Hollywood keeps making movies about the same shit, its all WWII,

>>2269656

Robespierre. Seriously, why the fuck doesn't anyone make a movie about his rise and fall?

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>>2269656
The wars of the diadochi, more specifically the battle of ipsus and the events surrounding it

HBO series following ice age hunter gatherers. I feel it had amazing potential.

>>2269656
The Thirty Years War would make a great series, I don't know why don't they ever use it.
As for movies, there is Alatriste, The Last Valley, and that's pretty much all.

>>2269656
30 years war
100 years war
russo japanese war

any sort of historical slice of life

like walking dead, just without zombies and in medieval times, where people died around the age of 30 anyway

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Spanish civil war

>>2269711
>>2269705
>>2269696
>>2269690
>>2269657
muh wars

grow up

the story of a family through the height of mycenaea, troy, the bronze age collapse, sea peoples invasions, exodus, the kingdom of judaea, its conquest and the return of the jews by cyrus, everything historically accurate and a possible natural explanation, including an explanation for the plagues of egypt

no big budget needed because it will be about commoners watching events unfold from the bottom of the heap, this also gives writers some leeway as they can introduce challenges for characters to overcome which affect them at a low level and don't contradict wider events

>>2269656

Cahokia slice of life/romcom set around 1150 AD

>>2269713
how about wall to wall 19th century britbongs in top hats doing nothing but building shit and going into detail about the engineering with only the occasional deferential irish/indian/peruvian laborer waiting cap in hand for instruction

The Anabasis is literally begging for an adaptation I am too but I wouldn't want Hollywood to be doing it

>>2269708
>where people died around the age of 30 anyway
That includes baby fatalities. They'd live 'til 60.

The kidnapping of the prince of Sealand.

Diogenes anecdotes but only as a mini-series

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Become a writer, filmaker or commission what you want to see.

Whineing about why there isn't a story set in your favorite war won't do.

Golden Age of Piracy

>>2269656
Myceneans/Eastern Med kingdoms in the Bronze age/sea peoples

>>2269657
There is a great multi-part movie about the French Revolution that is quoted from time to time. It has obvious Robespierre as one of the main characters.

i want a yugoslav war movie with a shitton of turbofolk in it

>Winter War
Great potential for personal stories of patriotic soldiers and civilans
>Roanoke colony
First European contact with New World and setting up of first distant overseas settlements. might have been fun if you put some generic slice of life story into it to wrap it around in
>Life story of Pizzaro
Literal swineherd, that went to try his luck in the New World, was present during discovery of Pacific, helped setting up first Spanish cities in Panama and discovered and conquered Inca realm.
>Movie about Portugese arriving in Indonesia
It could be interesting to see the cultural clash, and how Portugese were setting up their trade routes and interacting with locals
>30 years war
Literally Game of Thrones, but actually good

It would also be a cool to make a movie about some of the Mediterranean colonial empires, like Venice or Genoa, but i don't really know any good event there, except maybe some Venetian-Ottoman wars

>>2269656
Movie about Aztecs that does not include Spaniards

>>2269781
But we'd need skill or money for that.

>you will never see a movie set in the Sumerian Empire
>you will never see a movie depicting the life of Cyrus the Great
>you will never see a non-shit tv series about the Warring States Period
>you will never see a tv series about the Diadochi Wars
>you will never see a movie about the gory Sack of Baghdad
>you will never see a tv series about the rise and fall of the Song Dynasty
>you will never see a tv series about the French Religious Wars
>you will never see a non-shit movie about the Deluge
>you will never see a movie trilogy depicting the battles of Djerba, the Great Siege of Malta and Lepanto
>you will never see a tv series about the 30YW
>you will never see a movie depicting the epic Anglo-Dutch Naval Wars
>you will never see a movie about the First Balkan War and all the real-life butthurt it would trigger
>you WILL see lots and lots of movies about the Holocaust or WW2 though

why even live

>>2269815
but there is a non-shit movie about deluge already

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>>2269815
But why would you even think about the other five thousand years, when you can make another holocaust movie?

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>>2269656
Fall of Constantinople

>Mehmet II forcing his men to bring the ships on shore
>the pursuit of the small Venetian boat by the Turkish navy
>Constantine XI's last stand

The most obvious one: Battle of Vienna. I'm not sure why Hollywood haven't capitalized on it yet.

>>2269824
>>2269835
>Muslim invaders
Very problematic.

>>2269824
Where do you learn this?

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>>2269656
The life of this man.

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>>2269835
>I'm not sure why Hollywood haven't capitalized on it yet
its a mystery

>tfw no movie adaptation of Anabasis

>>2269849
xD stick it to the merchant!

>>2269835
>Find any random youtube video about Battle of Vienna or generally Christian-Muslim wars
>90% of comments are "Yeah kill dirty mudslimes, free Europa!"
People are too stupid to face history

>>2269858
t. Rasheed

>tfw no movies about jewish-roman wars

>>2269656
There is a historic picaresque novel about the 30-years-war, called Simplicius Simplicissimus.

