Historical accuracy -- or great film?

Rating: Null/10 (18 October 2007)

Those of you who debate the historical accuracy of this film need to watch the discovery channel. They make great documentaries, as accurately as possible, and rarely achieve the characteristics of great films: sympathetic characters, story arcs, etc, etc, etc.
But you watch films, because you love a story. The life story of William Randolph Hearst is a mediocre PBS special (or a great tour at Hearst Mansion). But the Inaccurate "Citizen Kane" is a masterpiece. I could offer more examples of great films echoing life as proof as to the need for "inacurate" works of fiction. But I'll let it go with Orson Welles and the greatest American movie ever made.
P.S. -- forgot to say that"RKO 281" is an incredible but inaccurate story about the making of "Citizen Kane" Art imitates life