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I just finished reading If a Pirate I Must Be, the story of Bartholomew Roberts, and it got me thinking that, [i]as far as I know[/i], there is no reasonably accurate historical drama film about pirates.
Again, with the same [i]as far as I know[/i] and [i]historically accurate[/i] caveats, there's nothing about Vikings, Celts and Romans, The Battle of Hastings, Shackleton's Boat Trip or the Battle of Trafalgar, all of which I reckon would make entertaining films.
What would you like to see made in to a film ?
What obscure historical films are there that I might have missed ?
The Battle for Castle Itter.
It was the only battle where Americans and Germans (Wehrmacht) fought as allies (against an SS division) during WW2.
It would be great if there was a decent film about the Crusades.
Noah and the Ark.
Alcock and Browns first flight across the Atlantic
Battle of Thermopylae?
The charge of the light brigade --Crimea 2014
as far as I know and historically accurate caveats, there's nothing about Vikings,
WHAT!?
I give you this stunning drama-documentary:
Yeah, loads of accurate viking stuff has been done.
The battle of The Beanfield
The Life and Times of Fred (aka The Banning)
All quiet on the western front
Maurya Dynasty.
A tragedy romance epic and a re-write of the history books too about the first man to actually fly was from wales.. not the wright brothers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/posts/bill_frost_first_man_to_fly
deluded - MemberThe Battle for Castle Itter.
It was the only battle where Americans and Germans (Wehrmacht) fought as allies (against an SS division) during WW2.
WTF?! off to Google
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Castle_Itter
Fascinating.
As every Brit or Russian knows it was the yanks that won the war.
Crying out for a Hollywood remake that. 😆
I'll 2nd that.It'd make for an ace film.
Roland's betrayal and ambush by the Basques at Roncevaux, or better yet, King Jan Sobieski's victory over the Turks at Vienna.
Is this turning into a thread about who can come up with the most obscure bits of history, or do you REALLY think that some of these suggestions are worthy of the effort, and speculative investment, involved? I'm not convinced that a potential world-wide audience of one is enough for the industry's movers and shakers to, erm, move and shake.
Well not quite a historical story but i would love to see a Hollywood film about Delorean, couldn't make his life story up
Not sure it would actually be that interesting from a Hollywood point of view, but I'd love to see the Battles of Austerlitz or Verdun made into a film, if only to shut up the bloody "cheese eating surrender monkeys" crap which for whatever reason irritates the hell out of me.
Thinking about Verdun: are there any decent WWI films?
I'd like to see a modern version of Macbeth, the story has it all and with todays film skills and effects would be great.
I'd like an unemotional alamo, dealing with awkward facts like what the texicans were actually doing there.
[i]or the Battle of Trafalgar[/i]
There was that thing on the telly a while back about the surgeon on HMS Victory. I thought it was pretty good on a low budget.
[i]Battle of Thermopylae? [/i]
I think it was done in 1960s technicolour well before the homerotic cartoon
The Life and Times of Fred (aka The Ba[s]n[/s]yning).
The Sanity Assassin, I watched Kidnapped recently, principally about the capture of one man after the battle of Culloden. You can't get much more obscure than that.
The Dam Busters is the story of a raid that lasted only a few minutes spun out in to a two hour film.
I'm sure some of the ideas above have got similar potential.
Anyway, I'll add the story of Amelia Earhart to my list.
I think it's unfortunate that Hollywood tends to stick to tried and tested themes; Westerns, World War Two and Alien Invasion for example.
The three way struggle between Harald of Norway, Harold of England and William of Normandy, with battles at Stamford Bridge and Hastings, would make an excellent film.
Since I read the Pillars of the Earth I've been interested by 'The Anarchy', the twenty years when King Stephen and Empress Maude were going toe to toe for the crown of England
I was going to suggest the battle of orgreave, but it apears to have already been done.
A film that took in the sweep of the Great Game across Asia, following Peter Hopkirks book narrative.
They already did... 🙁
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Battle of sheriffmuir might work, or One about Rob Roy.
The history of the House of Wessex & the creation of England, its a fascinating story, from Alfred to Æthelstan.
Battle of Cannae and the Battle of Clontarf
The history of the House of Wessex & the creation of England, its a fascinating story, from Alfred to Æthelstan.
Alfred inviting the Vikings to a comprehensive ass-kicking at Eddington, near Westbury, ought to make a good, bloody battle scene.
A bit about it in the Vikings exhibition in the British Museum.
Yet to see a film I liked about the American Civil War.
The battle for Keren in the Second World War. An almost forgotten theatre of the war in Africa let alone the world.
Battle of sheriffmuir might work, or One about Rob Roy.
Theres a fantastic 1960's one about Culloden, made by the amazing Peter Watkins
Seriously, fifty years old and it could have been filmed yesterday!
