Posted on 05/08/2015 8:29:27 PM PDT by MNDude
If you could take any historical event and have it made into a movie (and it would be made to your liking) which historical event would it be? Hannibal? Maccabees? Etc.
I would like to see a movie about the Barbary War- something like “Master and Commander” but about the US....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b_RhW9K4qc
I’ve found this one to be useful when teaching about the Soviet Union....
The Clinton Cash Kickback Story.
sub titled; “How China blackmailed its way into the White House.”
How about a movie examining the great Chinese counterfeit meat scandal of 2013? Some 3500 chinese were arrested for and 20,000 tons of fake meat made of rats and gelatin were seized. The film can portray the whole story as a glorious victory of the people vs organized crime—how the noble people’s government struggled to protect its own fake rat meat industry from underground Capitalist poachers.
The SS Morro Castle disaster.
The epic defense and then fall of Constantinople. Maybe with someone like Russell Crowe playing the part of the last emperor.
That is the last half-hour (maybe even the last hour) of Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor.
Could have done without Alec Baldwin, though.
It would be a tragedy so you would have to find some way to leave some hope in the end - maybe with a jump forward in time like the way that they end Braveheart. But the whole event was so epic and the way that the Emperor chose to fight to the bitter end when you could have left and that many of the Christian reinforcements literally had to fight their way through a blockade to get into the city and join the defense.
correction “chose to fight to the bitter end when [he] could have left”
Bunker Hill.
Francis Marion and guerrilla warfare in the American Revolution.
The siege of Petersburg in the Civil War.
Or a more cynical and debunking look at the Russian Revolution.
Early Roman panic at the invading Celts.
The Compromise of 1850. They told us it was very dramatic when we visited the Capitol as kids. Nowadays, the movie would have to be a lot more cynical than one made then would have been.
The Russo-Japanese War. Or the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune.
Bolivar, San Martin and the Wars of Liberation.
The real story of Captain John Smith, of Pocahontas fame. His full story has it all. If it wasn’t true, Dickens could have written it and nobody would believe it as true.
They should do a movie about the black muslims in Oakland in the 1970s.
Although it would be a sad ending, I’d like to see a movie about the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee. It would follow the lives of Generals Patrick Cleburne, John Adams, Otho Strahl, and Hiram Granbury. At the end, all four of the generals’ bodies would be placed together on the porch of Carnton Plantion.
I saw a made-for-TV movie about him some years ago but wasn't very impressed by it.
“Swing kids”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX7AReML354
Not a great movie, but they do address your points.
It’s still a good movie.
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