Goofs

At 2 hours and 6 minutes, the position of the sketch artist in the window is inconsistent between shots.

65 minutes in, as Danton talks to Desmoulins by the fireplace, he picks up a poker, then in the very next shot it has disappeared and he picks it up again.

At 1 hour 42 minutes, Robespierre's position changes while Fouquier-Tinville talks to him in David's studio.

Robespierre tells Jacques Louis David to remove Fabre d'Englantine from the painting of the Tennis Court Oath. David objects, saying, "But he was there," but removes d'Englantine. In truth, d'Englantine did not take part in the Tennis Court Oath, since in 1789 he was not a deputy to the Estates General. Thus, the film falsifies history.

Many significant figures and events were presented inaccurately or not at all. Danton was presented as a drunk. Louis de Saint-Just, known at the time as the "Angel of Death" and the public face of the Reign of Terror, acted like a modern-day hippie. Much of the military history, such as the Civil War in the Vendée, was completely excluded, removing the Terror from its historical context. The film largely excludes the common people of France, despite the fact that the Revolution was a popular uprising.