# What 3 historical events would you like to see on film?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 16, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265 "2009-07-16T21:13:30Z")
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### Author:  [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/1 "2009-07-16T21:13:30Z")
You can send a camera crew back in time (with HD cameras! Why the hell not), who happen to have the unique property that they are invisible and ethereal so as not to influence events in any way, and they get great production values from the camera angles to boot.
You get to film three historical events from any point in mankind’s history. Which events would you choose?
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/2 "2009-07-16T21:33:09Z")
The Big Bang
The Extinction-Level-Event meteor strike that changed the Earth’s climate and killed the dinosaurs
The Tunguska blast
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### Author:  [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/3 "2009-07-16T21:37:56Z")
-Battle of Stalingrad
-The moment the first amphibious percursor to man flopped out of the water onto dry land, per the classic image
-Pompeii, just as Mt. Vesuvius buried it
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### Author:  [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/4 "2009-07-16T21:40:13Z")
The Tunguska blast? Good one **MacTech** , that would have been awesome to see! From several thousand feet away of course, so as not to end up a pile of ash.
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/5 "2009-07-16T21:57:05Z")
Some sort of big battle - probably the Battle of Thermopylae
A big Human spectacle - Henry VIII’s Field of the Cloth of Gold
An event with no people involved - one of the Yellowstone super eruptions
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/6 "2009-07-16T22:08:32Z")
> [@MacTech](#):
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> The Big Bang
> The Extinction-Level-Event meteor strike that changed the Earth’s climate and killed the dinosaurs
> The Tunguska blast
Psst… the first two aren’t “human history”.
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### Author:  [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/7 "2009-07-16T22:09:38Z")
Queen Elizabeth I fucking Robert Dudley. I would love to project that right onto the wall of Buckingham Palace.
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/8 "2009-07-16T22:11:42Z")
The discovery of fire
The invention of the first alphabet
Gotta think about the third one… something that was the basis for a famous myth, maybe.
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### Author:  [@Alan\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Bird)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2009, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/9 "2009-07-16T22:21:03Z")
July 6, 1957 - Lennon and McCartney meet.
I’ll have to think about the other two.
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/10 "2009-07-16T22:25:34Z")
ooo I second the Cloth of Gold tournament
I would say if there is enough filming time, the whole run from the crucifixion through the resurrection meeting between Jesus and the disciples. If not, just the resurrection. Though it might be interesting to see Moses and the Red/Reed sea deal.
Not sure about which, Tunguska or Roswell … I am pretty certain Tunguska was a micrometeorite, though it could perhaps have been a black hole … though Roswell could have been an alien spaceship crash or a weather balloon gone wrong … Do we want to go with which natural event or which manufactured item went crunch …
Are the Men in Black scheduled for an appearance if I pick Roswell?😕
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### Author:  [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2009, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/11 "2009-07-16T22:31:07Z")
The resurrection of Jesus.
Anything with the dinosaurs.
Somehow see who _really_ killed JFK
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/12 "2009-07-16T22:33:26Z")
The non-resurrection of Jesus.
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2009, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/13 "2009-07-16T23:39:07Z")
Battle of Hastings, 1066.
The Sermons on the Mount. Crucifixion and Resurrection are religious events, the Sermons are a chance to see Jesus as the great Teacher we know he was.
And sure- Tunguska blast, per **MacTech**.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/14 "2009-07-17T00:29:58Z")
Seeing any part of the real Jesus, Siddhartha Gautma or Mohammed would be fascinating to me.
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### Author:  [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/15 "2009-07-17T00:51:51Z")
1. The building of the Great Pyramid
2. The sacking of Rome by the Gauls in 387 A.D.
3. The Battle of Agincourt, 1415
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### Author:  [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/16 "2009-07-17T04:09:11Z")
I don’t especially care but how about how they built Stonehenge since it’s supposed to be such a mystery? (Or is it not anymore?)
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### Author:  [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/17 "2009-07-17T14:59:59Z")
Definitely the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876. I’ll have to think about the other two.
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### Author:  [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/18 "2009-07-17T15:28:17Z")
John Singer Sargent painting Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, sitting in a comfortable Victorian drawing room, entertaining her with lively conversation and playing an occasional ditty on the piano.
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/19 "2009-07-17T16:49:19Z")
> [@Koxinga](#):
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> John Singer Sargent painting Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, sitting in a comfortable Victorian drawing room, entertaining her with lively conversation and playing an occasional ditty on the piano.
To me, that would be as exciting as watching paint dry. oh, wait:p
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### Author:  [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/20 "2009-07-17T17:05:10Z")
I think that watching and hearing the founding fathers debate and discuss while writing the Constitution and Bill of rights would shed some light on their intentions.
D.B. Cooper’s heist would be cool and could probably be turned into summer blockbuster film relatively easily.
Some of Shakespeare’s plays/performances during his time would be pretty freaking cool.
Although I think that some of the spectacles at the Roman Coliseum would be hands down the winner.
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