It sure seems that the 2001 writeup touched a lot of nerves.
It's one of those movies that you either love or hate - like most Kubrick films BTW.
Personally, the movie is in my top ten of all time.

One thing that bothers me in historically inaccurate films is that the movie is often less interesting than what really happened. But I guess Hollywood needs to throw in ingredients to feed the masses.

What made me laugh in Gladiator was when Marcus Aurelius offers Maximus the throne (?). Although this indeed could legally be done, I think.

Braveheart has so many inaccuracies that they could fill a book.

I noticed that Yahoo didn't mention any old movies. There are many from the fifties when sandal epics were the rage that are much more inaccurate historically. Think of anything Charlton Heston was in, or Tony Curtis (The Vikings, Houdini, Taras Bulba, The Boston Strangler). At least today the soundtrack is usually much better.