Since you're referencing movies (and one of my favourites, for obvious reasons) I'd like to add 'Wag The Dog' with Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman. An example of how history isn't just re-written after the fact but during the fact and even when there is no fact. :)

There are many protests around the world these days but increasingly there are many 'protest for hire' companies now also and there are many acts of terror being carried out but also many 'Crisis Actor' supply companies. 

The reference to movies is a modern one but it should make people think about other means of communication and the broadcasting of ideas before the introduction of the moving picture and question if what history in its entirety tells us about historical figures. Winston Churchill for example is a relatively recent historical figure who is well presented by historical documentation but is also quoted as saying ''History shall be kind to me, for I shall be the one who writes it!'' (or something along those lines) and he did. :) Further research might show that he was not the man he is now considered to be though and this exaample can be exxtrapolated back further and becomes more obscured with time and could lead to questions of whether these people actually existed at all or whether they have been posthumously added the the historical script to support some yet to be discovered false narrative. :)

How's that for conspiracy theory? :)