Tarantino

I was in Washington, D.C. today and I was learning about. Sherman's March to the Sea, and I was surprised that there wasn't a movie (that I could think of) about it.

What historical events or figures would you like to see on the big screen?

Mondo Kane

Henry Berry Lowrie, "The Swamp Outlaw"

JumpCutz

Albert Fish.

One of the nastiest individuals to ever prowl the planet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish

Ash Ketchum

Sherman's march plays a significant role in the Burning of Atlanta sequence in GONE WITH THE WIND (1939).

For me, given the huge number of westerns about the Mexican Revolution that were produced in Hollywood and Italy in my youth (e.g. THE WILD BUNCH, VILLA RIDES, 100 RIFLES, THE MERCENARY, A BULLET FOR THE GENERAL, etc.), I wish there'd been one about Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico and the pursuit of him into Mexico by an army unit led by Pershing. That would have made an interesting movie, esp. during the Vietnam War.

arminius

A miniseries about Erwin Rommels life, fighting in both world wars.

inri222

Mao Tse-Tung
Rafael Trujillo
Iran Contra
Operation CHAOS (CIA spying on anti-war & civil rights activists under Johnson & Nixon)

Groucho

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091943/

resinrats

Surprised there hasn't been a movie based on the Columbine shootings.

FRwL

Battle of Kursk- The largest tank AND aircraft battle of all time probably needs something about it besides an obscure Russian movie in the 1970s. Stalingrad is old hat.

FRwL

Ed Harris should have done this.

asianxcore

H.H. Holmes

Mostly after reading The Devil In The White City about a million times

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes

inri222

Gus Van Sant's Elephant is losely based on it.

wm lopez

Satan. Such a great story there and what would be a great c.g.i battle at the end.
Maybe the story is too close to home for Hollywood.

PatD

I'd like to see a biopic of philosopher/teacher, Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986). He was an interesting dude.

TheySentYou

Ira Einhorn... the hippie who founded Earth Day, was on the cover of Time Magazine, and gave outstanding Fortune 500-prone advice to businessmen... then later hacked his girlfriend to pieces. i remember Unsolved Mysteries doing a segment about his escape and capture decades later.

Dr Mabuse

Alexander's siege of Tyre.

Lake Trasimene. The whole story from both sides.

The life of Plato.

A well made film about John Wesley Hardin.

I would love to see a well made film about the actual events of SOG team Alabama's insertion into Laos. The real life exploits of those men, and the fighting surrounding them, is beyond Hollywood movie stuff. Plenty of other SOG missions would be fodder for a great film.

Caesar and Versingedorix at Alesia. Again, well made film.

Hell too many to list.

Dr Mabuse

Nice. Yes he was.

It's so nice to be able listen to him on youtube now, after all those years of only reading the books.

majorjoe23

Will Smith will be old enough to play him in about 10 years.

Solid Snake

Well....I can't really say what exactly but...I'd like a big epic film on WWI. Seeing Warhorse made me admire more the look and the world that WWI inhabited. Spielberg showed it off well but it wasn't the focus, obviously. I've always loved the look of the soldiers in that war.

Rockmjd23

Sherman's March would be interesting because here in the North he is a hero and in the South he is evil.

How about Spanish-American War? There was a silent movie about it and some tv-movies but how about a big budget film?
I suspect the colossal failure of The Alamo (2004) has made studios hesitant on historical epics.

Solid Snake

omfg. How much I wanted that movie to be good. I was goddamn bored when I saw it. Being a guy from Texas you want a good movie about this event. Nay..we got mediocre.

PenguinJoe

Somebody needs to make a movie about the Titanic one day. It would prob be cool if they did it in 3D.

DeanoBKN

Apollo 11 moon landing. There was the From The Earth To The Moon episode and there was a TNT/TBS made for TV movie, but that's about it as far as I know.

adrenaline78

Roger Clemens perjury trial!

FRwL

That's a good one on probably the single most iconic event for humanity except I don't know how they would add in drama to a positive event, maybe do a Michael Bay camera pan the heck out of the landing.

They could make even messups lighter like a movie on Soyuz 2 could be done in a Benny Hill way where they find over 100 faults but send the guy up anyway, then the Benny Hill theme starts playing when nothing works and the guy starts screaming on reentry and the open casket funeral is a burnt log