What period or person would make the most interesting film?

What period or person would make the most interesting film?

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Napoleon, his life is a fucking novel:
French revolution, glory, consulate, family problems, treasons, love story, political intrigues, emperor consecration, his tortured mind, Corsica, fcking campaign of Egypt, Italy, Spain/Portugal, huge fcking amount of EPIC battles, conquest of Europe, Austerlitz, assassination attempt, campaign of Russia, exile, return in France, reconquest of the power, waterloo, exil again...

Fuck, nobody ever had a life more incredible than Napoleon Bonaparte one

World War 1 would make a great miniseries.

Basically everything leading up to the Hundred Year's War.

Weimar Germany
Russian frontiers
Aztec conquest
Bronze age collaps
Carthage
And for person id nominate Cesare Borgia dude was so smart, even Machiavelli wanted to suck off

Caesar's life and the politics in the late Republic

Hitler's life would be pretty interesting as well, it'd be cool to see things from the (somewhat deranged) perspective of such a historical antagonist.

>Napoleon of course
>A movie on the fight for influence in central asia between tsarist Russia and the UK
>A movie about the raping of the english troops in afghanistan, you would be constantly on the edge of your seat while watching the poor brits and their absolutely naive and retarded leaders get toyed with by assmad afghans until only one survivor manage to reach an anglo fort. Ends with the UK burning villages down and fucking mowing the ragheads while "rule Britannia" starts playing
>or that time when brit soldiers and based hindus were trapped in a shitty fort and had to fight off an entire army alone and with no food supply. You would have two POV with the encircled brits and the rescue squad heroically going through an impossible pathway though the moutains to cut time, walking with snow almost up their shoulders only to find that the muslim army fucked off before they got there
>a movie about XIXth century diplomats
>a movie about Du Guesclin

His early life before the revolution is also pretty interesting.

But all that couldn't fit even in 3 hour movie. A trilogy or a mini-series could work length-wise, but fuck it, everything is going to be super expensive and there's a 99% chance they'll portray him as a manlet.

Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg.
>be Ungern
>hate commies
>like, fucking detest communists
>hate the old tsar though, want his brother to take power and restore the god damn Mongol empire
>bully the bullies in school
>war were declared
>goes to galicia, develops a reputation as a ferociously brave, but mentally unstable commander
>start getting fascinated with that buddhism stuff
>get drunk and arrested for beating the shit out of another officer
>russian revolution happens
>goes to Mongolia
>saves the Bogd Kahn, puts him back on the throne
>becomes a fucking anti-communist warlord who tortures and kills captured communists
>eventually captured in a battle and given a 6 hour show trial, executed
guy was fucking insane. he killed animals for fun as a child too.

Also this. Vive l'Empereur!

These men and events:
- The late bronze age
- Cyrus
- Alexander the Great
- Caesar
- Flavius Aetius
- Suleiman
- Charles V, Holy roman emperor
- Luther
- Peter the Great
- Napoleon
- The Rotschilds

Cool
The whole russian civil war had a lot of interesting actors and twists, sad thing the whites could not agree in anything

This. The Caesar thing. That dude had balls almost as big as his brain, was ridiculously gifted according to even his most hated enemies, and his life sounds like a fucking movie script.
>standing up to the murderous Sulla as a young man
>the pirate incident
>having his dick in every notable roman woman from the time
>the cataline trials
>the trials of Claudius
>gaul
>civil war
>Egypt
>Spain
I think most people who would watch a good movie about Caesar would walk out of the theater thinking "They exaggerated way too much, that was completely unrealistic", even if the people making the movie toned it down a bit

The rescue of Mussolini. It's WAY too cool to not be a film but muh not sees prevents it from ever being one.

>white army

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_(TV_series)

Because it was a media sham. The actual rescue was set up and there was no resistance.

Cortes
A mini series on Pedro II of Brazil
Leipzig 1813
Herman The German
A mockumentery of gang warfare, but the gangs act like it’s the18th century.

Karadjordje Petrovic, Milos Obrenovic, and the Serbian Uprisings would make for a great movie or series, but it would never get made today because it would probably fuel Serbian Nationalism, anti-Muslim sentiment, and so forth.

