I hate movies that go to the earth and the moon to look historical, but are not. This is JFK goes to the Middle East. The opening scene, (1914), has a group of Senior British Officers ,and Winston Churchill,(First Lord of the Admiralty in 1914), discussing the Sykes-Picot agreement. Just a few small problems, in 1914 TE Lawrence was a Lieutenant assigned cartography duties in the basement of British Headquarters, Winston Churchill never visited the Middle East during WWI, he fought in trenches in France. The Sykes=Picot Agreement was leaked in the May-June of 1916, two years after this meeting is suppose to have taken place. At that point I went numb, and just finish watching the movie. I'm sure Gertrude Bell had some role in advising the British, but this movie makes a mockery of whatever she did do. The fact that this movie was made in 2015, and not released on Showtime til 2018, speaks volumes.
Review of Queen of the Desert