I believe its due to be rebroadcast the night before the referendum...
The assassination of Princess Diana
Æthelstan's crushing of the Danelaw, the Scots, the Picts, the Strathclyde Welsh & the Welsh Princes would show how the modern State of England was created.
Upham's VCs. Or any VC stories for that matter.
The Battle for Manila - 1945 inc the massacres.
death toll comparable to that of the Tokyo firebombing or the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Yet no one really remembers what sacrifices the locals paid - besides the death toll.....
Filipinos lost an irreplaceable cultural and historical treasure in the resulting carnage and devastation of Manila, remembered today as a national tragedy. Countless government buildings, universities and colleges, convents, monasteries and churches, and their accompanying treasures dating to the founding of the city, were ruined. The cultural patrimony (including art, literature, and especially architecture) of the Orient's first truly international melting pot - the confluence of Spanish, American and Asian cultures - was eviscerated. Manila, once touted as the "Pearl of the Orient" and famed as a living monument to the meeting of Asian and European cultures, was virtually wiped out.
With Terrance Malick and Spielberg co-directing, so that it's a technically brilliant yet exciting ponder on the pointlessness of it all and as a bit of an attack on Japanese revisionism.
Has anyone else actually seen Valhalla Rising - it is absolute ****!
I would love to see some films made of the Viking Sagas, I got really into them whilst studying the Vikings and being an archaeologist type. There are loads of historical periods that could be tackled though, and getting more historically accurate and less "Hollywood" versions would be ace.
There is nothing on the Picts for example - how about the Battle of Nechtansmere...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dun_Nechtain
Shackleton
[url= http://www.channel4.com/programmes/shackleton ]http://www.channel4.com/programmes/shackleton[/url]
Quite liked Valhalla Rising as an exercise in film making. Under no illusion that it bears any resemblance to anything that ever happened in Norse history.
The Siege of Malta 1565 when 500 Knights of St John and 5500 foot soldiers defeated a 48,000 strong Ottoman army.
I found it utter pretentious rubbish myself! It just seemed an exercise in proving how "clever" the film maker thought he was.
The dicoveries of Captain James Cook would float my boat.
Has there been any decent films about Hannibal and his campaigns in Italy, think I have seen some made for TV stuff but nothing major?
The Australian (and others) in Gallipoli in the first world war, something I knew very little about until visiting the Australian War museum.
http://aso.gov.au/titles/collections/gallipoli-on-film/
and based on the recent historical film making - Vikings (History Channel), and any of the other big epics about something greek/roman etc. a film about dentistry and how they all managed to have perfect teeth back then and how they all looked good despite living in mud all year long.
mikewsmith theres a good 1981 movie about Gallipoli staring a very young Mel Gibson. Couldnt find the full movie on youtube so here is a small clip
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d-kVrdc9g_s
cheers but I don't watch old movies, I wait for the remake 😉
No worries.
Falklands War - haven't seen anything for this
Wills and Kate.
Falklands War - haven't seen anything for this
An ungentlemanly act:
Documentary film 'Falklands war, the untold story':
Some spanish ones, have seen the latter one with subtitles in the past, but not the former
Los Chicos de la Guerra
Blessed by Fire
The Rebecca Riots of west Wales.
Farmers were being charged crazy money to go through toll gates to market, taxed silly money on the money they made then toll gates on the way home.
They tried and tried diplomacy to solve this. Nobody in power listened do they dressed up in women's clothing for anonimity and destroyed all toll gates. Whoever tried to get in their way was killed.
This resolved the toll issue.
Who wouldn't want to watch a movie about Welsh transvestite murderers? You couldn't make it up.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes/society/politics_rebecca_riots.shtml
Battle of Carrhae, where the Romans were well and truly gubbed by the Parthian Empire. Classic story of an overconfident and poorly-led force going up against an enemy they didn't understand.
Helps that the Romans were led by Marcus Licinius Crassus, who you might remember being played by Olivier in 'Sparticus'.
Loads of very cinema-friendly images in the historical accounts: Roman legionaries attempting to charge and finding that they were literally pinned to the ground by arrows, or Crassus losing his marbles after a Parthian cavelryman charged along his lines with his son's head on a pike.
According to some (probably less reliable) accounts, Crassus, having been captured after the battle, was executed by having molten gold poured down his throat; a reference to his having been worth a bob or two.
Hope they keep Ridley Scott away from it.
Has there been any decent films about Hannibal and his campaigns in Italy, think I have seen some made for TV stuff but nothing major?
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Geeky I know, but I would love to see a film about the "Battle of the currents" between Nicola Tesla and Edison. I always remember being so disappointed by Christopher Nolan's use of Tesla in The Prestige. The guy's experiments were fricking amazing, no need to make stuff up...
Edward Whymper's "Scrambles amongst the Alps".
Crecy or Agincort