From a reader:

Jonah–
I’m not sure how you can have a list of historical epics with howling errors and leave out Krakatoa, East of Java, since we don’t even get past the opening titles without a HUGE inaccuracy (Krakatoa was, in fact, WEST of Java)…
[Name withheld]
P.S. The above boo-boo is my second-favorite all-time. The winner, and still the undisputed champion, is the scene at the end of The Green Berets when the surviving members of the principal cast watch the sun set slowly…in the EAST.