Is Your Favorite Movie Historically Accurate?

300 (2007)

While it may look like a fictional epic film, there are elements of Zach Snyder’s 300 that do relate to history. Sparta was a real place and King Leonidas did hold the Persian army back with only 300 men. But history fans will know that’s basically the only thing it has going for it.

Xerxes, obviously, was a normal man in all historical accounts. The movie seems to portray him as some meta-human giant, which we know cannot be the case.