Is Your Favorite Movie Historically Accurate?

Published on July 24, 2019 By Jason Albert

The Greatest Showman (2017)

The Hollywood version of P.T. Barnum’s life is pretty different from what actually happened – but we might just prefer it like that! While the film was a positive musical, the real character was a little more, well, not very nice.

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20th Century Fox

Barnum, was a lot more bigoted and prejudice than the film would make out. During the years of freakshows, the magician would often travel with African American slaves. Yeah, we’ll go for the Hollywood version this time, thanks!