History Film / Wilson

* GracefulLoser: After Wilson is elected, Taft and Roosevelt send letters of congratulations. When it looks like Hughes has won the 1916 election, Wilson is all set to be this trope.

* AndThatsTerrible: "Does that mean you're going to overlook the most dastardly crime of which any civilized nation has ever been guilty?!" Ah, that wartime propaganda hyperbole.

** Also unmentioned is Wilson's support for the eugenics movement, his frequent military interventions in Latin America[[note]]To be fair, they were focused more on supporting democracy and less on economic interests than the interventions of his predecessors. In any case, the film makes no mention of them.[[/note]], and his crack down on civil liberties while the U.S. was in World War I. No mention is made of the women's suffrage movement, which Wilson had a rather complicated relationship with.

** The thing libertarians and conspiracy theorists hate him for (creating the Federal Reserve) is shown briefly and later mentioned in passing.

** Fairly or unfairly, the movies places the blame for World War II on Henry Cabot Lodge, UsefulNotes/WarrenHarding, and other isolationist politicians who prevented U.S. entry into the League of Nations.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: As mentioned above, the movie essentially treats UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany as a stand-in for UsefulNotes/NaziGermany.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In real life, Ellen Wilson died shortly after the start of World War I. In the film, her death comes shortly before the war instead.

** Also unmentioned is Wilson's support for the eugenics movement, his frequent military interventions in Latin America[[note]]To be fair, they were focused more on supporting democracy and less on economic interests than the interventions of his predecessors. In any case, the film makes no mention of them.[[/note]], and his crack down on civil liberties while the U.S. was in World War I. No mention is made of the women's suffrage movement, which Wilson had a rather complicated relationship with. Of course, a lot of this is due to the fact that the movie focuses on World War I and Wilson's personal life to the exclusion of basically everything else that happened during his administration. There's not even a mention of UsefulNotes/TheMexicanRevolution, which dominated Wilson's foreign policy prior to U.S. involvement in the European war.

** Also unmentioned is Wilson's support for the eugenics movement, his frequent military interventions in Latin America[[note]]To be fair, they were focused more on supporting democracy and less on economic interests than the interventions of his predecessors. In any case, the film makes no mention of them.[[/note]], and his crack down on civil liberties while the U.S. was in World War I. No mention is made of the women's suffrage movement, which Wilson had a rather complicated relationship with. Of course, a lot of this is due to the fact that the movie focuses on World War I and Wilson's personal life to the exclusion of basically everything else that happened during his administration.

** Also unmentioned is Wilson's support for the eugenics movement, his frequent military interventions in Latin America[[note]]To be fair, they were focused more on supporting democracy and less on economic interests than the interventions of his predecessors. In any case, the film makes no mention of them.[[/note]], and his crack down on civil liberties while the U.S. was in World War I. No mention is made of the women's suffrage movement, which Wilson had a rather complicated relationship with. Of course, a lot of this is due to the fact that the movie focuses on World War I to the exclusion of almost everything else that happened during Wilson's administration.

** Also unmentioned is Wilson's support for the eugenics movement, his frequent military interventions in Latin America[[note]]To be fair, they were focused more on supporting democracy and less on economic interests than the interventions of his predecessors. In any case, the film makes no mention of them.[[/note]], and his crack down on civil liberties while the U.S. was in World War I. No mention is made of the women's suffrage movement, which Wilson had a rather complicated relationship with.

** Also unmentioned is Wilson's support for the eugenics movement, his frequent military interventions in Latin America[[note]]To be fair, they were focused more on supporting democracy and less on economic interests than the interventions of his predecessors. In any case, the film makes no mention of them.[[/note]], and his crack down on civil liberties while the U.S. was in World War I.

** Also unmentioned is Wilson's support for the ongoing eugenics movement, his frequent military interventions in Latin America[[note]]To be fair, they were focused more on supporting democracy and less on economic interests than the interventions of his predecessors. In any case, the film makes no mention of them.[[/note]], and his crack down on civil liberties while the U.S. was in World War I.

** Also unmentioned is Wilson's support for the ongoing eugenics movement, his frequent military interventions in Latin America[[note]]To be fair, they were focused more on supporting democracy and less on economic interests than the interventions of his predecessors. Still, the film says nothing about them and pretends Wilson was completely isolationist until World War I came knocking.[[/note]], and his crack down on civil liberties while the U.S. was in World War I.

* CoversAlwaysLie: Kind of. The poster on the right side of this page shows the sinking of the ''Lusitania''. In the actual film, the sinking is mentioned in dialogue, but never actually shown.

** The movie completely whitewashes Wilson's racism, which is quite striking when you consider that 1944 wasn't exactly the height the racial tolerance. The real Wilson was racist even by the standards of his time, believing blacks to be inherently inferior and expanding on segregationist policies. The movie's Wilson treats blacks as equals, talks lovingly about the American melting pot, and lectures the German ambassador on how Nazi-like racial views are wrong.

** Also unmentioned is Wilson's support for the ongoing eugenics movement, his frequent military interventions in Latin America (to be fair, more focused more on supporting democracy and less on economic interests than the interventions of his predecessors), and his crack down on civil liberties while the U.S. was in World War I.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade:

** Also unmentioned is Wilson's support for the ongoing eugenics movement, his frequent military interventions in Latin America, and his crack down on civil liberties while the U.S. was in World War I.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The movie completely whitewashes Wilson's racism, which is quite striking when you consider that 1944 wasn't exactly the height the racial tolerance. The real Wilson was racist even by the standards of his time, believing blacks to be inherently inferior and expanding on segregationist policies. The movie's Wilson treats blacks as equals, talks lovingly about the American melting pot, and lectures the German ambassador on how Nazi-like racial views are wrong. The thing libertarians and conspiracy theorists hate him for (creating the Federal Reserve) is shown briefly and later mentioned in passing.

The movie was critically acclaimed, winning five Oscars, but was a BoxOfficeBomb. This was very upsetting to producer Darryl F. Zanuck, who was a big fan of Woodrow Wilson and regarded the film as a pet project.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The movie completely whitewashes Wilson's racism, which is quite striking when you consider that 1944 wasn't exactly the height the racial tolerance. The real Wilson was racist even by the standards of his time, believing blacks to be inherently inferior and expanding on segregationist policies. The movie's Wilson treats blacks as equals, talks lovingly about the American melting pot, and lectures the German ambassador on how Nazi-like racial views are wrong. The thing libertarians (and conspiracy theorists) hate him for (creating the Federal Reserve) is shown briefly and later mentioned in passing.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The movie completely whitewashes Wilson's racism, which is quite striking when you consider that 1944 wasn't exactly the height the racial tolerance. The real Wilson was racist even by the standards of his time, believing blacks to be inherently inferior and expanding on segregationist policies. The movie's Wilson treats blacks as equals, talks lovingly about the American melting pot, and lectures the German ambassador on how Nazi-like racial views are wrong.

Released at the height of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the movie is essentially propaganda for the war effort. Parallels are drawn between UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and the current conflict, and Wilson's failed vision of a UsefulNotes/LeagueOfNations including the U.S. is treated with a note of hope that it may [[UsefulNotes/UnitedNations be realized someday]].

The movie was critically acclaimed, winning five Oscars, but was a BoxofficeBomb. This was very upsetting to producer Darryl F. Zanuck, who was a big fan of Woodrow Wilson and regarded the film as a pet project.