There's a 1970 Russian adaptation of Joan of Arc called "Nachalo" that depicts a fairly accurate Joan-at-the-stake scene. It shows her with her head shaved and a heretics cap, which was usually placed on the heads of people convicted of heresy, though I don't know for sure if Joan had one placed on her, but it's likely.
There's a clip of her burning, in Nachalo, at Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG1aRfG9hvw
The most accurate one, overall, was The Passion of Joan of Arc, which showed the actual words she spoke at the trail and at the stake.
An actual depiction would show her, most likely, gasping for air as she suffocated from the smoke as well as her cloth-gown burning away from her body, but showing that would be viewed as disrespectful and possibly vulgar. In the TV version they do show her gown starting to burn away from her, which is the only version, I've scene, that takes note of this.
In the TV version she asked for a crucifix, when, in fact, they gave her a cross. A crucifix is a cross *with* a crucified Jesus on it. She also did call out to Jesus several times, in real life, but she only said his name once in this version, I suppose they did this to be politically correct.
Also, it was a clergy man named Martin Ladvenu who held-up the crucifix for Joan, not Jean de Metz, who wasn't even at her trial or execution
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