[Sailor Steve]

As for Troy, I have a love/hate relationship for the same reasons Frau Kaleun expounded on. Likewise with the one-year-earlier British miniseries Helen Of Troy. They did a much better job of telling the whole story, and at least saying it lasted ten years. That said, it's not nearly as good a piece of filmmaking. That said, I own copies of both, and watch them both fairly regularly. Also The Trojan Women and Electra (1962 Greek film based on the play by Eurypides, with Irene Papas).

To add to Frau K's post, and partially disagree with it, we only have Homer's word that the war lasted ten years, and we don't know for certain that it happened at all, which makes this a case of the movie varying from the book, not from history. I highly recommend Michael Woods' documentary In Search Of The Trojan War. Excellent show, and very enlightening. It starts with Heinrich Schliemann and works backwards, discussing everything that's known.