War Movies You Would Like To See Made

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A movie about Black troops who served under French command in WWI. The US wouldn't deploy Black combat units, but sent Black troops to French units after Pershing couldn't take their badgering for replacements any more. Black units served with distinction under French command. An interesting postscript would be the 1919 Chicago race riot. Black doughboys armed themselves from the National Guard armories and defended their neighborhoods with armed force.


IIRC this crew
http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/wwi/infantry/369thInf/369thInfMain.htm

was the one that turned the German flank and reenforced one flank of the Second Battle of the Marne.

They issued the fleeing French their rifles and picked up their usual stuff

(12 ga riot guns) it was their usual stuff that ticked of the German High command. They then 'corsetted' the Fr units with their NCO's and held the other flank that helped the other movie I'd love to see made

the one one about the 'rock of the Marne (Third Infantry Division) whose commander said in effect 'run? why? we have the high ground.'

When the Germans got tired of getting shot gunned in the woods they tried to run the 3rd ID off it's little hill. Operative word here is 'tried'.

I'm not sure but that had to be one of the best .mil stands of WWI for the US Army. the Guard on one flank kicking tail w/ riot guns and the Regulars on the other flank in full wack and stack mode. (full wack and stack being they had all their artillery along for the ride.

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Anabasis by Xenophon. If 300 pissed off the Iranians, Anabasis will really raise their blood pressure. It's the story of a Greek mercenary army that fought for a Persian prince who was fighting his brother for control of the Empire. While the Greeks defeated those whom they fought, their patron prince was killed in battle. The Greek generals were lured to a talk and were treacherously slain. The Persians believed the 10,000 were now leaderless and would capitulate. Instead, they elected new generals and then fought they way out of the Persian Empire, smashing through every obstacle the Persians placed in their path. When they reached the Black Sea, they were severely reduced in numbers (6,000). However, they were able to contact their city-states and get transportation (via ship) home. Their march led Alexander to believe that with a larger army he could conquer the Persian Empire and punish it for Darius's and later, Xerxes's invasion of the Greek motherland.
 
's the story of a Greek mercenary army that fought for a Persian prince who was fighting his brother for control of the Empire.
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It's been done , they called it " The Warriors"

I wouldn't mind seeing Harold Coyle's "Team Yankee" made into a movie.
 
Fiction:

Red Storm Rising

Non-fiction:

German East Africa in WWI. Von Lettow-Vorbeck led the first integrated army in african history. He invaded 5 countries and only found out about the Armistice by capturing a British dispatch rider days after the war ended.
 
The Siege of Fort St. Elmo, Malta. June 1565. Tactically a loss, strategically a HUGE win.

I second the notion of a movie depicting the fight of the Tin Can Sailors vs. the Imp Japanese Navy.

A good movie to make would be on Col. Mike Hoare's campaign in the Congo.
 
"...a movie about the US Cavalry and the Indian Wars..." There have been lots of 'em. Not necessarily historically accurate, but John Ford made many of 'em using John Wayne. 'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon' is one of a trilogy, as I recall. Didn't portray the Natives as 'murdering savages' either. 'Fort Apache', the first and 'Rio Grande', the 3rd were the other two. Great movies.
"...about the Lincoln County War..." 'Young Guns'.
"...the WWII commando raid on the Norsk Hydro plant in Norway..." 'Heroes of Telemark'. Sort of. If they didn't feel the need for the love story.
"...the Finnish Sniper..." Won't happen in the U.S. He wasn't an American.
I'd like to see a re-make of 'Zulu' and 'Zulu Dawn', but I don't know why. I seriously doubt either would be PC now.
There needs to be several movies about the Canadian participation in both 20th Century World Wars too. Stories about the PPCLI in W.W. I, W. W. II and Korea. The held the line against overwhelming odds in each war.
 
I would like to see a collaboration between Michael Mann and John Milius. They seem to be the only Hollywood types with any concern regarding technical accuracy.

I echo the previous posts in support of any films about alternative history, but how about:

A realistic depiction of the American "Indian Wars" of the nineteenth century? (Sure to be decidedly unsettling, but it needs to be addressed);

A remake of any of the "Zulu" movies;

A film about Guadalcanal;

A film accurately depicting the horrors of WW1;

+1 on the previous post about The Five Fingers. Man that was a good read!

A 'what-if' film describing the potential escalation following a total SHTF melt-down in the Middle East.

Red Dawn II, starring Communist China.
 
Realism without the sappy love story

Pearl Harbor is a movie with a lot of potential ruined by the cast and love story.

