When I was on holiday in France my family went skiing but I had a cold so I stayed behind and went to hire a film, looking for a documentary or, failing that, a film about a true story, I was offered the Titanic. Yes. Which version? The shop had three. Since I was home all day with nothing else to do, I watched all three, none of which contained the well known facts.
What about other famous characters, and incidents which never happened, love stories introduced to make films more appealing?
That statue of the native girl nicknamed Pocahontas, meaning playful, apparently never married the man whose life she apparently saved. She married somebody else. But she was a real person. She did marry and go to England. You can find the full stories of the characters behind the popular films of The Titanic, The Sound of Music and Pocahontas in Wikipedia, which cites various sources, and in the BBC bitesize summary, or the BBC full length version.
Statues and Sites To Visit
1 Statue of Pocahontas in Virginia, USA
2 Titanic Museum in Belfast Northern Ireland
Useful Websites About Famous Films, Events and Characters
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z9g2khv#zjkhqyc
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