Movies you wish they'd make

[Shuckins]

My tastes run this way:

Medieval History:   A movie about the Battle of Hastings and the colorful protagonists involved in it...Harold Godwineson and William Bastard of Normandy.   Great novel about these characters is "The Golden Warrior" by Hope Muntz.

WWII:  "The Last Dogfight" by Martin Caidin.

[Rino]

Invasion of the Giant Lawyer Eating Squid!

[StarOfAfrica2]

I've always hoped they would make a movie about the attack on Washington and Baltimore during the War of 1812 that caused Francis Scott Key to write the Star Spangled Banner.  Most history books gloss over that war, and there's tons of interesting history there.  I mean, tell me this doesnt sound like a good movie.

The War of 1812 and the Burning of Washington

Although its events inspired one of our most famous national songs, the War of 1812 is itself a relatively little-known war in American history. Despite its complicated causes and inconclusive outcome, the conflict helped establish the credibility of the young United States among other nations. It also fostered a strong sense of national pride among the American people, and those patriotic feelings are reflected and preserved in the song we know today as our national anthem.

Britain’s defeat at the 1781 Battle of Yorktown marked the conclusion of the American Revolution and the beginning of new challenges for a new nation.  Not even three decades after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, which formalized Britain’s recognition of the United States of America, the two countries were again in conflict.  Resentment for Britain’s interference with American international trade and impressment of American sailors combined with American expansionist visions led Congress to declare war on Great Britain on June 18, 1812.  

In the early stages of the war, the American navy scored victories in the Atlantic and on Lake Erie while Britain concentrated its military efforts on its ongoing war with France. But with the defeat of Emperor Napoleon’s armies in April 1814, Britain turned its full attention to the war against an ill-prepared United States.  Admiral Alexander Cochrane, the British naval commander, prepared to attack U.S. coastal areas, and General Robert Ross sought to capture towns along the East Coast to create diversions while British army forces attacked along the northern boundaries of the United States.

In August 1814, General Ross and his seasoned troops landed near the nation’s capital. On August 24, at Bladensburg, Maryland, about 30 miles from Washington, his five-thousand-member British force defeated an American army twice its size. That same night, British troops entered Washington.  They set fire to the United States Capitol, the President’s Mansion, and other public buildings. The local militia fled, and President James Madison and wife Dolley barely escaped.

The Battle of Baltimore

With Washington in ruins, the British next set their sights on Baltimore, then America’s third-largest city. Moving up the Chesapeake Bay to the mouth of the Patapsco River, they plotted a joint attack on Baltimore by land and water.  On the morning of September 12, General Ross’s troops landed at North Point, Maryland, and progressed towards the city. They soon encountered the American forward line, part of an extensive network of defenses established around Baltimore in anticipation of the British assault. During the skirmish with American troops, General Ross, so successful in the attack on Washington, was killed by a sharpshooter. Surprised by the strength of the American defenses, British forces camped on the battlefield and waited for nightfall on September 13, planning to attempt another attack under cover of darkness.

Meanwhile, Britain’s naval force, buoyed by its earlier successful attack on Alexandria, Virginia, was poised to strike Fort McHenry and enter Baltimore Harbor.  At 6:30 AM on September 13, 1814, Admiral Cochrane’s ships began a 25-hour bombardment of the fort. Rockets whistled through the air and burst into flame wherever they struck. Mortars fired 10- and 13-inch bombshells that exploded overhead in showers of fiery shrapnel.  Major Armistead, commander of Fort McHenry and its defending force of one thousand troops, ordered his men to return fire, but their guns couldn’t reach the enemy’s ships. When British ships advanced on the afternoon of the 13th, however, American gunners badly damaged them, forcing them to pull back out of range. All through the night, Armistead’s men continued to hold the fort, refusing to surrender. That night British attempts at a diversionary attack also failed, and by dawn they had given up hope of taking the city.  At 7:30 on the morning of September 14, Admiral Cochrane called an end to the bombardment, and the British fleet withdrew. The successful defense of Baltimore marked a turning point in the War of 1812. Three months later, on December 24, 1814, the Treaty of Ghent formally ended the war.

Because the British attack had coincided with a heavy rainstorm, Fort McHenry had flown its smaller storm flag throughout the battle. But at dawn, as the British began to retreat, Major Armistead ordered his men to lower the storm flag and replace it with the great garrison flag. As they raised the flag, the troops fired their guns and played “Yankee Doodle” in celebration of their victory. Waving proudly over the fort, the banner could be seen for miles around—as far away as a ship anchored eight miles down the river, where an American lawyer named Francis Scott Key had spent an anxious night watching and hoping for a sign that the city—and the nation—might be saved.  

The Inspiration of Francis Scott Key: From Poem to Anthem

Before departing from a ravaged Washington, British soldiers had arrested Dr. William Beanes of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, on the charge that he was responsible for the arrests of British stragglers and deserters during the campaign to attack the nation’s capital.  They subsequently imprisoned him on a British warship.