It's the funniest, brutal and epic shit ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicius_Simplicissimus

>>2269839
It would be a good way to move away from the "noble muslims" and ebul christians" narrative that Hollywood has been pushing

>>2269858
detonate yourself mudslime

>>2269764
if they played it out like a house of cards/taboo type thing itd work

>>2269815
>you will never see a movie depicting the epic Anglo-Dutch Naval Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiel_de_Ruyter_(film)

>>2269875
In which films has Hollywood been pushing that?

>>2269858
Is there an issue with that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interesting_Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Olaudah_Equiano

The story of a man going from a free young man in Africa, to a slave in the Americas, to then working as a sailor all over the world.

I honestly don't understand why no one has turned this into a tv-show yet.

The history buffs would love it because it gives an opportunity to show off the entire world at that given period (just add a few episodes of him being in Antarctica, East Asia and Australia, who gives a fuck, the original was mostly embellished anyway).

And the SJW-crowd will love it because it shows a black man with a leading role in mostly white history.

On a somewhat similar note, a Star Trek style tv show following the voyages of James Cook would also be absolutely brilliant.

>>2269912
Yeah I was also thinking about this guy.
He was so good, that the anglo and french main battle fleets had to unite to crush him, and even then he somehow came out on top

>>2269711
There are like hundreds of those made in Spain during or in the few years after it.

>>2269922
nice double dubs.
He is probably talking about Kingdom of Heavens, though thats the only example I can think of aside from some Lawrence of Arabia stuff.
And desu, Saladin was indeed the good guy there

>>2269713
Yeah make a movie about people sitting a room and discussing politics for 2hours, porbably gonna be fun to watch.

War is the continuation of politics by other means

^ You probably heard this one, even without reading the book.

>>2269922
Kingdom of Heaven is pretty much that, since it reinforces the public's knowledge of the crusades being the worst thing ever

>>2269656
Rivalry amongst charlemagne' s sons

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I'd live to see a movie about one of the various pagan rebelions during the christianization of Europe, maybe Poland or Hungary.
Also the Prussian Crusade and the Baltic pagans' last stand against the Christians. Would be pretty epic, depicting them as unknown martyrs and heroes dying for the beliefs of their forefathers
>inb4 fedora

>>2269781
"why are you complaining instead of casting, writing and directing your own feature film"

this is why this site is a joke

>>2269656
Peloponnesian War
William the conqueror
Plantagenêt vs Capetians
The Golden Horde
The Reconquista
The Hundred Years War beginning at the execution of Jacques de Morlay
Battle of Vienna
Protestant vs Catholics in France (which is basically a gigantic proxy war)
Indian Wars in North America
French revolution +Napoleon Era

You could make a 20 years series with England vs France.


>>2269781
Hollywood is the least risk taking entertainment industry in the world.
Also americans can't watch a movie if it doesn't explicitly mentions Murica unless it is a peplum.

>>2269656
movie set in the neolithic middle east

HBO miniseries on court intrigue in the Byzantine Empire.

I would like to see an Apocalypto-tier film, but set in the Inca Empire.

Something in the Byzantine Empire would be fun too: perhaps the Byzantine-Sassanid War of 620.

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A movie about the Albigensian Crusade would be fun as fuck. Make the protags a group of Cathars trying to find refuge or something.

A movie about the Mortara Affair would be amazing: it has all the potential to be a great drama.

I'd like a series on the Mongols btfo-ing everyone

>season 1: early Life of Ghengis, invading China
> Season 2: Khwarizmians and Persia
> Season 3: Subetais cavalry raid, Ghengis going back to China
> S4: Invasion of Europe, Ghengis death

>>2269656
The British expedition to Abyssinia in the late 19th century. The British spent billions marching an army into the highlands of Ethiopia to rescue 3 hostages from a mad king, with loads of crazy Ottoman hi-jinks going on. Thematically the whole thing could work as showing the old world of inter-tribal warfare being swept away by the forces of modern warfare and empires. Emperor Tewdoros killing himself using a modern handgun gifted to him by Queen Victoria after his fortress is stormed would be a lovely climax.

Of course, Byzantium would make the best setting for a HBO series.

>>2269810
Nezahalcoyotl would make a good movie, he had an interesting revenge epic.

That or the siege of Guiengola, it's got romeo-juliet type romance, glory, battle, mystical stuff, twists and it was pretty grandscale, the invasion on a Mesoamerican level. I think 100,000 Aztecs fought it in, including their auxilliaries.

A comedy about the life of Alcibiades.

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>>2271335
The guy was a total fucking madman. His life is like something out of a black comedy, with him popping in and out of famous historical events and having a huge impact on world history. It's like he was a time traveller.

>>2269912
That movie was shit except for the parts with charles dance

>>2269974
>And desu, Saladin was indeed the good guy there
So was King Baldwin, and most of the Christian cast for that matter. Even RIchard Lionheart for the 5 seconds he's there is presented as an amicable guy.

