Which historical event would you love to be made into a movie?

1. An old neighbor of mine was a submariner in WWII, and he shared an experience with me that's definitely movie worthy. They sneaked into the harbor of a Japanese city on a reconnaissance mission - strictly to take pictures. At almost the moment they entered, coincidentally the Japanese began a project of submarine-proofing the mouth of the harbor by sinking old ships. So they were now stuck. On limited power, and if they surface they die. With extremely minimal radio contact, they were able to coordinate an air raid on that port that was so intense that they might find a window of escape, and they did it. A lot was focused on one spot in the mouth of the harbor so they could remain submerged, and it worked.
   — Scrappy_Larue


2. The Reign of Queen Jane, the 9 days Queen. The whole thing had all the makings of a great thriller - a scheming council, an underdog queen marching to reclaim her throne, and a girl suddenly made into a puppet ruler.
   — TheDoorDoesntWork


3. Joe Medicine Crow, last war chief of the Crow Nation. During WWII, he touched an enemy without killing him, took an enemy's weapon, lead a successful war party and stole an enemy's horse, thus making him a war chief.
   — Insert_Gnome_Here






4. The Punic Wars. This war has so many cool characters, story tropes and intense moments
   — godz_ares


5. The Münster cult rebellion of 1534-35. Not very well-known story outside of Germany, but basically, after the beginning of Protestant reformation, all these splinter groups of the religion kept getting weirder and weirder until a sect of radical Anabaptists took over a city, kicked out/tortured/killed all the Catholics and moderate Protestants, and locked themselves inside for a year and a half, waiting for judgement day (they were under siege by government forces for a majority of the time). If I wrote down all the crazy shit that happened during that time this comment would be huge, but it'd make a crazy movie.
   — skangk


6. A comedy about the Japanese WW2 troops that didn't surrender until the 1970s.
   — turkola






7. I'm a little strange. But I would like to see a horror film about the plague epidemic. Without witches, sorcerers and other fantastic subjects, which are constantly shown in movies about the Middle Ages. I want a beautiful film (the director's work, processing, script) about the terrible events))
   — LadyGoblinQueen


8. Boudicca’s story. She was a Celtic queen during the Roman occupation. The Romans didn’t recognize her rule as a woman after her husband’s death, and Roman officers raped her daughters. In response she raised an army of neighbouring Celtic tribes and just slaughtered thousands of Roman settlers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica
   — DreyaNova


9. The life of Lucius Cornelius Sulla. It's dramatised in First Man In Rome (and the rest of that series of books) by Colleen McCullough, and the dude is terrifying, but the whole time period is filled with absolutely fascinating characters and stories.
   — 3226






10. the emu war
    — no_this_is_olli


11. I’d like to see a film about [the exploits of “Mad Jack” Churchill in WWII](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill), the British soldier who fought with only a longbow and a broadsword, and tended to charge into battle playing his bagpipes. His motto was *“Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed."*, and was so fond of battle that when the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki precipitated the end of the war, he was quoted as saying *“If it wasn't for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years!"* to express his displeasure.
    — VictorBlimpmuscle


12. Marsh and Cole's bone wars. 19th Century paleontologists that resorted to bribery, robbery and dynamite to outdo each other's discoveries in paleontology. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_Wars
    — needsm0redrag0ns