Friends of Dr. Beanes asked Georgetown lawyer Francis Scott Key to join John S. Skinner, the U.S. government’s agent for dealing with British forces in the Chesapeake, and help secure the release of the civilian prisoner.  They were successful; however, the British feared that Key and Skinner would divulge their plans for attacking Baltimore, and so they detained the two men aboard a truce ship for the duration of the battle. Key thus became an eyewitness to the bombardment of Fort McHenry.

When he saw “by the dawn’s early light” of September 14, 1814, that the American flag soared above the fort, Key knew that Fort McHenry had not surrendered.  Moved by the sight, he began to compose a poem on the back of a letter he was carrying. On September 16, Key and his companions were taken back to Baltimore and released.  Key took a room in the Indian Queen Hotel and spent the night revising and copying out the four verses he had written about America’s victory. The next day he showed the poem to his wife’s brother-in-law, Judge Joseph Nicholson, who had commanded a volunteer company at Fort McHenry. Nicholson responded enthusiastically and urged Key to have the poem printed. First titled “The Defence of Fort McHenry,” the published broadside included instructions that it be sung to the 18th-century British melody “Anacreon in Heaven” — a tune Key had in mind when he penned his poem.  Copies of the song were distributed to every man at the fort and around Baltimore. The first documented public performance of the words and music together took place at the Holliday Street Theatre in Baltimore on October 19, 1814.  A music store subsequently published the words and music under the title “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

[Lizking]

Any porn movie, starring me.

[Chairboy]

Originally posted by JB73
a WWII air battle movie about the whole eastern front and battle over berlin, concentrating on all sides

Nice focus.

[Roscoroo]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
they did?
Whats it called?

i forgot what it was called .. ill see if i can find its name ... I remember seeing it a couple of times

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=movies+about+donner+party&btnG=Search

an american experience .... thats it .

i think there was another one too but it was really dry ..

[Rino]

Originally posted by Skydancer
Any WW2 movie that actualy doesn't try to make out the yanks won it all by themselves!

Oh Ok then how about a movie about Bomber Commmand. Maybe this



A great book and powerfull on audio. A film would be good.

     Ok, forget the squid.  How about a movie that shows there
are actually folks in England who understand that Hollywood
makes FICTIONAL ACCOUNTS.

[XNachoX]

A zombie movie somewhat like the old dawn of the dead.  I love to watch how the human relationships with one another crumble and you begin to doubt the sincerity of the other people, etc.,etc.  It's like watching the calm before the storm, and when it's over you're almost disappointed.

[Toad]

Originally posted by Rino
Ok, forget the squid.  How about a movie that shows there
are actually folks in England who understand that Hollywood
makes FICTIONAL ACCOUNTS.

Oops... coffee splutter.

Obviously, we should have stayed out of Europe and just used everything to whack Japan in half the time it took.

Apparently everyone would be so much happier.

[sling322]

Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
I've always hoped they would make a movie about the attack on Washington and Baltimore during the War of 1812 that caused Francis Scott Key to write the Star Spangled Banner.  Most history books gloss over that war, and there's tons of interesting history there.  I mean, tell me this doesnt sound like a good movie.

I watched a feature on the History Channel a few weeks back that was all about the War of 1812.  I think it was actually called the Forgotten War because, as you say, most history books do gloss over it and it doesnt get as much pub as the other wars in our history.  It was very well done and showed a lot of different angles to what happened.  It even included info on how the President's wife risked her life by staying in the White House up to the last minute and made sure that a famous portrait of George Washington was removed right before they all evacuated it and the Brits burned it down.

[Halo]

The little U.S. Civil War episode where a Yankee ship rigged with a torpedo sticking out from the bow steamed over a log barrier and sunk a Confederate ironclad made in a cornfield and tucked away in a North Carolina river from which it made raids and immensely aggravated the much larger Union Navy.

[Sandman]

The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge

I'd also not mind seeing Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

[Nash]

Originally posted by Holden McGroin
The movie I'd like to see made is a farm animal adult video starring Howard Dean and Hillary Clinton.

Yeah whatever you say Nuke.

Oh wait a sec... You're not Nuke. In fact you are Holden.

Gee.

[Gunslinger]

I wish they made a fictional movie about pearl harbor.  They could cast Ben Aflack or something.

I wish they'd make a parody movie making fun of actors and terror fear mongers alike using puppets.

I can't wait.

[Vudak]

I'd like to see a film made about Germanicus.  Start it off the night before Arminius' ambush and run it up until Germanicus is (likely) murdered on the Caesar's orders.

I think it'd be great:

*Action
*Betrayal
*Quest for vengeance
*Love side-story (a married one)
*Deceipt and Mistrust from Emperor

Anyone who wants to have a great read, pick up Nero's Killing Machine - The True Story of Rome's Remarkable Fourteenth Legion  by Stephen Dando-Collins.  The whole book is great, but the parts that pertain to this story are the best.  Read chapters 14-18 and the first paragraph of chapter 19.  I think you'll agree it would make a great movie.