# What 3 historical events would you like to see on film? **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/41 "2009-07-18T15:17:41Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > Working on the supposition that they acutally happened.. > > 1. The landing point of the Noah’s Ark (can we work out where from the video?) > 2. Final resting place of the “Lost Ark” (can’t remember the proper name right now - The Ark of the Crucible?) Oh, there almost certainly was an Ark of the Covenant. The Ark of Noah is \*highly \*doubtful. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/42 "2009-07-18T16:22:28Z")
Well, we could always try for the ark of Moses. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/43 "2009-07-18T16:33:23Z")
Things I’d like to record: Whether there were any pre-Columbus Chinese voyages to the west coast of North America. Louis Riel: what really happened. And the discussions in the Halls of Power that led up to the North-West Rebellion. The conference that led to the Great Peace of Montréal. The Beothuk language and culture, before they were wiped out. The Vikings in North America: L’Anse aux Meadows and other explorations and settlements. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/44 "2009-07-19T03:46:47Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > That would be a bit of a waste, wouldn’t it? You wouldn’t learn anything you didn’t already know, while the people who _could_ learn something new would just write it off as a hoax. I think it would be interesting if he died the way people say he did. It would tell us a lot if he cried out for god and the whole deal, or if that was just made up for the story ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/45 "2009-07-19T16:02:54Z")
Just thought of 3 more that’s be worth a look at: The Battle of Marston Moor Trial and execution of King Charles I Cleopatra and Antony having a fuck\* - I could sell this or post it on youtube 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/46 "2009-07-19T16:32:08Z")
At a much more mundane level, I would love to see documentaries which revealed who Jack The Ripper was, who killed Lizzie Bordan’s father and step-mother, and what happened to Jim Thompson. ---
**Author:** ![otorophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3ab097/32.png) [@otorophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otorophile)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/47 "2009-07-20T01:29:40Z")
Liszt showing off his piano skills. Or Paganini with the violin. Maybe a duet? An Ancient Greek War. Lucy making footsteps. I’d see how human she was. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/48 "2009-07-20T04:06:28Z")
1. Crucifixion of Christ. That’s it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/49 "2009-07-20T13:21:29Z")
It’s got to start with the crucifixion, that’s all there is to it. Others are too numerous to list. But they’d all surround resolving mysteries and the not-understood. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/50 "2009-07-20T16:13:01Z")
1. Any footage of (an adult) Jesus Christ, not necessarily the Crucifixion. 2. The Battle of Thermopylae. 3. The Tunguska blast. …or basically, what everyone else has said. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/51 "2009-07-21T02:46:50Z")
1. The Great [Noahide] Flood – filmed from maybe a low earth orbit, to ascertain how great an area was affected (and when). 2. The signing of the U.S.'s Declaration of Independence. Yes, I know it wasn’t a single discrete event as depicted in the famous oil painting. But I’d like to see each of the signatories, our Founding Fathers, walk up to that table and examine the document for one last time before signing it, knowing full well how the British authorities would deal with him if they ever caught him. Besides, I’m irritated by the varying depictions of some of these guys in various paintings/drawings/sculptures, etc. and on our currency/specie, and would like to see what they really looked like! 3. One ancient artistic or militaristic spectacle… a Roman triumphal parade, a performance of a Greek play by… on second thought, to make the most of this hypothetical scenario, lets film one of the ancient Greek plays lost to history. Yep, that ought to do nicely! ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/52 "2009-07-21T13:33:52Z")
What happened to that union bloke from the US who was never found. Jimmy summink ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265/53 "2009-07-21T14:13:20Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > What happened to that union bloke from the US who was never found. > > Jimmy summink Jimmy Hoffa [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-historical-events-would-you-like-to-see-on-film/503265.md?page=2)