This often parodied quote from Mel Gibson’s William Wallace in the film Braveheart is something of a contradiction, and yet its sentiment is easy to understand. Nothing gets our hackles up more ...

In his quest to become America’s longest running punchline, Ted Cruz decided to end his CPAC speech by screaming one of Mel Gibson’s iconic lines from the movie Braveheart.After opening things ...

With William Wallace their hero and “Freedom!” their battle cry, American evangelicals assigned the film a prominent place in their culture-wars liturgies. When the film was released, in 1995 ...

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Braveheart, Mel Gibson’s 1995 film about William Wallace, is notoriously riddled with inaccuracies, from the imagined blue face paint donned by the Scottish warrior to the anachronistic tartan ...

That’s how William Wallace, a man in his 20s, wound up being played by Gibson when he almost was two decades older than that. The decision paid off and Braveheart remains one of the defining ...

A pair of climate activists in Scotland will face trial after allegedly vandalizing a display case holding national hero William Wallace’s broadsword. “The police say the accused believe they ...

Braveheart, Mel Gibson's epic film about William Wallace, was released in the UK 28 years ago, in September 1995. It went on to become a box-office hit, had a lasting impact on Scottish tourism ...