Don, you mean that swinging from the chandelier is NOT part of fencing? And here all along my fencing coach has assured me that it was.

Here's a documentary with a mistake that caused my wife to exclaim "I don't think so!" out loud:

There's a film shown at Culloden Battlefield about the battle. In it, one of the British soldiers is shown using a musket with a percussion lock. It's like the jet contrails in the sky during the chariot race in "Ben Hur" (the Richard Burton one).

I said it elsewhere and I'll keep saying it: if you want to KNOW a subject, read several books about it.