[Jim P.]

'Braveheart' cracks me up. Bunch of tattooed ragamuffin 'Scottish' warriors, circa 100 AD (as depicted by that crazy, lunatic jackass Gibson) versus the 'modern' 13th century English - umm, Wallace was Scottish nobility, as were presumably the best of his forces, and, as such, would have been out-fitted in much the same arms and armour as his opponents. Of course outfitting in appropriate time-frame clothing, arms & armour has never been a Hollywood strongpoint - duh. At least, as a for instance, the movie 'The Four Feathers', for all its other faults, actually depicted infantry as forming in square when faced with a cavalry attack! Anybody ever see a shield wall formed in film about a 5th-10th century battle? Didn't think so.

Though very low-budget (i.e. battlefields with 2-300 guys versus 2-3000 and more), I always appreciated the UK attempts at doing battle scenes for the 'Sharpe's' series of books (Napoleonic battles in Portugal, Spain, along with Waterloo - great books too). Also add 'Zulu'.