Any movie worth doing is worth doing right. Keep the love story out or to a minimum.

I'd like to see a historically accurate WWI or Korean War movie akin to Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers realism. I think that would be fantastic.

I would also like to see a "what if" movie exploring if we had done nothing after 9/11 like many of the liberals had wanted. What if we just sat on our butts and waited until Saddam had built nukes and sold them to terrorists. Terrorists have no problem killing, so what if they smuggled a nuke into NYC and detonated it. Bush would have been impeached for not doing anything after 9/11 and the nation would be in a state of shambles as the Middle East laughs at our weakness. Well, I guess we may not have to wait for the movie because Iran is building nukes and will likely threaten attacks on the United States if we do nothing about it.
 
"Son of the Morning Star" made in 1991 starred Gary Coleman as Brevet Major General G. A. Custer covered those event pretty well for a TV movie.
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I have seen this movie many times (Rosanna Arquette is playing Custer wife, right ? ), and it is quite accurate. However, it lack, according to me, the atmosphere of the plains that I could find in Dances With Wolves (which also has is bad parts.. like good indians, evil whites..).. And I think, mostly because it was done with less money. I would like it remake, with lots of more money and possibilities.

There was a 1912 film by Thomas Ince, rereleased in 1925 title "Custer's Last Fight" which was a pretty accurate recounting of the Little Bighorn.
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This one I didnt see, but I am affraid that being that old, it's wouldnt be very realistic.. I mean, the battle scene, wounds etc.. too clean for me, I guess.

In little Big Men, the battle of Little Big Horn, is well rendered, and I even think it was filmed there.. the only bad part is that army mens and Custers are fools in this movie.. which wasnt the case..
Little Big Men is a nice movie, but is a hippie movie.. where all indians are good people camping out there and hurting nobody, and white men are evil as the devil himself..

It is interesting you remark about "the parallel life a US cavalry men and the one of a Cheyenne warrior from their youth to their end, fighting their last battle one against the other" since historian/author Stephen Ambrose wrote Crazy Horse and Custer, the Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors maybe twenty years ago. If you like history books I highly recomend it.
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I'll try to find it on the internet, hoping that my poor english knowledge will allow me to get through it !

Thx for the tips !
 
I second the notion of a movie depicting the fight of the Tin Can Sailors vs. the Imp Japanese Navy.
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+10,000!

I recently finished reading the book "Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" and it was simply riveting. I read a lot of it while I was in the hospital in January and I sat up and read it, despite being in considerable pain, it was so good.

Another great sea/air movie would be one about the Battle of the Bismarck Sea where a Japanese invasion convoy was absolutely SLAUGHTERED at sea, and completely by air. There were so many US and Australian aircraft attacking the convoy, they had to be organized in layers. The ONLY Japanese troops who made land either swam there or were picked up by one of the surviving destroyers, most of which were also bombed and shot to pieces.

John George's "Shots Fired in Anger" (frequently sold at discount by the NRA) is an excellent account of his service in the National Guard in New Guinea and later with Merrill's Marauders. The scene where a Japanese-American interpreter goes out alone at night to screw with the Japanese would make classic cinema. At one point, he hides in the bushes listening to Japanese officers and NCOs trying to organize a bunch of poorly trained privates into order for a banzai charge. Just as they get the troops straightened out, the GI screams "Susume!" (charge), sending the Japanese enlisted men tearing off into the pitch darkness, their NCOs in hot pursuit! After they round up the gaggle of privates, he does it AGAIN!
 
I would like to see a mivie accurately depicted about the war of 1812.

I would then like to see the same about the missisippi Iron clads.
 
Shung said:
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There was a 1912 film by Thomas Ince, rereleased in 1925 title "Custer's Last Fight" which was a pretty accurate recounting of the Little Bighorn.
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This one I didnt see, but I am affraid that being that old, it's wouldnt be very realistic.. I mean, the battle scene, wounds etc.. too clean for me, I guess.
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The Ince film is said to be one of the more accurate films with regards to tactics as was ever made about the Little Bighorn fight. It's true that it isn't "bloody" in the sense of "Saving Private Ryan", but sensibilities were quite different back then.
The only film I know of that was actually shot on location was a 1908 film which, unfortunatly, has been lost and no one knows if it's still around.
"Little BigMan" was a clever farcical look at Custer's career ... made IIRC as a sort of parallel to the Viet Nam War, which was being fought at the time. I thought it was OK for what it was, but as you say it portrayed the military as fools, and I don't take it seriously. It also had one of the worst rendition of "Garry Owen" I've heard. Custer's band was a 16 piece (IIRC) brass band, not a fife & drum corps ... and if the band had played that poorly, Custer would have attacked it, not the indians.:neener::D

