ArmchairGeneral

Very interesting. I'm of Scotch-Irish extraction (partially) myself.

(edit) Hey, Rifleman, ever read a book titled The Long March? It's a historical novel about Dan Morgan, Cowpens, and the surrounding events. Very interesting reading.

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Parihaka

Apart from the fact that Capt. Wally Mills requested that artillery be fired on his own positions by the NZ Artillery, who duly obliged.
Or that the Canadians stemmed the breach in the UN lines and held despite a large numerical superiority in Chinese forces.
nothing too exceptional, no.

YellowFever

Two films I would love to see is a story on the "Cactus AirForce" on Guadalacanal during WW2 and a story of the covert operation in the "Flying Fish Channel" that opened the way for the Inchon Landing.

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Rifleman

No, but I do like many historical novels (Sharpe series, Cold Mountain, etc.) so I'll look for it.

Sorry I didn't respond sooner. I was visitng kin for about a week (not all that far from you) and just got back home today.

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leib10

It'd be actually somewhat difficult to for even Hollywood to exaggerate Kursk, especially Prokhorovka and the famous charge by 5th Guards Tank Army.

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Goatboy

I can't wait to see Clint Eastwood's 2 movies about Iwo Jima. The fact that's there's 2 flicks is so neat -- one from the "American perspective" and one from the "Japanese prospective". Whatever happens, I'm sure both movies will be better than the historical slop (and acting, and storyline) that was the movie "Pearl Harbor" a few years ago -- cept for the CGI attack on Pearl Harbor itself.

I must say it gives me shivers, in a good way, to see American and Japanese veterans of Iwo Jima engage in a yearly display of comradery and hoist both nations respective flags (and no media allowed for this is holy ground). I think Clint will tell the story right, about ordinary men, young men hardly out of puberty fighting, dying and sacrificing for things they felt were important. Hopefully these movies will be about the personal, the individual.

Low-tech

the odessey would be a better movie,but obviously not a war movie,more like a fantasy-DandD nerdfest kind of thing.

the iliad is really not something that would be a good movie imo, there is alot of whining and melodrama and some of the stuff is just plain wierd going down, not to mention it would be,depicted in full, an 8 hour movie......all fighting on a massive scale. id love to see it attempted tho.

a samurai adaptation of the iliad would be cool, but thats just me tho.


i heard the story of hannibal is gonna be made with vin deisel as the lead.........theyre probably gonna mess this one up.

what id like to see:

roman civil war.

story on ghengis khan.

whoever mentioned the fall of constantinople, good call

a movie about the Jannisary within the ottoman empire, directed from their viewpoint, not a turkish nationalist one.

a good up to date napleon movie.

Japanese films:

Tiara vs Minomoto clans

japanese medieval invasion of korea and northern china

mongol invasion, the kamakazi

American history:

the Monitor vs the..............Merry-ahh,something or other. you know, those 2 warships that duked it out.

another french-indian war movie, the last of the mohicans is barely watchable, its a "chick flick", lets just face it. the native dude who played magua held the whole thing together<completely badass actor>. that could of been a totally badass movie. the musical score was amazing for that film tho.

Moby Dick. ok, not a war movie per say, but an epic battle between a whale and a mighty ship.

Anon

A remake of seven samurai wouldnt be too bad either.

Maximus

In order of Preference:

Battle of Cannae(Second Punic War).
Persian Invasion of Greece under Darius.
Battle of Catalunia between Huns & the Romans.
Fall of Constantinople.
Battle of Zama(Second Punic War).

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seigar

Would like to see The Battle off Samar during Battle of Leyte Gulf, 1944 and Chosin Reservoir, USMC 1950 Korea.

Goatboy

We've seen a lot of recent big budget WW2 movies -- Saving Private Ryan, The thin red line, Clint's new movies etc, but I wanna see a realistic depiction (with lots of sweet CGI -- AND decent acting/storyline) of, say the battle of Verdun. I want to see something similar to Black Hawk down, gritty and realistic and action packed, not some sloppy love story spliced in between CGI sequences.

Ironduke

bump

ChrisF202

I dont care what it is as long as its NOT another WW2 movie. They have made enough of them (especially from the American viewpoint) to last human civilization about 1,000 years.

I am so sick of all the WW2 movies and video games, I honestly dont think Hollywood and the VG makers are aware that there were other wars besides WW2.

temujin77

While I totally respect your opinion, I have to point out that apparently it's not of the majority. Hollywood makes movies that it thinks the mass wants, and it looks like the masses can't get enough WW2 right now...

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Alekseyev

I too would like to see that

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