Fact is stranger than fiction, they say. So no surprise that lots of Hollywood movies look for motivation in genuine historical events. Consider Dunkirk, Gladiator, 12 Years A Slave, to call simply a few acclaimed motion pictures influenced by genuine events.But we all think that history is full of much more incredible, mysterious and hard-to-believe stories hiding in plain sight.”What historic event has not been, however should be, made into a movie?”somebody asked on Ask Reddit and the thread became legitimate notes someone need to show to the film directors who’re hungry for ideas.Below we picked some of the most intriguing responses
, so pull your seats more detailed, everyone! Robert Smalls A black slave that stole a confederate transportation
ship, freed the
servants aboard, and sailed it to the union to be converted into a warship. Oh and after that he ended up being a congressman in South Carolina. GBBanditt, Mathew Benjamin Brady Report Richard Rescola, the guy
‘s WTC offices. He routinely held evacuation drills after anticipating the previous dynamites attack on the WTC, so he was prepared for 9/11. He left his entire workplace versus procedure and saved everyone however himself-he went back up quickly before the towers collapsed in search of survivors. Can’t think of anybody better suited to play him than Tom Hanks, I hope this motion picture is made at some point! cinemachick, U.S. Army Report There was an engineer at NASA named Roger Boisjoly who understood the Opposition was going to blow up and he attempted to tell people however no one would listen to him. The motion picture ought to be called The Guy Who Understood. mr __ n0vember, NASA Report Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French opera vocalist and fencing master who killed or injured a minimum of ten males
in life-or-death battles, carried out nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera phase in the world, and once took the Holy Orders so that she could slip into a convent and bang a nun
The 1921 Tulsa Massacre … To this day they still have not found where these demonic savages buried the 400+bodies of their victims. w the assist of the US gov & National Guard, whites from surrounding towns butchered a whole town of rich Black families, children. teachers, war veterans, doctors, designers and so on … then burned their beautiful houses, healthcare facilities
actually dropped BOMBS from above. the ONLY time in history the US gov attacked and bombed an US city.An atrocity so shocking … It was not even
discussed afterwards. Many Americans had no idea it even took place til 5 yrs earlier. Signal-Opportunity-2, Alvin C. Krupnick Report I need a Coen siblings film of the 1904 Olympic marathon.Just keeps getting more bonkers.Fubo added:-Over half of the 32 entrants did not finish the marathon.-The marathon’s very first “winner”got
his picture taken with the US President’s daughter. Then it ended up that he cheated by riding in a car. -The second “winner”had been doped with rat poison, and was carried over the finish line by his
buddies. If he had not received immediate medical attention, he would have passed away on site.-Multiple runners, including the winners of the previous
en route, having taken apples that ended up being rotten
from a neighboring orchard.
-The ninth-place finisher might have positioned better if he had not been gone after off course
by wild pet dogs.-One of the organizers believed that”purposeful dehydration “would assist the runners, and had actually deliberately restricted the water sources offered to the runners.BibleButterSandwich: Also
remember that the fourth place finisher was a 5 foot high Cuban man who raised the money to get to the race by walking the entire length of his country, and then instantly blew all his funds betting as quickly as he landed in New Orleans, so he hitchhiked the rest of the way to St. Louis before running the marathon in dress shoes and formal pants that
he had actually cut off the knee just before the race began. Hititwitharock Report Syndrome K. in 1943, a health center in Rome located next to a Jewish ghetto, let Jews running away Nazi raids hide there. The professors in charge admitted Jews under
the phony diagnosis of “Syndrome K”, described as an extremely contagious and hazardous disease. This effectively kept the Nazis out
of the quarantine wards
and the Jews safe throughout of the war. Grey_Gryphon, imdb Report Night witches ~ Russian female pilots that flew night bombing raids in world war 2. HalfPint1885 responded: This is what I came here to say! They were epically badass.They would fly in, in wooden airplanes, and cut their engine to overcome their target so they would not be heard. They were called Witches since all you could hear was the wooshing sound of the wind over their wood planes.
then restart
it. Often their bombs would stick and not drop from their area on the wing so they ‘d climb onto the wing in midair and release it. They didn’t even have parachutes in their airplanes. The cockpits were open air so it was freezing cold. And naturally they were treated like absolute sh ** by everybody, specifically the male fighters.I.
cash to send kids to college, team battle back, jet basically turns into weapon for them.
