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i missed lord of the rings rewatched shawshank yesterday an that should definetly be in the list!

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Although Braveheart wasn't completely historically accuarate, from a purely story-telling perspective it was rather good. The final scene where William Wallace gives his life without giving into the English is rather wonderful --- this bit was true.

Capture and execution

Wallace evaded capture by the English until 5 August 1305 when John de Menteith, a Scottish knight loyal to Edward, turned Wallace over to English soldiers at Robroyston near Glasgow. Documents found on Wallace, and delivered to Edward by John de Segrave, included safe-conduct letters from Haco of Norway, Philip of France, and John Balliol, with other documents.

Wallace was transported to London and taken to Westminster Hall, where he was tried for treason and for atrocities against civilians in war, "sparing neither age nor sex, monk nor nun."He was crowned with a garland of oak to suggest he was the king of outlaws. He responded to the treason charge, "I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject." With this, Wallace asserted that the absent John Balliol was officially his king.

Following the trial, on 23 August 1305, Wallace was taken from the hall, stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to the Elms at Smithfield. He was hanged, drawn and quartered — strangled by hanging but released while he was still alive, castrated, eviscerated and his bowels burnt before him, beheaded, then cut into four parts. His preserved head (dipped in tar) was placed on a pike atop London Bridge.

It was later joined by the heads of the brothers, John and Simon Fraser. His limbs were displayed, separately, in Newcastle upon Tyne, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Stirling, and Perth. A plaque stands in a wall of St. Bartholomew's Hospital near the site of Wallace's execution at Smithfield.

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Although Braveheart wasn't completely historically accuarate, from a purely story-telling perspective it was rather good. The final scene where William Wallace gives his life without giving into the English is rather wonderful --- this bit was true.

Yeah it was great. A lot of what separates us are racist pictures put into people's minds via the media.

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