3. Lake Wissota (Titanic)
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James Cameron‘s epic 1997 romantic disaster movie Titanic was critically praised almost universally. It was nominated four fourteen Academy Awards and won no less than eleven. While this was heavily due to the acting, directing, cinematography and all of the art that goes into movie production, its historical accuracy was also a major factor.
However, there’s a glaring historical error in the scene when Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Jack Dawson is trying to coax Kate Winslet‘s Rose DeWitt Bukater back on to the ship’s deck when she was threatening to jump off. He gets talking to her and refers to how he and his father had been ice-fishing at Lake Wissota – a man-made lake that, in reality, wasn’t actually built until five years after the Titanic had sunk.
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