The backstory of the hijacker ~ ~ was a catastrophe ~ ~ ~ ~ extremely unfortunate ~ ~ never fell under his favor.
Auburn Calloway was a Stanford graduate who liked his family, but could not manage to send his kids to college. He utilized his experience as a navy pilot, and the area of Memphis to grab a task at FedEx. He was irritated at the truth his life amounted to just flying planes, when he might have so much more prospective. Calloway then created a strategy to pass away in an airplane crash, so that he could send his insurance coverage money to his ex wife, so that his kids can go to college. He was going to be the flight engineer for the same flight, but the day prior to he falsified flight hours by a single minute
, so he was on the edge of
flight recorder, and then incapacitate the team with blunt force trauma, because detectives would eliminate that they passed away from the force of striking the ground. He would use the spear weapon as a last hope. He would put the weapons in a guitar case, to not excite suspicion. This happened prior to 9/11, so he just strolled through without looking suspicious.He boards the flight, gets familiarized with the crew to decrease their guard, and waits. 19 minutes into the flight, he strolls into the cockpit, and hits everyone with hammers. First Officer Jim Tucker, was rendered unconscious. The other two team, Captain David Sanders and flight engineer Andre Peterson leave of their seats to stop Calloway, but he threatens them with the speargun he received from the back. Here’s the crazy part.Calloway f **** d with the wrong crew.Peterson gets the weapon, and begins to wrangle it away. Sanders joins him in trying to stop Calloway.Tucker, still lightheaded and disoriented, recognizes the scenario, and returns to what he learned.
Ex-Navy, Vietnam vet, he knows a thing or two about planes.He treats the jet like it’s a fighter airplane. Turning it 140 degrees(essentially )upside down, it pushed the bounds of what an DC-10 could do. There’s a fight in the freight hold in between two hurt team members and a guy who had absolutely nothing to lose, and a half conscious pilot who is treating the jet like a fighter, turning the plane upside down so that his crew could surpass the hijacker.They take a u-turn back to Memphis, emergency landing, about
a mile above the ground. The problem is, is that the plane is too heavy, too quick, and too expensive. There’s a real chance adrenaline will hinder their motions and overshoot the runway.They land, SWAT
arrest Calloway, and everybody is sent to the hospital. The damage that Calloway has actually done to the crew sadly makes the crew not able to fly commercially once again. The plane is still in service, however it was updated … without the flight engineer position.I learnt more about this in this airplane investigation series on YouTube, and it surprises me how this literally has never been become a movie.
Ok_Kinda_Guy, Peter Bakema Report I constantly questioned if children were born in concentration camps throughout WWII. Indeed there were and there is a nurse named Stanislawa Leszczyńska who tried to conserve those children and she has a fantastic story. daschle04, Unidentified author Report The experiences of Simo Häyhä.Usually in Finland we don’t put war heroes on a pedestal, however
Häyhä has gotten so much attention thanks to YouTube that his story could be quite interesting.jicty responded: Yes!He is one of my favorite historic figures. Around 500 eliminates with only a sub machine gun and a sniper rifle without any scope because he didn’t want glare on the lens to give his position away. Likewise he laid in the snow eating snow and ice to keep his mouth cold so he didn’t breathe steam. Russians moved artillery just to attempt and kill this one male. He almost passed away by getting shot in the face with an exploding shell and awakened
in the health center with a completely disfigured face and quickly requested to be returned to the cutting edge! All this and he was just a farmer who offered for the war! jaz1919, Finnish Military
Archivesderivative work Report Unless it’s been done currently, the life story of Ching Shih.
She was a Chinese prostitute that since the deadliest pirate of all time.At the height of her power, she commanded over 800 large ships, 1000 smaller vessels and over 70,000 pirate team, comprised of both men and women. randomguy987654321, thefemalesoldier.com Report The story of the Pan Am flight that got captured in New Zealand at the start of WWII and couldn’t fly
back house by going east because it was too hazardous. So instead they took their flying boat and flew west on routes they needed to figure out from maps pulled from borrowed encyclopedias, evading the Japanese, and looking for adequate
culminating in taking off from a river in the Congo and needing to skim along through a canyon to build up speed given that they were too heavy in order to even have a chance of crossing the Atlantic.
