I'm going to say the St Nazaire Raid. However, I looked it up and apparently there was a movie made about it in 1968, but it looks damn cheesy. So I will still stick to it as my suggestion.
Keeping up with the WWII theme... what are WWII stories that deserve their own movie?
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10th mountain division campaign thru Italy
I think there are still many untold stories of the war.
One of the best ones is around the women that were parachuted in and around Normandy before the invasion to help disrupt the Germans. We always here about the bravery of the paratroopers and what they went through (deservedly) but the story of the women hasn't really be told. This woman would be a good one to use:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sonya-d-artois-secret-agent-second-world-war-1.5160124
One of the best ones is around the women that were parachuted in and around Normandy before the invasion to help disrupt the Germans. We always here about the bravery of the paratroopers and what they went through (deservedly) but the story of the women hasn't really be told. This woman would be a good one to use:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sonya-d-artois-secret-agent-second-world-war-1.5160124
The bravery of the glider pilots. Those things were...not safe.
I'd watch that movie. It doesn't sound like you'd even need to take any creative liberties.
2 events come to mind.
Rudder's Rangers attack on Point-du-Hoc. The way that mission played out is begging for a movie. From scaling the cliffs under fire, to gaining a foothold, to seeking inland and destroying the objective(artillery pieces), to holding the foothold despite 70% casualties for 2 days for reinforcements to come up the long way around.
Battle of Castle Itter. This is the perfect setup for a movie as well. It's such an odd story that many will dismiss it as fancy fiction. Basically a castle turned political prison of VIPs(mostly french politicians, but others like a star tennis player) is abandoned by the SS in the waning days of the war, they send out a plea for help to the local town. A defector group from the German Army is there with Austrian resistance, upon hearing the request they seek out and surrender to a small advance force of American to give them the plea. The Austrian resistance, the German army, and the Americans go to the castle and fortify it waiting for the larger American force to relieve them. They come under attack and endure siege of about 200 SS soldiers(vs about 30 of the good guys). Reaching desperation the tennis player runs the gauntlet of SS nests to reach out to the larger American forces, while the German Major in charge of the defectors died defending a former French Prime minster(the only allied death of the battle). tell me that wouldn't be a badass movie. I'd even go as far as to make the major the main character as a redemption story of sorts. I think it did get a script treatment so maybe someday...
Obviously it should be stated that it's the only battle of the war where the Americans and Germans fought on the same side.
Rudder's Rangers attack on Point-du-Hoc. The way that mission played out is begging for a movie. From scaling the cliffs under fire, to gaining a foothold, to seeking inland and destroying the objective(artillery pieces), to holding the foothold despite 70% casualties for 2 days for reinforcements to come up the long way around.
Battle of Castle Itter. This is the perfect setup for a movie as well. It's such an odd story that many will dismiss it as fancy fiction. Basically a castle turned political prison of VIPs(mostly french politicians, but others like a star tennis player) is abandoned by the SS in the waning days of the war, they send out a plea for help to the local town. A defector group from the German Army is there with Austrian resistance, upon hearing the request they seek out and surrender to a small advance force of American to give them the plea. The Austrian resistance, the German army, and the Americans go to the castle and fortify it waiting for the larger American force to relieve them. They come under attack and endure siege of about 200 SS soldiers(vs about 30 of the good guys). Reaching desperation the tennis player runs the gauntlet of SS nests to reach out to the larger American forces, while the German Major in charge of the defectors died defending a former French Prime minster(the only allied death of the battle). tell me that wouldn't be a badass movie. I'd even go as far as to make the major the main character as a redemption story of sorts. I think it did get a script treatment so maybe someday...
Obviously it should be stated that it's the only battle of the war where the Americans and Germans fought on the same side.
A modern (and accurate) battle of Midway
Isn't there a Midway moving coming this fall?Bruce Almighty said:
A modern (and accurate) battle of Midway
I don't get something... if the castle/prison was abandoned by the SS, then why didn't they just leave? Why did they stay to defend the castle? And why did the SS leave in the first place just to come back later and try to take it back?hunter2012 said:
2 events come to mind.
Rudder's Rangers attack on Point-du-Hoc. The way that mission played out is begging for a movie. From scaling the cliffs under fire, to gaining a foothold, to seeking inland and destroying the objective(artillery pieces), to holding the foothold despite 70% casualties for 2 days for reinforcements to come up the long way around.
