The dicoveries of Captain James Cook would float my boat.
Has there been any decent films about Hannibal and his campaigns in Italy, think I have seen some made for TV stuff but nothing major?
The Australian (and others) in Gallipoli in the first world war, something I knew very little about until visiting the Australian War museum.
http://aso.gov.au/titles/collections/gallipoli-on-film/
and based on the recent historical film making - Vikings (History Channel), and any of the other big epics about something greek/roman etc. a film about dentistry and how they all managed to have perfect teeth back then and how they all looked good despite living in mud all year long.
mikewsmith theres a good 1981 movie about Gallipoli staring a very young Mel Gibson. Couldnt find the full movie on youtube so here is a small clip
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d-kVrdc9g_s
cheers but I don't watch old movies, I wait for the remake 😉
No worries.
Falklands War - haven't seen anything for this
Wills and Kate.
Falklands War - haven't seen anything for this
An ungentlemanly act:
Documentary film 'Falklands war, the untold story':
Some spanish ones, have seen the latter one with subtitles in the past, but not the former
Los Chicos de la Guerra
Blessed by Fire
The Rebecca Riots of west Wales.
Farmers were being charged crazy money to go through toll gates to market, taxed silly money on the money they made then toll gates on the way home.
They tried and tried diplomacy to solve this. Nobody in power listened do they dressed up in women's clothing for anonimity and destroyed all toll gates. Whoever tried to get in their way was killed.
This resolved the toll issue.
Who wouldn't want to watch a movie about Welsh transvestite murderers? You couldn't make it up.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes/society/politics_rebecca_riots.shtml
Battle of Carrhae, where the Romans were well and truly gubbed by the Parthian Empire. Classic story of an overconfident and poorly-led force going up against an enemy they didn't understand.
Helps that the Romans were led by Marcus Licinius Crassus, who you might remember being played by Olivier in 'Sparticus'.
Loads of very cinema-friendly images in the historical accounts: Roman legionaries attempting to charge and finding that they were literally pinned to the ground by arrows, or Crassus losing his marbles after a Parthian cavelryman charged along his lines with his son's head on a pike.
According to some (probably less reliable) accounts, Crassus, having been captured after the battle, was executed by having molten gold poured down his throat; a reference to his having been worth a bob or two.
Hope they keep Ridley Scott away from it.
Has there been any decent films about Hannibal and his campaigns in Italy, think I have seen some made for TV stuff but nothing major?
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Geeky I know, but I would love to see a film about the "Battle of the currents" between Nicola Tesla and Edison. I always remember being so disappointed by Christopher Nolan's use of Tesla in The Prestige. The guy's experiments were fricking amazing, no need to make stuff up...
Edward Whymper's "Scrambles amongst the Alps".
Crecy or Agincort
