Based on a True Story

Today we'll learn about the classic 1970 film Waterloo and its depiction of Napoleon's final defeat. Joining us to discuss the historical accuracy of Waterloo is historian and professor at Louisiana State University, Alexander Mikaberidze. Alexander has also written numerous books on the Napoleonic era, including his latest which is called The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History.Learn more about the true story with Alexander's books The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History: https://links.boatspodcast.com/174globalhistory The Battle of the Berezina: Napoleon's Great Escape: https://links.boatspodcast.com/174greatescape The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon Against Kutuzov: https://links.boatspodcast.com/174borodino Russian Eyewitnesses of the Campaign of 1807: https://links.boatspodcast.com/174eyewitnesses The Russian Officer Corps of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: 1792-1815: https://links.boatspodcast.com/174officercorps Find more of Alexander's books at: https://links.boatspodcast.com/174guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/778ccefa-fc07-495a-8837-2eb7918b9f2c Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/174 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the movie Donnie Brasco we see the story of an FBI agent who goes into deep cover infiltrating the New York mafia families. The truth is Donnie Brasco was the under-cover name for Joe Pistone. He joins us today along with actor and Joe's co-host on the Deep Cover Podcast, Leo Rossi.Learn more about the true storyFollow Joe and Leo's podcast Deep Cover Podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/173guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/98032571-873a-4e2e-8a67-213402fcfde3 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/173 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How much of 2014's The Alamo really happened? To help us separate fact from fiction in the movie, we’ll be chatting with professor, historian and author Stephen L. Hardin. Stephen was also a historical consultant on the movie we’ll be chatting about today, so we’ll get some extra insight into the production of the film as well.Learn more about the true story with Stephen's books Lust for Glory: An Epic Story of Early Texas and the Sacrifice That Defined a Nation https://links.boatspodcast.com/172lustforglory Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 https://links.boatspodcast.com/172texianiliad Texian Macabre: A Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early Houston https://links.boatspodcast.com/172texianmacabre Houston Displayed, or, Who Won the Battle of San Jacinto? https://links.boatspodcast.com/172sanjacinto Find more of Stephen's work on his website: https://links.boatspodcast.com/172guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/c4aeba38-92b0-4fff-8121-253d90840a30 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/172 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Wake Island was attacked on the same day as Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 (December 8th on Wake Island across the International Date Line). A few months later, on August 11th, 1942, Paramount Pictures released the war propaganda film Wake Island.To help us separate fact from fiction in the movie, we’ll be chatting with Professor Gregory J. W. Urwin from Temple University. Gregory is a military historian who has written two fantastic books about Wake, including Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island, which is a book that many consider to be the definitive account of the battle.Learn more about the true story Get Gregory's book Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island: https://links.boatspodcast.com/171book Or his book Victory in Defeat: The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity, 1941-1945: https://links.boatspodcast.com/171captivity Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/a4050cbc-b068-4369-871b-43021f5eb78e Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/171 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How historically accurate was 2012's Lincoln? To help us separate fact from fiction in the movie, we’ll be chatting with Dr. Brian Dirck, who is a Professor of History at Anderson University and author of multiple books on President Lincoln, including Lincoln and the Constitution, The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death and Lincoln the Lawyer.Learn more about the true story Pick up Brian's book The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death: https://links.boatspodcast.com/170book Another of Brian's books Lincoln and the Constitution: https://links.boatspodcast.com/170constitution And Lincoln the Lawyer: https://links.boatspodcast.com/170lawyer Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/0695cd18-fb40-4b73-ad3b-2166b00eb7b9 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/170 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

1989's Glory is currently the most requested movie to cover. Gregory J. W. Urwin is an author, military historian, and Professor at Temple University. He'll join us today to separate fact from fiction in Glory.Learn more about the true story A Brave Black Regiment by Louis F. Emilio with an introduction by Gregory J. W. Urwin: https://links.boatspodcast.com/169emilio Black Flag Over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War, Edited by Gregory J. W. Urwin: https://links.boatspodcast.com/169book Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, edited by Russell Duncan: https://links.boatspodcast.com/169shaw A Voice of Thunder: A Black Soldier's Civil War, edited by Donald Yacovone: https://links.boatspodcast.com/169yacovone On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front, edited by Virginia Adams: https://links.boatspodcast.com/169adams Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/9e2ad4e6-946f-4019-85e4-dacf54db8ee9 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/169 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Back on episode #152 of Based on a True Story, we covered season 1 of the History Channel's Project Blue Book. Today, Rob Kristoffersen comes back on the podcast to talk about the events we saw in season 2.Learn more about the true storyFollow Rob's podcast Our Strange Skies: https://links.boatspodcast.com/168guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/2e5305dd-0616-47ea-b24a-359821c15e66 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/168 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dr. Clayborne Carson is the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor of History at Stanford University and the founding director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford. He joins us today to compare history with the 2014 movie Selma. Learn more about the true story Listen to Dr. Carson's podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/167podcast Read the Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr edited by Dr. Carson: https://links.boatspodcast.com/167book Find thousands of documents, photos and more at the King Institute: https://links.boatspodcast.com/167guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/a30b4a67-5557-4816-a378-dbd5a8cade97 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/167 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Chris Wimmer is the host and producer of the extremely popular Legends of the Old West and Infamous America podcasts. He joins us today to compare history with the 2007 movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.Learn more about the true storyFollow Chris's podcast Legends of the Old West: https://links.boatspodcast.com/166guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/d7181892-f71b-4ae7-8716-2071e974502c Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/166 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Eric Marcus is a journalist, founder and host of the Making Gay History Podcast. He joins us today to compare history with the 2015 Roland Emmerich movie Stonewall.Learn more about the true story Follow the Stonewall season of Eric's Making Gay History Podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/165guest Stonewall Fact Sheet: https://stonewall50consortium.org/stonewallfactsheet.pdf Stonewall First Anniversary Pride March Fact Sheet: https://stonewall50consortium.org/pridemarchfactsheet.pdf Making Gay History Podcast Stonewall Season: https://makinggayhistory.com/season-five/ "Stonewall: The Making of a Monument" NY Times Op-Doc: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/opinion/gay-pride-stonewall.html Stonewall National Monument 3-D Tour: https://cyark.org/projects/stonewall-national-monument/Guided-Tour/snm-en Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter (the definitive book on the Stonewall uprising): https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9780312671938 “The Stonewall You Know is a Myth”: https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000006322550/stonewall-lgbt-pride-anniversary.html Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/0bc7c995-e246-4321-9cd6-14ff1f57113d Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/165 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.