The most arguable, and, at the same time, 100 per centhistorical moment of the film is the battle between the Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Sith zabrak Darth Maul.
We know for certain that such a battle took place during the liberation of Naboo. We also know that as a result both Qui-Gon and Darth Maul died and Obi Wan remained alive. But, the course of the battle as shown in the film is completely impossible. Even leaving aside the demand for a good show, which forced the authors to fill the battle with "impossible" leaps and poses, the mere suggestion that the young Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, who didn't have the fencing talent characteristic to Master Yoda, Mace Windu or the Skywalker family, could single-handedly defeat Darth Maul who was at the peak of his strength is completely ridiculous.
Alas, Obi-Wan himself doesn't describe the battle in his memoirs. Moreover, the only mention of it in his personal diary is very obscure and only says that Maul was "killed by my lightsaber in another's hand". Considering Qui-Gon was at the moment of Darth Maul's death already dead or mortally wounded, these words were a sticking point of historians for a long time. (Vaderworshippers claimed that it was Anakin-Vader who participated in the battle and destroyed Maul – a complete nonsense!).
Some light was shed on the course and the results of the battle with the discovery of the diary written by the New Jedi Order founder Luke Skywalker. According to one of the entries, in the year 52 of the New Republic, Master Skywalker penetrated time with his mind and saw the battle from the points of view of all three combatants simultaneously. The impressions recorded by him, while can't be considered 100 per cent historical evidence, nevertheless explain amazingly well most of the facts unclear to the historians.
For example, an explanation is given as to why Darth Maul abandoned his post of the TF representatives' bodyguard and went to battle the Jedi. As Master Skywalker writes, Maul's real instructions saw as the ideal outcome the destruction of ALL the conflicting sides.
His (or, rather, Palpatine-Sidious') plan was to first destroy the Jedi, then to give Amidala time to deal with the TF representatives, after which Darth Maul was to destroy Amidala and every person escorting her. If Amidala managed to capture the TF representatives alive, Maul was to kill them as well, presenting it as a battle accident. As a result, a full vacuum would have been created in the local space of Naboo, which could be used easily by Palpatine-Sidious.