Sounds more like people wanting counter-propaganda to something that doesn't exist.

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Vin Diesel says the only reason he makes shitty movies is because he hopes one day he can fund his dream movie of a historically accurate account of the life of Hannibal Barca.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh1kuxrD0Vw (talks about it at the 4:00 marker)

I would love to see him get to play the lead since he's clearly passionate about this little bit of history that deserves more attention than just "that guy who brought elephants over the alps".

>>2269656
Like in this thread: wars, wars and more wars. Those who are rare.
Also more naval movies.
Also the heroic age of Antarctic exploration obviously as it's probably the most interesting period that gets so overlooked.

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Rabban bar Sauma was kind of like the Chinese Marco Polo. I think it would be cool to see what perspective they have of European society, especially since he was a Chinese-Mongol convert to christianity and spent his life creating diplomatic ties between the Mongol empire and Europeans. Especially interesting is how there was almost a Franco-Mongolic alliance at one point in history.

The Battle of Qadesh.

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I want a TV series about the Russian Civil War.

>>2271465
ALL EMBRACE ME

>>2271524
That's the Soundtrack taken care of

>movies

HBO does better anyway. Not very much history can be covered in a 1h45m film.

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>>2271575
>Watching films that short
Step it up senpai.

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The Bronze Age collapse outside of the Trojan War

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>>2269656
Been writing a script for a few years now about a biography of Friedrich II. I've written a lot about his life with dad and his Baron bro, and his love in London. I've written several bits on what could be the climax with the wars with Austria. Honestly it's been very hard to write. I'm trying extremely hard to be historically accurate and going for film flair.

>>2269771
>they'd live til 60

wrong. even accounting for infant morality the average adult lifespan at death was around ~45 in the middle ages and classical antiquity. living to 60+ was a rare and noted exception.

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>>2271597
I've also been writing about Louise and Friedrich Wilhelm III. I think their relationship is a pure love and makes a great story. Louise standing up to Napoleon. The two learning from mistakes to making Prussia into a great power again through reforms.

>>2269713
Honestly. This.

>>2269858
Maybe that's because most Christian-Muslim wars were initiated by Muslims?

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>>2270264

The political maneuverings of Narses, Theodora, Belisarius, and Justinian along with other players in that time period would be brilliant. It has everything viewers today want; sex, violence, intrigue, politics, so I think it could get mainstream normie appeal too. The episodes around the Nika revolt would be amazing

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Central Asian romance. Make it a series or franchise so it follows the lives of multiple brides.

>>2271386
Man, it feels like he hates his movies.

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>>2269656
Rape of Nanking

The world needs to learn what the Japanese did and apologize for letting it happen. It should be recorded in every school textbook and their should be a commemorative holiday. The reparations must flow.

>>2271386
>>2271679
I feel like Vin Diesel seems like a legitimately cool guy. I hope he gets a studio to take him on to make the film he wants to make.

>>2271695

>that fat, disgusting face

DELET THIS

But yes a movie around the Rape of Nanking would be very good

>>2271695
Holy Shit. That looks absolutely terrible. Fuck Bioware.

House of Thrones
About the Hapsburgs, maybe focused around the War of Austrian succession & Maria Theresa, or HRE politics with the 30 Years War

>>2271710
The Japanese are a bunch of wankers and little pussies. They would get mad and proceed to bash it, because the Yamato are incapable of doing evil.

NIHONGO BANZAI!

>>2271715
>NIHONGO

The "go" refers to language.

>>2271695
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1410063/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_11

>>2271816
Chris Chan?

>>2271586
What's that? Gettysburg?

>>2271870
Lawrence of Arabia.

>>2269767
what is the warriors.

>>2269656
I want more XVII century things.
The goat century.
gimme 30 years war movies.
gimme dutch golden age movies
gimme mughal india movies

>>2269656
I always thought a movie focusing on the early exploits of the US navy would be a very good, Like a movie that focuses on the life of a single ship during its lifetime of service from the revolutionary to the Barbary and Quasi wars, up until the War of 1812 when it's eventually sunk trying to fend off multiple British warships at the Battle of Lake Erie. Would be a good twist on the typical war movie imo.

>>2271698
Vins a confirmed fa/tg/uy

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>>2271997
>no movie about my nigga Perry

The great American negroid cull of the late 2010s

Sure you guys want to see these, but what will the normie majority want to pay to see?

>>2269776
This right here

>>2269656
>lancelot.png
>lancelot literally cucks arthur

THEY CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

>>2271695
>t. chang
satoshi dindu nuffin

>>2272427

At least in my mind, a Justinian era Byzantium setup like a cross between Vikings and House of Cards

Id settle for an apocalypto pt. 2

May possibly be a fitting porn film

A series about the initial colonisation of Africa

A little outpost on a river in the Congo would be cool

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>>2269656
Early 19th century piracy in the South China Sea.