Battle of Castle Itter. This is the perfect setup for a movie as well. It's such an odd story that many will dismiss it as fancy fiction. Basically a castle turned political prison of VIPs(mostly french politicians, but others like a star tennis player) is abandoned by the SS in the waning days of the war, they send out a plea for help to the local town. A defector group from the German Army is there with Austrian resistance, upon hearing the request they seek out and surrender to a small advance force of American to give them the plea. The Austrian resistance, the German army, and the Americans go to the castle and fortify it waiting for the larger American force to relieve them. They come under attack and endure siege of about 200 SS soldiers(vs about 30 of the good guys). Reaching desperation the tennis player runs the gauntlet of SS nests to reach out to the larger American forces, while the German Major died defending a former French Prime minster(the only allied death of the battle). tell me that wouldn't be a badass movie. I'd even go as far as to make the major the main character as a redemption story of sorts. I think it did get a script treatment so maybe someday...
Obviously it should be stated that it's the only battle of the war where the Americans and Germans fought on the same side.
-Pegasus Bridge (I think the British are making one)
-Battle off Samar
-Wake Island
-Battle of Crete
Also a good movie about the air war over Europe
-Battle off Samar
-Wake Island
-Battle of Crete
Also a good movie about the air war over Europe
I think it was a different SS unit with orders to execute the prisoners.
Oh... and I guess they didn't have anywhere to hide or escape to in that timeframe?JABQ04 said:
I think it was a different SS unit with orders to execute the prisoners.
Just glanced at an article about it, the men in the prison for whatever reason decided that staying at the abandoned castle and defending themselves was their best option as opposed to wandering around the country side and potentially running into German Units who were still fighting. The Wehrmacht unit in the town stayed to protect the civilians from SS reprisals, who were rounding up old
Men and boys and executing them as traitors and deserters. Read about it if you haven't. Neat story, odd battle and strange allies.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Castle_Itter
Men and boys and executing them as traitors and deserters. Read about it if you haven't. Neat story, odd battle and strange allies.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Castle_Itter
Yea, by the guy that directed Independence Day, 98 Godzilla, The Patriot, 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and 10,000 BC. I'm not counting on accuracy.
aTmAg said:I don't get something... if the castle/prison was abandoned by the SS, then why didn't they just leave? Why did they stay to defend the castle? And why did the SS leave in the first place just to come back later and try to take it back?hunter2012 said:
2 events come to mind.
Rudder's Rangers attack on Point-du-Hoc. The way that mission played out is begging for a movie. From scaling the cliffs under fire, to gaining a foothold, to seeking inland and destroying the objective(artillery pieces), to holding the foothold despite 70% casualties for 2 days for reinforcements to come up the long way around.
Battle of Castle Itter. This is the perfect setup for a movie as well. It's such an odd story that many will dismiss it as fancy fiction. Basically a castle turned political prison of VIPs(mostly french politicians, but others like a star tennis player) is abandoned by the SS in the waning days of the war, they send out a plea for help to the local town. A defector group from the German Army is there with Austrian resistance, upon hearing the request they seek out and surrender to a small advance force of American to give them the plea. The Austrian resistance, the German army, and the Americans go to the castle and fortify it waiting for the larger American force to relieve them. They come under attack and endure siege of about 200 SS soldiers(vs about 30 of the good guys). Reaching desperation the tennis player runs the gauntlet of SS nests to reach out to the larger American forces, while the German Major died defending a former French Prime minster(the only allied death of the battle). tell me that wouldn't be a badass movie. I'd even go as far as to make the major the main character as a redemption story of sorts. I think it did get a script treatment so maybe someday...
Obviously it should be stated that it's the only battle of the war where the Americans and Germans fought on the same side.
It was different units of the SS. The SS unit that abandoned the prison were in the part of the SS that ran prisons and concentration camps. The part of the SS that attacked the prison was the Waffen SS, which was the military arm of the SS.
How about a battle of midway movie totally or mostly from Engisn Gay's point of view.
The wikipedia link on Castle Itter says a movie is under production...
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Coming out November 8 this year.Bruce Almighty said:
A modern (and accurate) battle of Midway
Now having seen the movie's teaser poster, which features an SBD Dauntless dive bomber firing wing-mounted machine guns and sporting a 4-bladed prop, I have very little faith in its accuracy. But it will be great to see another version of the Midway story.
