Since this is aired on the History Channel there is some expectation and some obligation for it to have some good degree of historical accuracy. This mini-series has little to do with historical accuracy except for the names and the year. Even the clothing is not accurate. If you watch this you believe all people in the 30s wore nice suits, clean shaved and had great hair all the time. The writer decided to fabricate Bonnies early life and Clyde's childhood. True that none of it is written down so you can make up whatever you want. But why? Just jump in at age 16 when court records can be used and you are still able to show Clyde's emergence as a criminal. The meeting and courtship of Bonnie and Clyde are completely made-up. The acting is boring. I had to force myself to continue to watch. Basically it is drivel. I expect more from the History Channel.

I missed this mini-series when it was originally aired a couple of years ago and now just watched most of it on the History Channel. I can not recommend this program on this cable station at all for the reasons mentioned below.Sorry to say this but as a four-hour presentation it has what I believe to be nearly 90 minutes of commercials! Not just ads but AWFUL, long station breaks! I do not know who made the mini series or who broadcast it originally a couple of years ago. If it was an original HBO or Showtime production that would partially explain why it was so damn long on the History Channel.If it was made for premium pay cable then it should have stayed there and not have been cut to pieces by advertisers! I'm 62 years old and I've have already viewed two LIFETIMES of terrible prescription drug and car insurance commercials and resent having my intelligence so rudely insulted by advertisers. I do not need any help whatsoever in deciding what drugs to ask my doctor to prescribe OR who to pay to insure my damn car!Not to mention the constant self-promotion programming during breaks by The History Channel. I miss being able to record something like this on VCR and then later wear out the machine fast-forwarding the ads.

People complain of its accuracy but I thought it was a great movie and entertaining don't listen to these history morons they are not critics they should have watched a documentary. I get tired of reading post of amateurs criticism that doesn't connect with the general public in any way. Cynical and uninspired come to mind. Why break down the specifics of a part of history made movie that otherwise wouldn't get anyone but these 5 people who hated to watch it due to being to mind draining to watch. Watch the movie with the expectations for entertainment and try to tone down the crazy on your review because you liked the stories in a book of history that could just as inaccurate as the movie.

Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker really were two armed robbers in the 1930s. They really did kill a number of people and really did die in an ambush in rural Louisiana in 1934. Over the years some exaggerated stories have popped up here and there, and the writers of this version chose to use some of the exaggerations to make a more interesting story. Be that as it may, and with the disclaimer at the ending credits that many things are fictionalized, taken as a whole it is a very interesting and well-made version of the Bonnie and Clyde story.Emile Hirsch is Clyde Barrow, only about 20 or 21 when this story starts in 1930. It was also the start of the great depression, work was scarce, money was scarce, and petty thief Barrow eventually turned to armed robbery. He was arrested more than once and sent to jail. It is there he had such bad experiences that he became even more hardened and his life of crime was partly to get back at the system. But on more than one occasion he voiced an intention to "pull off one more big one and quit."Very cute young British actress Holliday Grainger is Bonnie Parker, still a teenager when she met Barrow. For whatever reasons they took to each other and soon Bonnie became Clyde's partner in crime. Grainger does a great job with the role, showing a gradual but distinct transformation in attitude as the story progresses.The other key character is William Hurt as Frank Hamer, a semi-retired lawman who was asked specifically to track down and get Bonnie and Clyde. And it is his persistence, with the help of one of Clyde's former associates, that they finally caught up with them in the rural NW Louisiana location. They made no attempt to arrest them, they just shot everything they had to make sure both of them were dead.So, even though much of the story and details surely are fabricated and not intended to be taken as fact, the core of the story over the 4 years from 1930 to 1934 is factual. I saw it as one continuous movie on Netflix streaming movies.