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History vs. Hollywood was a television show on the History Channel in the United States. On the show, experts are interviewed on the historical accuracy of a film that is based on a historical event. For example, the movie The Last Samurai was featured in one episode in which military historian Geoffrey Wawro, professor of history at the University of North Texas, and director of the university's Barsanti Military History Center, compared the movie with the actual events. On the show the expert guests discuss the factual accuracy of the film as well as the everyday objects that a person of the particular time period would have seen. In some episodes an expert or the host will go on a journey to the actual historical sites depicted in the film, or interview someone who witnessed the event firsthand. In each of the more than dozen episodes both expert guests and filmmakers will discuss the historical accuracy of the film dramatized.
Original Release
01/22/2001 on HIST
US Release
01/22/2001
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Burt Reynolds | Narrator |
| Josh Binswanger | Self - Host |
| Richard D. Zanuck | Self |
| Geoffrey Wawro | Self |
| Douglas E. McCabe | Self - Curator, Cornelius Ryan Collection |
| Elmo Williams | Self |
| Buddy Elias | Self - Anne Frank's Cousin |
| T. Moffatt Burriss | Self - Author of 'Strike and Hold: A Memoir of the 82nd Airborne in World War II' |
| Victoria Ryan Bida | Self - Daughter of Cornelius Ryan |
| Kyung Moon Hwang | Self - Professor of Korean History, USC |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | The Last Samurai | Monday, 10 November 2003 |
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Directors
Writers
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Burt Reynolds | Narrator |
| Josh Binswanger | Self - Host |
| Richard D. Zanuck | Self |
| Geoffrey Wawro | Self |
| Douglas E. McCabe | Self - Curator, Cornelius Ryan Collection |
| Elmo Williams | Self |
| Buddy Elias | Self - Anne Frank's Cousin |
| T. Moffatt Burriss | Self - Author of 'Strike and Hold: A Memoir of the 82nd Airborne in World War II' |
| Victoria Ryan Bida | Self - Daughter of Cornelius Ryan |
| Kyung Moon Hwang | Self - Professor of Korean History, USC |
| Eva Schloss | Self - Otto Frank's Stepdaughter |
| Robert Altman | Self |
| William Goldman | Self |
| Jon Blair | Self - Documentary Filmmaker |
| Donald Goldstein | Self - professor, University of Pittsburgh |
| Terence Marsh | Self |
| Darrilyn Zanuck DePineda | Self - Daughter of Darryl Zanuck |
| Norman T. Hatch | Self - former director for Defense Information |
| David Barnouw | Self - WWII Historian |
| Elliott Gould | Self |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Kevin Burns | Executive Producer |
| Susan Werbe | Executive Producer |
| Charlie Maday | Executive Producer |
| Erika Schroeder | Producer |
| Scott Hartford | Producer |
| Michael D. Stevens | Producer |
| Elizabeth Cook | Producer |
| Rick Davis | Producer |
| Frankie Glass | Producer |
| Micah Joyce | Producer |
| Brent Zacky | Producer |
| Danya Berman | Producer |
| Stacy Shapiro Mello | Producer |
| Anthony Giacchino | Producer |
Editors
Bryan Richert, Scott B. Morgan, Ben Bulatao, Paula S. Vannucci, William Miller