You're not going to get the complete battle from that perspective, I would think.Sarduakar said:
How about a battle of midway movie totally or mostly from Engisn Gay's point of view.
I'm unclear on the details but a German sub was sunk in the gulf and some survivors made their way ashore in Louisiana and Texas. Ran around for a few days before being caught. That could be interesting and perhaps even somewhat funny.
With the aforementioned new version of Midway coming in a few months, I think that Ridley Scott has been developing a new version of Battle of Britain?
And I've seen rumors that Peter Jackson was developing a movie around the famous dambusters raid (coincidentally, Peter Jackson also owns a scale modeling manufacturing company, WingNut Wings [and if you recall, his films tend to be produced by WingNut Films, or something like that] - that company is putting out a 1/32 scale Avro Lancaster later this year, one hell of a huge scale model and also it just so happens to be the bomber that conducted the dambuster raid).
I'd really like to see a movie about the American Volunteer Group, aka the Flying Tigers.
Perhaps a movie about the life of Isoroku Yamamoto, that of course ends on April 18, 1943 when he is intercepted and shot down over Bougainville - this would probably be a movie like Tora Tora Tora where it changes focus between the Japanese and the Americans until it culminates in Operation Vengeance, the interception and killing of the man who planned Pearl Harbor.
And a movie about the US Navy in the South Pacific, particularly something like Guadalcanal and the area we now refer to as "Iron Bottom Sound" - this would show an honest-to-goodness naval battle between the Americans and the Japs, and would require lots of miniature or CGI work to be able to do properly.
And a movie that could likely never be made, the story of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
And I've seen rumors that Peter Jackson was developing a movie around the famous dambusters raid (coincidentally, Peter Jackson also owns a scale modeling manufacturing company, WingNut Wings [and if you recall, his films tend to be produced by WingNut Films, or something like that] - that company is putting out a 1/32 scale Avro Lancaster later this year, one hell of a huge scale model and also it just so happens to be the bomber that conducted the dambuster raid).
I'd really like to see a movie about the American Volunteer Group, aka the Flying Tigers.
Perhaps a movie about the life of Isoroku Yamamoto, that of course ends on April 18, 1943 when he is intercepted and shot down over Bougainville - this would probably be a movie like Tora Tora Tora where it changes focus between the Japanese and the Americans until it culminates in Operation Vengeance, the interception and killing of the man who planned Pearl Harbor.
And a movie about the US Navy in the South Pacific, particularly something like Guadalcanal and the area we now refer to as "Iron Bottom Sound" - this would show an honest-to-goodness naval battle between the Americans and the Japs, and would require lots of miniature or CGI work to be able to do properly.
And a movie that could likely never be made, the story of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The things seen by or done by former poster aggie1944 (Here) during the war.
or
The story of the First Unites States Army Group (the phantom army built around General Patton).
or
The story of the First Unites States Army Group (the phantom army built around General Patton).
Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
With the aforementioned new version of Midway coming in a few months, I think that Ridley Scott has been developing a new version of Battle of Britain?
And I've seen rumors that Peter Jackson was developing a movie around the famous dambusters raid (coincidentally, Peter Jackson also owns a scale modeling manufacturing company, WingNut Wings [and if you recall, his films tend to be produced by WingNut Films, or something like that] - that company is putting out a 1/32 scale Avro Lancaster later this year, one hell of a huge scale model and also it just so happens to be the bomber that conducted the dambuster raid).
I'd really like to see a movie about the American Volunteer Group, aka the Flying Tigers.
Perhaps a movie about the life of Isoroku Yamamoto, that of course ends on April 18, 1943 when he is intercepted and shot down over Bougainville - this would probably be a movie like Tora Tora Tora where it changes focus between the Japanese and the Americans until it culminates in Operation Vengeance, the interception and killing of the man who planned Pearl Harbor.
And a movie about the US Navy in the South Pacific, particularly something like Guadalcanal and the area we now refer to as "Iron Bottom Sound" - this would show an honest-to-goodness naval battle between the Americans and the Japs, and would require lots of miniature or CGI work to be able to do properly.
And a movie that could likely never be made, the story of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
One of my favorite movies growing up was the old movie about the damn busters. I can't remember the name but I remember they used two lights to give them a point of reference so that they got low enough to drop the bomb.
