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Latest Articles ‘How is this not a Pants on Fire?’: What PolitiFact readers thought of recent fact-checks By Amy Sherman • December 20, 2023 MovieFact: ‘Oppenheimer’ sticks close to historic record, with some liberties By Jon Greenberg • August 25, 2023 The Trial of the Chicago 7: What the movie gets right, and wrong By Samantha Putterman • April 18, 2021 Fact-checking 'Mank,' the movie about the movie 'Citizen Kane' By Noah Y. Kim • April 16, 2021 Fact-checking 'Judas and the Black Messiah,' the film about the killing of a Black Panther leader By Jon Greenberg • April 14, 2021 Fact-checking ‘Hamilton’ the musical By Bill McCarthy • July 1, 2020 Fact-check: How true is Green Book? By Manuela Tobias • February 7, 2019 Fact-checking Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman By Manuela Tobias • August 30, 2018 PolitiFact fact-checks Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, The Post By Jon Greenberg • March 2, 2018 Fact-checking the movie The Post, Oscar nominee for best picture By John Kruzel • February 26, 2018 Fact-check: Darkest Hour movie gets Winston Churchill mostly right By Jon Greenberg • February 26, 2018 Dunkirk fact-check: Movie indulges a few myths but also uses the facts By Jon Greenberg • February 26, 2018
‘How is this not a Pants on Fire?’: What PolitiFact readers thought of recent fact-checks By Amy Sherman • December 20, 2023 MovieFact: ‘Oppenheimer’ sticks close to historic record, with some liberties By Jon Greenberg • August 25, 2023 The Trial of the Chicago 7: What the movie gets right, and wrong By Samantha Putterman • April 18, 2021 Fact-checking 'Mank,' the movie about the movie 'Citizen Kane' By Noah Y. Kim • April 16, 2021 Fact-checking 'Judas and the Black Messiah,' the film about the killing of a Black Panther leader By Jon Greenberg • April 14, 2021 Fact-checking ‘Hamilton’ the musical By Bill McCarthy • July 1, 2020 Fact-check: How true is Green Book? By Manuela Tobias • February 7, 2019 Fact-checking Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman By Manuela Tobias • August 30, 2018 PolitiFact fact-checks Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, The Post By Jon Greenberg • March 2, 2018 Fact-checking the movie The Post, Oscar nominee for best picture By John Kruzel • February 26, 2018 Fact-check: Darkest Hour movie gets Winston Churchill mostly right By Jon Greenberg • February 26, 2018 Dunkirk fact-check: Movie indulges a few myths but also uses the facts By Jon Greenberg • February 26, 2018
