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re: Historical events/people that would make great movie
Posted on 10/19/25 at 6:21 pm to scottydoesntknow
Posted on 10/19/25 at 6:21 pm to scottydoesntknow
Maccabee rebellion.
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Posted on 10/19/25 at 6:38 pm to Twenty 49
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Lewis & Clark
I recently learned that part of their instructions were to find megafauna (mammoths/elephants) in the American interior because Thomas Jefferson was “into fossils” and in a quarrel with some Frenchman about America’s climate being unable to produce anything but weak, small animals.
On the fossil note and the point of the topic, a biopic about Baron Franz Nopcsa would be interesting.
He was a spy and a paleontologist that generated some important finds and ideas in biology (insular dwarfism). First person to hijack a plane. And, to meet quota for current times, he was a homosexual.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 7:01 pm to Sasquatch Smash
quote:a movie about the bone wars between cope and marsh would be cool. plenty of books to choose from to adapt including one by michael crichton
On the fossil note and the point of the topic, a biopic about Baron Franz Nopcsa would be interesting.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 7:04 pm to scottydoesntknow
The battle of Dien Bien Phu
Posted on 10/19/25 at 7:44 pm to scottydoesntknow
Princess Olga of Kiev.
Would be a real story of a real woman getting vengeance for her murdered husband.
Of course now she would have to be overweight, black Trans person fighting for necromancer rights or some shite.
Would be a real story of a real woman getting vengeance for her murdered husband.
Of course now she would have to be overweight, black Trans person fighting for necromancer rights or some shite.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 7:51 pm to scottydoesntknow
I’d like to see a good movie of The American Revolution that was comprehensive and included The Founders in Philadelphia and Boston up
Until the first shots were fired in Massachusetts..,
Until the first shots were fired in Massachusetts..,
Posted on 10/19/25 at 8:07 pm to scottydoesntknow
Style of Band of Brothers:
Season one: West Point. If you pick the right time you get a lot of the main future generals and players of the civil war.
Season two: War with Mexico. Follows most of the players from season one and adds in the other main players.
Season three: Between the wars and build up to civil war. Follow the main players. Lee, Grant, Sherman, Jackson, etc. All four had interesting times during this period.
Seasons four and five, maybe six: Civil War. End at Appomattox and the parade in DC; and a brief montage of what the survivors went on to do.
Season one: West Point. If you pick the right time you get a lot of the main future generals and players of the civil war.
Season two: War with Mexico. Follows most of the players from season one and adds in the other main players.
Season three: Between the wars and build up to civil war. Follow the main players. Lee, Grant, Sherman, Jackson, etc. All four had interesting times during this period.
Seasons four and five, maybe six: Civil War. End at Appomattox and the parade in DC; and a brief montage of what the survivors went on to do.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 8:32 pm to scottydoesntknow
Jim jones.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:11 pm to Sus-Scrofa
The class of 1846 would be perfect for this.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:28 am to scottydoesntknow
A Lewis and Clark (John Adams - HBO-type) miniseries would be absolutely amazing.
Sooo much drama there - pre, during, and post exploration. So many amazing characters as well.
I can only wish.
Sooo much drama there - pre, during, and post exploration. So many amazing characters as well.
I can only wish.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:38 am to scottydoesntknow
New York or Paris by Edmund Rutherford would be killer miniseries.
They're historical fiction, but nothing outlandish.
They're historical fiction, but nothing outlandish.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:49 am to Pettifogger
I always thought a well scripted movie or short series on Storyville would be interesting. New Orleans in the 1910s was a fascinating place. Creation of Jazz, open prostitution, Italian and Irish immigration...I'd watch this for sure.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:04 am to scottydoesntknow
Battle of Palmito Ranch The final battle of the Civil War. Historians are unsure of why it took place. One theory is that the Union officer in charge wanted a victory in battle to boost his career. Another is that the Confederates refused to surrender to black troops. There was also a lucrative cotton trade run by the southerners and Mexicans as they shipped to Europe, which would've been disrupted and confiscated by the Union upon surrender. Add to it that a French garrison in Mexico was supplying the Confederates with artillery.