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>>2269656

>>2269656
Give me a series following the development and origin of staple food. I would fucking love a series about nothing but the first European potato farmers.

>>2269656

Roman von Ungern-Sternberg

>Austrian-Hungarian
>Since young desired to be a modern Genghis Khan
>Joins the Russian Army
>Fights in World War I
>Joins the White Russian Army
>Invades Mongolia to restore the monarchy to the throne
>Becomes a Khan of Mongolia

>Known for torture
>His head torturer was a rapist and a sadist who loved to smash his victim's heads open with a hammer as he was raping them.

>>2271510

Wow wow wow.

>White
>Army

You really need to check that Tsarist privilege, good luck making that film.

>>2272732

Same goes for you.

>>2272756
He was a racemixing weeb who practiced Eastern occult religions and married a chink princess.

Plenty of things for (((Hollywood))) producers to like.

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I'd love to see a biopic of Mithridates IV. Dude built an empire, spoke 20+ languages, developed a resistance to poison, and pissed off Rome his entire adult life.

>>2272769
>He was a racemixing weeb who practiced Eastern occult religions and married a chink princess.
>Plenty of things for (((Hollywood))) producers to like.

You forget that von Sternberg was a violent antisemite who pogrom'd all the Jews in Urga.

>>2269903
>muh drama

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A Band of Brothers-esque miniseries showing both sides of the Philippine-American War. One of the least known modern wars and also one of the most interesting.
>both set-piece battles and guerilla warfare
>themes of revolution and imperialism
>atrocities committed left and right
>tropical diseases
>US Army dressed as boy scouts
>fightin' buffalo soldiers
>the world's most powerful race
>Taft's fat ass
Something the whole family can enjoy

>>2272809
To be fair, Sulla was destroying him at every encounter. Wouldn't have been around nearly as long, if Sulla didn't keep getting called back to Italy to deal with Marius' retardation.

>>2269807
There was a Finnish movie made about the winter war that's pretty decent

>>2269815
>Deluge
literally called Deluge

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>>2272818
Is he the origin of the swastika being associated with antisemitism?

>>2269713
Dirty, subhuman W-O-M-A-N detected.

>>2272818
I take it you got that either from the retarded Palmer's book or the wiki article that's based on it.

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>>2271695
>Rape of Nanking

City of Life and Death

its essentially Chinese Schindlers List

>>2271695
literally making stuff up, if your going to make a movie at least make it about real events.

>>2273071
Trumbo or that latest Coen comedy.

>>2269656
Soviet power struggles.

>no one mentions a gritty film or hbo type series of sir francis drake's exploits in penguin eating and spaniard burning on his quest to impress the queen as essentially a paid pirate.

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>>2269656
I want a Master and Commander style movie about the Battle of Lissa.

It's by far the most metal thing to ever happen at sea.

A movie series of generals wellington and hill in the peninsular wars would be neat

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Munster Rebellion

>>2269656
Fall of the WRE

Why has this not been done????

>>2273160

>Doctor Persano, I'm Austrian Navy

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TIMMY D COMING THROUGH BITCHES

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>*record scratch*
>freeze frame
etc etc

>>2273309

TO THE WINDOOOOWWWS!

>>2269858
It is annoying.

But will probably pass when Nationalism in the Middle East inevitably crushes Islamism.

A biopic of General Butt Naked.

>>2273313
TO THE WALL

>>2273341
TILL THE SWEAT DROPS DOWN MY BROW
DOWN THESE WRETCHES FALL

>>2272830
>the world's most powerful race

This shouldn't be so funny.

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>>2271386

As much as I love Vin, no.

The BBC did a great documentary with Alexander Siddig as Hannibal and it was fucking based. Made me wish that it was an actual movie. Knowing Hollywood though, they'd get The Rock to play Hannibal and Scipio wouldn't even be in the movie. It'd just end with Hannibal's victory at Cannae or some shit, and then the end credits would talk about how "It took Rome a further twelve years before they were finally able to defeat the Great General." Then the end credits music would be the Terminator theme song or some shit.

>>2269656

a movie about that western marxist who was shilling for Pol Pot and denying the cambodian genocide and he ended up going over there to prove it. But his guards knew he would just be given a very regulated tour and that he wouldnt press anyone on the issue and just report everything was fine, so his guards killed him in order to make the whole world look at Cambodia and realize something was wrong instead of just listening to marxist shills.

>>2269656
The Assyrian Civil War.
>famine
>two halves of the same army continually fighting in every city and engaging in pitched battles
>hill tribes raiding the eastern provinces
>"the terrible horde from out of nowhere" (Germanic Steppe raiders) tearing in from the North
>earthquakes abound for some reason
epic

I could see a movie about the life of Emmanuel Kant being a hit among smart people.

