 FACT: In his narration at the start of the film, Gaddis states that  Stroud has been in solitary confinement since 1916, the year Kaiser  Wilhelm ordered the sinking of the Lusitania. This is incorrect on  two counts. First, while Germany was then waging unrestricted  submarine warfare and regarded any ships traveling to or from the  British Isles as fair targets, neither the Kaiser nor the German  government gave any specific order to target the Lusitania. Second,  the ship was sunk in 1915, not 1916.