Letters: Movie critic needs a history lesson

Re: American revisionism revised, Jamie Portman column, July 28.
Those who ignore, or are ignorant of the lessons of history, are condemned to write embarrassingly ill-informed newspaper articles.
I agree with the professed target of his piece, namely the shameless disregard for historical accuracy often shown by American filmmakers over the years. Unfortunately his article is thoroughly discredited by the writer’s adoption of the same cultural bias and appalling historical ignorance in hi