Professional Historian VS Filmmakers

Academic historians use the "interpretive" approaches when constructing their historical narratives. According to Alun Munslow, "interpreters insist that their views are independent of any self-serving theory or master narrative forced on the evidence; their role is primarily to establish the veracity and accuracy of the evidence, and then put it all into an interpretive focus through organizing concepts"

Alun Muslow believes that "adapter, on the other hand, are not likely to be professional historians, but rather filmmakers, novelists, readers, filmgoers or television viewers. They are not so much concerned with veracity and accuracy; what matters to them is the desire to make sense of the past in terms of the present. They are thus more likely to create imaginative approaches, involving the kind of speculation that might be dismissed as inaccurate by the professional historian"

Source: The Adaptation of History: Essays on Ways of Telling the Past , Lauren Raw and Defne Ersin Tutan, p. 9