# War movies about lesser known conflicts **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528 "2016-07-10T03:45:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/61 "2016-07-10T17:47:47Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > The events of Battleship Potemkin predate the Russian Civil War by over a decade. Right. I should have said “Russian Revolutions” and distinguished between the one in 1905 and the ones in 1917 (which were followed by the Russian Civil War, in which _Dr. Zhivago_ and **Reds** were set. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/62 "2016-07-10T17:51:21Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > My favorite film on the period (which I would have thought pretty well-known, for anyone with a connection or interest in Ireland) is _The Wind That Shakes the Barley_. The title comes from a song about the 1798 United Irishmen uprising, which should be better remembered; as far as I know there are no depictions in film. No movie apparently, but there was a [TV miniseries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_the_French_(TV_serial)) on _The Year of the French_ about the uprising, based on the historical novel of the same name. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/63 "2016-07-10T18:02:41Z")
_Rambo III_ was about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/64 "2016-07-10T18:11:01Z")
[The Royal Hunt of the Sun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Hunt_of_the_Sun_(film)) is set during the Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire. The Mongol Conquests are depicted in a couple of movies entitled _Genghis Khan_ plus the notorious _The Conqueror_ starring John Wayne as Genghis.😕 _Braveheart_ depicts events during the First Scottish War of Independence starting in 1296. [_Juarez_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juarez_(film)) and [Vera Cruz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Cruz_(film)) involve the French intervention in Mexico in the 1860s. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/65 "2016-07-10T18:33:23Z")
How could we not mention that seminal docu-drama Carry on up the Khyber? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/66 "2016-07-10T18:39:42Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > no movie about the pig war > > [Pig War - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War) The [Emu War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War) is more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/67 "2016-07-10T18:41:34Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > _Rambo III_ was about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As is [The Beast](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(1988_film)) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/68 "2016-07-10T19:48:46Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > [Alexander Nevsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_(film))… It might be worth discriminating between the Teutonic Knights’ crusade against the Slavs _et al._ in the Baltic and the rest of Europe’s against the Muslims in the Holy Land, eh? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/69 "2016-07-10T20:04:07Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Surely you mean **Richard Harris**? :dubious: > > [Cromwell (1970) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065593/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast) No, Richard Burton. You know, the guy who starred in **Jaws** with Rob Schneider and Artie Shaw. 😛 ps. John Barleycorn must die. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/70 "2016-07-10T20:09:29Z")
[The Warlords](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0913968/) Set in the Taiping Rebellion, the bloodiest civil war in history and the deadliest war nobody in the West has ever heard about. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/71 "2016-07-10T20:11:21Z")
Not a “war movie”, per se, but Les Miserables is set, not during the French Revolution as seems to be a popular misunderstanding, but rather the Paris Uprising of 1832. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/72 "2016-07-10T20:57:23Z")
**Land and Freedom** , based on Orwell’s _Homage to Catalonia_, is about the Spanish Civil War. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/73 "2016-07-10T21:24:27Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > It might be worth discriminating between the Teutonic Knights’ crusade against the Slavs _et al._ in the Baltic and the rest of Europe’s against the Muslims in the Holy Land, eh? Not really, no. When it comes to crusades, I’m a _[pluralist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades#Terminology)_. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/74 "2016-07-10T21:27:18Z")
> [@mrdibble](#): > > not really, no. When it comes to crusades, i’m a _[pluralist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/crusades#terminology)_. Lumper! ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/75 "2016-07-10T21:32:38Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Surely you mean **Richard Harris**? :dubious: > > [Cromwell (1970) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065593/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast) Maybe thinking of a different movie: Alec Guinness did definitely play Charles I in a movie about Cromwell, and I believe the title was “Cromwell.” He was very good there, with just an understated hint of a stammer, which a lesser actor would have exaggerated. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/76 "2016-07-10T21:40:07Z")
_A Tale of Two Cities_ is set during the French Revolution. Other films involving the French Revolution include _Danton_ (several versions), _Reign of Terror_, _Marie Antoinette_ (several versions), and [_That Night in Varennes_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Night_in_Varennes) (which includes a meeting between Thomas Paine and Casanova). > [@Trinopus](#): > > I can’t think of any Thirty Years War movies… _The Three Musketeers_ in its various incarnations takes place during the Thirty Years War. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/77 "2016-07-10T22:40:17Z")
was hamburger hill in korea or Vietnam ? I seen to remember another called pork chop hill also ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/78 "2016-07-10T22:43:32Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > was hamburger hill in korea or Vietnam ? I seen to remember another called pork chop hill also [Pork Chop Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_Chop_Hill) = Korea [Hamburger Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_Hill) = Vietnam ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/79 "2016-07-10T23:24:25Z")
The very firstest ever Egypt/Israel war … \*\*The Ten Commandments \*\* (just kidding) 😛 **Sum Of All Fears** begins with an Arab/Israli conflict… kind of… anyways… ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528/80 "2016-07-11T01:09:19Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > . . . _The Three Musketeers_ in its various incarnations takes place during the Thirty Years War. Ah! Good point; I was thinking more of the German theater of operations, but, yeah. There’s a Kirk Douglas movie about the 1949 Arab/Israeli war, but I don’t know of any Six Day War movies, or movies about the 1956 war. Come to think of it, the 1973 war either. Has anyone done a good Falklands (1982) movie? (Other than documentaries, which, I’m assuming, we’re not counting here.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-movies-about-lesser-known-conflicts/759528.md?page=5)