"Dancing With Wolves"was good and had atmosphere. It was a little "polictically correct" for my tastes overall, but still a good film portrayal of those times.
 
more ww1 and not just western front... i'd like to see some WW1 russian front

i'd like to see some winter war or continuation war films get a stateside release that doesn't go unnoticed... have the film made in finland but have a major studio here release it in theaters and later dvd/bluray

i'm tired of great films being handled by some random generic distributor who releases a painfully barebones dvd with video quality so poor it makes youtube videos look like high def
 
"a film about Boadicea's war against the Romans."
I'd like to see this too. But a good version; there are like two or three crappy versions of this story out there, from the old Hammer films Viking Queen (Viking? Has nothing to do with Vikings!) to the latest version Warrior Queen with Alex Kingston, and I think there are a couple others. There are a couple good documentaries about Boudicca that are far better than the fictionalized versions!

And some other Roman-era military movies would be nice, too. I'd like to see a movie on the Teutoberg massacre.

I would also like to see more Winter War/Continuation War films as well...

"a movie about the Lincoln County War". Well, as mentioned, there's Young Guns. The John Wayne classic Chisum as well. But I'd like to see an accurate version of the "war" and Billy the Kid's life. So much legend and hype have developed around this character, I'd like to see something a little different....
 
woerm said:
motorcycle gang in SE asia's been done
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I'm not talking about musical comedies or other flights of fantasy written, produced and directed by citizens who can't tell a motorcycle from a motorized vegetable peeler.

I'm referring to actual bikers who wrote a letter to a sitting President to go to a real war.

BTW, Sonny Barger had already been in the Armed Forces and served his country. He offered to enlist for service he was not required to fulfil.

This is the real reason I suggested something that would be more of a documentary. I don't think one person in a hundred can relate to the lifestyle nor discern our thinking.

One mod in another forum told everyone that it is "impossible" for me to be a real biker because I could write well, had a college education and claimed to hold a white-collar job.

This is the common belief. In fact, it is your belief. You actually think "Born Losers" is a parallel to my life.
 
I would LOVE To see a good movie about The Haditha "Massacre" in Iraq. That's my Unit 3/1 Kilo CO, and if they made a movie actually talking to the Marines who were there, instead of reading News Reports, I think it would do a LOT to make the general public understand the split second decisions you have to make, rather than attacking Marines, Soldiers, etc. for protecting their lives and the lives of their comrades, at the cost of a few civilian lives. If the movie was well made, that is.
 
A movie about two WWII destroyer actions,
The shallow water runs made by the D-Day destroyers off Omaha Beach and the Charge of the Little Boys against the Jab Battlewagons in the Leyte Gulf Battle.
 
Secrets Of Inchon: The Untold Story Of The Most Daring Covert Mission Of The Korean War

http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Inchon-Untold-Daring-Mission/dp/0756773202/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215979067&sr=8-5

If Korea is America's forgotten war, Eugene Franklin Clark is certainly one of that war's least-known heroes. The Secrets of Inchon is his first-person account--written in 1953 and long forgotten in a safety deposit box--of his terrifying fortnight on a small island in North Korean-occupied Inchon harbor. Douglas MacArthur's planned invasion was as fraught with peril as it was daring. The port, with 29-foot tides, was, at their ebb, protected by a mud-flat moat 6,000 yards wide in places. Without elaborate, accurate, first-hand information--which Clark was ordered to supply--about mines, fortifications, sea floor gradients, troop distribution, and other matters large and small, the operation (Clark likens it to a "fly deliberately planning to invade a spider's web") could easily have become "an American Dunkerque." Clark's reconnaissance included hand-to-hand gunfights, rugged interrogations, night forays in small junks, constant vigilance, exhaustingly long hours, and the cooperation of anti-Communist Koreans.
 
1. A biography of Alvin York.

2. Biographies of all of the German Ace's during the second world war: Adolph Galand, Gunther Rall, Otto Skorzeny, Jochen Piper etc.

3. The story of the German Far East Fleet in the Falklands during the first world war.

4. +1 Von Lettow-Vorbeck

5. +1 Rhodesia

6. Ghengis Khan

7. Shooting down Admiral Yamamoto

8. The story of the Ludlow massacre- And make Antis watch it so that they understand why we have a second amendment.
 
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