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Other mistake: The credits list an assistant to "Dame Redgrave." The title of "Dame" comes before the first name, not the surname. Vanessa Redgrave is therefore Dame Vanessa, not Dame Redgrave.

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Deliberate mistake: The film strongly implies (especially given the children barely age at all) that the events depicted happened over a period of only a couple of years. In fact, Mike and Claire met in 1987 and married in 1994; Claire lost her leg in 1999, and Mike died in 2006.

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Season 2 generally

Factual error: Alex Peterson is continually referred to by everyone as the Secretary of Defence. This is an American title. The British equivalent is Secretary of State for Defence. "Defence Secretary" is used as an abbreviation; Secretary of Defence never is.

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Episode #2.6 - S2-E6

Factual error: Flight Lieutenant Patrick Johnson's tombstone bears the incorrect rank of Lieutenant. RAF ranks are never shortened.

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Episode #2.6 - S2-E6

Factual error: Nicholas Martin, who is a flight lieutenant, wears an other ranks' cap badge. RAF officers wear a different cap badge.

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Episode #2.5 - S2-E5

Factual error: Staff Sergeant O'Hanlon is addressed several times by other soldiers as "Sir." Staff sergeants are never addressed as "Sir", and no soldier would ever do it. "Staff Sergeant" or "Staff" is the correct form of address.

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Factual error: The BBC announcer says it has been almost thirty years since the coronation. Since the film is set in 1970 and the coronation was in 1953, this is completely incorrect. Not a mistake the BBC is likely to have made.

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Show generally

Factual error: Emir's rank insignia as a Bulgarian naval officer is incorrect. He appears to be wearing the three stars of a vice-admiral on his epaulettes (far too senior to command the ship he commands), but the rank rings on his lower sleeve (two narrow rings above one regular) are completely made up.

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The Asset - S1-E3

Factual error: The crown above the GCHQ logo is not any sort of British crown.

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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - S1-E1

Factual error: The police sergeant who visits Ann after she reports her daughter missing is wearing rank chevrons on his tunic sleeves and his epaulettes. When wearing a tunic, British police sergeants only wear chevrons on the sleeves. Note that this entry refers to the 2025 TV series, not the 2003 TV series.

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Character mistake: Heidi Heatherley is referred to and addressed more than once as Dame Heatherley. Dames (and knights) take the title before the first name, so she should be Dame Heidi. It is surprising that a journalist, in particular, would not know this.

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Factual error: Air Commodore Cyril Cooke is referred to as Sir Cyril. This is during the war, but he wasn't actually knighted until 1947.

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Factual error: The RUC officers are wearing blue uniforms. The RUC actually wore dark green uniforms.

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Factual error: The Third Crusade is continually referred to as being in Arabia against the Arabs. In fact, it was in Palestine (then generally known in Europe as the Holy Land or Outremer) against the Ayyubids, who were mostly of Egyptian, North African and Syrian extraction. Although many would have been what we would today call Arabs, the term was not used for them then - they were generally known in the West as Saracens.

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Show generally

Factual error: Originally described as a subaltern (the correct equivalent rank to lieutenant in the ATS), Sandra Wesgate is later promoted to captain, which is incorrect as the ATS equivalent was junior commander.

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Show generally

Factual error: Apart from the colonel, none of the characters wear medal ribbons until about halfway through, when they all suddenly show up wearing several. In fact, most of them should have been wearing at least one or two from the beginning.

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Character mistake: Noel says that Sam Clarke, the British Prime Minister, is the only head of state who isn't really a head of state because the King is. In fact, the British PM isn't head of state at all, but head of government. And this is common in many countries throughout the world, with a monarch or president as head of state and a prime minister as head of government. The American-style system of an executive president who is both head of state and head of government is in the minority.

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Factual error: Two of the gunners are Privates. The minimum rank for aircrew was Sergeant.

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Character mistake: Flight Lieutenant Williams is addressed as "Lieutenant" a couple of times. RAF (or RNZAF) flight lieutenants are always addressed by their full rank.

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Factual error: Both Flight Officer Garrett and Flight Lieutenant Williams address Captain Reeves as "Sir," despite holding the same equivalent rank. Garrett may not be aware of this (as she is actually only pretending to be a WAAF officer), but Williams certainly would be.

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