12 Years a Slave | Based on a True Story
by The Cynical Historian
The venerable movie, 12 Years a Slave, is based off of the 1853 memoir of the same name. Despite that, this movie still gets so much incorrect. Here’s another Based on a True Story where Hollywood just cannot grasp its own material.
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