# Help me find this movie!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 29, 2002, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/145453 "2002-12-29T02:26:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/145453/1 "2002-12-29T02:26:52Z")
Okay… this is kinda driving me nuts. All I remember is it was a made for TV movie on A&E that was about this troop of Irish guys fighting in a civil war I think with the British?? The guy who played the leader was either Sean Bean or Sean Penn… I can’t recall which and I could be way off on those two. If anyone possibly could tell me the name of this movie would be a great help… ---
**Author:** ![Liakela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58f4c7/32.png) [@Liakela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liakela)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/145453/2 "2002-12-29T02:34:32Z")
I wonder if that’s ‘The Irish Brigade of the Civil War?’ [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6305204705/ref%3Dnosim/ivideos-20/102-0082420-7217770](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6305204705/ref%3Dnosim/ivideos-20/102-0082420-7217770) ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/145453/3 "2002-12-29T02:38:36Z")
A Little Hijack\>\> There was a movie with Tom Beringer about the Irish fighting against with the Americans during the Mexican American War. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/145453/4 "2002-12-29T02:43:18Z")
Good idea but I don’t think it is… I distinctly recall it being longer than 30 minutes and more of an actual movie than a documentary. Despite it being on A&E. eenerms: What was that one called? Maybe that’s it… ---
**Author:** ![Heloise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/145453/5 "2002-12-29T03:50:08Z")
Have you also tried [www.imdb.com](http://www.imdb.com)? It’s one of my favorite websites. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/145453/6 "2002-12-29T04:13:49Z")
Have you looked under the couch? When I lose movies I usually find them under the couch. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/145453/7 "2002-12-29T06:40:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Obsidian Flutterby \* > \*\*Good idea but I don’t think it is… I distinctly recall it being longer than 30 minutes and more of an actual movie than a documentary. Despite it being on A&E. > > eenerms: What was that one called? Maybe that’s it… \*\* One Man’s Hero…1999 or 2000 I’m not sure. It was a regular movie. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/145453/8 "2002-12-29T07:17:11Z")
\*\*Obsidian, \*\* this sounds like one of the series of Richard Sharpe movies that A&E aired a few years ago. Sean Bean starred as an Irish soldier in the British army. There were probably about 10 movies, so I can’t pinpoint the exact one for you. ---
**Author:** ![Liakela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58f4c7/32.png) [@Liakela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liakela)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/145453/9 "2002-12-29T07:19:52Z")
The Sharpe’s movies were Napoleonic wars, though-- though you could be right. Especially since they had Sean Bean. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/145453/10 "2002-12-29T07:44:47Z")
Ahem…Sean Bean is Irish, however _Richard Sharp_ of the Sharp’s Rifle series was English. The books were written by Bernard Cornwell, and are very entertaining I must say. BTW Richard Sharpe starts out in India and ends up after meeting Napoleon in St. Helens ---
**Author:** ![AgentofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@AgentofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AgentofEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/145453/11 "2002-12-29T08:24:04Z")
Sure it wasn’t [Michael Collins](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0117039) with Liam Neeson? ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/145453/12 "2002-12-29T09:11:37Z")
You can look up [Sean Bean’s](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Bean,+Sean) filmography in IMDb (since I have this hunch he’s the guy you’re thinking of) and see if anything he’s done rings a bell. “One Man’s Hero” was mostly set in Mexico and has several Mexican stars in it along with Tom Berenger playing an Irish soldier. (Based on a real historical event where Irish-American soldiers defected to Mexico.) It’s an interesting movie, but doesn’t sound like the one you’re thinking of (unless you remember the film being set in Mexico!). ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/145453/13 "2002-12-29T10:15:54Z")
Ooo Thanks people! It was the Sharpe’s movies… I did try looking at Sean Bean and Sean Penn’s filmography but I didn’t have that site and the sites I found mentioned nothing of them. Thanks people!