No. So many things are miss represented in movies and TV or skipped entirely in the name of entertainment.

There are a lot of cultural things to learn from Hollywood, but very little actual academic content comes out of Hollywood. If any.

Add public TV to that mix and the academic content level goes WAY up. I don’t think of public TV as Hollywood so I’m unsure if OP is including it.

Seems that youtube has much more content that I would call educational. I would go there for an education before Hollywood.

On one hand I am always amazed at what kids can learn and latch onto in the weirdest ways. So I have no doubt that a lot can be learned through context. Watching movies can absolutely demonstrate a seemingly endless scenarios in a way that can be understood.

However, as someone raising a child, let me tell you how often I have to stop and explain that certain things are not real just because there’s a video of it. Or how many words are being used incorrectly because they were heard in one context that was misunderstood.

I think a child who only had media to teach them, with no one to correct things, would have an endless amount of misunderstandings - nevermind the amount of things they’d believe that are entirely fictional. Basically, no, this kid would be screwed.

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No joke, before moving here, I learned a lot about USA daily life from The Simpsons.

School and university especially give a student access to more than just material to absorb, they teach a student how to learn. Without that framework, a person is not equipped to think critically. Not to mention, the real value of a teacher is not to dictate information to be memorized, it is to identify mistakes and issue corrections. No type of non-interactive medium can accomplish this.

Definitively no.

No. Not even close.

Obviously not, and I’m not even going into the depth of your definition of “everything”, where would a kid learn long division?