Army Navy contention for coastal defense
Navy studies using the Lexington to simulate attacks
Army responsibility for defense of Hawaiian Islands
Army defense preparation
Armaments transfer
Details of Japanese preparation
Trial run by Japanese ship
The Attack
Military and civilian impact
Army response
Admiral Kimmel blame and defense
Aftermath
There is more than enough for 5 or 6 streaming seasons. Given the years that have passed, what would be the most valuable perspectives? What facts need to be explored? What emphasis changed? Or…?
There are a lot of stories that Hollywood hasn’t told…mostly because they are boring af. So is everything on the OP’s list except the attack and its immediate surroundings. Some History (hell, almost all History!) is totally unsuited for TV/movies. It’s barely tolerable as books. So Hollywood will continue to make up romance sub-plots and such.
Perhaps so, but there’s more Japanese and US political intrigue in history than current COP shows.
1930-1946 History is more exciting than most of the stuff being streamed. A lot of it is pseudohistory. Why not have the real thing? Also, the roles of the Army, Navy. and military aircraft were still being defined.
Well that goes to Just_Asking_Questions point. Dramatization adds interest, but you want it to be authentic. I’d like the presentation style closer to Downton Abbey than Ken Burns.
Midway (the original, but maybe the remake, too?) and Tora Tora Tora might be a good basis. Dramatization of real people, stick close to the facts, and leave the action-stopping romances out of it.
Yes, you have a sausage-fest movie that won’t even come close to passing the “Bechdel Test”, but then, most WWII battles in real life wouldn’t pass that test, so maybe for WWII movies we can ignore that.
Otherwise we get Pearl Harbor and From here to Eternity,
He didn’t crash in the sea, he crash landed on the island. They were told to land there if damaged, and await rescue by submarine. It’s inaccurate from the trailer.
No, there is definitely not. Maybe a miniseries. I’m a WW2 history buff and I don’t think I could watch six seasons of this. What’s season 1, 10 hours of watching an Army/Navy committee arguing over coastal defense responsibilities?
There’s just not enough material there for a general interest series. This is exactly the sort of thing you’d expect to find in a good history book for people who are really interested in a particular battle and want to do a deep dive, but almost no one is going to care about the army and navy battling over coastal defense politics.
Incidentally, somewhat related, I saw the 2019 version of Midway recently and thought it was a surprisingly good kind of throwback no-bullshit war movie. No forced romantic subplots, pretty accurate, the rah rah America shit wasn’t excessive, I’d recomend it.
It had its moments, but I found the rah-rah to be excessive in comparison to the 1976 movie, plus I had trouble getting past scenes of American dive bombers releasing their bombs practically at deck level and somehow avoiding being consumed by the resulting blasts.
