20 Historical Events That Should Be Films
Toonacious
Published
08/28/2022
Our world is rich in history and events that could easily be great films. Here are a few such incidents.
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"Apollo 8. Basically the mission was originally only supposed to be a test of the lunar module in earth orbit, but rumours were circulating that the Soviet Union were going to attempt to send a man into lunar orbit (spoiler: this was not happening). As a result Apollo 8 was switched to being the first mission to the moon, not to land but to orbit. And this decision was made only 6 months before the scheduled launch date, so it was a race to get everything ready before the flight. It's a historic mission that is almost never talked about, compared with Apollo 11 which is much more well known." -Therailfan https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/wfi9o8/what_historical_event_has_not_but_should_be_made/ -
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"The story of the Pan Am flight that got caught in New Zealand at the start of WWII and couldn't fly back home by going east because it was too dangerous. So instead they took their flying boat and flew west on routes they had to figure out from maps pulled from borrowed encyclopedias, dodging the Japanese, and trying to find enough fule to keep the plane going. The whole thing took months culminating in taking off from a river in the Congo and having to skim along through a canyon to build up speed since they were too heavy in order to even have a chance of crossing the Atlantic. The whole thing is tailor made for TV or a Film. There's a fantastic book written about the whole story called "The Long Way Home" and was written with the Captain of the flight." - bigred49342 -
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"The Cold Case of who murdered Ken Rex McElroy. It is prime material for a dark comedy. This dude was such an unrelenting piece of shit, buried beneath the prison type scumbags, and terrorized a small rural town his whole life. He'd get away with it everytime because he'd intimidate the fuck out of anyone who sought to press charges against him. Implicated in rape, arson, assault etc. So yeah no tears shed for that psychopath. Anyway there was a town meeting to discuss what to do with him because everyone was sick of his shit. The Sheriff told them to just avoid him and set up a neighborhood watch to keep track of him. Right then they found out he was drinking at a bar. Sheriff told them to leave him alone and go home but he had other shit to do so he left THE COUNTY. So what do these people do? They go to set up that neighborhood watch....neighborhood watch this man die. Over 60 people travel to the bar Ken is at where they crowded him as he drinks and slings insults. He goes to his truck where his underage wife is sitting in the passenger seat, talks some more shit and reportedly was going to grab a gun. So over 60 people must subscribe to the theory that a bad guy assumes room temperature only when well ventilated because he then got lit up. Unknown the number of shooters but there were 2 separates calibers identified from the rounds found in his body and both were popular hunting rounds. To this day his murder is unsolved because all 60+ wont say shit. The FBI showed up to help investigate and still everyone kept tight lipped. One person told them "thay boy needed a killin". So yeah, prime material." - RubbrBabyBuggyBumprs -
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"A biopic on Hannibal would be really good. The visuals of crossing the Alps with elephants would be stunning." - Mattiebfc -
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"I need a Coen brothers movie of the 1904 Olympic marathon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_marathon?wprov=sfla1 Every sentence just keeps getting more bonkers." - Hititwitharock -
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"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident?wprov=sfla1 the Goianas incident, dad stole a radiotherapy capsule from an abandoned hospital, didn't know what it was an opened it" - Shep9882 -
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"Syndrome K., in 1943, a hospital in Rome located next to a Jewish ghetto, let Jews fleeing Nazi raids hide there. The professors in charge admitted Jews under the fake diagnosis of "Syndrome K", described as a highly contagious and dangerous disease. This successfully kept the Nazis out of the quarantine wards and the Jews safe for the duration of the war." - Grey_Gryphon -
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"The Lioness of Brittany - medieval woman who led brutal attacks by land and sea against the French king in vengeance for the execution of her husband https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_de_Clisson" - LizHylton -
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"It's been batted around a few times in Hollywood but the history of how the ancient Hawaiian Islands were united under one man to form the Hawaiian kingdom is epic." - shaka_sulu -
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"The Spanish Invasion of The Aztec Empire by Cortés. There are so many unbelievable events that led up to the fall of Tenonchtitlan and Monteczuma II reign." - neildegraciadyson -
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"The time John Adams and Benjamin Franklin were in France trying to gather support for the revolution and all the shenanigans they got up to." - marble8888 -
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"Unless it's been done already, the life story of Ching Shih. She was a Chinese prostitute that because the deadliest pirate of all time. At the height of her power, she commanded over 800 large ships, 1000 smaller vessels and over 70,000 pirate crew, comprised of both men and women." - randomguy987654321 -
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"I tell my students every year when we do my Robert Smalls lesson that there needs to be a Robert Smalls movie. Born into slavery, sent to Charleston at the age of 12 to work, gets a job on a boat, when the Civil War starts he steals the boat and snuggles his family and the family of the other slaves past Fort Sumter and out to the north blockade, becomes a folk hero and meets with Lincoln and Edward Stanton to convince them to allow blacks to join the army, personally recruits thousands of blacks to fight, becomes the first captain of a ship in the navy, wins numerous engagements during his service, wins a seat in the SC house and then the US house, fights against racist groups like the Red Shirts, overcomes false accusations and earns his seat back.... Dude is amazing" - USCplaya -
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"Battle of Jutland could use a modern movie depiction. Massive battle, day and night, high drama, tension, massive explosions. What more could you ask for?" - notquiteright2 -
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"Besides the Napoleonic era, I feel 19th century France has a lot of potential for historical movies, due to how much stuff happens during that time period. If I had to pick one event in particular, it'd be between the birth of the 2nd republic to the 2nd empire." - Luxray209 -
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"Xenophon. He was a student of Socrates that was commander of a Greek mercenary company under Cyrus that nearly captured Babylon then had to retreat to Greece. Philosopher, historian, and military commander. Peloponnese War would be awesome too with Alcibiades and Pericles." - BrodyTuck -
17.
"The year 1066 when the vikings invaded England and then the Normans invaded England. Massive amounts of drama too." - mukenwalla -
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"The battle of Castle Itter. One of the final battles of WWII which involves a US tank division teaming up with Austrian resistance fighters, a German Army Major and a high ranking member of the SS to protect an free high ranking French prisoners from loyal Nazis in a medieval Austrian Castle. Seriously it sounds like a random alt history DLC from a Call of Duty game but it actually happened. I know we have like 8 million WW2 movies but how this hasn’t been made yet still boggles my mind." - Ven18 -
19.
"Not really history, but retelling the Epic of Gilgamesh on the silver screen would be awesome." - careater -
20.
"I always thought a big-budget telling of The Donner Party would be pretty good. Not that low-budget version from 10 years ago. I want epic!" - zippyboy
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