They need to make a movie about the Battle of Hastings and Fulford, just call it 1066.
Norsemen, Saxons, and Normans each having their perspectives, each being played up as the their archetypes.
>growling viking berserkers and norse strength
>hornblowing norman cavalry with a charge that shakes the roots of the world
>roaring saxon freemen resolved to defend their shire to the last breath
Honorable mention to Talifer

>>2269656
Anything that is another shitty American war movie. Sorry Americans but it's overdone and boring.

I want to see Mel make a movie about the fall of Constantinople. There are almost no Byzantine history movies.

>>2273572
A 1453 movie has Mel written all over it. He has to do it.

>>2273572
Seeing how Mel portrays the opposition in his historical movies, it would be worth it just to see Turkish butthurt at how Mehmet II would be portrayed as a bad guy with anger issues.

the emu war of course

>>2273346

it's got a perfect pg rating since their fall is broken by animal poop

>>2273160
TEGETHOFF

>>2273751
*saved by Angels

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I feel like a film about the Boxer Rebellion would be fantastic.
>The eight-nation alliance is represented by each country's most popular young actors (A German officer is played by Daniel Brühl, An American is played by Chris Hemsworth, etc.)
>The Qing Army is represented by a sympathetic conscript who doesn't want to fight
>The Chinese cut of the film focuses more on him
>Towards the end, the soldiers who survived return to their homes
>Film ends with the Qing conscript walking through the Tianjin concessions 11 years after the war has finished.

The lifes of Carl Gustav von Rosen or Otto Skorzeny.

the Shackleton expedition on the endurance

A movie set in Fascist Italy. A movie set in Colonial Kenya/India. Movies set in Ottoman Empire.

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>>2274574
>A movie set in Fascist Italy.
Technically set in France for the most part, but this is still the definitive movie about Fascist Italy.

>>2274365
>Chris Hemsworth
He's australian

Either Marco Polo's (I know that show exists, it's shit) or Ibn Battuta's travels. Especially the latter would be pretty based.

I'd love to see a high quality HBO series about the life and campaigns of Alexander the Great

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>>2274602
Confused him with Chris Evans. Fortunately, Chris Hemsworth can play one of the Australian troops.

>>2270099
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOZqSH7SDxk

Differing from the war themes, I'd like to see a film based on an artist in history, could even be some made up fictional one, but set during a historical event. Maybe Bouguereau or Paul Chabas.

>>2269807
I kinda imagine Pizzaro's conquest of Inca working like a Seth Rogen movie: a series of fuck-ups from a group of fuck-ups somehow culmimating into total success.

>>2274620
Wasn't Herkus Monte a Christian?

>>2273333
>when Nationalism in the Middle East inevitably crushes Islamism
>tfw Middle East was on the right path sixty years ago

>>2274814
Well, he was a swineherd, you can't expect Napoleon-tier military skills

Not an event per se but I wish there were more stuff set in Manchukuo era Manchuria. Place was basically eastern version of the wild west with a intersection of cultures and interests. You got
>Manchukuo and IJA trying to subjugate the locals while under pressure from Soviet, local separatist, and Chinese interests
>Chinese majority resisting Japanese efforts assimilation
>Soviet Union as an imposing presence pressuring IJA and Russian emigre
>Russians emigre whose way of life is threatened. Composed of Soviets, Jews, blackshirts, etc.
>Various ethnic groups both natives and foreign with some using the area as a base of resistance.

>>2274911
I always thought Cortez conquered the Aztecs by playing his cards right while Pizzaro kinda just stumbled into conquering Inca

>>2269656
1814
England&Canada vs. Newborn USA

>>2274950

>England vs USA

fixed that for you.

>>2274931
the battle of cajamarca was a fucking brutal slaughter and machiavellian move. thats something to film kek

>>2274922
the good the bad and the strange is already about that

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At least we have the script and barry lyndon too

The Finnish Hyper War

Epic of Gilgamesh

>>2274931
Comparing these two, yeah, but Cortez was a damn mastermind.

>>2274995
Korea has a history of making Manchurian Western and GBW was a homage to it. But I think there is more potential from the setting beyond the Korean angle of it.

Only other one I can think of i Rainbow Colored Trotsky is a pretty good one. Its a manga about the events leading up to the Battle of Khalin Gol from the perpsective of a Mongolian officer of the IJA with the backdrop of the rumor that Trotsky is actually hiding in Manchuria. Don't think there is a translation in English though.

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>>2274574
>>2274583
>This is still the definitive movie about fascist Italy.

>>2269656
the battle of jutland.

one of the largest naval engagements in history, probably as a ensemble piece with the four admirals and their staff as the four main viewpoints but with a german petty officer or seaman offering a lower decks german view. and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cornwell providing a similar view from the british.

film could start with the build up to the battle, then the fighting itself while inconclusive had plenty of tension from the initial clash beatty running into the whole german fleet and running back, to jellicoe deciding to deploy on what was essentially a educated guess, to the germans sailing into the trap and running, the subsequent attempt to refind them the second crossing of the germans T the death ride of the battle cruisers and the night action, then the after reactions by both sides, the germans proclaiming a victory their commanders now is a illusion, the british frustrated by the lost oppurtunity, and beatty trying to undermine jellicoe.

that or a film about the BEF in the first few weeks of WW1, nery, mons, le cateau and the marne, again with views from both the lower ranks and the commanders on both sides

>>2269656

They make the same movies so they can project modern political messages onto the story.

