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8th Jan 2024

Vigil (2021)

Season 2 generally

Trivia: Instead of the Royal Air Force, the series has a fictitious British Air Force with largely invented insignia. Ranks are taken from the RAF, but sometimes different rank insignia is worn (e.g. an air vice-marshal wearing air marshal's insignia and a flight lieutenant wearing flying officer's insignia, although another flight lieutenant wears correct insignia).

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5th Jan 2024

The Crown (2016)

Ritz - S6-E8

Factual error: Peter Townsend is depicted in 1945 wearing the ribbons of the DSO (which he won in 1941) and the DFC (which he won in 1940), but not the rosette indicating a bar to the DFC (which he also won in 1940) and the 1939-45 Star (which he would have been awarded in 1943).

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5th Jan 2024

The Crown (2016)

Ruritania - S6-E6

Factual error: The swan official is described as the Warden of the Swans. The official depicted is actually the Marker of the Swans, a different post which wears the uniform shown.

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Part 3 - S1-E3

Factual error: A British radio news bulletin refers to "Aydolf" Hitler. The British always used the original German pronunciation with a short A rather than the American pronunciation with a long A.

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7th Aug 2023

Crime (2021)

Episode #1.3 - S1-E3

Character mistake: Richie Gulliver is referred to as Rory Gulliver on the newspaper headline. As he's supposedly a very well-known Member of the Scottish Parliament, it's unlikely a newspaper would make a mistake like this.

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2nd Aug 2023

Black Mirror (2011)

Demon 79 - S6-E5

Continuity mistake: When Nida is chasing Smart in her car, they are (correctly for England, in which it is set) driving on the left until they reach the level crossing. After they cross the level crossing, they are both seen driving on the right, with Nida trying to overtake Smart on the left. This has nothing to do with changing lanes during a chase, as Smart is, at that stage, unaware that he is being pursued.

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3rd Jul 2023

Age of Heroes (2011)

Factual error: The SS commander wears the collar patch of a Hauptsturmführer (captain), but the epaulettes of an Unterscharführer (corporal).

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3rd Jul 2023

Age of Heroes (2011)

Factual error: Flight Sergeant Rollright wears the three chevrons of a sergeant, rather than the three chevrons and a crown of a flight sergeant.

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Factual error: Colonel Weber is not an Oberst, but an SS-Oberführer. Given all his men are also SS, there is no likelihood they would use an army rank to address him, especially one that is junior to his actual rank.

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3rd Jul 2023

Age of Heroes (2011)

Factual error: Ian Fleming wears First World War service ribbons. Fleming was ten at the end of the First World War.

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12th Apr 2023

The Catch (2023)

12th Apr 2023

The Catch (2023)

Show generally

Factual error: The Royal Navy sailors are shown with just 'HMS' on their cap tallies. This was only seen in the Second World War for security reasons. In peacetime, the tally bears the name of the ship or shore establishment to which the rating is assigned.

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26th Mar 2023

Babylon Berlin (2017)

Episode #4.9 - S4-E9

Factual error: Renate escapes from the prison in a Morris Ten Four, with the badge visible on the bonnet. However, this designation was not introduced until 1935 and the episode is set in 1931.

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19th Feb 2023

Titanic (1997)

Factual error: The ribbons on Captain Smith's medals are incorrect. The ribbon on his Reserve Decoration should be plain green (it is green and red in the film) and that on his Transport Medal should be red and blue (it is blue and white in the film).

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Continuity mistake: When Christopher Robin first appears in uniform he is wearing second lieutenant's pips. In the following scene, later the same day, they have disappeared, but he is still wearing an open-necked officer's battledress tunic with shirt and tie. He says he is a private. In fact, he joined the Royal Engineers as a sapper (not a private) and was later commissioned.

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Factual error: Christopher Robin and his schoolmates undergo the army medical (which he fails) at the outbreak of war. In fact, Christopher Robin had left school and was at Cambridge by the time the war broke out. In addition, those that pass the medical go off to war in privates' uniforms. As the school (Stowe) is a prestigious public school, almost all would have been commissioned and never served as privates.

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Not an Ice Cream - S1-E6

Factual error: The British Army soldiers are not wearing British Army uniforms or carrying British Army weapons and some of them have beards, which are not permitted to British Army soldiers.

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18th Aug 2022

Dunkirk (2004)

Show generally

Factual error: The survivors of the Wormhoudt massacre were not picked up by the same SS soldiers who had carried out the massacre as in the series. They were picked up by a Wehrmacht ambulance unit, which is how they managed to survive to become prisoners of war.

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