Don’t forget Oliver Stoned; Stone throws W. & McCarthy in with History’s Greatest Monsters (besides Jimmy Carter, I mean).

The Hollywood Reporter:

“Stalin, Hitler, Mao, McCarthy — these people have been vilified pretty thoroughly by history. Stalin has a complete other story. Not to paint him as a hero, but to tell a more factual representation. He fought the German war machine more than any single person. We can’t judge people as only ‘bad’ or ‘good.’ Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history and its been used cheaply. He’s the product of a series of actions. It’s cause and effect … People in America don’t know the connection between WWI and WWII … I’ve been able to walk in Stalin’s shoes and Hitler’s shoes to understand their point of view. We’re going to educate our minds and liberalize them and broaden them. We want to move beyond opinions … Go into the funding of the Nazi party. How many American corporations were involved, from GM through IBM. Hitler is just a man who could have easily been assassinated.”

“Obviously, Rush Limbaugh is not going to like this history and, as usual, we’re going to get those kind of ignorant attacks,” said Stone, who also also compared the experience of sympathizing with war criminals to making his “W” movie about George W. Bush. “I’m trying to understand somebody I thoroughly despised.”

Stone also warned that the same military industrial complex forces that he’s explored in movies such as “JFK” and in “Secret History,” are now corrupting Barack Obama. …….

Eastwood did that sister movie to “Flags of Our Fathers” which was Japanese-sympathetic, much like James Bradley’s follow-up “Flyboys” about Bush Sr. and Chi Chi Jima atrocities. Bradley’s latest history blames Teddy Roosevelt for the Pacific War, having coddled the Japanese.

Meh.