The Chatsworth Incident A TV repairman becomes the president of The Cryonics Society of California and oversees the first freezing of the dead in the hope of reviving them in the future. He has no idea what he is doing and allows corpses to thaw and refreeze, "doubles-up" corpses in chambers due to budget constraints, and eventually comes clean in the worst chapter of American cyronics. (At one point Paul Rudd was going to play him in a flim about the incident.)
Jack Kirby Co-Creator of Captain America for Timely/Marvel, moves to DC to invent the kid-gang genre and other heroes, invents the romance comic genre, returns to co-create the new Marvel Universe, returns to DC to create the 4th World, then spends another two decades as a journeyman creator. Sandwiched in there is his combat service in World War II, years in the animation industry, and his changing of an American art form. All of this while others made fortunes off of his creations while giving him sometimes minimal credit or no credit at all.
The Chatsworth Incident A TV repairman becomes the president of The Cryonics Society of California and oversees the first freezing of the dead in the hope of reviving them in the future. He has no idea what he is doing and allows corpses to thaw and refreeze, "doubles-up" corpses in chambers due to budget constraints, and eventually comes clean in the worst chapter of American cyronics. (At one point Paul Rudd was going to play him in a flim about the incident.)
Jack Kirby Co-Creator of Captain America for Timely/Marvel, moves to DC to invent the kid-gang genre and other heroes, invents the romance comic genre, returns to co-create the new Marvel Universe, returns to DC to create the 4th World, then spends another two decades as a journeyman creator. Sandwiched in there is his combat service in World War II, years in the animation industry, and his changing of an American art form. All of this while others made fortunes off of his creations while giving him sometimes minimal credit or no credit at all.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:33 am to scottydoesntknow
I can't believe there hasn't been a fulsome Frederick Douglass biopic.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:08 am to Big Scrub TX
A biopic of Jack Churchill
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:31 am to scottydoesntknow
Henry Wallace and how he was backstabbed by his entire party for Truman because they knew he was dumb enough to drop the bomb once FDR was gone. Always a fascinating domino that fell that had it not fallen, everything would have changed.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 12:50 pm to scottydoesntknow
Tisquantum
Posted on 10/20/25 at 12:53 pm to migui8618
Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command
Douglas Southall Freeman
This would be on the line with Game of Thrones. 5 to 6 seasons. Even with 5-6 seasons you are looking at 20-30 episodes a season, there is so much to cover.
It should start in 1859.
Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico should be mase it a 3-4 season show.
Starting in Cuba.
Cortés's bookkeepers fight is the key event of the show, an Aztec warrior in Spanish armor and weapon, fighting a not so well bookkeeper.
Douglas Southall Freeman
This would be on the line with Game of Thrones. 5 to 6 seasons. Even with 5-6 seasons you are looking at 20-30 episodes a season, there is so much to cover.
It should start in 1859.
Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico should be mase it a 3-4 season show.
Starting in Cuba.
Cortés's bookkeepers fight is the key event of the show, an Aztec warrior in Spanish armor and weapon, fighting a not so well bookkeeper.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 1:04 pm to scottydoesntknow
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If a movie genie gave you the choice of any historical event/person to make a 500 million dollar blockbuster with your choice of director, who would you choose?
The battle of Midway. Not the Bruckheimer/Michael Bay type movie that looks more like Transformers, that focuses on the love story of 1 guy at Midway. A Spielberg/Hanks version of the battle of Midway.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 1:05 pm to migui8618
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Henry Wallace and how he was backstabbed by his entire party for Truman because they knew he was dumb enough to drop the bomb once FDR was gone.
Why was dropping the bomb "dumb"?
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