(Unexpectedly, the biggest divide between Yes and No voters wasn’t actually over Braveheart – it was still No voters’ second favourite – but Billy Connolly’s repressed royal romance Mrs Brown, which had nearly four times as many Unionist fans as nationalist ones, compared to the 2:1 ratio on Gibson’s 14th-century gorefest.) ![]() Mel Gibson’s historically-questionable but multi-Oscar-winning tale of the life and death of William Wallace edged out Trainspotting fairly comfortably in the end, with the light-hearted 1949 heist comedy Whisky Galore the only other contender to really separate itself from the chasing pack.īraveheart’s fans were more likely to be Yes voters (unsurprisingly), women (perhaps more surprisingly), working-class and SNP or Labour voters, with the middle classes preferring Trainspotting and Tory/Lib Dem voters opting for Whisky Galore. We asked Twitter users to name their favourite “Scottish” films – we didn’t specify what we meant by the term, leaving interpretation as open as possible – and put the 20 most popular answers into our latest Panelbase poll to see which ones the general public loved the most. ![]() ![]() ![]() Scotland’s favourite Scottish movie is still Braveheart, folks.īut the devil, as always, is in the detail.
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