Movies are far worse for accuracy.
Unless it's a John Milius movie (Red Dawn, the Wind and the Lion, etc). Milius is a gun nut and is very good when it comes to historically accurate firearms. Although I have had to point out to Marines on frequent occasion that while President Theodore Roosevelt did send the White Fleet in response to the kidnapping of American citizen Pedicaris, the Marines did NOT storm the palace in Tangier. And Pedicaris was a 60-something dual citizenship Greek-American who'd bought his way out of the draft during the Civil war . . . and didn't look a thing like Candice Bergen.
