I just started perusing this board so I apologize if this has been asked or discussed before. What historical event or time period do you think should be depicted in a movie or a TV show/series that hasn't?

My vote would be the Rangers taking Pointe Du Hoc on D-Day. It seems like there is more than enough story to tell that would make for an entertaining show.

Would love to see stuff about the English Civil War(s). Or movies about the English and French when they were constantly going at it. Or the defeat of the Spanish Armada. All fascinating to me

Was recently reading up and also listening (via the Revolutions podcast) about the activity on Lake Champlain and that area of the country during the Revolution. Interesting skirmishes and events that I do not believe I have seen on the screen.

Good one

Battle of Sabine Pass

Rabid Cougar said:

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Sapper Redux said:

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I feel like there's been a ton of World War II material. I'd love to see a series on something like King Philip's War from start to end. Won't happen. The politics are too difficult to translate to our era without pissing off one side or the other.

More plausible, a series following one regiment in the Civil War would be fascinating. Something like the 2nd Massachusetts, where Robert Gould Shaw was a Captain, which saw action at Antietam and Gettysburg before going west and participating in the March to the Sea.

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Make it the 5th Texas. The Peninsula to Appomattox.

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YES!!!

Battle of Adobe Walls

BQ78 said:

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• At the theater when Lincoln died, and being haunted by it the rest of his life.

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Ahhhh.... No he wasn't.

Invited, but declined because Julia Grant could not stand Mary Lincoln after her emotional outbursts while visiting City Point during the late stages of the Petersburg Campaign. He was on his way to New York City that night.

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Ah! My bad. I'll correct original post. Misremembered that one.

First and/or Second Punic War

AgRyan04 said:

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Battle of Adobe Walls

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Which one?

CanyonAg77 said:

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AgRyan04 said:

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Battle of Adobe Walls

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Which one?

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There's a sequal!

Two would be cheaper to make, one would be a cast of thousands and you'd need a big name to play Kit.

I just started reading that last weekend

The demise of the Princes in the Tower; Richard III's claiming of the English throne and his comeuppance at Bosworth Field...told as a flashback while discovering his remains with a backhoe under a carpark in Leicester.

Something along the lines of Winds of War which lead up to USA participation in WW II, but covering the time period from the annexation of Texas up to the start of the Civil War

Got a few to consider, maybe these do exist and I'm just not aware.

-What about a series related to some of the early European groups who sought to distance themselves from Rome? Examples would be the Hussites, Waldensians, and Cathars. You would have a mix of religion, politics, warfare, and I'm sure a love story between a Catholic and one of the others would be thrown in. Should be enough to fill in a 8-10 part series.

-A movie about Sir Kenneth Strong - This could cover so many of the main events of WW2 as he was in Germany before the war, involved with the secret negotiations to have Italy flip sides, and was G-2 for Ike.

-What about a series about the Russian Occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in 1940? You have the hard decisions the Romanians faced on whether to accept the Russian ultimatum. You have the massacres of priests and students. The forced abdication of the King and alignment with Germany due to this.

-What about a series related to the Western Schism? Lots of drama and politics. Competing powers. European drama between houses.

I suggest everyone to watch "Righteous Gemstones" season 4 episode 1

this series is a modern black comedy but Episode 1 Season 4 was a origin story based in the Civil War.

it was EXCELLENT

but that's because I am writing a book on the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley.

they did a good job with the reenactors and always Bradley Cooper is a great actor.

there were no Gatling machine guns used in the Civil War except in the trenches of Petersburg (due to the size and complexity and the waste of ammunition which was in short supply)

and the Union would not have shot prisoners of war who were regular Confederate soldiers wearing uniforms and in organized units (they would shoot Mosby's Rangers who were guerilla units)

The_Waco_Kid said:

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I'd love to see a miniseries where each episode is about a different Medal of Honor recipient and their actions that lead to earning it.

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There's something like that on Netflix. It's called Medal of Honor. It has 8 episodes all dealing with a particular MOH recipient and their story

JABQ04 said:

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The_Waco_Kid said:

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I'd love to see a miniseries where each episode is about a different Medal of Honor recipient and their actions that lead to earning it.

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There's something like that on Netflix. It's called Medal of Honor. It has 8 episodes all dealing with a particular MOH recipient and their story

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Like the one I linked already?