Is Your Favorite Movie Historically Accurate?

Argo (2012)

Argo was widely responsible for Ben Affleck’s ‘comeback’ to Hollywood after a series of disappointing films. It may look like the idea of staging a fake movie to smuggle six American diplomats out of the Iranian Embassy might be fake, but that’s 100% historically accurate!

Where Argo takes creative license is how the operation actually happened. According to the real Tony Mendez, the operation went off ‘smooth as silk’. So, that tense ending was just for dramatic effect.