Bruce Almighty said:
Yea, by the guy that directed Independence Day, 98 Godzilla, The Patriot, 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and 10,000 BC. I'm not counting on accuracy.
Don't care, will be entertaining as hell ! I'm in
I would love to see a modern Siege of Malta. It's criminal how this absolutely critical battle is relatively unknown. Might as well toss in Gibraltar as well.
Cryptonomicon
I think a movie about the solomon campaign, tin can alley, the tokyo express through the slot - iron bottom sound
Exotic blue water and white sand names like tulagi, rabaul, bougainville new britain
When the balance of power was even, the aussies and kiwis working island lookouts, the pt boat campaign, night raids in the slot - pappy boyington - us marines. Pby's and evenly matched stalemate air, sea and land. Hard won and turned the tide.
If done well would be the most visually stunning and interesting of the ww2 settings and the fighting, while not on the scale of a d day or okinawa, was incredibly personal and fierce.
Exotic blue water and white sand names like tulagi, rabaul, bougainville new britain
When the balance of power was even, the aussies and kiwis working island lookouts, the pt boat campaign, night raids in the slot - pappy boyington - us marines. Pby's and evenly matched stalemate air, sea and land. Hard won and turned the tide.
If done well would be the most visually stunning and interesting of the ww2 settings and the fighting, while not on the scale of a d day or okinawa, was incredibly personal and fierce.
My Thirty Year War
https://www.amazon.com/No-Surrender-My-Thirty-Year-War/dp/1557506639
A Japanese soldier left on a small island in the Pacific who believed the war was still going until 1974. Crazy story.
https://www.amazon.com/No-Surrender-My-Thirty-Year-War/dp/1557506639
A Japanese soldier left on a small island in the Pacific who believed the war was still going until 1974. Crazy story.
Bruce Almighty said:
Yea, by the guy that directed Independence Day, 98 Godzilla, The Patriot, 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and 10,000 BC. I'm not counting on accuracy.
What wasn't accurate about Independence day? Was the final attack on the 9th or something?
Carlson's Marine Raiders at Guadalcanal.
You think a bunch of aliens would travel 100 billion light years to pick a fight without Norton anti-virus?
I think any movie/series made before the 90s is fair game to make again, as well.
The bedford boys
A movie about pq17 could be cool: https://vimeo.com/95372252
A movie about pq17 could be cool: https://vimeo.com/95372252
I believe that movie was The Dambusters.Smokedraw01 said:Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
With the aforementioned new version of Midway coming in a few months, I think that Ridley Scott has been developing a new version of Battle of Britain?
And I've seen rumors that Peter Jackson was developing a movie around the famous dambusters raid (coincidentally, Peter Jackson also owns a scale modeling manufacturing company, WingNut Wings [and if you recall, his films tend to be produced by WingNut Films, or something like that] - that company is putting out a 1/32 scale Avro Lancaster later this year, one hell of a huge scale model and also it just so happens to be the bomber that conducted the dambuster raid).
I'd really like to see a movie about the American Volunteer Group, aka the Flying Tigers.
Perhaps a movie about the life of Isoroku Yamamoto, that of course ends on April 18, 1943 when he is intercepted and shot down over Bougainville - this would probably be a movie like Tora Tora Tora where it changes focus between the Japanese and the Americans until it culminates in Operation Vengeance, the interception and killing of the man who planned Pearl Harbor.
And a movie about the US Navy in the South Pacific, particularly something like Guadalcanal and the area we now refer to as "Iron Bottom Sound" - this would show an honest-to-goodness naval battle between the Americans and the Japs, and would require lots of miniature or CGI work to be able to do properly.
And a movie that could likely never be made, the story of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
One of my favorite movies growing up was the old movie about the damn busters. I can't remember the name but I remember they used two lights to give them a point of reference so that they got low enough to drop the bomb.
My grandfather was a Waco glider pilot. He flew in Operation Varsity. I was a dumb 14 year old when he died, so I didn't take the opportunity to talk to him about it. However, a few years back my dad was able to find the after action report. It talks about my grandfather and his copilot evading and eventually engaging German soldiers in an attempt to get back behind allied lines. Yes, a movie featuring gliders would be awesome.Big Cat `93 said:
The bravery of the glider pilots. Those things were...not safe.
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