The entire thing is tailor made
for TV or a Film. There’s a wonderful book written about the whole story called”The Long Method Home “and was written with the Captain of the flight. bigred49342, Aero Icarus Report Deborah Sampson. Reality American Mulan-she disguised herself as a man in order to combat in the American Revolution. Not due to the fact that of her daddy or anything. She just busily thought in the cause. And she was buddies with Paul Revere Hour_Department6738, Inscription by George Graham Report Sophie Blanchard was the world’s very first woman to become a professional aeronaut: she had a consultation from Napoleon
to his death deep in debt. Sophie had a propensity for it, offering shows and crossing the Alps in a balloon. She concentrated on night flights and set off very harmful fireworks beneath her hydrogen balloon.At one point she almost adhered death when her balloon went expensive, then she almost drowned when her balloon landed in a swamp
Porreau Report Not sure how there hasn’t been a summertime catastrophe blockbuster flick about The Excellent Molasses Flood. Kangermu, BPL Report I’m still surprised there hasn’t been a modern-day movie about the WASPs of wwii. These were the females who delivered airplanes to the theatre of war straight from the factory. Flying brand new aircrafts off the production line, often with recognized problems that had to be fixed in the field(easier to have the mechanics fix things than constantly stop the assembly line). Combating bad weather in the north Atlantic, unsafe landings, plane concerns, and naturally being females. Seems like a gim me for a females’s empowerment film. Especially today with the scarcity of pilots, it could be an extremely motivating film. Or … You understand … Completely f **** d up with cgi and over the top b ****** t. mustang
bet and after that landed it perfectly on the narrow street in front of the bar he had actually been consuming at in Manhattan. 2 years later on, he did it again after somebody didn’t think he had done it the very first time.I feel like it could make for a fun
who saved the Titanic surivors. There are plenty of films about the Titanic sinking, however I want a movie depticitng the Carpathia altering course on a penny and racing the rescue, browsing the same icy waters without stricking an iceberg and picking up all the life boats. Floranagirl Report The story of Vulcan, a town in West Virginia who had a collapsed bridge that the state and federal government refused to repair so the town with no other options decided to call America’s most significant competitors at the time, The Soviet Union & East Germany to replace the bridge and they really did.So basically, a village in West Virginia got so pissed off by America’s lack of aid that
country by getting the Soviets to assist them. Partydude19 Report The Haitian Revolution. The only slave revolt that effectively
prime product for a dark comedy. This man was such a relentless piece of s ** t, buried below the prison type sleazebags, and scared a small rural town his entire life. He ‘d get away with it everytime because he ‘d frighten the f ** k out of anybody who looked for to press charges versus him. Implicated in rape, arson, attack etc. So yeah no tears shed for that psychopath.Anyway there was a town meeting to discuss what to do with him due to the fact that everybody was ill of his s ** t. The Sheriff told them to simply prevent him and establish a community watch to keep track of him. Right then they found out he was drinking at a bar. Sheriff informed them to leave him alone and go home however he had other s ** t to do so he left THE COUNTY. So what do these people do? They go to establish that neighborhood watch … area watch this guy die.Over 60 individuals travel to the bar Ken is at where they crowded him as he drinks and slings
insults. He goes to his truck where his underage other half is sitting in the passenger seat, talks some more s ** t and supposedly was going to get a weapon. So over 60 individuals should register for the theory that a bad person assumes space temperature level just when well ventilated due to the fact that he then got lit up.
Unknown the variety of shooters but there were 2 separates
popular searching rounds. To this day his murder is unsolved due to the fact that all 60+wont say s ** t. The FBI showed up to help examine and still everyone kept tight lipped. A single person informed them” thay young boy required a killin”. So yeah, prime product. RubbrBabyBuggyBumprs Report The story of Bass Reeves. Quickly the most badass
, or Denzel Washington would do a great job. I believe the brand-new motion picture “The Harder They Fall”takes a couple beats from his story, however simply a replay of actual historic occasions of Reeves’story comparable to the method”Tombstone”was done would be fantastic. Zealousideal-Way-838, National Forest Service Report Harlem’s hell fighters, what a remarkable story of America history and it’s absolutely ignored since … bigotry? I guess? therobohour Report Note: this post initially had 85 images. It’s been reduced to the leading 30 images based upon user votes.