Pick a topic and tell us what you would like to see a war movie made on....my first choice would be one about the Rangers taking Pointe du Hoc during the Normandy invasion. Be original!
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djj

Kampfgroup Peiper in the Ardennes would be pretty cool. Wittman and the Canadians throwing down outside of Caen would be okay, too...

I think the Rangers theme would be great.I would like to see Marine's in Japan,I know that Wintalkers came and it and was alright but it was no Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers Series.I think it focused to much on Nicolas Cage and not enough on other Marines and the enemy Japanese.Maybe if Steven Spielberg made it would have been great.

A movie about the Air Cav in Vietnam.Somewhere around 1968-69 era with the intro of the Cobra and LOACH helicopters in units.

I would like to see the battle of britain get the band of brothers/private ryan treatment with the big budget, digital effects etc.

I'd like to see a good movie made about the Battle of Midway.

Such a vast choice of subject matter. Let's see...

the Campbeltown and the raid on St Nazaire;
Dieppe;
something on the Enigma

... just for starters.

Great question, D.J.

I've had a couple in mind for quite some time. Unfortunately, like the "Great American Novel" I'll probably never get around to writing, I'll never start these screenplays, either ...

1) A movie set in the East African campaign of World War 1 focusing on German Oberst (Colonel) Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. With a small cadre of German officers and NCOs, plus a few thousand native Askari soldiers, von Lettow-Vorbeck repeatedly embarrassed a vastly larger British force. When the German battleship Koenigsberg scuttled on the coast, von Lettow-Vorbeck had the guns removed from the ship, had carriages built and was instantly equipped with artillery. He was the only German officer to get a hero's welcome and parade after the Germans surrendered.

2) The battles of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutians during World War II. This could be an epic, starting with the Japanese bombing Dutch Harbor, the building of the airfield at Adak and the subsequent invasions of Attu and Kiska. Somewhere into the story could be weaved a bit on the building of the Alaska Highway. Wow -- there might be three or four movies in this theater.

3) The Japanese "Rape of Nanking," again WWII. Not as well-known as the Holocaust, but certainly as horrifying. What the Japanese did to other Asians has been largely ignored by Hollywood.

I would like to see a real good movie on the Battle of the Bulge, US Marines in the Pacific (Guadalcanal, Tarawa or Iwo Jima), or something about the Korean War.
Eric

Something new on the North African campaign in WWII would be pretty cool. The British campaign against the Italians in late 1940 and early 1941 would make some pretty awesome movie material (6 to 1 odds, clever decisions, humour, and suspense), but I doubt it would receive much of an audience, mainly because there's no Americans or Germans and it's a relatively forgotten battle.

Nic

So true, Nic.

I'd love to see Guns Of the South get the big movie treatment. Failing that, A romantic comedy with Susan Sarandon and a certain moustached dictator (sound track by the Dixie Chicks) jim

The Devil's Brigade ....... done right .....accurately with no Hollywood history added.

The movie treatment of the Sharpe novels. The TV suffered from being too cheap, I'd love to see it with a multi-million dollar production budget........Jim #:-)

I would love to see something done about the Battle for the Phillipines or the Death March on Corregidor. Members of the Sleepy 503 are still alive, it could be done in the same manner as Band of Brothers. The Sleepy 503 is a paratrooper regiment, so it could even serve as a comparison of the another great band of brothers...

Even better yet a portrayal of the 60th Costal Artillery Anti-aircraft Regiment, Chicago Battery at Fort Hill, Corregidor Phillipines... (that is where my dad served...)

Hi all
I would like to see one nmade from the german or japanese point of veiw maybe iwo jima for the japanese and market garden for the germans

Great choices Andrew How about the battle of Kursk? I guess they could use digital effects to make the tanks Personnally I still wanna see a movie about Sgt Rock For those that don't know who he is,he was a character in a war comic book from D.C. comics

Something about the Battle for Berlin.
The last desperate days of the Reich is an excellent setting for a film.

Andrew

With all the state of the art computer I bet they could do an unbelievable Trafalger and Jutland. How about the Phillipine Sea with the Taffys and the last great battlewagon fight at Suriago. I also have to agree that a remake of Midway and Battle of Bulge is long over due.

Folks--amazing how many of us focused on certain aspects of WW II. The top hits from the Pacific seem to be Midway, Iwo Jima and Tarawa. From Europe, the Bulge and Normandy. Re makes of: The Devils Brigade, Longest Day and Battle of Midway. Be nice to see someone make a decent one about MacArthur...the Gregory Peck one is terrible. Hey, any ground swell to start the current forum up again? I loved that forum and while I was absent for several month it disappeared.
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djj

The Mahdist Revolution;Dieppe Raid in WWII; and the Battle of Verdun in WWI.

GR8Voyager

Armored Cav in Vietnam would be great. Movie treatment of the Ghost Soldiers. Another great one would be The ForgottenSoldier from theEsastern Front.

The "Mahdist Revolution?" Okay, I'll bite, what was that one about?
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djj #:-)

Its not what we would expect coming from a more "military" history forum but here it is DJ.

http://www.marcusgarvey.com/themahdist.htm

I would love to see a good Movie about the 2nd Battle of Ypres. The Germans attacking the Canadian line using the first major gas attack of the war. That could be a great movie.