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5. The Patriot Was Actually a Slave Owner

The Patriot
Mel in The Patriot

Oh look, it’s Mel again! Gibson directed another one of our inaccurate historical movies back in 2000. Mel portrayed a farmer turned Revolutionary War hero in The Patriot. In the film, Gibson’s character is an upstanding, intelligent family man, but in real life he was a slave-owner who didn’t get married until after the war. The man Gibson portrayed was actually guilty of raping and murdering native Cherokees.


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