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Post by lunda2222 on Aug 7, 2021 0:51:50 GMT
My first pick would be about Henry Morgan, but in a Tv-series similar to Rome. This book about him, Empire Of Blue Water, In that way, I would be thrilled. And I think it could be done. |
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Post by lordarvidthexiii on Aug 10, 2021 20:38:24 GMT
I wished someone would make a mini series or maybe a tv series about Hannibal and Scipio. I second that.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Aug 10, 2021 21:31:55 GMT
This is not a very well know person, but i would like to see a mini series about a man named Peter Hagendorf who was a German mercenary soldier in the Thirty Years' War. |
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Aug 10, 2021 21:34:50 GMT
From Reddit. Event: Person:
There's a pretty good youtube video about the 1904 marathon and how much of a shitshow it was.
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Post by clusium on Aug 10, 2021 22:57:40 GMT
The Montagues & the Capulets (& have Romeo & Juliet's love story be told during the final season).
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Post by Zos on Aug 11, 2021 8:48:43 GMT
Aleister Crowley
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Post by politicidal on Aug 29, 2021 19:03:32 GMT
That’d be certainly be interesting. |
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Sept 17, 2021 23:29:21 GMT
William Bligh.
While Bligh's actions in the mutiny of HMS Bounty is well documented, the mutiny in the Rum Rebellion of 1808 is less well known outside Australia.
After an illustrious career including at the battle of Trafalgar, Bligh was appointed Governor of the 18 year old penal colony of New South Wales based in Sydney. Senior officers of the New South Wales Corps and wealthy landowners had effectively taken over the economics of the colony (using rum as a defacto currency) and Bligh was sent to restore British power.
After 2 years he was arrested and sent back to England. Attempts were made by Britain to bring to justice the mutineers with little effect, largely because at the distance from London, newly acquired wealth and privilege counted more than orders from London.
The lead civilian mutineer, John Macarthur eventually established the wool industry in Australia, creating the basis of Australias wealth for the next 100 years.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Sept 18, 2021 8:21:43 GMT
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Sept 18, 2021 21:20:06 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Sept 19, 2021 1:14:17 GMT
Bardem has really horrid runs lately. |
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Post by marianne48 on Apr 16, 2022 20:50:25 GMT
Maybe not a miniseries, but at least a movie: Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the South Vietnamese Brigadier General whose on-the-spot execution of a North Vietnamese prisoner in 1968 was captured on film and became a Pulitzer prize-winning photo for photographer Eddie Adams. The photo was used as an example of South Vietnamese brutality, but there was a lot more to the story than many people realized. Adams would later befriend Loan and had some regrets for what happened to him later in life.
I remember seeing film footage of the incident on the news when I was five years old and it still remains a vivid memory.
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Post by politicidal on Apr 20, 2022 18:24:08 GMT
I remember hearing how a while ago, Steven Spielberg wanted to do a movie about Montezuma.
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Post by The Lost One on Apr 28, 2022 22:31:36 GMT
Elagabalus
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Post by clusium on Apr 28, 2022 22:52:00 GMT
Kaspar Hauser.
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Post by llanwydd on Apr 29, 2022 1:12:22 GMT
Lady Godiva
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Post by Pangolin on Apr 29, 2022 14:08:57 GMT
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Post by Salzmank on Jun 8, 2022 17:50:39 GMT
I just recently learned about 17th-century Irish outlaw Count Redmond O’Hanlon, whose life was jam-packed with derring-do and intrigue, and now I want a movie or miniseries on him. The way the Wikipedia article describes him, he comes off as part-Count of Monte Cristo, part-Robin Hood, and part-Scarlet Pimpernel: “a most accomplished gentleman” who spoke three languages, “the finest cavalier since Sir Philip Sidney,” “an excellent actor and mimic, able to personate a King’s officer, merchant, or countryman,” yet also a thief and the operator of a protection racket against the ruling English in Northern Ireland. Hunted by anti-Catholic operatives, yet betrayed by a priest who threw in with the English. Murdered in the end by his foster brother in a plot organized by the Duke of Ormonde. I know, probably romanticized as all get-out, but such wonderful romanticization! There’s even a line in a poem apocryphally written by O’Hanlon’s mother that practically begs to be used as a title: The Flash of the Storm. Great stuff. |
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jun 8, 2022 18:01:34 GMT
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on Jun 10, 2022 1:47:48 GMT
 Joachim Murat (1767 - 1815) Brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon's top cavalry commander, leading some of the largest cavalry charges in history Marshal of France King of Naples Soldier, womanizer, schemer, backstabber Executed by firing squad ( "Don't aim at my face") This guy was a friggin' military rock star in his day -- complete with multitudinous elaborate costume changes. Russian Cossacks would cheer his name as they tried to capture him. (They didn't want to kill him because they admired his horsemanship and style.) |
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