History event, you want to be filmed

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Something about the doomed flights that would ultimately crash into the WTC??

 

[End on a Hinote]

Not a movie but I always thought they should do an American Crime Story mini series on Matthew Shepherd.

 

[The Shadow]

Jonestown.

Columbine.

My Best-Carey

Definitely no to Columbine. They should never make that stuff on tv as it just puts ideas in to the heads of copy cats

 

[Roo Returns]

I'd like to see a movie based around Rasputin but where he is rarely featured. I think it would be an interesting mood for a film.

Almost like the first hour or so of Seven before Spacey was introduced.

Rasputin besides being the villain in Hellboy was also featured in several films I've seen.

 

[Roo Returns]

I'd love to see a movie about the climate of music from late 80s/early 90s as in hair metal and pop and how over the course of a few weekends the fall of 1991, it just changed. Not a band biopic, but more of a music industry and from a radio DJ POV and the aftermath.

I'd also be curious to see biopics on Jeff Buckley, Minnie Ripperton, and Moe Berg who was an MLB catcher and spy.

 

[themightyquinn]

Leo Major or Simo Hayha would be good stories to see.

I have no doubt that if Leo Major was American that a major Hollywood film production would have been made about him.

Léo Major - Wikipedia

Even the Dutch football/soccer club from Zwolle still pay tribute to him.

 

[Osprey]

I have no doubt that if Leo Major was American that a major Hollywood film production would have been made about him.

Canada has had a film industry for at least half a century. Maybe they should've told his story by now instead of trying to corner the market on horror films .

 

[Scott Stevens]

The end of the fat orange guy

 

[Osprey]

The end of the fat orange guy

You have something against Gritty?

 

[ORRFForever]

I have no doubt that if Leo Major was American

I thought the Six Million Dollar Man was American?

 

[alko]

Amundsen and Scott Expeditions to South Pole.

Frederick Cook vs Robert Peary: Who was the first in the North Pole (also the aftermath disputes).

There is a lot material for very interesting series.

 

[Bures Elbow]

I ve been waiting for a Midway movie..and then I saw the recent trailer.

I have no faith in great movies based on amazing historical events

 

[sr edler]

When Xenu dumped all those billion people in volcanos, injected their bodies with alcohol and glycol and then blew them up with a thermonuclear bomb so their souls (or 'thetans') spread through the atmosphere before he caught them again in intergalactic traps so they could be taken to large theaters where they were brainwashed with false information about their past before they were let go so they could cluster onto the last living people and make them restless and irrational beings.

 

[Eisen]

Amundsen and Scott Expeditions to South Pole.

Frederick Cook vs Robert Peary: Who was the first in the North Pole (also the aftermath disputes).

There is a lot material for very interesting series.

Ask and you shall receive. I'm sure there are subtitles out there.

 

[Eisen]

I ve been waiting for a Midway movie..and then I saw the recent trailer.

I have no faith in great movies based on amazing historical events

There is a 70s movie about that, but it's partly fiction. Star studded, though.
Midway (1976 film) - Wikipedia

 

[Osprey]

When Xenu dumped all those billion people in volcanos, injected their bodies with alcohol and glycol and then blew them up with a thermonuclear bomb so their souls (or 'thetans') spread through the atmosphere before he caught them again in intergalactic traps so they could be taken so large theaters where they were brainwashed with false information about their past before they were let go so they could cluster onto the last living people and make them restless and irrational beings.

 

[sr edler]

Tom digs that story, y'know.

But honestly, a real good well written/constructed film about L. Ron would be gold. So much crazy and sinister things and details you would probably have to try to tone it down quite a bit just to make it digestable for the audience.

 

[Osprey]

Tom digs that story, y'know.

I couldn't resist that meme for a reason .

But honestly, a real good well written/constructed film about L. Ron would be gold. So much crazy and sinister things and details you would probably have to try to tone it down quite a bit just to make it digestable for the audience.

It's not a film, but there's a pretty good two-hour HBO documentary from a few years ago about Scientology (with the first half being history about Hubbard) called Going Clear.

 

[The Professional]

A movie about flavius aetius, the last great roman general in the last decades of the western empire and the battle of catalaunian plains where he defeated the Huns would be great.

 

[RandV]

A movie about flavius aetius, the last great roman general in the last decades of the western empire and the battle of catalaunian plains where he defeated the Huns would be great.

My memory says I watched a low budget Gladiator-type movie about Attilla and this guy, didn't remember his name but remembered the bad ass Roman general stealing a lot of the spotlight, back in the late 90's. Doing a quick lookup it was a 2001 TV miniseries called Attila that I guess they released on VHS, featuring Gerard Butler (probably his first lead role) as Attila and a guy named Powers Boothe as Flavius Aetius.

IMDB Link

Flavius and Attila:

 

[RandV]

Funny how a lot of these exist in one form or another.

For another pick how about the South Sea Bubble? An early 1700's Wolf of Wallstreet/Mad Men type story, where the financial Chancellor seeing the government overloaded with debt, the treasury near empty, and no help from the Bank of England, turns to a slick bastard named John Blunt of the Hollow Blade Company to come up with a number of schemes to finance the government and enrich Blunt along the way

Which comes to the creation of the South Sea Company, a South American equivalent to the incredibly wealthy East India company, where the government was locked into the $100 a share price and any dollar over was profit for Blunt's company. Problem: South America was controlled by Spain, and after signing a peace treaty the British/SSC were only allowed to send 1 slave trading ship a year to South America.

John Blunt's and the SSC knew this, the government knew this, but everyone else had no idea. The stock chart tells the story pretty well here:

Every sudden spike there is when the price levels of and people start getting suspicious, Blunt comes up with another scheme convincing people to double down and buy into the hysteria. To quote Sir Isaac Newton who lost the modern equivalent of about 250 million pounds in the scheme: "I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men".

 

[ORRFForever]

Historical event, I wish was filmed?

My friend Tom being conceived. His mom was (still is) soooo HOT !!

 

[Xelebes]

Does your friend Tom know this? And what does your friend Pedro say?

 

[The Imp]

The Battle of Trafalgar as a massive setpiece epic action movie would be freaking amazing.

Did you watch the Hornblower series? Imagine Sharpe, just on sea. Pretty decent stuff, with a bit of age-of-sail combat thrown in.

Fun fact, the series also includes a few scenes with Denis Lawson, the guy who played Wedge Antilles in Star Wars.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Did you watch the Hornblower series? Imagine Sharpe, just on sea. Pretty decent stuff, with a bit of age-of-sail combat thrown in.

Fun fact, the series also includes a few scenes with Denis Lawson, the guy who played Wedge Antilles in Star Wars.

Big Hornblower fan, probably my favorite book series, and give props to the miniseries for being at least decent.

Secretly hoping that an older Ioan Gruffudd gets a Captain/Comodore/Admiral Hornblower series started up eventually.