Same reason you see M48s in WW2 movies instead of Shermans, I guess - it's cheaper to use what you got than scrounge up what you don't. Movies are supposed to be entertainment, not history. They are under no compulsion to portray things accurately, or even to tell a true story.
Until they do away with musical soundtracks and introduce "smell-o-vision", there will never be a realistic war movie anyway - which is just fine by me.
I threw fruit at my television when I saw the Patriot. It's so typically "Mel" to rewrite history upside down. The southern war was brutal on both sides. Murders, rapes, tarring and feathering (sounds funny, but I bet it was ghastly) were common on both sides. Not everybody wanted to be free of England, probably less than half, especially in the South. So much for democratic principles.
As for psy-war, isn't it funny that revolutionaries are called "Patriots"? They had spin doctors even then...
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