I Was the Historical Consultant on This War Movie… Here's the Truth

0:00 Intro
00:57 Why “Corps Franc”?
3:56 Research on the Corps Franc
5:56 Historians vs filmmakers
9:21 Pistols & grenades
11:35 Downscaling into a short film
13:13 Q/A: Lack of stealth? (production nightmare)
19:14 Q/A: Combat scenes lack realism
21:56 Q/A: What went wrong?
25:42 Q/A: Why not at night?
26:28 Q/A: Uniforms
28:29 Q/A: Cast too old
30:36 Q/A: Why no reenactors?
32:11 Final thoughts & Lessons learned