Historical Errors
- The ship that the explorers arrive on in the movie flies the flag of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Great Britain was not united until 1707 with the Acts of Union 1707.
- Albeit captain of The Discovery, John Ratcliffe was not the first the governor of the Jamestown Settlement, nor was he captain of the ship that John Smith and the rest of the Virginia Company arrived on.
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