Which is how history is taught also, which I find inherently false, but what can we do?

>>2269656


A 3 part War of the Roses ending with Henry VII.

> 3 films, 3 hours in length, would not do it justice.

Siege of Constantinople

Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars

The October revolution

Admiral Yi

The pagan crusades

WWI Eastern front

WW2 during the first three years of the war from the perspective of a Wehrmacht soldier.

Anything about ancient and medieval China, without the fantasy elements, seriously, why is that? Why can't there be a movie about China without jedi monks, sorceresses that turn into dragons and superhuman kung-fu?
>inb4 wars grow up
Wars are interesting.

>>2273574
There already is a movie about it called fetih 1453.

>>2276169
Have you watched The White Queen, 10 episodes that covers the second half of the wars of the roses, mainly from Elizabeth Woodvilles point of view its really well done.

>>2275024
No he wasn't. It was just standard procedure.

>>2273160
>The Italian navy fired roughly 1450 shots during the engagement, but failed to do any serious damage to any Austrian ship while losing two battleships.

kek

>>2276207
checked it out. Constantine XI is a weasely, slimy, sardonic villain who muahahaaas as he drinks from oversized golden goblets...

>>2271377

Did you watch the same film as I did?

The film opens with an evil Christian priest hacking up Balians wife's corpse and stealing his money and lying to him to try and steal his house (directors cut version).

Then we see the stupid Christian pissing where his friend is washing.

Then we see a preacher shouting that it not murder for a Christian to kill a Muslim but the path to heaven.

Then we meet the villain who is a Christian who not so subtly suggests he wants to kill Christians who want peace.

Next time we see him he leaves to attack a poorly defended merchant caravan and his face contorteds with extasy as the blood splashes over him.

Then the kind Muslim let's Balian go.

Then the king dies and the badge you becomes king and immediately gets his goons to attack another caravan where we're treated to more blood and a begging muslim man being beheaded followed by the murder (at least) of Saladins sister. In addition the Templars try to assassinate Balian because reasons.

Then the crusaders get BTFO and are in awe at ice in the desert. Saladin kills the goon Christian badguy but spares evil king Christian badguy because he's so noble.

Then there's a horrible siege and the Christian patriarch suggests converting to Islam to save the nobles while the peasants are slaughtered.

Saladin let's everyone go because he's so kind and noble and even picks up a cross that had fallen down.

Meanwhile the Christians can't leave the poor muslims alone and are getting ready for ANOTHER crusade.

Roll credits with some text directly referring to modern politics.

>>2276393
Can't we just have a non-biased fall of Constantinople movie? One not made by Turks, ideally?

>>2276207
>>2276427
Also Giovanni Giustiniani is a Kevin Sorbo musclebro who walks around in a sleeveless leather vest, being cool

>>2271609
>The two learning from mistakes to making Prussia into a great power again through reforms.

They can thank Napoleon's kindness for not kicking them away from their throne like they did with him as soon as they finally managed to beat him

>>2269656
Bronze Age collapse film
Baibars miniseries
That Russian bastard to actually continue the "Mongol" films
Peloppenesian War show centering around Alcibiades
First Crusade show with Tancred, Bohemund, and Godfrey being the main characters

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Just a mini series following the Migration Period of the Germanic Peoples. They're extremely important to European history, but the late Roman Empire gets all the spotlight because muh Rome. It'd be about either Goths contending with the Huns and eventually defeating them and their taking over of the Roman Empire, or Anglo-Saxons establishing their Shires out of Romano-Briton land.
All this of course needs to have totally accurate details, but something so incredibly important should be better known about, with the victors as the focus.

>>2269656
Zeno's life when he was discussing Zeno's Paradox. And the other idiots that called him a sophist.

>>2276198
>Why can't there be a movie about China without jedi monks, sorceresses that turn into dragons and superhuman kung-fu?

The Chinese actually believe all of that shit are possible.

>>2276640
Really?
Like, really? Is it folk tales and populist nationalism under the state regime that did this? Do people in China see that shit and take even a small bit of it seriously?

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>>2276619
Think about the contrast, Goths contending with both Rome and the Huns. Christianity and higher civilization, and also godless horseback savages from the east.
I'd also like to mention that it would follow a king's family I'd imagine.

>>2269781
What a retarded notion

>>2269858
Funny how every stormcuck here is just proving your point.

>>2269875

>1 movie
>pushing agendas

Biased because I'm Hmong, but the war of the insane would make a pretty cool movie.

Tree trunk shrapnel cannons, yo.

