These are writers of historical fiction who intentionally falsify and invent ancient history, as Terrason did in his Sethos, a History or Biography, based on Unpublished Memoirs of Ancient Egypt . This technique of claiming to find an ancient document and publishing it in order to express one's own ideas is still used, e.g., The Celestine Prophecy . A variation on this theme is to claim that one is channeling a book from some ancient being, e.g, The Urantia Book and Bringers of the Dawn . The film invents fictional characters and events to enhance the story and Stone's personal views, some of which are improbable or known to be false. Unless a film claims to be a documentary, it is fiction or fantasy no matter how accurate or realistic it is.
Film makers have no more duty to be historians than do novelists.
Anyone who would cite films such as JFK or Michael Collins as if they were historical documents is a pseudohistorian. Rather than demand that film makers be responsible historians or citizens, we should demand that film goers be critical thinkers. To site such fantasy programs as evidence for claims about supernatural or paranormal events is to engage in the type of pseudoresearch practiced by pseudohistorians. The Urantia Book , and Immanuel Velikovsky . Pseudohistory Has articles on holocaust revisionism, Afrocentrism, creationism and arkology.