Harald Hardrara
> Fight against the crown is restore your brother as king, king is killed. go into exile
> travel to russia, become great soldier (ask to marry russian princess, decline)
> travel to Constantinople, become great soldier and stinking rich
> fight muslims in the lavant
> fight normans in sicily
> fight greeks in anatolia
> have to flee constantinople at night during a coop
> return to russia, marry princess
> return to norway, take the throne
> invade denmark, take the throne
> search for vinland & explore the north sea
> invade england to take crown
> die in glorious battle
> ascend to a christian valhalla
also,
Edgar Atheling & Napoleon III (but cba to write them up)

Eleftherios Venizelos
>earlier life focusing on independence of Crete and the union with Greece
>invited by coup leaders to lead Greece
>wins new territories in the Balkan Wars and the Megali Idea starts to gain momentum
>the National Schism in WW1 where the King and PM take different sides and the country essentially fights a low level civil war
>wins new territory after WW1 and comes close to finally realising the Megali Idea
>loss of the 1920 election and death of King Alexander fucks shit up
>the Royalists were never committed to the war with Turkey and even though they're not far from Ankara morale is shit
>Ataturk ends up routing the Greeks culminating the Great Fire of Smyrna
>Megali Idea literally goes up in flames
>population exchange is carried out and puts paid to any future realistic chance of Greece regaining Anatolia

not to mention he hated jews (and many)

*killed many

Bismarck and Garibaldi literally btfo of Napoleon. They went from liyeral who's to the crafters and founders of their respective nations.

I would love a good epic-style film similar to Last of the Mohecans about King Philip's War

Battle over Lake Tanganyika
As 70's Italian style comedy

Agreed. 17th century American colonial wars are pretty interesting and extremely underrepresented.

Boxer rebellion
>Kung-fu masters who think they are bullet proof
>Besieged diplomats greatly outnumbered by said kung-fu masters
>Months of siege of a walled city-within-a-city
>Failed rescue attempts by Western countries
>Finally actual western forces arrive and fight the Chinese while massively outnumbered
>Slaughter Chinese with western tech
>Siege is relieved as the westerners race to see who gets the glory for the rescue
>Bonus points-cathedral is held against all odds by 40 soldiers, the priests, and the bishop who reportedly also took up arms

1848

Don't forget the part where he married a Manchu princess and spoke to her only in English because none of his warband knew the language and he didn't want to be seen expressing emotion.

Interestingly enough, his niece by marriage became an infamous Axis secret agent working for Japan during WWII.

Where the fuck can I find a good book that gives an overview of this event, written in English? I've looked a few times in the past few weeks and can't find anything even remotely comprehensive

Wars of the Diadochi, game of thrones style

>standing up to sulla
That story is blatantly apocryphal.

>having his dick in every notable women
And having every notable dick in him.

Louis 17th or one of the Romanov's. Might take a bit of convincing for Hollywood to not sympathize with the left Revolutionist, but hey a man can dream.

I'm sold on this.

HERR DOCTOR

>And they he attended another meeting with a foreign dignitary
>Repeat for fifty reads
Pass

Hippolyte Bouchard

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyte_Bouchard

Post WW2 / Fred Trump biopic about the mostly unopposed spread of multinational corporations.

It would be an amazing story of revenge played by Christian Bale.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian_II

>Justinian II, surnamed the Rhinotmetos or Rhinotmetus (ὁ Ῥινότμητος, "the slit-nosed"), was the last Eastern Roman Emperor of the Heraclian Dynasty, reigning from 685 to 695 and again from 705 to 711. Justinian II was an ambitious and passionate ruler who was keen to restore the Roman Empire to its former glories, but he responded poorly to any opposition to his will and lacked the finesse of his father, Constantine IV.

>his, ongoing religious discontent, conflicts with the aristocracy, and displeasure over his resettlement policy eventually drove his subjects into rebellion. 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. Leontius, after a reign of three years, was in turn dethroned and imprisoned by Tiberius Apsimarus, who next assumed the throne.

>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, the khagan of the Khazars, who received him enthusiastically and gave him his sister as a bride. Justinian renamed her Theodora. 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".

>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 before him in chains 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.

Anything involved the ERE really. It is criminally ignored by filmmakers.

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