th Oct 2015
Midwinter of the Spirit (2015)
Factual error: Possibly a mistake from the novel on which the series is based, but although he later became Bishop of Hereford, St Thomas Cantilupe wasn't baptised in Herefordshire. He came from Buckinghamshire.
11th Oct 2015
Legend (2015)
Factual error: During the trial the judge uses a gavel. English judges have never used gavels.
9th Oct 2015
The Longest Day (1962)
Character mistake: According to the subtitles, when the landings begin General Marcks asks his aide to get General Pemsel at 5th Army on the phone. Pemsel was chief of staff of 7th Army, as the caption correctly states when he first appears. 5th Army was disbanded in 1939.
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