Kim Atwood

A provocative and in-depth look at the making of a classic movie, providing viewers with great movies. And the stories behind them.

History vs. Hollywood is a television show on the History Channel in the United States. On the show, experts are interviewed on the historical accuracy of a film that is based on a historical event. For example the movie The Last Samurai was featured in one episode in which military historian Geoffrey Wawro, professor of history at the University of North Texas, and director of the university's Barsanti center for military-history, compared the movie with the actual events. On the show the expert guests discuss the factual accuracy of the film as well as the everyday objects that a person of the particular time period would have seen. In some episodes an expert or the host will go on a journey to the actual historical sites depicted in the film, or interview someone who witnessed the event firsthand. In each of the more than dozen episodes both expert guests and filmmakers will discuss the historical accuracy of the film dramatized. The series was first released in 1999, and had been produced on a semi-regular basis continuing through at least 2005. The program was conceived and created by producer Steven Jack who also directed a majority of the episodes. Although the hour long programs were made for television most episodes were shot on 35mm film which heightened its authentic looking recreations and aided in earning critical praise for its efforts to both entertain and educate.

Filmde 1951 yılında Kore Savaşı sırasında cephenin gerisinde görev yapan ve MASH ('Seyyar Ordu Cerrahi Hastanesi' anlamına gelen 'Mobile Army Surgical Hospital' kelimelerinin baş harflerinden oluşan bir kısaltmadır) adı verilen sahra hastanelerinden birinde görev yapan ve genel olarak 'kasap' olarak adlandırılan bir grup cerrah ve yardımcı personelin serüvenleri anlatılmaktadır. Bu cerrahlar ekibinin hiç biri meslekten asker değildir. Buraya sivil hastanelerden gelmişlerdir. Dolayısı ile askeri disiplin buradaki çadır hastanelerde en son görülecek şeydir. Her gün yapılan ağır ameliyatlar, kesilen uzuvlar, ölen insanlar ve savaşın diğer acıları arasında gülmeye, eğlenmeye ve gırgırlarını geçmeye vakit bulabilirler, tabii asli görevlerini hiç aksatmadan. Aslında filmde tek bir çarpışma sahnesi yer almaz, buna rağmen MASH en büyük savaş karşıtı filmlerden biridir...