text: in the movie "braveheart"...were most parts for real, or made up for the movie? i know there was an actual william wallace....but what other parts were real and/or fake? this is your luck day, i studied mostly medieval history in college. well, the movie is a great one, one of my favorites, but alas no. the battle of sterling bridge in 1297 had a bridge. the english were bottlenecked and the scots were able to exploit this and kill many crossing the bridge but many english just drowned as they had on a decent amount of equipment and most people then didn't swim. i don't know the whole story in detail, but robert the bruce got a bad wrap in the movie, he is a national hero in scotland. also, wallace was not some landed peasant, he was a knight and was reasonable educated.