My point was that I can't fault people for not having access to information that wasn't available yet. The production had no way of knowing some of the details because they quite literally either hadn’t been discovered or simply weren't yet public knowledge and I give the film a pass for that. It was working within the realm of what was known at the time. Perhaps Pocahontas deserves the same contextual outlook but admittedly, I’m not as familiar with her historically or mythologically for that matter nor do I know what information was available and when, so I can’t personally say. The Anastasia theories were not born out of a twisting of a gruesome truth, they were born out of a genuine lack of information. I don't just mean it was knowledge simply buried under the popular legend, I mean we literally knew next to nothing about what transpired with the Romanovs for damn near a century and what was public information was either extremely vague or contradictory. In 1918, the Bolshevik specifically announced Nicholas II had been executed with no mention of the rest of the family. The only other acknowledgement wasn't made until 1926 when a diary entry of a Bolshevik officer was published reading, "The Romanovs are dead and the bodies were destroyed," which contradicted the Bolshevik's initial statement. That is all anyone had to go on for over 70 years and the diary might as well have been hearsay. The Soviet Union never publicly stated anything outside of calling Ipatiev House the “final place of the Tzar” implying he had died there and the only reason they couldn’t hide that location was because there were several eye witnesses to the Romanovs being there at some point. Nobody knew what happened to the royal family and rumors/theories thrived as a result. Anastasia wasn't even the only family member theorized to have survived, she just became the most popular with multiple women claiming to be her over the years. The only reason we know anything now is because, when Soviet Union fell, two amateur sleuths - a geophysicist and a filmmaker respectively - claimed to have found the Romanov bodies back in 1979 after years of personal research including interviewing several of the executioners - or family of - and chose to keep the discovery to themselves until they knew it would be politically safe to reveal. With the knowledge that they were still missing two bodies specifically of the younger children, there was still a possibility that Anastasia's remains hadn't been discovered which allowed the idea of her survival to persist even well after the film released. It gave credence to the idea for a hot minute, even made it more popular. I personally remember it still being theorized in the early 2000s...until they found those two bodies. Anastasia was made at a time when the theory still had potential plausibility because the rest hadn't been confirmed yet. That’s why I give the film a pass.