>>2276659
Anything that makes chinese culture look bad (even if it's historically accurate) is censored in China.

>>2269858
>>Find any random Christian-Muslim war
>>90% of Christian belligerents are "Yeah kill dirty mudslimes, free Europa!"

>>2276763
>Never heard of the conflict
>checked it out
>Someone budget the "French hunt magic guerillas who talk to the sky and command a ghost army with wooden cannons" flick.

Vasco DeGama's voyages would make for a great dark comedy, considering how most of his encounters with natives ended with negotiations breaking down and someone getting tortured to death. I would watch the shirt out of Vasco DeGama's adventures as a comedy.

>>2276859
Monthy Python would have been great for this.

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>>2269656
PELOPONNESE
historically accurate picture of life in classical Greece. All sides are depicted as morally grey: an Athenian keeps a young boy chained to his bed. A Spartan torments and murders a helot for his own amusement. Athens is a city in ruins, devastated by a plague and social unrest. Sparta is barely more than a collection of thatched roof mud-huts.

The plot revolves around how the hypocrisies of the democratic model were ultimately what led to Athen's downfall, how demagogues and comedians were influencing the discourse which ultimately lead to the disastrous campaign against Syracuse. It also revolves around the hypocrisies of the Spartan model, how their military doctrine had become stiff and unable to adapt to change and only barely managed to win against Athenian ingenuity, and only then because they were being paid and supported by the Persians.

The movie ends on a downer note: classical Greek civilization is effectively over, and they all soon will be conquered by the barbarous Macedonians.

>>2275028
interesting

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>>2269656

The Entire Mexican Civil War era including the French intervention, make it some Thrones styled show and depict the liberals fight against the conservatives and later how the Frogs get rektd

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>>2269705
>30 years war
It would be too violent for screening.

>>2276221
Not him but I stopped watching the white queen mainly due to how much of an asshole the white queen was for absolutely no reason other than she's a bad winner.

>>2277028

This painting depicts a terrible mistake. French puppet or no, I would give anything for stability in this country right now. Even a liberal monarch

t. Mexicana de Toluca

I think some of the wars between the Comanche and Kiowa could be interesting to see in film. The Kiowa and Comanche were bitter enemies, and that feud (albeit more along the lines of friendly antagonizing) still exists today.

>>2272709
her life would make an incredible tv series

this bitch went from a prostitute to commander of a pirate fleet of hundreds of thousands of men.

she could go toe-to-toe with nation states when she wanted to

>>2276750
Ask your average normie about the Crusades and they'll tell it's about the evil Christians invading muslim lands while ignoring about the muslim aggression that happened centuries before and has also been happening after the Crusades.

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Iran-Iraq War would make for some brutal and depressing shit

>The Iraqis heavily used Mi-25 Hind to "hunt" the Iranian troops in the marshes, killing many soldiers. On 27 February, Iran finally captured Majnoon Island, but lost 49 of their own helicopters shot down by Iraqi jet fighters. Fighting took place in waters over 2 meters deep at times. Iraq in response to the attacks ran live electrical cables through the water, electrocuting numerous Iranian troops and then displaying their corpses on state television.

>>2276999
Based 9's
I like how this serves as a perfect allegory for a lot of modern political situations, and the decline of empire in general.

>>2276420
Clearly not.

The opening follows up with a nice bishop who cares for Balian and expressly wants him to recover from his depression. We're expressly told the problem from earlier was because it's a pissing match between half-brothers over inheritance.

The guy pissing in the river has absolutely nothing to do with him being Christian and just a mishap that sets him up to die when he goes off alone.

After the preacher we also see a kindly old pilgrim who says hello and is nonplussed about what road he's taking.

Guy is the bad guy, and set up to be the bad guy, but his confrontation has nothing to do with his religion and it's simply two political enemies shit talking each other. We see him be a bad guy throughout the film because he's an ambitious and arrogant asshole who barely mentions anything about religion. All his lines are about him putting on noble airs and winning personal glory.

The Muslim knight that spares Balian is first introduced trying to harass Balian and set his ghulam on him who was half dead and just wanted to drink water, and before that he was leading a raid on civilians that Balian delayed.

No one was awed after the battle, which started because Guy was an asshole and wouldn't listen to Balian because he's extremely jealous. Saladin kills Reynald out of revenge for his sister, nothing else. He spares Guy because he was humiliating him, talking down to him to not living up to the good (Christian) example of his predecessor.

The following siege and the patriarch's cowardice is juxtaposed with a Muslim Imam threatening Saladin with treason and forcing him into a costly attack because he's a zealot, and with his more noble younger servant who, among others, is knighted.

Saladin lets everyone go because he's had enough of the senseless fighting, and because Balian threatens to fight to the bitter end. He shows some chivalry at the end because he's the counterpart to Baldwin, who probably would have been respectful himself.

