Do not see any movie if you are looking for an accurate and comprehensive portrayal of anything. That's not what movies do. Movies, and story tellers in general, rummage through history to find fragments that can feed their imaginations. It's a costume, not a culture, and that's what it's supposed to be.

nevertheless, there is a place for articles like yours, especially because so many people think what they see in the movies is real. I live through that time myself, and this article is a good corrective for those who think the movies tell it like it is.