Today, Mel Gibson is often ridiculed for having a temper problem, and Braveheart is widely mocked for having major historical inaccuracies. One glaring example is that Scottish soldiers in the movie ...

Scotland is set to celebrate 30 years since Braveheart first stirred the nation with a series of events and a new film studio. Mel Gibson’s epic film about freedom fighter William Wallace earned five ...

Scots actor James Cosmo will switch on new floodlighting at Stirling’s historic Old Brig in a ceremony next month. The work on the scheduled ancient monument, comprising new LED lighting, has been ...

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It was the multi-Oscar winning blockbuster that help spark a new golden era in Scottish cinema and is credited with helping to fuel a new wave of nationalism a quarter of a century ago. But now Mel ...

Braveheart is a big, boisterous, slow-motion axe-wield of a film — a sensory barrage of mythical proportions; operatic hero worship fuelled by blood, testosterone and bright blue makeup. It’s also 23 ...

Braveheart star James Cosmo has revealed how the goriest battle scenes were left on the cutting room floor so as not to terrify family audiences. Cosmo, 75, starred in Mel Gibson's 1995 Oscar-winning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No, Braveheart is a rather historically inaccurate film, that was based on the accounts of a Scottish poet named Blind Harry, who ...