>>2276420
>>2277644
In short, you're watching a different movie from what's actually there. You're taking every bad act by a character and conflating this with some anti-Christian narrative, all the while ignoring basically every other character that was good and also Christian: the bishop that didn't want Balian's wife's body mutilated, the Hospitaller, the crow's beak fighter in Sicily, the Ibelin knights, and so on.

And the Muslim side isn't presented as somehow better, but clearly shown to directly parallel the Christian side. They just never got any screen-time in comparison.

Baldwin was like Saladin, noble. Balian was like Imad ad-Din, virtuous, The Templar grandmaster was like the Imam, zealous.

If you missed the actual point of the movie, it's about faith and nobility versus zealotry and arrogance. It's view on religion and humanist leaning is anachronistic for sure, but Kingdom of Heaven is not anti-Christian or pro-Islam.

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>>2269711
Land and Freedom

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>>2269781
Because becoming a screenwriter or director is fucking easy.

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>>2274365
One hundred days in Peking already exists. Cixi is played by a white dude.

>>2277028
>French getting rekt
How the hell is it that everyone, even Mexicans that should be the slightest bit sensible to their own history, think that this is how it transpired?
The French did as they had been ordered, and captured Mexico City to officialize the Mexican empire, then retreated to France to fight the Franco-Prussian war (and to loosen tensions entertained with the USA), and consequently it was Mexican imperial forces that were slaughtered by Mexican republican forces.

>>2277038
>w*ites

>>2274365
there already is at least one movie about this

DESU the best historical movies are always based on novels. It's easy to come up with a historical event to turn into film but often the movies about history are adaptations of narratives that just happened to be set during a particular period. Sometimes the historical context is important to the story but sometimes it's not. That being said I'd like to see a film about the North African theatre in WW2, or maybe East Africa. Perhaps a film marketed towards English speaking audiences about an Indian soldier during WW2. Or a movie about the Arab revolts in Palestine during the 30s and leading up to the 1948 war. I recall reading a Leon Uris novel about it, it's prime movie fuel.

>>2269657
Here with english subtitles :
Part 1, from the start of the revolution to the fall of the monarchy :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SP4iii_THQ
Part 2, from the start of the reign of terror to the fall of Robespierre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-6ruyZFfZs

Enjoy.

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>>2269656
The life of Justinian II, the Emperor without nose. Come on guys, this movie practically writes itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian_II
>In 695 the population rose under Leontios, the strategos of Hellas, and proclaimed him Emperor. Justinian was deposed and his nose was cut off (later replaced by a solid gold replica of his original) to prevent his again seeking the throne: such mutilation was common in Byzantine culture. He was exiled to Cherson in the Crimea.

>While in exile, Justinian began to plot and gather supporters for an attempt to retake the throne. Justinian became a liability to Cherson and the authorities decided to return him to Constantinople in 702 or 703. He escaped from Cherson and received help from Ibusirus Gliabanus (Busir Glavan), the khagan of the Khazars, who received him enthusiastically and gave him his sister as a bride. Justinian renamed her Theodora, after the wife of Justinian I. They were given a home in the town of Phanagoria, at the entrance to the sea of Azov. Busir was offered a bribe by Tiberios to kill his brother-in-law, and dispatched two Khazar officials, Papatzys and Balgitzin, to do the deed. Warned by his wife, Justinian strangled Papatzys and Balgitzin with his own hands. He sailed in a fishing boat to Cherson, summoned his supporters, and they all sailed westwards across the Black Sea.

>As the ship bearing Justinian sailed along the northern coast of the Black Sea, he and his crew became caught up in a storm somewhere between the mouths of the Dniester and the Dnieper Rivers. While it was raging, one of his companions reached out to Justinian saying that if he promised God that he would be magnanimous, and not seek revenge on his enemies when he was returned to the throne, they would all be spared. Justinian retorted, “If I spare a single one of them, may God drown me here”.

>>2277981
>Having survived the storm, Justinian next approached Tervel of Bulgaria. Tervel agreed to provide all the military assistance necessary for Justinian to regain his throne in exchange for financial considerations, the award of a Caesar's crown, and the hand of Justinian's daughter, Anastasia, in marriage. In spring 705, with an army of 15,000 Bulgar and Slav horsemen Justinian appeared before the walls of Constantinople. For three days, Justinian tried to convince the citizens of Constantinople to open the gates, but to no avail. Unable to take the city by force, he and some companions entered through an unused water conduit under the walls of the city, roused their supporters, and seized control of the city in a midnight coup d'état.

>Justinian once more ascended the throne, breaking the tradition preventing the mutilated from Imperial rule. After tracking down his predecessors, he had his rivals Leontius and Tiberios brought in chains before Justinian in the Hippodrome, now wearing a golden nasal prosthesis. There, before a jeering populace, Justinian placed his feet on the necks of Tiberios and Leontios in a symbolic gesture of subjugation before ordering their execution by beheading, followed by many of their partisans, as well as deposing, blinding and exiling Patriarch Kallinikos I of Constantinople to Rome.