13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Factual error: The 2 C-class Mercedes Benz' they have in the CIA compound are the newer body styles that came out the year they were filming the movie. The Benghazi attack happened in 2012, the C-class had a different body style then.

Factual error: When the analysts at the CIA Annex are discussing where the GRS operators are, the map they are looking at is not the actual Benghazi compound.

DaveT319

Continuity mistake: During the first firefight with GRS at the CIA annex, Oz is firing and it pans in front of him, where we see his Night Vision Goggles have been hit and broken in half. The next shot is when he gets shot and shows his goggles getting destroyed.

Matdan97

Continuity mistake: At 8:40 PM on September 11th, the sun has not set. The sun would have set over an hour before on that date. In fact, the sun would never be shining that late; sunset on the longest day of the year is around 8:20 PM. (00:39:38)

Factual error: The movie is set in 2012. The S class Mercedes has a stereo camera as a sensor for advanced driver assistance systems, only introduced in 2013.

Fridtjof

Other mistake: During the scene when Jack's wife is ordering at McDonald's, the little girls are mouthing the lines as the others are saying them.

Factual error: Sean Smith is shown playing "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare" on an Xbox. That game was released on November 4th, 2014, over two years after the date of the attack (September 11-12, 2012).

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Suggested correction: It was Modern Warfare being shown on the TV. Advance warfare uses exo suits and can't be missed.

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Question: I have a few questions about the different groups in the film. 1. I looked up 17th Feb, or February 17th Martyr's Brigade, on Wikipedia, and I noticed that an ally that was listed on Wiki was Ansar-Al-Sharia. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Ansar-Al-Sharia the current ISIS/ISIL that we're fighting today? 2. Was the group the soldiers were fighting in the film ISIS? 3. Who was the group of soldiers that saved them all at the end of the film?

Answer: Ansar-Al-Sharia isn't ISIS; it was disbanded in 2017. The group the soldiers were fighting weren't ISIS, they were February 17th Martyr's Brigade. The soldiers at the end were Tripoli GRS reinforcements.

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