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Poll: Can History Spoil?

Many people find spoilers to be crimes against cinemanity. Giving away key plot points can ruin viewers first time experience of watching a given feature film or documentary.

But can you really spoil a feature film or documentary based on the lives of historical persons and events?

Come to the front of our history club and give us your presentation on this bookish of subjects!

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Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies (2015)

Yes. Not everyone is an expert in history. Even professional historians can not know everything that happened in human history. Finding out what happens in history and a given story of historical events is actually part of the fun.

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Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, and Billy Magnussen in Bridge of Spies (2015)

The point is moot. Feature length movies usually are made for entertainment purposes. Creative licenses have been taken by the filmmakers of said project.
Many historically movies are far from accurate. Dialogue has to be created where none/little has not been recorded. Some parts of a given story are given more emphasis in order to bring more drama or clarification to a complicated story.

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Tom Hanks and Scott Shepherd in Bridge of Spies (2015)

No. You can not intentionally or accidentally spoil feature films or documentaries based on past events and/or life stories of real life notable persons.
The plot points of a given history based documentary or feature film or biopic are technically public record. Ignorance of the events of a given historical period on which a feature film or documentary is based is no excuse for the being ahistorical in the first place.

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Beavis and Butt-Head (1993)

Ugh! History is for losers! I never watch documentaries or works of historical fiction. Spoil away if you like. I ain't watching that stuff in the first place.

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