Historical information portrayed on Disney

I had the privilege to see a few historical monuments in Washington DC, this past weekend and it opened my eyes to a few things. I was never someone who actually liked learning about history so I wasn't surprised that I had no understanding of what these monuments stood for or why they were there, however I was surprised by the number of people that were there to acknowledge these monuments and pay respects, and a lot of them were young. 
In my middle school and high school we never really went over historical artifacts, monuments or anything like that. Instead of discussing that we focused on theories and what happened in history by watching movies that did not quite depict the actual event very well. I learned about the holocaust through movies, I learned about Pearl Harbor and the World Wars through movies, Civil Rights Movement through movies  and I even learned about the events that happened on Ellis Island through movies but I don't have any real knowledge of these events. Now that I think of it, a lot of what I learned from history classes in high school and middle school were irrelevant. We discussed things from Disney Movies that delivered false information about certain events, for example Pocahontas. We all know by now that there really was a Native American named Pocahontas however, the real Pocahontas never married a guy named John Smith who had blue eyes and blonde hair and was tall and fit. In all actuality she married a guy name John Rolfe, who was short and had red hair. I could go on for days about the incorrect information Disney Movies portrays to the younger generation but I'd rather not.