The streaming age has blessed us with some truly amazing, cinematic television shows, and with the wide range of content being produced, there is virtually no niche left untouched. Shows based on historical events have perhaps benefitted the most from this modern television renaissance.TV budgets have afforded costume and set designers the ability to craft stunning sets and period-accurate clothing, letting viewers feel as if they have actually been transported back in time rather than feeling as if theyre watching a stage production someone recorded on a Handycam.But, of course, science has yet to enable true time travel, and so we must settle for watching high-budget adaptations of historic events translated from script to screen. Unfortunately, like a game of telephone, the truth of the depicted events does not always emerge with 100 percent accuracy.The famed neurologist Sigmund Freud, for example, didnt become entangled in an occult conspiracy with a psychic medium as the series Freud would suggest. But even shows that stick a bit more closely to reality suffer other kinds of misrepresentation, such as Peaky Blinders and Victoria.These are nine popular television shows that portrayed real-life events from history and the important details that they got completely wrong.Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Took Artistic License With Many Crucial DetailsNetflixThe reporter who broke the Dahmer story in 1991 spoke with The Independent about the Netflix shows inaccuracies.One of Netflixs most popular true-crime adaptations is the series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, a show produced by American Horror Story producer Ryan Murphy and his longtime collaborator Ian Brennan. According to Vulture, the series has been the subject of debate regarding its focus on the serial killers gruesome crimes and horrific nature rather than his victims, and the decision of the creators to alter key details only further complicates the ethical grays of producing a show of this nature. In the wake of this controversy, journalist Anne E. Schwartz, who first broke the Dahmer story in 1991, spoke with The Independent to address components of the show that were apparently changed to up the drama. In the first five minutes of the first episode you have Glenda Cleveland knocking on his door, Schwartz pointed out. None of that ever happened. In reality, Cleveland a neighbor who tried to alert the cops to Dahmers crimes lived in a separate building. She didnt live right next door to Jeffrey Dahmer, as portrayed in the show, and she never confronted him.NetflixEvan Peters casting was controversial, as some felt a handsome actor portraying Dahmer could romanticize him.Schwartz also claimed that the rampant racism and homophobia of the Milwaukee Police Department were heavily exaggerated in the show. Though some Milwaukee residents may disagree with this claim, its clear that at least some of the cops scenes were completely fictionalized.For instance, the police officers who returned one of Jeffrey Dahmers victims, 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone, to the killer because they wrongly believed that Sinthasomphone was Dahmers lover didnt win Officer of the Year awards as seen in the series. In reality, the cops were fired from their positions and then eventually reinstated, but they were never rewarded for their crucial mistakes as depicted in the series.But even the scenes that the show got right have raised questions as to whether or not its ethical to make a show like this in the first place, especially considering that Dahmer was only apprehended for his crimes a few decades ago. And many of his victims families are still grieving.Rita Isbell, the sister of one of Dahmers victims, Errol Lindsey, said in an interview with Insider that the character who portrayed her giving a heart-wrenching victim impact statement in court repeated, verbatim exactly what I said. But Isbell also said, When I saw some of the show, it bothered me, especially when I saw myself It felt like reliving it all over again.I was never contacted about the show, she added. I feel like Netflix shouldve asked if we mind or how we felt about making it.The Shelby Family In Peaky Blinders Didnt Actually Exist And The Show Arguably Took Place A Few Decades Too LateRobert Viglasky/Caryn Mandabach Productions Ltd. & Tiger Aspect Productions Ltd. 2016/BBCThe real-life Peaky Blinders were far less powerful than their television counterparts.The popular BBC drama Peaky Blinders stars Cillian Murphy as a man named Thomas Shelby and chronicles his time in a street gang called Peaky Blinders. It follows the character and his family members as they rise through the ranks, with Shelby eventually becoming a Member of Parliament.The show begins in 1918, with members of the Birmingham-based gang returning home from war, but the real Peaky Blinders gang was most active years earlier, from the late 19th century to the beginning of World War I. Oh, and Thomas Shelby never existed. According to Radio Times, the real Peaky Blinders were young, unemployed, working-class men and teenage boys known for being violent, robbing people, and taking control of the citys gambling industry. They probably did not earn their name by keeping razors to blind their victims beneath their peaked hats. That, as clever as it is, was just a myth. And by the 1910s, the Peaky Blinders had lost ground to a bigger organization led by Billy Kimber, the Birmingham Boys. Unlike the Kimber in the show (a real-life historical figure portrayed in the series), the actual Kimber was much more successful in protecting his gangs business.By the 1920s, the real-life Peaky Blinders had all but disappeared, but their lasting reputation did lead to the name Peaky Blinders being used as a slang term to describe a variety of new gangs in Birmingham. There are other small inaccuracies, such as Winston Churchill being depicted as the Home Secretary during the shows timeline. In truth, as Express points out, Churchill was only Home Secretary from 1910 to 1911, years before the show takes place. In 1919, Churchill was the Minister for War and Air. Similarly, the series shows the British Union of Fascists being set up by Oswald Mosley in 1929 when in actuality it was not founded until 1932. These are, of course, only small inaccuracies in a fictional show that shouldnt be cited in place of a history book. In other words, these changes are far less notable than the characters who never existed in the first place. The post Inside 9 Historically Inaccurate TV Shows And The Big Mistakes They Made appeared first on All That's Interesting.